Friendly Exchange Program January 2010

This product is relatively new to SG's market, but it has been an OEM grooming product to various exotic car makers years back.

This is our friend from Germany and he's here to "challenge" our work process, we had a friendly match on "Paint correction cum restoration without LSP". Our goal was not to determine who was a better groomer but really to study and look into depth of paint correction process and today's paint protection system.

The test mull was a poor condition Nissan Cefiro with swirl marks, deep etching marks and oxidised paintwork. We had chosen the roof line area for the friendly match to be performed.

Our German friend in action with his trusty RO.

We were all enjoying the friendly match and as we were exchanging "blows". I realised that we had lost the match even before the results were confirmed, when he took lesser time and product to achieve a result much better than ours... haiz... maybe we should have sent our ace polisher for the match... lolz.

We were honoured to have these guests with us for sharing and we have grown from strength to strength from the session. Regarding the match that we had lost, well i have to admit that he was good with what he does and his products were superb! We are bringing this wonderful premium grooming product to our consumers soon. Thank you for viewing this posting, cheers!

Peugeot 307CC

I received to call to rectify this paint defect, it was the bird poo problem and the clear coat had been etched badly as the owner did not took immediate action to remove it when he saw it. He removed the bird poo days later and he was really shocked by the amount of damage done. He was planning to respray the boot again if the polishing cannot do much.

This was the closer view of the damage area, the clear coat had been etched badly and i could felt the uneven surface with my finger. If this ride wasn't a continental make, it could have been worst. Wonder how the paint correction session will turn out to be... hmmm, may be only 50- 60% success rate because this looked really bad!

The car was washed and clayed, the paint coating level was verified as well.

The car was covered with surface marring which really made the car's paint work dull.

Final check before the paint correction process begins...

After 45 mins of paint correction, the etched marks were significantly minimised. The owner started smiling as he can save the hassle to respray the car.

After 2 hours of correction around the boot area, 95% of the etched marks were gone, the remaining 5% looked like pinning marks.

The cost of the paint correction was about 10 microns of the paint health.

I moved on to correct other areas and burnish the paint for LSP. It was a tiring 7 hr job but it was rewarding for me and the owner as well. These were the pictures took after the buffing the LSP.

Thank you for viewing this post, good nite...

Honda Civic FD

I was shocked when i saw this 4 years old Civic FD, it was not that old but it seemed like a COEd car in SG. The owner opted for a serious makeover to salvage the paint work. I washed and clayed the paint, the claybar was heavily soiled and i had to throw it after the session. These were the pictures took after the claying of the car's paintwork.

Dull and oxidised surface covered with swirl marks and RIDS.


The water etched marks on the bonnet/ hood and the boot area were bad.


There were lots of "gifts" from the cars parking beside... wonder what gift the owner gave in return... hmmm... lolz.


Weird liquid stains were found on the front right fender panel.



The paint health readings were took before the restoration operation. Overall average paint thickness was about 75 microns but certain areas were measured to be around 70 microns. For a 4 years old car, that seemed to be fine taking into consideration of the possible previous polishing session that it may have gone through.

Did a test panel on the leather seat and it was really heavily soiled and dirty and more cleaning needs to be done.

Did a paint cleaning test panel on the paintwork, confirmed it is in a very dirty and bad conditions.

A good 5 hours were spent to clean and restore the interior and exterior conditions, these were the end results from the severe paint correction and restoration session.

The interiors were meticulously cleaned and conditioned, now it smell much better than before.

The clarity and gloss of the paintwork was restored, it was clean and shinning like a star again.

The scuff marks and light scratches were safely removed from the affected doors.

The owner was happy and so delighted to see his car come back to life again and i was very contended with the session indeed when surprise like this could make his day.

The cost of the severe paint correction was about 5 - 7 microns of the paint's integrity and we took 5 hours to complete the restoration work. Thank you for viewing this posting, cheers!