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Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - July 15th, 2010
Another great night at Meguiar's Garage!
Even with holding the number of attendees down to 30 individuals we still had plenty to keep us busy and plenty of people hungry for information.
Ken brought in a 20 year old Mazda with original paint and a far from original turbo motor. The paint needed some TLC and there were some under hood aluminum bits that Ken couldn't manage to shine up to his liking. Plenty to learn about here! We started with a little demo of Hot Rims Mag & Aluminum polish on his strut tower bar.
Once he got things tidied up a bit under the hood we moved to the trunk lid for a little lesson in claying and D/A buffing. Here the guys get to work pulling years of bonded contaminants off the trunk.
This was removed from roughly one square foot of surface area!
From there we moved on to some D/A buffing, but since this was old and original paint we opted for some M80 Speed Glaze. The paint on this car is probably never going to look completely new again, but at least we could bring back some shine.
A little half & half after some M80. A huge improvement, and although a second application of M80 should improve this a bit more, it's just too far gone to ever look completely new again.
The guys then moved on to the carbon fiber hood, staying with M80. They clayed first (and boy, did it need it!) but the M80 just wasn't quite up to the task on this much more challenging surface. We had them step to Ultimate Compound for the hood, with excellent results.
This half & half shows the level of swirls present before applying UC with the G110v2.
Our good buddy Bob (aka RDVT4ME) brought his toy down for the night. You won't find a cleaner red Corvette anywhere!
A couple of recent Saturday Class attendees came back for some extra knowledge, and Roger brought some ancient clay with him!
The crew attacks Roger's BMW 318ti.
We had Roger switch to our C2000 mild blue clay to remove the heavy contaminants from his car.
As it turns out the hood of this BMW had been repainted but it seems the body shop didn't bother to buff it out. It looked like a quality paint job overall, but there just no clarity at all to the finish. This reflection shot of the overhead lights is NOT out of focus - the paint was this bad!
In order to bring this finish up to the maximum potential it really should be wet sanded and buffed, but that's really beyond the scope of a TNOG. Still, we wanted to see if we could improve the look. Some M105 on a WWHC7 wool cutting pad via rotary at 1800 rpm really cleaned things up, even more than we anticipated. We followed with M205 on a W9207 Soft Buff 2.0 foam finishing pad at 1000 rpm to finish it off.
The difference was dramatic:
And just to show that this isn't a comparison of "out of focus" and "in focus" shots, here's a little half & half split right through the reflection:
What to do when your brake dust is so badly embedded in your factory painted wheel that even a wheel cleaner and a brush won't get it all off?
Clay it!
Thanks again for another great night..... see you next week!
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