Yikes, Got My Work Cut Out!!! - Page 5 - G35Driver - Infiniti G35 & G37 Forum Discussion

May 24, 2008 | 05:27 PM

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haha those people shouldnt own a car...

May 24, 2008 | 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Garnet Canuck

I don't have a paint thickness gauge, however I doubt that I removed anything more than .5 microns of clear coat. AFAIK, the average vehicle has about 160 microns of paint (with about 50 microns of that being clear coat). You could literally compound your car for 20-25 years before you ever removed the clear coat and got into the pigmented paint.

Yeah, I'd say that as well, except the clear coat and/or paint on my '99 toyota truck is splitting apart from the inside (hundreds on tiny little *'s of paint cracks close up). I've only worked on it by hand, and only several times with a PC. Anyhow, I was just curious if you felt like you really had to get down on it pretty good to clean it up. It ended up looking fantastic.

May 24, 2008 | 08:41 PM

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I certainly had to work hard to get the paint back to near factory finish . This was probably the hardest customer job I've experienced so far......but also probably the most rewarding.

May 25, 2008 | 01:27 AM

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Kinda offtopic but Halogens are 40% at Crappy Tire! I picked up one for $13.

May 25, 2008 | 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by InTgr8r

WTF.... did he wash it with sand paper??????

That was my first reaction - word for word.

May 31, 2008 | 12:27 PM

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wow Shane. That looks absolutely amazing. My car isn't that bad, but it is in pretty bad shape. This is finally motivating me to do something about it.

May 31, 2008 | 12:35 PM

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looks amazing brother def night and day difference

Jun 6, 2008 | 09:01 PM

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That's f*cking amazing! Bravo!

Jun 6, 2008 | 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JonnyOzero3

Wow, nicely done - those results are impressive. You didn't happen to have one of those meters that tell you how much clear coat was left, do you? I'd be afraid to know how much you had to take off to fix that marring...

I'm guessing maybe 4 microns, or .15 mil tops. On most of the Infiniti's I've measured from new I get over 200 microns of paint. So ya, not much. For example.

http://gtaindetail.com/pics/sti051008/images/e.jpg that

to this:

http://gtaindetail.com/pics/sti051008/images/f.jpg

was a mere 3.5 microns

Nice work Shane. That thing was messed yp to start. :O

Last edited by Picus; Jun 6, 2008 at 11:42 PM.

Jun 7, 2008 | 05:52 AM

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Thanks Kevin. Good info for those of us not ready to invest $500 or so to be able to measure.

Jun 7, 2008 | 10:15 AM

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I only really use my ptg on older cars or cars where I know extensive buffing or respraying has been done. It takes a lot of time to use properly, so only really worth it if you're hitting a lot of classics or cars with questionably thin paint.