Upon arrival, we had already expected a long day. This Honda Accord was inspected beforehand. The car is 1 year old but fully maintained by a “so called detailer” around the owner’s area. They even guaranteed a 100% recovery for the paint after seeing its damages. You be the judge.
Since it rained in the morning, its obvious that the paint does not have any sort of protection left.
The first kind of damage we spotted around the car was these, they were all over the car, a sudden patch of haziness.
Another hazy spot.
Under the natural light, it is very obvious that the car had been sent to a paint shop and the paint shop finishing was a nightmare.
The direction of the scratches from the G6 compound used by paint shops.
Other than that, we also spotted some severe watermark etching.
Door handle bowls were also heavily scratched.
Now a view with proper lighting.
Extremely scratched up.
Some areas which were not repainted was slightly better.
Now for the paint correction procedure. Obviously, we did the standard washing, claying, stain removals and tar removal.
We corrected a section of the hood, check out the obvious difference in colour and depth.
The corrected section is very obvious.
We also did a test panel on one of the repainted panel.
This is a repainted panel. Before.
After paint correction on the same panel.
After know how the paint reactions to the paint correction system we use, we started the paint correction.
This is a Before indication of the swirl amount.
After 1 pass, we spotted some leftover deeper RIDS (random isolated deep scratches)
1 more pass to clear it up.
Other areas.
Side door panels.
Some damages were too severe, even after a few passes the damage cannot be removed fully.
The general condition after paint correction went on for 10hours.
We did a total makeover for the paint and now it looks like a bright star in the sky.
More after correction.
This is how the reflection looks like after paint correction.
We’re packing up for the day and continuing tomorrow.
Due to limited time, we didn’t document the wheels but here is am after shot.
Total Bling.
Entire procedure took 2 days, timed around, 17hours. Check out the results.
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We’re gonna be brutally honest about this car. Its perfect. Its as perfect as a car, fresh from the production line, directly sent to your house.
We usually start with a wash but unfortunately, the owner was washing the car when we arrive.
So we took the opportunity to inspect the car as we washed the car together
On the roof, the paint was flawless.
On the body, the paint again was perfect.
It had a very unique shine to it when light was shine onto the paint.
Basically, the car was so flawless, that we didn’t had anything to work on. Hence, we just did all essential surface preparations, removing wax and grease, stains were very minimal but still we did some cleaning on that areas, and finally we coated the car. Entire process took less than 3hours, but then again, we have to stress that not all cars are like this, most cars we worked on had severe damages, or even paint damages from the dealership itself.
But anyways, we did brief the customer about the condition and he was happy enough to book us for his other car.
Enjoy the results.
We traveled our way to Penang Island for this sweet sweet ride. We were briefed by the owner that it was a brand new ride, with barely 500KM on the ODO.
Upon arrival, we did our usual walk around the car.
We spotted the most common damage on most continental cars nowadays.
These glossy black plastic pillars are usually pretty scratched up even before the car reaches the owner.
We did some magic and restored the pillars.
We did a light polish for the paint
Cleaning up any stains and light damages.
After getting the surface ready, we got the car coated. Here’s the results.
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