With Zeking's permission, I thought I'd post up some photos of the paint correction work I did for him on the weekend
When he brought me the car, it looked like the previous owner had at some point gone over the entire car with a brillo pad.
The scratching/swirling was truly something to behold. Being a black car made it stand out all the more, as you can see from the photos below. Worst hit was the bonnet, which was in fairly sorry shape:
Different exposure:
The roof wasn't immune either. Neither was the boot, though aside from a couple of fairly major scratches, it was certainly nowhere near as bad as the bonnet
Wind the clock forward several hours and here's a 50/50 shot that I took with a line of tape down the bonnet to highlight the non-corrected/corrected sides (the white flecks are mainly polish dust, but some are stone chips which I unfortunately can't do anything about):
After 6hrs on the bonnet alone, multiple passes with both the Flex rotary polisher and the Ryobi Random Orbital (working my way through three different pad types and three levels of compound/polish):
Finally, the whole completed car. Total time = 11hrs (and I could really have spent another complete day on it)
Product-wise, I effectively had to pull out all the stops for this one.
Products used:
Flex PE 14-2 Rotary Polisher
Ryobi Random Orbital Polisher
Lake Country Hydro-Tech Blue and Orange pads
Lake Country CCS Orange Cutting Pad
Optimum Compound II
Optimum Polish II
Meguires Ultimate Compound
Prima Amigo
Prima Banana Gloss