Hi all,
Sure this will get moved to Detailing and Bodywork shortly but figured it's sort of a dual purpose thread so will stick it here first, hope the mods don't mind
After having a rock thrown at my car earlier in the year on my way back from a Forum run I finally got around to trying to finish fixing it today.
I'm afraid as this repair has taken me several months to get around to I have managed to lose the pictures of the severity of the original scratches. To describe them, they were three straight scratches that were deep down into the primer/metal. The paint on the bonnet is very thick as it's been resprayed. This made the scratches incredibly deep and wide.
After attempting a repair with Chipex I got this, no good as all it did was hide the white, I couldn't get it to fill the scratch:-
So, I ended up painting with a mix of proper car paint and laquer to get this monstrosity:-
I was bricking it about wetsanding so I did them in two batches and am pleased I did!
First batch after 2000 and then 3000:-
Once compounded with Megs and then refined I was left with this:-
Not very good really, the surface wasn't flush and there were visible white bits which I can't even truly identify. Suffice to say I think it basically pulled too much paint out, or the paint wasn't applied evenly. It just wasn't the best finish. Although still much improved on the original thick white gouge in the bonnet.
Today I tried flatting the second one, but this time used a tiny piece of 1200 at my fingertip, then built up via 2000:-
and finally finished off with 3000:-
Then I compounded and refined the whole lot, to be left with a better, although still not perfect result. I really think that the reason behind this is due to the fact I was trying to fill something more akin to the Grand Canyon with paint instead of a small chip or surface scratch.
This shot shows the original pair of scratches that I worked on first, with the later repair to the other scratch towards the top of the pic:-
Then I ended up doing the whole bonnet with Menz IP to help bring back the shine as the respray from earlier this year seemed to be dulling in patches as the laquer fell back a little.
Once all done I headed out in the sunset to get some new shots with my new HDR app on my Android phone. I think I will need to get myself a proper HDR camera now
I've decided that Toledo Blue definitely looks at it's best in HDR!
Didn't even realise I captured the moon in this one!
And my final shot that just caught the tip of the sunset, really need some better locations!
Sure this will get moved to Detailing and Bodywork shortly but figured it's sort of a dual purpose thread so will stick it here first, hope the mods don't mind
After having a rock thrown at my car earlier in the year on my way back from a Forum run I finally got around to trying to finish fixing it today.
I'm afraid as this repair has taken me several months to get around to I have managed to lose the pictures of the severity of the original scratches. To describe them, they were three straight scratches that were deep down into the primer/metal. The paint on the bonnet is very thick as it's been resprayed. This made the scratches incredibly deep and wide.
After attempting a repair with Chipex I got this, no good as all it did was hide the white, I couldn't get it to fill the scratch:-
So, I ended up painting with a mix of proper car paint and laquer to get this monstrosity:-
I was bricking it about wetsanding so I did them in two batches and am pleased I did!
First batch after 2000 and then 3000:-
Once compounded with Megs and then refined I was left with this:-
Not very good really, the surface wasn't flush and there were visible white bits which I can't even truly identify. Suffice to say I think it basically pulled too much paint out, or the paint wasn't applied evenly. It just wasn't the best finish. Although still much improved on the original thick white gouge in the bonnet.
Today I tried flatting the second one, but this time used a tiny piece of 1200 at my fingertip, then built up via 2000:-
and finally finished off with 3000:-
Then I compounded and refined the whole lot, to be left with a better, although still not perfect result. I really think that the reason behind this is due to the fact I was trying to fill something more akin to the Grand Canyon with paint instead of a small chip or surface scratch.
This shot shows the original pair of scratches that I worked on first, with the later repair to the other scratch towards the top of the pic:-
Then I ended up doing the whole bonnet with Menz IP to help bring back the shine as the respray from earlier this year seemed to be dulling in patches as the laquer fell back a little.
Once all done I headed out in the sunset to get some new shots with my new HDR app on my Android phone. I think I will need to get myself a proper HDR camera now
I've decided that Toledo Blue definitely looks at it's best in HDR!
Didn't even realise I captured the moon in this one!
And my final shot that just caught the tip of the sunset, really need some better locations!
Liverpool
