Paintwork on Black Forester

[ZAS]

Would love to mate and it is on the cards. Just have to find the time for a holiday and a babysitter!

[blackbetty]

Joel I thought you were in Qld ... my bad ... do u do detailing trips to ACt as well ?

[ZAS]

Nah BB I'm in Sydney. At this point in time I don't sell my detailing services but if I did I'd come and do your car for you

[Scratch2k]

I just spent most of the last 2 days detailing the Forester and while I'm completely buggered, the results are amazing!

Thanks Joel for the recommendation on which products to buy, the detailing guide on your site and especially to the Megs G220, it saved me a lot of arm work. I've always been a committed by-hand detailer but I'm 100% a convert to the machine!

The results aren't perfect, I think to get better than I have I'd have to use a cut but I didn't want to do so as my first attempt with the G220 so the Slick/Finish/Amigo/Epic process eliminated pretty much all of the swirls and most of the lighter scratching along with a good proportion of the water spots..even with the flaws still there, the shine blows me away.

I'm downloading some pictures off the camera now, I'll post them up when they're ready.

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Pictures!

In the right light, it doesn't looks so bad


...but up close, it's a different story....Bad swirls


and water marks


and bird poo marks, the previous owner did not love their car.


I used the Megs machine for the first application of Prima Swirl with a cutting disc, then the entire surface with Prima Finish with a polishing disc (this probably was not necessary) then a finishing disc with Prima Amigo and finally Prima Epic by hand (mostly because I was out of discs




...and the final product after a final coat of Prima Slick, my new best friend!








Overall I'm very happy with the results, special thanks to Joel for all his hard work answering my stupid questions and putting together a special order for me, including the Megs polisher, which along with my Karcher and my Petrol Grass Edger is now among m favourite power tools!

More pictures here: Picasa Web Albums - royalla - Forester

I should say that the entire process took more than 12 hours of work over a period of 2 days but I'm very satisfied with the result and from now on I'll be much more confident using the machine polisher, especially on the MPS.

[PerthMPS]

great work!!

[ZAS]

Awesome mate. That second last one there is the money shot.

[blackbetty]

Looks great Chris awesome work imagine how much you will love her once you get some nice rims on