Dan's Garage - 2012 Honda Civic - Red
Re: Dan's Garage - 2012 Honda Civic - Red
Hahahah
This one, besides the Opti-Coat was mainly an exercise in fixing the dealer detailer's mistakes.
Every panel had machine-induced buffer trails (holograms). These are caused by not finishing down the paintwork properly. Think in terms of sanding a surface. In order to get the best result you start at the coarser grades and work your way to the finer grades until the surface is nice and smooth. This is the same sort of thing, but in this case, the dealer detailer stopped when he should have "finished down" to a finer grade. As a result the paint surface had polishing marks in it (buffer trails) that should have been removed.
Honda paint is also very soft, so extremely prone to swirls, so it's more of a challenge to work with this sort of paint as treating it like any other Japanese car will not work.
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Dan's Garage - 2012 Honda Civic - Red
Awesome work... As usual!!
Is there any clear on this flat?
Ps: ugliest... civic... ever!
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Re: Dan's Garage - 2012 Honda Civic - Red
Thanks mate.
Yep definitely clear coated. But it's not a tinted clear like previous red Civics. Honda learned their lesson there it seems.
Shouldn't be any issues with fading on this one (nor with the previous model).
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