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The day started a bit wet and cloudy but that certainly didn't dampen the spirits, or the enthusiasm, of the 30+ attendees we had over the weekend!
Unfortunately, that overcast weather held back our ability to capture really compelling before/after pictures of the finish, but we managed to get the usual defect removal on the "donor" Ford Five Hundred we played with.
This car was in desperate need of claying, and with several in attendance who had never clayed before, the job was done quickly.
Then it was on to our usual process of Ultimate Compound, Ultimate Polish and Ultimate Wax, both by hand and with the G110v2 buffer.
On the left side is a thinly applied coat of Ultimate Wax left to dry while we get started on the DA work next to it.
A little difficult to tell in this shot, but the clarity is greatly improved in the areas we treated versus the untreated portions.
Jockeying for position to get a good look of the results of our test spot!
This cellphone image shows much better the improvement in the finish. The fine dots are actually pits in the surface from more than 100,000 miles of exposure to fine debris impacting the surface. They aren't coming out without wet sanding and compounding, which we don't really recommend on factory paint.
It was then time to let attendees try their hand with the DA and finish up the hood on this Ford.
Unfortunately, that overcast weather held back our ability to capture really compelling before/after pictures of the finish, but we managed to get the usual defect removal on the "donor" Ford Five Hundred we played with.
This car was in desperate need of claying, and with several in attendance who had never clayed before, the job was done quickly.
Then it was on to our usual process of Ultimate Compound, Ultimate Polish and Ultimate Wax, both by hand and with the G110v2 buffer.
On the left side is a thinly applied coat of Ultimate Wax left to dry while we get started on the DA work next to it.
A little difficult to tell in this shot, but the clarity is greatly improved in the areas we treated versus the untreated portions.
Jockeying for position to get a good look of the results of our test spot!
This cellphone image shows much better the improvement in the finish. The fine dots are actually pits in the surface from more than 100,000 miles of exposure to fine debris impacting the surface. They aren't coming out without wet sanding and compounding, which we don't really recommend on factory paint.
It was then time to let attendees try their hand with the DA and finish up the hood on this Ford.
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