Dan's Garage - Black 6 MPS Paint Correction/Protection

[Caffeine Fiend]

This weekend I had a 2006 black 6 MPS in the Garage for a sealant-based paint protection. The car belongs to xliquidx, one of our new members. He's had the car for about a month

The car had quite obviously had a pre-delivery detail. The paint still felt quite smooth, but looking at it under the lights showed the story

Swirls:





Buffer trails (holograms) from the pre-delivery detail..... incorrectly finished machine polishing



More swirls:



And various etchings. Some very deep like this one in the rear spoiler:




A three stage machine polish showed so really quite nice results on the six year old paint:






Plastics revived:

Before:


After:





Owing to the fact that it was a nice day today, I decided to take the final shots outside:




Victoria Wax Concours ("Red") really making the metallic flecks in the dark paint pop!






























Time Taken: 17hrs over two days

Dan

[kevstewart]

Awesome job... Very impressive

[guitar69]

That looks lovely, Dan.
How did the deep water etchings come out?
Pete.

[kevstewart]

I use Autoglym hd wax which gives nice results but is there something I could then put on top to give it a real good 'wet look' - and when would be a suitable to to apply it, hours, days or a week after applying the Autoglym wax?
sorry to be slightly off topic, but I've got a black 6 like that one and want it looking as good too!
thanks Dan.

[dazza]

Cheers Dan, very happy with how it came up looks the goods! Now to do some shopping for products

[Caffeine Fiend]

That looks lovely, Dan.
How did the deep water etchings come out?
Pete.

Cheers Pete.

The really deep one on the rear spoiler is still very faintly there, though you really struggle to see it now. Was just too deep to completely remove unfortunately

I use Autoglym hd wax which gives nice results but is there something I could then put on top to give it a real good 'wet look' - and when would be a suitable to to apply it, hours, days or a week after applying the Autoglym wax?
sorry to be slightly off topic, but I've got a black 6 like that one and want it looking as good too!
thanks Dan.

Hi Mate,

I've found that for dark and black cars, Victoria Wax Concours ("Vic Red") works brilliantly. It is my go-to wax for really deep and dark metallics like this. I normally use this in combination with Prima Amigo Paint Cleaner/Glaze. Amigo goes down first to give you some added depth. Then the Vic Red over the top. That's more or less similar to the above (minus the many hours of paint correction and also the Prima Epic Sealant).

[Caffeine Fiend]

Cheers Dan, very happy with how it came up looks the goods! Now to do some shopping for products

Glad you're happy with it mate

[Rayd]

mate that is one top job!

i particularly like the vertical pic where you can pretty much use the side of the car as a mirror for the pavement! lol

[Yeldarb]

Beautiful Dan. The master strikes again!

[SarcasticOne]

*grumble grumble*
Gonna have to start counting pennies now, either have to make a road trip to lithgow or Melbourne....

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[RedDjinn]

No body steal that car, Police wont need to dust it for finger prints.. Very nice Dan love it.. Will def make my way south for a holiday/cruise

[turkminator]

I'm really considering driving down to Melbourne for my 3 as its got a pio load of swirls.. I need to get some PDR first of all stupid people who hit and run!

[Caffeine Fiend]

No body steal that car, Police wont need to dust it for finger prints.. Very nice Dan love it.. Will def make my way south for a holiday/cruise

Mate, I have to tell you, I had to wipe down the door handle/surround about 15 times...... every time I opened or closed the door

By the end I was closing the door using my palm on the very edge of the rubber surrounding the top frame

[rogwick]

Great work dan! Always love your images (posts) of this sort of stuff! Imagine some HDR shots of that car now! Damn, that would look shiny!

[Caffeine Fiend]

Cheers Andre. I should invest in a better camera, but I just wouldn't have time to learn how to use a proper one :/

[MISSMPS]

Alright already geeez we know you're good, enough with the showing off you shithead

[toine888]

hey dan, awesome mate,
I should come see you for a quote, as i have some seriously similar swirls and etching on the spoiler ( i actually thought it was stone chips but looks exactly the same as that one)
PM me what you charge for an all over body Mazda 3 MPS AB wax

cheers

Ant

[rogwick]

Cheers Andre. I should invest in a better camera, but I just wouldn't have time to learn how to use a proper one :/

If you take some shots that you think you would like edited or something, feel free to send a few my way every now and then. I can edit them up a bit and see what happens.

[RadiantKnackers]

*grumble grumble*
Gonna have to start counting pennies now, either have to make a road trip to lithgow or Melbourne....

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Just do it Sam, otherwise Im going to steal your car

[DisturbedDave]

Another top job! Came up brilliantly. Making me feel bad about my car....