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My car needed a makeover, haven't polished it since i bought it..
The previous owner needs to learn a thing or two about washing techniques, found RDS all over the car when I started to inspect it.

Tried to polish it using Optimum Compound and a wool pad, but the RDS were too deep.
So I got inspired by the Meguiars wetsanding vids at youtube.
My car is repainted, and there is a quite thick layer of paint.

Products used:

Wash:
Tar remover
Gritguard
Chemical Guys Citrus Wash + Gloss
Green Mf mitt
Meguiars Waffle Weave

Clay:
Megs Quik Clay
ONR mixed as lube

Polishing/wetsanding:
Optimum Compound - wool
3m Perfect It III - Fast Cut Plus - wool
Menzerna 106ff - white lc pad
3m Imperial p2000
Chemical Guys Synthetic QD for wetsanding lube

Lsp:
Chemical Guys Ez Creme Glaze
Chemical Guys Jetseal 109


The car:


Started out very carefully wetsanding an old trunk lid


I only had Optimum Compound available at this moment, so two passes was necessary..
Here is after one pass:


After 106ff:


Only did one pass with Optimum Compound, so the result after 106ff were not 100% perfect.

Over to my car!


At this point I learned that wetsanding at the edges, is not a good idea!
Was a PITA to remove those sanding marks, afraid to cut trough the paint..

Area polished with Optimum Compound x2, and 106ff:


After that result I felt way more confident, so I wetsanded the rest of the hood.






Hood done:


See the difference? Right panel is wetsanded, left I haven't done anything with..



Time to do the rest of the car, so I bought 3m fast cut plus


Tested on the left fender first..


After fast cut plus and wool




Time to do the rest of the car!










Started polishing:






After 106ff









Time for an inspection in the sun:




Found only small amounts of swirls, so took a few passes with 106ff:





After ez creme glaze and jetseal:




Outside:









Still need to polish the side skirts, the upper part of the doors (by the windows) and the roof.


Thanks for looking!

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[pirex]

Very nice work Tommy! You know I like what you have done with your volvo. And it need balls to do something like that Can`t wait to see it finished!!

[cheeseenlo]

Wow, mad props to that job man. How long did all that take you? I have a couple areas on the car that i want to wetsand also. My neighbor thought it would be nice one day to scrap all the snow off my car with a grungy stiff brush.

[LanceM]

wow. looks great. nice job on the wet sanding.

[Nica]

Wow that's a lot of wet sanding

Nice turn around on that Volvo

Thank you for sharing with us, very nice turn around

[virtual]

Originally Posted by pirex

Very nice work Tommy! You know I like what you have done with your volvo. And it need balls to do something like that Can`t wait to see it finished!!

Thanks Ketil, really appreciate it

Originally Posted by cheeseenlo

Wow, mad props to that job man. How long did all that take you? I have a couple areas on the car that i want to wetsand also. My neighbor thought it would be nice one day to scrap all the snow off my car with a grungy stiff brush.

Thanks man Think I've spend atleast 20 hours so far, and there will be more
The roof also needs alot of work, tons of orange peel

hehe, stiff brush vs. paint is not a good match! :p

Originally Posted by LanceM

wow. looks great. nice job on the wet sanding.

thanks

[sneek]

thats effing amazing!!!!
That is super impressive!

Great Work!!!!

[GBS]

Very nice job and a lot of work.

[Netspec]

You brought that Volvo's color back to life! Great job!

[Usjdmtuner]

wow... you have courage... thanks for sharing and good job on wetsanding