My day out at jm-imports

My day out at jm-imports #3687012

By Martin1 - Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:09 am

- Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:09 am #3687012

Hi all well a couple of days ago I was asked back to jm imports by the owner to detail a Toyota supra he recently brought in from Japan car had just 30,000km on and was just in need of some tlc

I know it's not a civic but I'm sure you jap fans can appreciate some import metal

Anyways onto the detail I didn't take as many pictures this time as the last one used up my full photobucket bandwidth I started off with a full snowfoam using my homemade stuff

wheels cleaned with homemade stuff also

car was washed with megs gold class and dried, fully clayed with absolutely nothing to show must have been cleaned before it was shipped

Anyways the paint was looking a little tired slightly grey instead of the deep black lustre which is what we all want

so after a full check around the car I started weighing up my product and pad options

A few pics of it before

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As you can see it was just lacking that beautiful shine and depth within the panels, so I opted for a 1 stage machine polish I used a hex logic green pad and instead of my usual megs products I used Sonus sfx2 provides a decent finish while removing swirls ideal for jap paint with the soft clearcoat

this is what I'm probably best at as I don't get the chance to work on many euro cars so my product list mainly suits jap cars

I didn't take many pics of during as I get I just like to get things finished but here's a small section on the rear quarter

After I proceeded all around the car I cleaned up the headlights using fareclas total liquid compound and an orange hex logic pad which made them perfect

I wasn't entirely satisfied with the glossiness so I put down a nice layer of chemical guys wet mirror finish always a great product for darker cars and then I finished with an lsp to lock in that finish! Anyways here's the final photos from my day