I picked up a new beater civic and although it is in excellent mechanical condition, the paint has been neglected for 9 years.


I've only done the hood. The hood took about an hour. It isn't going to be perfect because of the rock chips and damaged clear coat in some areas but a big improvement from where it was. You can clearly see the damage the bra caused. Started with a 7.5" orange pad on my rotary with 3m Perfect-It III Rubbing Compound, then switched to Optimum Polish on a 7.5" orange pad. I followed that up with Optimum Polish on a 6" white pad with the PC. The last step removed one holographic swirl I left with the rotary near the hood dip. There is no LSP yet. It's so hard to take pictures of this stuff but you get the idea.




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Excellent work demonstrating the results of working with multiple machines for multiple purposes

What do you have planned for LSP?

I'm going to guess sealant, since it's going to be a daily beater...

 

Rotary's are magic machines Looks great

 

Very nice work. You cant turn sh!t into gold, but you sure got close.

 

So you CAN polish a turd!

 

I don't want to LSP this thing all the time so i'll probably go with Zaino Z2 pro or Poorboys Ex-P.

You can polish a turd but this turd has about 6-8 more hours of polishing to go. I might need a more aggressive polish. I haven't needed anything above 6 on the aggressiveness scale for quite a while.

 

wow, great job!!
from your pics i dont see that it needs a lot more aggressive polish- its lookin pretty good in pics anyway!