A Big Saloon Car = Thicker Paint Coating?

This car was really big and long, the owner was upset over the marring left by the maid during the cleaning process. I took over the car and sent it for a complete detail wash plus claying. Surface marring wasn't really very bad in my opinion but there were water and acidic etchings around the car. The paintwork needs to be corrected and i knew it's going to take some time doing it alone.

Surface marring + water etching and marks.

A closer view of the same panel, marring was really quite superficial to the naked eyes.

As usual, paint coating thickness was verified before any correction work, the readings shown were familiar Mercedes ride's coating thickness that i had worked with, easily over 150 microns and some panels over 200 microns.

This ride was produced in 2008, seemed like the older batches of Mercedes had thicker paint coating as compared to the other 2010 Mercedes CLC which hardly had any panels exceeding 90 microns. A S-Class against a CLC, maybe the paint coating on the CLC was a lemon case... hmmm.

I spent the next 5 hours correcting the affected panels with average of 4 hits on each panels with various grade of polish. The corrected paint was cleaned up and prepared for protection coating. I slapped 2 protection coatings on each panel and the results were quite good.

The interior was thoroughly cleaned and conditioned, it's immaculate once again.

A total of about 7-8 hours was spent on this ride, i was totally exhausted by the tiring paint correction process. Now i witnessed the hard work paid off with a beautiful ride, standing out from the rest of the rides in the service station.

Hope you had enjoy the pictures. Thank you for viewing.