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Miglior Detailing: Tom's Red A3 S-line, complete Turnaround!

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JPC:

--- Quote from: john_o on April 06, 2009, 06:05:26 pm ---Awesome job Jay , I now realise why Tom was going nowhere near it with a dirty rag on Sun @ Santa Pod    :scared: :grin:
In terms of lacquer thickness etc , how much is generally taken off?



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Well in this case, i probably took up to 8-10 microns off toms in case, based upon toms insistence on a near 100% job. Add that to how deep the scratches were, that's more than i like to take off.

ordinarily id take off 3-5 for a near 100% job.

You do get to a point where you HAVE to think...right, 95% of the marks are gone, you will hardly see the rest under normal conditions. the car will look 300% better. To get the last 5% of the defects out, you have to remove the same amount again from the clearcoat. ie ther than 3-5 microns, you looking at 8-10.

so based on a normal coat of 120 microns (ish) thats about 4% of the paint removed on a normal detail

Its all to do with that the customer wants. tom was insistant he wanted a 20 hour job, rather than the usual 12-15 hours

JPC:

--- Quote from: TomB on April 06, 2009, 06:07:49 pm ---Looks very good, just a shame some of them scratches refused to budge.  

Some of the pics show his reg ;)

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yep, it is a shame, i think it is a case of new paint being "blown in" over some defects that already exist.

the marks were not changing at all even if i took 2 microns off. even the lighter ones.

JPC:

--- Quote from: luca on April 06, 2009, 06:21:42 pm ---Top job again jay :happy2:.
I cant wait to get the next mods out of the way so that i can treat my car to a full detail :happy2:

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thanks a lot luca!

JPC:

--- Quote from: stokeballoon on April 06, 2009, 06:35:42 pm ---Very very good work there. 

Great results.

 :happy2: :happy2:

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thanks mate! ;)

JPC:

--- Quote from: MAT ED30 on April 06, 2009, 06:54:16 pm ---Sh1t hot job there mate

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thank you! :)   :laugh:

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