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We travel our way to Penang Island for this sweet ride over the weekend. Brand new and fresh from the oven, the owner couldn’t wait to get it fully protected. Unfortunately, the surface condition was not as “New” as he expected. Read on and find out how bad it is.
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Upon arrival, the routine walk around inspection was done, overall the car just looks dirty and needed a wash. But that’s the thing with white colour cars.

The surface was covered in rain stains, dust and sand.

The typical road grime after a week of driving.
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We also found some light watermark issues on the paint surface.
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One of the panel was exposed to the sun, we found severe hologram issues on the paint.
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Next we moved to another panel with the LED Check Light
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More hologram found on other sections.
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These poor post delivery is destroying car paints from the dealership.
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some areas had lighter holograms.
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We found a tree sap stain that was bonded to the paint as well. This is why we recommend our clients to avoid parking under a tree.

Moving to the paint correction, we did a detailed wash for the car. Areas like these were not spared.

Moving to the paint correction, Hologram damage before.
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Hologram damage after.
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Hologram damage before. (Notice a yellowish spot, that is another tree sap stain)
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Hologram damage after. We tried to remove the tree sap stain as well but only managed to reduce it.
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Paint restored to damage free condition.
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The paint is near flawless after the paint correction stage, its ready to be coated now.

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After about 6hours of restoration and cleaning, our finally applied the Opti-Coat™Pro to the paint. Check out how it turns out.

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We have a pretty rare car on our hands this round. Its a vintage Lotus Esprit fully restored to factory standard. It was briefed by the owner himself that it was repainted by a very skillful painter and also the colour chosen was from the Aston Martin Vanquish! This is the 4th car the owner had us worked on. Well, lets begin.
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Upon arrival, the car was parked in a semi covered area, whereby tree leaves, tree sap, and bird droppings were visible.

Without wasting time, we proceed to inspecting the paint. Its was almost mint but with some coarse finishing from the painters.
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Some light contamination and also haziness on the clear coat.
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The paint was not at its best state but its nothing major.
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Zoom in and we spotted some keep swirls on the frontal part of the car.
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Some minor uneven clear coat.
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a deep scratch.
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Another visible deep swirled area.
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From far, these swirls are not very visible, but it doesn’t mean we skip it.

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We gave the car a wash, clay and immediately started on the paint correction.
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So after the paint correction, we restored the colour and also removed all of the swirls.
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A closer zoom in look on the paint condition.

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The wheels were also repainted and it was a pain in the a** to clean. We manage to clean up all of them and got them coated.

As for the results.