So I've slowly been cleaning up the beater Talon and decided just to go for it and polish out what I could to possibly get some shine back in the ol' girl. The paint is micro-chipping and has several more chips and dents all over, but for 237K miles you can't expect much.
The car was iron deconed when I first bought it, so that process was already done. Started off with the roof. Tried a lighter compound at first, but it wasn't cutting it (no pun intended). This appears to be the original single stage black and required a bit of work. Final combo was Poorboy's SSR2.5 on a CCS orange pad and Griot's Complete Compound on a microfiber pad.
What we started with:
Final result:
Unfortunately my 10 year old Griot's 6" DA decided to blow apart the backing pad right at the end. It was pretty dry rotten.
(pardon the mess on my work bench, too many projects going on at one time)
So while I wait for a new backing pad I decided for grins an giggles to pick up the Harbor Freight Bauer 6" long throw DA. I am pretty impressed! The trigger/lock is a little tricky sometimes, but that's about it. Now we can get back to the rest of the car!
At one point in this cars life it went from just the regular white to a pearl white. This is an old paint job, probably late 90's. It came out pretty good, shame all the the cracks and chips. Still 100 times better than what I started off with!
Before:
After:
This combo was Griot's Complete Compound on a microfiber pad followed up with Collinite 845 for protection.
At this point some of you are thinking why? Honestly I have no good reason, guess I was bored.
The car was iron deconed when I first bought it, so that process was already done. Started off with the roof. Tried a lighter compound at first, but it wasn't cutting it (no pun intended). This appears to be the original single stage black and required a bit of work. Final combo was Poorboy's SSR2.5 on a CCS orange pad and Griot's Complete Compound on a microfiber pad.
What we started with:
Final result:
Unfortunately my 10 year old Griot's 6" DA decided to blow apart the backing pad right at the end. It was pretty dry rotten.
(pardon the mess on my work bench, too many projects going on at one time)
So while I wait for a new backing pad I decided for grins an giggles to pick up the Harbor Freight Bauer 6" long throw DA. I am pretty impressed! The trigger/lock is a little tricky sometimes, but that's about it. Now we can get back to the rest of the car!
At one point in this cars life it went from just the regular white to a pearl white. This is an old paint job, probably late 90's. It came out pretty good, shame all the the cracks and chips. Still 100 times better than what I started off with!
Before:
After:
This combo was Griot's Complete Compound on a microfiber pad followed up with Collinite 845 for protection.
At this point some of you are thinking why? Honestly I have no good reason, guess I was bored.