So.... most of you know that my SRT was flamed recently. The airbrush was incredible but the clear coat has cost me nothing but problems and a butt load of money to fix.... :slap: I stoped dealing with the shop that just couldnt get it right and went over to the pros at detailwerkz.com. To be honest if this guy wasnt around i would have stripped my car and traded it in to start all over. But he saved the beast and its almost done. For the past 2 months i have been dealing with not having my car... actually been longer then that. I get the car for about 2-3 days during the month and the rest the car is in shops.... seems like i dont have it anymore But my troubles are almost done. New installs: Full Clear Bra GTS Headlight Covers NEW Headlights... (Clear lense since mine were tinted) New Rotors & Break Pads Hotchkis Performance Sway Bars front and rear New Custom Charger Sound system box Install on my 2 JL Audio 12w7's w/ 2 1000/1 amps This is the crap i have had to deal with... The whole front of the car was pretty much like this. the back was a better but only because it wasnt sprayed with clear.... (except for the trunk) He has been going at it like crazy. PROGRESS!!!! Posted by the man himself on DFWLX As you already know I had fully color sanded the whole car about a month ago. EZCORPION 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 starting to split and chip around the moldings so I mentioned this to him. 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. More to come...
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 perfect 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
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 perfect 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
The above picture looks like a hand coming down to hold the part still not polished...LOL. That paint was terrible. What did they do spray the clear with a 5mm nozzel on the gun or use a roller. A lot of work would have gone into fixing it thats for sure. Obviosuly someone that knows what they are doing by the last pics I saw. It will look insane when is finished though and you will be left with a flawless finish. Well done and glad its working out now for you.
all i can say is wow!! i have seen many bad paint jobs in my life, but that takes the cake!!! i am jut hoping you got your money back or at least have them picking up the bill for the fix work!!! i have sprayed paint out of a rattle can with better results!!!! YIKES!!!! i can definately see where the final result will be badazz when it finally gets all fixed!!! makes sure to show us the final finished pics!!! good luck!!
WOW, the original job, that just SUCKS! Glad you were able to get her fixed up though. Food for thought, you can always use my painter.
