R32 Skyline Paint Correction After Vinyl Removal

[raybuck]

Background:


Customer previously had a large vinyl decal of his shops logo on his car. He recently decided that he did not want to have the decal on his car anymore and took it off with a nasty rag and adhesive remover. This left the cars paint in very bad condition with tons of swirls and fading.


Car with vinyl:





Without the vinyl:














Before pictures:




















Test spot with #205:











Fender after a pass vs. untouched door








Rear fender before & after #205:








Removed the wheels and cleaned up inner fender and such:





After PB EX-P & Natty's Blue:














It was raining and dark when I finished and did not get pictures of it in day light yet. Customer was very happy with the turn out.


I am always open to input so please give me your constructive criticism and such.


Thank you,


-Alex

[Catnip]

Looks great! Wish I had the patience/knowledge for this kind of work.

[SHHHH]

Looks awesome!

[On_Her_Face]

Looks great! Wish I had the patience/knowledge for this kind of work.

I hear that and I like that Skyrine a lot. BTW nice work.

[00CelicaGT]

You do amazing work!
I just bought a 08 4dr jeep wrangler and I'd like to have something similar to this done and have the inside cleaned really good can you PM me a price.

[Matt300ZXT]

Holy dammit! I need to have that kind of work done on my 300ZX!

[Elbow]

Nice work, HUGE improvement!

[Eric She]

Great work! Looking forward to receiving a quote

[ramazanpz]

I see him around at the Forsyth Avenues, clean ride

[raybuck]

Thank you all for the compliments.

You do amazing work!
I just bought a 08 4dr jeep wrangler and I'd like to have something similar to this done and have the inside cleaned really good can you PM me a price.

Will send you a PM shortly! Edit: Your inbox is full!

Holy dammit! I need to have that kind of work done on my 300ZX!

Shoot me a PM if you are interested. Thank you.

Great work! Looking forward to receiving a quote

Sent!

[KyleG]

Shop looks familiar..? And really nice work!

[raybuck]

Shop looks familiar..? And really nice work!

I did this Skyline at the customers shop, Lethal Injection. And thank you!

[Sinfix_15]

did you punch him in the dick for having that graphic to begin with?

[-EnVus-]

Looks great and 100% better with no Vinyl

[sprix!]

The work you did on the car looks phenomenal. Night and day. Now if those wheels and tires were replaced, we'd be in business.

[ssonsk]

Did you use some type of solvent to take off the adhesive?

[raybuck]

Did you use some type of solvent to take off the adhesive?

I do not know what exactly he used to remove the vinyl, it was off before I detailed it.

[cactusEG]

Car looks alot better. Ive seen this car somewhere before.

[Doppelgänger]

trade miata for skyrine?


When I had my last Miata covered with vinyl, I used 3M adhesive remover once I peeled the vinyl off. What a PITA that was. The 3M remover stuff left a nasty residue on the paint even after two washes. Wax and buff took care of the rest. I know your pain...

Before-


After-

[MachNU]

Nice job Alex. Going to start doing this full time now?

[raybuck]

Nice job Alex. Going to start doing this full time now?

Thank you, Mike. I appreciate the compliment, especially from a detailer of your caliber.

I have been detailing much more lately but haven't posted anything up really. I was so busy with school last semester that I wasn't able to detail much, but now have much more time to do so. I won't ever be detailing full time since I will be starting law school next school year, however, I do plan on doing cars more often then this past semester and such!

[RL...]

nice job! Im getting into detailling as a hobby. It is very time consuming.

[Nick Jeezy]

^lol

[raybuck]

^lol

lol I think that post was deleted.

And thank you all for the compliments.

[MDtC713]

Looks like my comment was deleted but it really did come out good OP. Is the process a clay and wax or is there more to the process? My car definitely needs something like that I have spots where I got tree sap and its bonded with the paint and ive tried everything and still no luck even after wax it shows through.

[VQ35 Star]

wax is just a protectant, get to the source with rubbing compound and polishes....

[MDtC713]

^^ yea I should have been more informative but ive used that too. Anyway dont want to threadjack lol sorry OP

[VQ35 Star]

have you tried a light wet sand?

[MachNU]

have you tried a light wet sand?

Anything "wet sand" is not even close to the top of the list of things to try first.

[VQ35 Star]

but why not just cut to the chase and just get it over with quick and easy? instead of sitting there trying to use different compound, just color sand the bitch buff it out and your done.

but then again i just love wet sanding and buffing shit, especially after a fresh paint job lolololol.

[MachNU]

but why not just cut to the chase and just get it over with quick and easy? instead of sitting there trying to use different compound, just color sand the bitch buff it out and your done.

but then again i just love wet sanding and buffing shit, especially after a fresh paint job lolololol.

You only wet sand after a fresh job, but for detailing, its the last step. You do not want to remove anymore clear than you have too. Plus, its very little guessing. When you know how to properly detail a car, you can dial in a process in under an hour. I think I have only had a few vehicles that have taken me multiple hours to figure out the whole process. Most times...30-45 minutes and your set too go.