The paint on my SS was in really bad shape when I got it (along with the rest of the car) because the previous owner really didn't take care of it. I took some time to wash, claybar and polish it (used my pc7424, orange pads and 3m perfect-it machine glaze) and then put a few coats of zaino on (unfortunately all I had was Z-2, whic was great for the white GTP because Z-2 is great for light colors, but it doesn't do as much for dark colors). It could be better, but it was a lot worse.
Forgive the bad pictures as well, my laptop died so I have no access to photoshop right now, and therefore the only retouching I could do had to be done with photobucket's built in crap.
To give you an idea of what I'm dealing with here...
This was my passenger side door after being clayed but before being polished:
Here it is again after being polished:
Still not anywhere near where I want it to be, but considering the snow is going to start falling soon, I didn't put a whole lot of effort into this detail.
I'm avoiding the front on the car because it has some "bruises" from the previous owner's carelessness and negligence
And a few more with my friend's GTI
I've got more in my photoucket account but these are the ones that look pretty good as they are
Hopefully I'll get some more pictures with different lighting for you guys here in a few days. We will see what the Ohio weather has in store for me though.
