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Hi All, (Posted elsewhere but thought it was something of interest for here)
Finally....... got to doing a bit of correction the other night. And managed to have a go on the Z4.
Sorry the photos are so poor, I nearly didn't bother but i guess its my thoughts out loud.
Masked up rear 1/4 which had worst marks (Machining marks pretty bad) and good thickness.
Its been bothering me for a while now how bad some areas of the paint are considering it was 3 months old when i bought it. Photos before I wiped over with a quick detailer... Lesson 239 Learnt!
I took readings getting around 170 to 150
Then using Sonus Red Finishing Pad and Menzerna FF hit the panel once at speed 1, 6 passes (3 horizontal, 3 vertical) at speed 3 and 6 passes (as before) at speed 5. Finished off with 1 quick pass at speed 1.
Cleaned and checked paint little to no correction but the readings were nearly the same.
Camera then died But i did another Hit Using Sonus White Polishing pad and Menzerna 3.02 and carried out another 1, 6, 6 and 1 passes. Much better corrections but not perfect. Readings only down a Micron or so if that.
Finally hit it with Sonus Yellow Restore Pad and Menzerna 3.02 same passes and found maybe 85% corrected on the bad machining marks and 95% on the rest of the pannel.
Looking at the photos the finish looks a little milky around the poor automatic flash but in the flesh with my new Brikmann and Halogen it looks spot on.
To be honest the readings still were similar but Ive ordered a laser pointer to beable to pin point the spot as suggested by other on here.
I can see this taking a bit of time but at least im happy that Menz 3.02 and Sonus White or Yellow Pads will do the job.
Sorry again for the Poor photos.
Cheers
PaulN
Hi All, (Posted elsewhere but thought it was something of interest for here)
Finally....... got to doing a bit of correction the other night. And managed to have a go on the Z4.
Sorry the photos are so poor, I nearly didn't bother but i guess its my thoughts out loud.
Masked up rear 1/4 which had worst marks (Machining marks pretty bad) and good thickness.
Its been bothering me for a while now how bad some areas of the paint are considering it was 3 months old when i bought it. Photos before I wiped over with a quick detailer... Lesson 239 Learnt!
I took readings getting around 170 to 150
Then using Sonus Red Finishing Pad and Menzerna FF hit the panel once at speed 1, 6 passes (3 horizontal, 3 vertical) at speed 3 and 6 passes (as before) at speed 5. Finished off with 1 quick pass at speed 1.
Cleaned and checked paint little to no correction but the readings were nearly the same.
Camera then died But i did another Hit Using Sonus White Polishing pad and Menzerna 3.02 and carried out another 1, 6, 6 and 1 passes. Much better corrections but not perfect. Readings only down a Micron or so if that.
Finally hit it with Sonus Yellow Restore Pad and Menzerna 3.02 same passes and found maybe 85% corrected on the bad machining marks and 95% on the rest of the pannel.
Looking at the photos the finish looks a little milky around the poor automatic flash but in the flesh with my new Brikmann and Halogen it looks spot on.
To be honest the readings still were similar but Ive ordered a laser pointer to beable to pin point the spot as suggested by other on here.
I can see this taking a bit of time but at least im happy that Menz 3.02 and Sonus White or Yellow Pads will do the job.
Sorry again for the Poor photos.
Cheers
PaulN
as nice as my car is it could do with a D Swirl but had no experience with a machine and spotting swirls outside on Silver paint is a nightmare may get it done by a pro next year
on Friday giving the Freelander a good going over by hand. and finishing it off yesterday...
south yorkshire
