Detailer's Domain: Fixes a Hammered Honda Civic - Opti Coat applied
 

Subject: 2000 Honda Civic
Requirements - Remove heavy swirls and scratches, and protect with Opti Coat

Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed with 1Z einszett W99
- Aquartz Iron Cut
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Nano Scrub AutoScrub
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Wetsanding
- Meg's M105 with Surbuf Pad - Griots Orbital
- Meg's D300 with Microfiber DA Cut Pad - Griots Orbital
- Menzerna SF4000 with Uber Green Pad - Griots Orbital
- Opti Coat
- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used -

1Z einszett W99
Aquartz Iron Cut
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Meg's M105
Meg's D300 Microfiber Correction System
Menzerna SF4000
Opti Coat
Adam's Super VRT
Optimum Metal Polish

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before
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Prep - Wash, Wheels, Tires, NanoSkin
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8304.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8350.jpg

Headlight restoration

Before shots of the lights.
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Various stages of wet sanding required to clean up the headlights
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Compound and Polish
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8352.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8353.jpg

After shots of the headlights - Opti Coat installed
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D300 with Griots
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8359.jpg

50/50 shots of correction
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Before trim
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8377.jpg

After
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8379.jpg

After shots
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http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...c/DSC_8407.jpg

VERY impressive.

Omfg!!

amazing

Did you wet sand the paint or just the headlights?

=O Damn! Way to go, guys!

these are my favorite threads on driver for sure. nice job. looks brand new again. that trim looks amazing too