Next up is another Black G35, this one a coupe. This car was in horrendous shape, previously being hacked by one of the “top” detail shops in south Florida. There where wet sanding scratches, holograms, swirls, and dull spots. Brian and I had a lot of work to do, so there wasn’t a whole lot of time to document the work.

The car had terrible contamination and we needed aggressive clay to cut through it. After, we wet sanded a couple areas on the paint that were terrible, then polished out with between 5-9 steps on the various panels. For an LSP we went with Z5 x2.

Some before pictures of the hood…

You can see the terrible scratches from the various angles. These scratches covered 60-70 percent of the car…


I highlighted some of the scratches with various arrows. Blue represents the bright scratches, and the green arrows help highlight of the darker, straight line scratches. Great job by the hack shop that promised to wetsand and buff the car, huh? Not only did they fail miserably at wetsanding (missing spots and failing to rebuff others) but they buffed with a dirty wool pad and really did a bang up job of ruining the finish.





A close up of these nasty scratches…


Here you can see that certain panels where lighter in appearance then other panels. This was because of the heavy and deep surface defects.


And with the arrows, you can see the same scratch patterns as on the hood…


After beating or heads against the wall trying to remove some of the defects on the soft paint, we knew the only way to catch these was to wet sand!


Another angle…




The top has been cut and has its gloss back, the bottom section is still dull…


Several passes where required to fully remove the sanding marks.

 

While the paint is clean and glossy, it still was a little gray. This time it was because of the compounding haze. The car finished out beautifully..


Brian bringing the gloss back to the paint…


And the hood…


18 man hours later…

 

That is truly an art. Well done.

 

Thanks Damon, it's really important that any member with this particular paint system know exactly what they are dealing with. It's arguably some of the softest/most finicky paint on the market, any questions as far as how to prevent some of the disaster areas seen here, we are more than happy to help