FD RX7 gets De-Faded and De-Swirled
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FD RX7 gets De-Faded and De-Swirled
Hey guys, This write up wont be as thorough as usual, some of the pictures didn't turn out as good as I had hoped. Also, no sun shots at the end. But anyways hope you enjoy.
I did this car a couple months back and I am just now getting around to posting the write up.
This belongs to one of my good customers who Ive had a chance to do a lot of cars for.
Let's see what is on the menu for today?
I arrived at the house and began my routine walk around to see what I was dealing with.
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This is the plastic around the tail lights
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Back Bumper
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Faded Deck lid
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For the wash process I used
Foam Dawn Wash with sheep skin washmitt
P21s Wheel Gel
EZ-Detail Brush
Red Medium grade Clay bar
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Nasty gas lid area
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After claying with a Red claybar.....it turned white....
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Next using Meguiars masking tape, I taped up all of the black plastic trim.
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Then before bringing the car inside for the correction, I did a couple of 50/50 test panels out in the sunlight. Sometimes it is very hard to capture these defects with the camera on white paint.
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After pulling the car inside I made my way down the Driver Side and using the Lake Country Cyan Hydrotech pad using M105 compound.
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Here is how the Rear Deck Lid looked before During and After
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Here is an angle where you can see by removing a layer of that Dead & Faded Clear coat, that the paint is a whole different shade of White!
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Next is the Taillights, they were severely swirled. here are some nice 50/50's
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The customer asked me to polish out the 13B and all of the intercooler components, and pipes.
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I taped off a section of the intercooler to see what kind of difference was actually being made. It's kind of hard to see but here are some 50/50 shots.
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It brought back the depth and the shine in the aluminum
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Not the best lighting but it looked a lot better.
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So now I just had a little bit of correction left of the paint. here is the front passenger fender 50/50
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After that, The car was polished out with M205 and a LC tangerine pad
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Then Black Fire Wet Diamond was applied with a Lake country Blue Finishing pad
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Sorry that I didn't get any out side shots, the car was finished really late and it was dark outside. but here are a few from inside the garage.
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Thanks for watching, Hope you enjoyed!
-Eric
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