Smoke: Bentley GT paint correction
Dec 27, 2009 | 09:19 PM
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Smoke: Bentley GT paint correction
2005 Bentley GT: Daily driver
Booked for 2 day full paint correction + winter protection
Started off with the wheels and tires. P21s gel, S&R on the inner barrels
Before
After
The car hadnt been washed in a few weeks and was fairly dirty, in this situation I much prefer to do a nice sudsy wash but with the freezing weather and snow in the forecast I opted to use ONR instead. I must say I am more impressed with ONR each time I use it, especially for situations such as this.
After a quick pass using ONR, I rinsed my mitt every panel
Dried the car off best I could outside but the rain came so I pulled it in the garage to finish drying and the rest of the prep work
Blow dried the grill, wheels and jambs
Cleaned up the doorjambs with APC 20:1 and then sealed them with Optiseal, havent used this product before and I figured this would be a good place to test it out.
Finished
While I was back there I finished the rest of the trunk area
And then the snow came, first snow this year :applause:
Moved to claying, used a medium aggressive bar for most of the car, lower panels needed meguiars red aggressive bar for some stubborn grime
Bentley had a hard clear, defects werent too bad but I wanted to get as close to 100% as possible. 2 step process used, varied between the DA and rotary. Some areas needed 2 or 3 hits to get full correction.
Before I began I took some paint readings
During correction
Driver door 50/50
Trunk
Rear spoiler before
During
After
Taillight under LED
Finished
The paint being white I had some trouble capturing good 50/50 shots, I found a video with my old point and shoot did a little better job of showing the finish before and after
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After correction was complete I gave the car a thorough IPA wipedown to prep for LSP
Moved onto the trim work, been dreading the front grill since I started but what can ya do
Took a quick break outside, pardon the snow on my hair and shirt
Before
After
Booked for 2 day full paint correction + winter protection
Started off with the wheels and tires. P21s gel, S&R on the inner barrels
Before
After
The car hadnt been washed in a few weeks and was fairly dirty, in this situation I much prefer to do a nice sudsy wash but with the freezing weather and snow in the forecast I opted to use ONR instead. I must say I am more impressed with ONR each time I use it, especially for situations such as this.
After a quick pass using ONR, I rinsed my mitt every panel
Dried the car off best I could outside but the rain came so I pulled it in the garage to finish drying and the rest of the prep work
Blow dried the grill, wheels and jambs
Cleaned up the doorjambs with APC 20:1 and then sealed them with Optiseal, havent used this product before and I figured this would be a good place to test it out.
Finished
While I was back there I finished the rest of the trunk area
And then the snow came, first snow this year :applause:
Moved to claying, used a medium aggressive bar for most of the car, lower panels needed meguiars red aggressive bar for some stubborn grime
Bentley had a hard clear, defects werent too bad but I wanted to get as close to 100% as possible. 2 step process used, varied between the DA and rotary. Some areas needed 2 or 3 hits to get full correction.
Before I began I took some paint readings
During correction
Driver door 50/50
Trunk
Rear spoiler before
During
After
Taillight under LED
Finished
The paint being white I had some trouble capturing good 50/50 shots, I found a video with my old point and shoot did a little better job of showing the finish before and after
#1
After correction was complete I gave the car a thorough IPA wipedown to prep for LSP
Moved onto the trim work, been dreading the front grill since I started but what can ya do
Took a quick break outside, pardon the snow on my hair and shirt Before
After
Dec 27, 2009 | 09:21 PM
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Finished, in total this took me around 45minutes of hand polishing and then sealing with optiseal. Very lucky the grille did not have any hard water etching!
Applying LSP by machine speed 5 (notice all the black magic or whatever car care stuff in the background, not my gear... owners stuff... got him set up with some quality QD, wheel gel and drying waffle weaves before I left, I dont want the bentley going to sh!t within a month :thumb
Tires treated with SV Pneu, at first I didnt think this was such a great product, or at leatse any better than what I have used before but now I see why it demands the price, it just works! Deep black look, minimal shine and easy application. New go to tire dressing.
Once the tires were dressed I went in and sealed them up using JetSeal
Exterior window trim dressed as well, one flat strip made for easy work
dressed up the wheel wells and de-tarred surrounding trim using an MF pad
before
Interior before, this car gets driven primarily as DD.
Conditioning the leather for a matte finish
Rosewood cleaned and sealed with BF spray sealant
Interior finished. Door seals treated and jambs sealed after.
Exhaust finished, fine grad steel wool, than just a MF towel
Exterior finished
Despite me not wanting to pull the car out with some snow still on the ground, I felt I would get some flack for not posting sun pics when there was sun present so here you go...
(snow on the branches are the blobs you see in the reflection)
Thanks for looking
Applying LSP by machine speed 5 (notice all the black magic or whatever car care stuff in the background, not my gear... owners stuff... got him set up with some quality QD, wheel gel and drying waffle weaves before I left, I dont want the bentley going to sh!t within a month :thumb
Tires treated with SV Pneu, at first I didnt think this was such a great product, or at leatse any better than what I have used before but now I see why it demands the price, it just works! Deep black look, minimal shine and easy application. New go to tire dressing.
Once the tires were dressed I went in and sealed them up using JetSeal
Exterior window trim dressed as well, one flat strip made for easy work
dressed up the wheel wells and de-tarred surrounding trim using an MF pad
before
Interior before, this car gets driven primarily as DD.
Conditioning the leather for a matte finish
Rosewood cleaned and sealed with BF spray sealant
Interior finished. Door seals treated and jambs sealed after.
Exhaust finished, fine grad steel wool, than just a MF towel
Exterior finished
Despite me not wanting to pull the car out with some snow still on the ground, I felt I would get some flack for not posting sun pics when there was sun present so here you go...
(snow on the branches are the blobs you see in the reflection)
Thanks for looking
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