The Estoril Blue is a signature colour that all BMW enthusiast should know. Its known as THE BMW E46 M3 colour. According to the owner, this colour had not been used for many version of the 3 series until the F30. We are honored to bring shine to this ride today.

Coming to the inspection of the paint. We found some light watermark issues, possibly from the storage warehouse.

But other than that the paint were generally in good shape.

On other areas of the car, it shared the same conditions.

It had its fare share of road grime from the constant rain.

There were some tar smudge marks.


We removed all tar spots.

Gave the paint a good clean and a light polish.

Then finish it off with by removing all polishing oil and wax with IPA, the car is now coating ready.

The wheels were given the maximum cleaning.

The car was merely 3 days old when we arrived. Check out the caked up brake dust.

Zoom in into the to the lug nuts areas.

Sonax Full Effect used to bleed the wheels of its metal contamination.

Once the cleaning was done.

Lug nuts areas were cleaned as well

Wheel barrel were cleaned.


Finally, they were coated.




After around 6hours, the car is finished.

“Honda Paints are generally the hardest to deal” is a statement we always hear from friendly competitors. “Black is a hard to deal with colour, swirls are extremely visible on black paint” is also a statement we get from alot of customers. Some consumers are also familiar with this statement. We are here to accept all challenges on black or even on a Honda.

We have with us a Honda Jazz, in black today.

Due to the inaccessibility of the owner’s apartment, we are forced to bring the work to a rented compound for the coating process to be performed in.

As we were parking the car into a proper position for the washing to be done, we spot these damages under the sun.

This is the kind of quality your dealership is providing when they give u a “FREE POLISH” before you collect your car.

More damages on other areas of the car with halogen spot lights.

A combination LED and Halogen spot lights allowed us to have a clear view on the paint defects of this car.


We did the standard general cleaning on the car, dried it, and rushed on to the correction. Here is are some Afters.

The white spots are actually dust from the compouding.

A clearer view on the panel, swirls no longer dwell on this paint.

They had combinations of LED and Halogen spots lights for us to use, Hence we are able to take extremely clear shots on the defect free surface.

Finally a close up on the paint to make sure all is good to go for the coating.


Finally, its our please to greatest pleasure to present you
 

This is a Nissan NV200 Panel Van. Originally, Nissan only offers them in White. Instead of leaving it stock, we resprayed it black. Why? because black is the hardest colour to deal with, it has extremely visible swirl, hologram or scratches when damaged. On top of that, a repainted paint job does not always show up shiny.

Orange peel is 1 of the major shine buster in a repainted car. Why? Simply because it will distort the reflection, when the reflection is distorted, there will only be a dull shine.

Because the paint had been sun for a month, there is bound to be watermarks as well.

Notice the reflection on the paint, you can barely see the fence.

Although you can still see there car behind the fence, its still not as clear.


For the newly repainted surface, we allowed a 1 month drying and curing period before we started any kind of work on it. There were alot of distortion on the paint hence we had to do some spot repairs. Sanding was involved.

Usually, you will not see these defects as the paint shop will handle the all these defect prior delivery back to you. We decided that we will do it to show you how it’s done. 2000-3000grid sand papers are used in this process to smooth out any dust, dirt, or even bugs that is stuck in the clear coat.

We will now require to remove the sanding marks.

Final view on the orange peel

This is the initial surface.

After cleaning up

After orange peel reduction. Now you can significantly see the reduction.

Its late night now. We are still pushing on. This is Before.

During the first few passes.

Significant improvement. We decided to not fully remove all orange peel as we might need to do some correction in the future. Safety Net is a must as we are not building a show car.

After orange peel removal, there is bound to have some micro marring on the surface.

Its around 10pm now. Hence we will be stopping soon. But first.

Here is the swirls created after orange peel reduction. Lightings are a LED floodlight and a LED torch light.

On a different panel.

After removal of swirls.

Next morning, we continued on the swirl removal after the orange peel reduction process.

Finishing touches. The shine is coming out.

We gave a final wash and prepared it for coating.

Because we are JDM Enthusiast & DIY People, Yellow Fogs and Dipped black Grill is a must.



Rear emblems are de-badged.

Next up, we give u the comparison Before & After orange peel reduction.







Wheels were filthy, we had to do some cleaning.

When we started to scrub it, the suds became brown!



After some finishing touching and decaling. Check this out.