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Today I did some detailing...
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Gave the tyres a good hiding today with Chemical Guy's APC (Apple something-or-other i think it's called) and a rough upholstery brush. Scrubbed them. The amount of dirt and muck that came off was a real eye-opener. Applied some glitz afterwards and (finally!) seem to be getting shiny tyres. At long last.
I also 2BM'ed the car after a decent snow foaming. I went a bit overboard with the snow foam and put foam in the lance to near the halfway mark on the bottle. Aiming for the 'shaving foam' thickness that has evaded me for so long. I got close to it but not quite as much as I would have liked. I now no longer believe any video that's getting 'shaving foam' thickness without using a near-full lance bottle just full of snow foam solution (which i actually want to try out sometime, but I'm worried I might block up the lance by not diluting the foam at all?)
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That looks like the Lake Country Pads
Obviously with the colour it is now in the picture, its hard to say if you've got a Jeweling Pad or a Light Cutting Pad.
On another note, I dont know if the prep work you did is bad, and that is dirt transfer to the pad or colour transfer from the paint. Did you try to wash them out?
That's very helpful, thanks.
I suspect it was a light cutting pad that I had.
The prep work I did was good. Good wash (not the foam stuff you guys use, but good wash), de tar etc, clay the car.
The reason the pad is blue, I'm embarrassed to say, is that I tried to use the polishing machine down low to wax the car. That blue is one of the dodo hard waxes. Obviously a cutting pad wouldn't be ideal for applying a way! You live and learn. I soaked the pads and washed them in the washing machine but the blue never came out.
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Thanks Dave.MetzgerMeister wrote: »They look superb!! Can't wait to get my own done now
I dropped them in on the Tuesday and got them back Friday afternoon. I was advised just to wash them with soapy water.
I really happy with the colour also.0 -
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Not really detailing as such, but I attempted some bumper scrape-removal today.
The whole corner of my bumper was pretty badly scratched and scuffed. So I gave it a small bit of a sanding to try and smooth the area out a bit (didn't make much of a difference, as a panel beater already sanded it down for me before, anyway).
So it's a bit rough looking:
So I stuck my head out to the local Motor Factors and got them to mix me up an aerosol of paint, and they gave me a lacquer aerosol, too.
So I taped up the area using last weeks Drogheda Independent and left only that corner of the bumper exposed:
I then applied a coat of paint, and waited 10-15 minutes (placed a heater near it, though not sure if it really did anything or not). After 10-15 minutes passed it was dry and I applied another coating of the black stuff.
At this point I was actually beginning to like the matte look of the paint on the car and was thinking it was actually nice, but ultimately decided that a gloss finish is a million miles nicer.
After this it came time to apply the lacquer. Unfortunately my camera died off at that point, so I have no photos.. so, I know you're all thinking "sure it's fairly easy, there's no way anyone could ever make a massive jock of such a simple job"...
So... tune in tomorrow to see how I did just that very thing!
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toastedpickles wrote: »Did you clean the surface with surface cleaner? and diiiid you apply adhesion promoter before spraying the bumper?
otherwise it'l flake terrible in a few months
I did clean the surface. but not with surface cleaner. I washed with washing up liquid (fairy) and clayed.
And no, didn't apply any adhesion promoter (never heard of it). Hadn't appeared in any tutorials i watched and wasn't mentioned by the lad at motor factors who looked at the bumper for me, so I just fired ahead.
Sure, as Ivan Drago would say; 'If it flakes, it flakes'. 0 -
toastedpickles wrote: »diiiid you apply adhesion promoter before spraying the bumper? otherwise it'l flake terrible in a few months
Shouldn't that only be necessary on a new bumper as it is only paint over paint here.0 -
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I feel like im in that episode of Father Ted where they destroy the entire car trying to take out a small chip.
But anyway..
So I applied the lacquer last night (it's not as glossy as I feel it should be though? It says 'extremely glossy' but it's still very much a matte finish in comparison to the rest of the car?
Anyway, I put too much on and it started running and dripping, so being the clever clogs that I am, I... gave it a wipe with a cloth! And I destroyed it.
I left big horrible swipe marks the whole way through the top of the bumper. And all at the last minute.
So I whipped out my 1600 grit sandpaper and my block and I went at it.. and at it.. and at it. And I got nowhere. So I went mooching to see if my brother had any sandpaper left in the remains of what used to be his workshop and I came across a 150 grit sandpaper.
And boy did I use it! :P I was at it for a lot longer than I thought (I think people overestimate the damage that low-grit sandpapers can actually do). So after a while I began to smoothen out some of the roughness of it all, and then I went over it all again with my 1600 grit paper a few times to soften it up again.
I applied a coat of black paint (aerosol again) and waited 15 minutes til it was touch-dry. Then I went again with a second coat.
I also repeated these same steps with my lacquer until i had three coats on there.
This time I moved my newspaper back a bit and I tried to make the finish a tad more gradual (as the hard edge took a bit more work to get rid of with sandpaper than I'd thought it would). It's still visible, though, but can't really be felt as much.
This is my end result for the moment.
I took the paper off and there's a very slight 'border' where the paper was placed, but it's not really noticeable. However, it's still all pretty 'matte' looking (it has a shine, but not as good as the rest of the car) so I reckon I'll attempt a good machine polishing over it tomorrow to try and finish it off properly.
If I can't get it right, i'll probably try once more before calling in the ould panel beater (and I'll observe how he does it).0 -
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Your ballsy I'll give you that!
Ah sure, you'll learn nothing from not trying it. Worst possible outcome is I damage the bumper beyond repair and I'm off looking in scrapyards for one to replace it with.
Not exactly the end of the world and I doubt a bumper for a Rav4 would break the bank.I'd say it will always be hard to not get an edge when painting a section like that
My theory is that, because it's all quite smooth to touch, a lengthy machine polishing session should bring it back up to a glossy, black finish. But, I've never done anything like this before, so time will tell (unless anyone here has done this before.. then they can also tell.. haha). 0 -
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