Orinda Auto Detail - HOLY WATER SPOTS BATMAN!!! of coarse its black....

[Orinda Auto Detail]

This was one of those cars that right when I looked at it I knew I would be in for a challenge. For any of you out there that have got your hands on a new hyundai you know the paint is hard as nails. This car is 2012 and it had seen better days. The entire car had water spots on it the worst of it on the passanger side hood, fender, and door. On these places the spots had actually etched into the paint so it was far more than just removing the mineral build up. I was sure sanding was going to be in order to get this right. Lets get on with it.

new car and well it clearly isn`t happy

As you can see there is almost no clairity on the hood....

Here is an up close. Usually when you see those white lines like that and you can feel them...... Well get ready to do some work


And as expected swirl city, how ever I was far less concerned with swirls then spots


Rest of the car was pretty hammered with swirls and rids along with water spots. Around the rest of the car the spots weren`t nearly as bad but still added a lot of time to defect removal.

After washing and decon.... The paint still felt really ruff because of the etchings. I tryed my test spot with 3perfect it and rotary and an orange CCS pad.. Made it better but didn`t touch the etchings. After this I tryed with heavy cut wool.... Again same thing. So notice in my lap what appears to be a flex with a trizac 3k disc on it. So normally I would sand with a DA but being that both my DA`s were on the other side of town I put a 3k disc on a Flex at speed 1. It worked amazingly well.

Here`s a 50/50 door to fender after 3 wet sand followed by orange pad 3m perfect it rotary.

50/50 of door after same steps above the body line. I went back later by hand and hit the line its self

Sanding with my flex and a trizac disc to cut into the etching was kinda scary so this took a long time being forced rotation the thought a burn seemed all to much like it could be reality in a blink. Keep in mind I would of never done this if I didn`t hand a paint gauge and the car didn`t have anything but really hard paint.

Thats 50/50 after I finished the door the back door. At this point I was able to stop and sanding and I just ended up compounding the rest of the car using my rotary and an orange CCS pad. After this I washed the car to get rid of all the compounding dust and pulled it out side to take a look at it.


Even after just compounding you can see a huge improvement! The hood relection is good again and optically speaking is clear.

I pulled the car back in at this point to do some finishing it on. I chose to go with a white CCS pad and SRC Finishing polish(Love SRC FINISHING BTW)

remember this?

And thats why I get paid the big bucks Just kidding but it is pretty much perfect(`brushes shoulders off`)

This was horrible


Handled! At this point I sealed the car up BFWD let it sit on the paint for 30 min while nit picking wheels tires windows ect.... Amazingly I got lucky as the customer kept the spots off the windows and they were only on the paint

After removing BFWD sorry no more sun shots as it was late in the day at this point




Thanks for looking!
Joe Torbati
Orinda Auto Detail

[Todd@RUPES]

I`m exhausted just reading your thread, great job btw!

[Orinda Auto Detail]

I`m exhausted just reading your thread, great job btw!

lol yeah that was 2 really fun days let me tell ya! Thanks

[dd1101]

Great job Joe

[Pats300zx]

Great job Joe. What a comeback !!!

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Great job Joe

Thanks!

Great job Joe. What a comeback !!!

Thank you!

[GearHead_1]

Looks like a ton of work. Sure can`t argue with the result. Great job!

[skibik]

That looks awesome! I`m trying to do a little digging on BFWD to get that wet look and this puts a check in the BF column.

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Looks like a ton of work. Sure can`t argue with the result. Great job!

Thank you! And it was brutal getting the front half of the car right the spots covered everything at one point I was laying on side polishing the bottom rocker. Next time I have one like this I`ll take it over to the a shop and put it on a lift lol

That looks awesome! I`m trying to do a little digging on BFWD to get that wet look and this puts a check in the BF column.

Thanks man! Just my 2 cents you cant go wrong with SRC Finishing polish topped by BFWD looks amazing. Even better if you hit it with poly spray

[tropicsteve]

man joe, that was one fugly paint finish when you got it. as usual, your attention to detail brings it back to an outstanding finish. very nice !

[rurocking]

First, great job. Next, can someone explain to me how a car can get that way?

[TacoHerder]

Man, if that car could talk it wouldnt stop thanking you. Ya rescued that paint big time. Very nice

[TroyScherer]

WOW !!! That is some serious water spotting...

[Rocket]

Thats some major water etchings. Nice save

[RTexasF]

I crown you......The Miracle Man.