yellow cupra k1, polish testing

[cuprajake]

Took them off bud. Then restuck them with refix tape.

[Bignod00]

Took them off bud. Then restuck them with refix tape.

Sorry dude, I wasn't clear. Did you remove the rear boot handle? If so, how etc!?

[cuprajake]

Sorry.

Yeah boot panel off. Undo the bolts n plug.

Then remove handle.

It has a rod through it with a spring. Push that out and then split the chrome.

Then prime n paint.

[Bignod00]

Thanks buddy, much appreciated!

[cuprajake]

Give the car a good clean inside and out today, winter months really do take there toll on cars,

Once the air is fitted I'm planning on hitting the car hard.

The few chips it does have, keep getting blobbed in and built up with 2k paint, once they are proud they will be denibbed and then polished to become invisible,


This time as part of the polishing procees I'm using a new product,

It was introduced to us via 3m while we were polishing this


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The product is this,


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3m 6000 trizact, there a polishing abrasive impregnated disc, they have the 3000 too we have used that for a long time, then the rep brought these in...the difference is immense. They cut so fine it makes polishing a breeze they also take out 95% of all marks.

So the plan is once the cars been chemically stripped, a good clay followed by tar and glue under all the arches and sill, ill mask the car then hit it with a few new discs to really get the best possible finish.

Jake

[xjay1337]

Jake can you sort me out with one of those discs with a hook and loop backing plate for my DAS 6 Pro?

Ive finally had the bloody tyres taken off my Mercs stripping them down and will have them blasted and hopefully shipped up by end of next week

Car looks great with the front plate mods... shows what a lot of work you've done in a short time, nice one.

[cuprajake]

Yeah can do.   There not cheap mind think there about 50 a box.

[cuprajake]

well,

yesterday i touched all my chips in with 2k paint, today i decided to denib them with 2000 paper,

then i decided i may aswell do the lot,

so test panel for smoothing out the orange peel was the wing,

first i cleaned it and then blocked followed by had flatted with wet 2000 paper.


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after that i wiped down and hit it with 3000 trizact on a da, followed by a 6000 trizact on da

this gives a semi gloss finish


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after that its the usual 3m fast cut process and a wax, this gives a really good refined and smooth finish


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so into the car, same process cleaned, degreased, de tared etc

the car was blocked with 2000 wet, then washed
hand flatted with 2000 wet , then washed
3000 trizact with da , then washed
6000 trizact with da, then finally washed

i went over the full car giving me this.....


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the polishing will be tomorrow or sat, tonight i have a cool matt yellow car :)

jake

[cuprajake]

Started the polishing process today, just the bonnet.

Polishing process is as follows.

3m fast cut using Indasa yellow pad, these don't breakdown as fast as the 3m green, then i prekleen the paint and after that I use the soft 3m yellow pad and yellow top ultra fine polish, the last step it's blue ultrafina on its pad,  final part is to clean the panel and give it a coat of wax.

The result


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While its not removed all the orange peel, it has considerably flattened the surface.

Jake

[Andy]

bloody excellent results Jake

[cuprajake]

I took it a step further, I actually wet sanded the clear down removing the Orange peel effect in the paint.

The discs will remove a lot of imperfections, but not the actual finish of the paint.

I've just finished now, and the cars come out really well.

Numpty here forgot his dslr so only have a couple of pics off my phone. So hard to get any quality images really.

Pics


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So in total I had.

5hrs colour sanding and trizact
10hrs machine polishing.

Quite a long process but well worth the effort.

Jake

[cuprajake]

got myself an arm rest off ebay,

but they only come in leather and this one really didnt match the stock cupra seats


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so took the top off then the leather skin


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then went to a mates and got some matching cloth for my seats, went home and sewed a nice red curved line to match my trim


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then fitted it this morning


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think it works really really well

jake

[arris]

Strong work!

Wish I had know how and patience to proper polish my car :(

Looks soo good the results!

Nice effort on the arm rest!

[Frodo-anni]

The armrest an easy fitment? Really finishes off the centre console, may do it to the g/f's FR.

[N8KOW]

Lovely work Jake