FD RX7 gets De-Faded and De-Swirled

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Mar 31, 2011 | 07:34 AM

Tru_Shine

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FD RX7 gets De-Faded and De-Swirled

Hey guys, This write up wont be as thorough as usual, some of the pictures didn't turn out as good as I had hoped. Also, no sun shots at the end. But anyways hope you enjoy.

I did this car a couple months back and I am just now getting around to posting the write up.
This belongs to one of my good customers who Ive had a chance to do a lot of cars for.

Let's see what is on the menu for today?

I arrived at the house and began my routine walk around to see what I was dealing with.

This is the plastic around the tail lights

Back Bumper

Faded Deck lid

For the wash process I used

Foam Dawn Wash with sheep skin washmitt
P21s Wheel Gel
EZ-Detail Brush
Red Medium grade Clay bar

Nasty gas lid area

After claying with a Red claybar.....it turned white....

Next using Meguiars masking tape, I taped up all of the black plastic trim.

Then before bringing the car inside for the correction, I did a couple of 50/50 test panels out in the sunlight. Sometimes it is very hard to capture these defects with the camera on white paint.

After pulling the car inside I made my way down the Driver Side and using the Lake Country Cyan Hydrotech pad using M105 compound.

Here is how the Rear Deck Lid looked before During and After

Here is an angle where you can see by removing a layer of that Dead & Faded Clear coat, that the paint is a whole different shade of White!

Next is the Taillights, they were severely swirled. here are some nice 50/50's

The customer asked me to polish out the 13B and all of the intercooler components, and pipes.

I taped off a section of the intercooler to see what kind of difference was actually being made. It's kind of hard to see but here are some 50/50 shots.