Started wet sanding and wheeling my car (not a repaint)

[mcalus]

I meant to post this up awhile ago but when I first bought my car it had a lot of little scratches in it like brush marks, as if previous owner took it through A LOT of drive through car washes....

I started to do this last summer but I didn't get around to finishing it since its a pretty time consuming project.

My boss just started up a new detailing business (est may of 08) and it has been going very well. Well me being his main detailer I get to do what ever I want when ever I want to my car, I also have detailed for 2 years at a dealership previously to working for him.

Anyways on to the pics... These scratches not something that can be buffed out, well they probably can but I decided to use a 3000 grit trizac pad on a sander.

Here are some of the pics....

Wetsanded....




Wheeled..... ( heavy cut w/ yellow pad, light cut w/ green pad, polish w/ green pad, STS 3000 wax )




Wetsanded-



Wheeled-



So far I have right front fender, pass door, sail panel, pass rear fender, bumper, back of rear hatch, spoiler, drivers rear fender DONE!

So I have the drivers door and the bumper to do, also the hood but it really needs to be repainted (ebay SS hood)

[JoeliusZ28]

good work. I polish out those little hair line scratches on my Z28 with a waffle pad every spring.

[mcalus]

good work. I polish out those little hair line scratches on my Z28 with a waffle pad every spring.

Thanks Joel! Something you might want to look into is a one step, its wax and polish in one, then you wont have to wax afterwards ... Just a suggestion.

[SoulTerror]

Looking good. One day I'll need to figure out how to do that stuff to keep my future fbody nice looking.

[mcalus]

Looking good. One day I'll need to figure out how to do that stuff to keep my future fbody nice looking.

Its pretty simple really. Just don't sit in one area and make sure your panels are wet. The sandpaper is so fine its pretty hard do screw something up. The Trizac pad also has a sponge like feel to it so its much more forgiving then using a piece of sand paper.

[JoeliusZ28]

Thanks Joel! Something you might want to look into is a one step, its wax and polish in one, then you wont have to wax afterwards ... Just a suggestion.

im pretty happy with the process i use but thats definitely an interesting concept.

[MP81]

Man...makes me want to hit my Cobalt with a process like that - being a former rental, it has little scratches everywhere...

Looks good!

[white96TA]

looks good, I have a bunch of tiny scratches I might try something like that on

[ezcruisn71]

Very nice work it looks great! What type of compound and polish do you use after the wet sanding?

[Fbomb]

Where do you guys get your 3k grit paper from?

[1BADAIR]

3000 is almost like a foam pad

[ITSSLOW]

Very nice work! I'll be doing it to my car this spring.

[M_Juntti]

That looks really good, im about to start painting my camaro as soon as it warms up, do you have any tips? this is my first paint job

[TSTONE]

thats looking really good

[ThreeHonks]

wet sanding is TOUGH work. I have done an entire car by hand and it took probably at least 30 hours. Paint looked immaculate afterwards, but I am extremely anal when it comes to those things lol


and Joel, you're gogin to teahc me how to use that specail buffer you have (forget the name) this springs, right??!?!?! thanks