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DetailWerkz · #1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2009

This is a vehicle that I had already fully color sanded the whole car about 2 months ago. The owner received a custom air-brush flame job from a shop that does great air-brush work, but they have no clue how to clear coat a vehicle. I had over 26 hours the first go around, and during my work I noticed the shop did not remove the mirrors, door handles and window trim when they clear coated the paint. I noticed the clear was already started to split and chip around the moldings so I mentioned this to the owner. He took the vehicle back and raised some heat and they agreed to pull off the items and re-clear the driver door and the passenger door. Again this shop does not know how to spray clear. I have never seen a clear job done this poorly in my 7 years as a professional detailer.

Here is the driver door before I started my sanding.

I started to sand the door using 1500 grit paper using my dynabrade air DA sander. I could not believe how much clear was on this door!

After a few passes you can see how crazy this really is!!

After a few passes and a few discs I started to level out the upper portion of the door.

Here is a nice close up of an area where I have not yet worked it really good. This shows how poor a clear coat job this was!

The middle was the worse, they overlapped the clear from the top and the bottom and it was REALLY bad in this area!

Spots were so bad that I had to jump to 1200 grit sandpaper and do areas by hand!

Here is the door done with 1500 grit paper. You can still see bumps in the clear!

Again the middle of the door was the worst with the overlapping of the clear. You can see the bubbles in the clear in this shot. I knew that I was going to have to sand this area again!

The upper area on the door sanding out nice and smooth.

I went over the whole door with some 3000 trizak pads on my dynabrade to smooth out the 1500 marks.

It was time to see how the door looked buffed out. I grabbed my orbit and using the 3M UK green pad, and the new Gloss-It Evolution Finish Beta I started to work the upper area of the door. Also using the new Gloss-It EVP Prime on my pad so I could raise my speed to 3.5.

Just a few passes and the sanding marks were GONE! This beta is going to be so HOT for professionals!

The middle of the door started to show more clear spray, you can see the pitting in the clear. At this point I knew that I was going to have to drop down to 1200 and maybe even 1000 grit to get this level.

This is not the flake in the paint! This is the clear all pitted!

So I dropped down to 1200 grit on my dynabrade and check out just how much more leveling I had to do!!

So I hit the whole door with 1200, then 1500 then 3000 and am about to buff out the door again using my orbit, pad and new beta polish.

I wanted to hit the middle area first as this was the worst clear issue. The beta knocked out the 3000 grit sand marks like butter!

I used some Gloss-It QD spray to clean the area and wiped with a micro-fiber cloth to see how the paint looked. I was blown away! Crisp and clear!

Also looks like I leveled out the clear pretty good. I am pleased with this sanding job!

I had to focus my attention to the bottom of the door. It was a prefect opportunity to try out the new Gloss-It 3 inch backing plate for the orbit and the new Gloss-It white 3 inch pads. I was very impressed with the cutting ability of the new 3 inch white pads!

This is a great shot showing the new Gloss-It 3 inch packing plate working with the contour of my work area! Also the 3 inch foam pad really flexed well and worked great removing the 3000 grit sand scratches from this area!

Completed buffed out door prior to a QD wipe down.

After a wipe down here are the results!

Just a tad bit of pitting still can be seen under bright halogen light. I really do not want to take more clear off so I am going to leave it and move on to the next door. Here are the final shots of the driver door.

This was a lot of work but I feel it came out perfect. Now to do the same procedure on the front passenger door! More to come....