I was contacted by the owner of this Lexus ES 300, to fix up the body shop debacle of a repair they did to his hood and fenders, as well as polish up the rest of the car to make it look better. The pictures you will see at the start will shock you, those are “finished repairs”.
I started with an ONR wash on the outside. I then clayed the car with Werkstat Blue clay, which came out pretty clean as the owner clayed it late last year. I started by tackling the hood with Optimum Hyper Compound and a foam compounding pad. The hood took 3 passes to rid the hood of all the sanding marks, leaving only the DA sanding curlies that were very deep. The hood was then followed up with Optimum Hyper Polish and then Super Finish to get rid of the micro marring that was left after polishing. The rest of the car was finished with Optimum Hyper Polish and a few other polishes. The LSP was a prototype wax and precleaner from Eshine.
The start








Fenders were is rough shape as well.

I start by spraying the compound on the hood

But then figured out it was better to spray on the pad itself

The compound spits a bit, but does not dust at all.

After a few passes of Optimum Hyper compound


I had a hard time focusing on the 50/50 on the trunk, but the right side is polished.

Used these for LSP process


And the finished pics







All work was done outside in -2 degree weather.

 

wow the difference is like night and day. very nice! i need to do simething like this...my paint is pretty crappy... =(

 

Thanks for the comment

 

great job. looks great.

 

I wish there were some direct light shots on the paint afterwords to really be able to appreciate what was accomplished.

 

ya, the sun was getting low when I finished, the hood still had some deep DA sanding marks here and there, but other than that it cleaned up nicely. We didn't want to get into wet sanding due to cost.