As the owner handed the ride to me, i stood there and looked at it and ponder why it was being sent. My initial quick assessment on this aged Sunny's condition was good and very well maintained from the looks of the paint condition. It seemed like it was just groomed days before. Before the owner left, he pointed to the roof line area and told me to do something about it, i took a quick glance and told him that it should be fine, stains and blemishes... should be no problem at all.
The car was washed and clayed and i turned on the working lights to further inspect the defects on the roof line area. I was quite shock as the blemish spots turned out to be dark etched markings. The etched marks were deep and paint correction is a must.
Here comes the icing of the grooming session when i took the paint coating health for this aged ride. The paint coating thickness on the roof line area is not promising for correction work.
The rest of the panels gave readings beyond the normal OEM paint coating level. I finally see the picture clearer now, this car looked good because it has been resprayed before and the panel that was not resprayed was the roof line panel as the paint coating readings matched the age of the car. The defects noted up there matched the age as well.
Taking into consideration of the remaining thin paint coating, a total of more than 6 hits were delivered as the conditions were very bad. This was the corrected work (below).
Most of the deep etching were minimised, marring was eliminated. Paint coating level have dropped alot as well.
Another typical before (above) and after (below) taken after close to 3 hours working on the roof line panel.
The rest of the body panels were cleaned, polished and sealed together with the corrected roof line area. Another 6 hours of hard work spent to bring back the life to this aged ride.
It's rest time for me over here in SG, thank you for viewing.
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