Pictures from Meguiar's Open Garage - August 2nd!

[Mike Phillips]

On Wednesday nights, starting at 5:00pm and going until around 10:00pm, Meguiar's will host an Open Garage in which registered members of our Meguiar's Online Discussion Forum can sign-up to bring their own car down and work on it using the complete arsenal of Meguiar's products and tools with experienced and trained experts on hand to help you as well as show you the proper techniques for getting show car results!



In about 25 minutes we'll be getting underway!

[Newport Viper]

Wish I could be there!

This is where a WEB CAM would be great!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kman]

Had an awesome time and learned A LOT!

Thanks Mike and Sean!

[fatchance]

We had a great time, thanks to the Meg's crew, Mike, Jason and Sean. The hood on Ella C SRT looked amazing when it was finished.

[Mike Phillips]

Another fun night with forum friends at Meguiar's Garage!

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by fatchance
We had a great time, thanks to the Meg's crew, Mike, Jason and Sean. The hood on Ella C SRT looked amazing when it was finished.

Hi John,

First we would like to thank you for bringing Ella and her car to Meguiar's Garage and allowing us to work on it. As you can see Ella keeps her car in pristine condition!




There were however to very unsightly scratches in the shape of an arc, running from the back of the hood by the windshield all the way to the front of the hood on the passenger's side of the car.

Here's some close-ups of the scratches, while they don't look very deep, they stood out like a sore thumb on an other wise flawless finish.






The paint also had these almost perfect, circular indents throughout the hood as you can see in the below close-up which is actually a section cropped out of the above photo and actual size.




In order to remove these scratches we decided to use a technique called Feather Sanding, where you take a small piece of Meguiar's Nikken Finishing Paper, about the size of a postage stamp, and carefully sand directly over the defect you're trying to remove and feather the edge out until you can no longer see the scratch.

After sanding out the two long arc scratches, we took a photo of the entire hood so you can now see just how long these scratches extended over the passenger's side of the hood and we think most people would agree, that if they owned this car and the finish was otherwise flawless except for two distinct, long scratches in the hood... well you would want them out of the paint also!







The easy part is actually sanding out the scratches, the tricky part is removing the sanding marks!. This however is where Meguiar's excels! We've been creating products that use diminishing abrasives since 1901 and our product have the ability to actually remove defects without instilling defects at the same time and that's the secret to creating flawless, show car finishes!

We would like to note that we think Ella's eyes got a little bigger while watching us sand on the hood of her baby...




Stay tuned for the after pictures!

[techsc400]

Thanks

Thanks Mike and Sean.
It was great. Now I know exactly what I can do at home.

Great hands on class and great products.

What a good combination!

Ted

[RDVT4ME]

Looks like you have a guest appearance by Jason Rose.

Looking forward to the follow up pix. It should be interesting to see the buff out process.

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by RDVT4ME
Looks like you have a guest appearance by Jason Rose.

Jason Rose, Mike Pennington, Claude Sevigny, Sean Mearel, and Darrin Pereria were all on hand to help out we just didn't get pictures of everyone.

It was truly a team effort with everyone lending a hand!

[Alex7938]

Any ideas on those round indentations?

As i noticed a couple the other day on my car

[Paulvr4]

SHOW US THE PICTURES! =)

[Superior Shine]

Originally posted by Alex7938
Any ideas on those round indentations?

As i noticed a couple the other day on my car

Those are from the smaller cousin of the guys that do the crop circles.

[Alex7938]

Originally posted by Superior Shine
Those are from the smaller cousin of the guys that do the crop circles.

LMAO

[THE BIG BUFFER]

I was thinking maybe rivits from someones clothes as they leaned on the car.

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by Paulvr4
SHOW US THE PICTURES! =)

Hi Paul,

I'm working on the after pictures right now. Hang on a few minutes...