Motivated by Garrett Powered: Thanks Man!

[BRZN]

After reading Garrett Powered's Thread about "cut and buff" http://www.w-body.com/showthread.php/75182-cut-and-buff I figured, time to take care of the '94 GP's spoiler.

 

 

When I picked the car up last fall there was no clear left on the top of the spoiler

 

There was a very distinct line where it'd been

 

Tuesday afternoon I pulled the spoiler off.

 

I picked up a rattle can of clear at the local PBE store. Instructions on the can stated to use 320 grit paper to ruff the surface. I wet sanded with 400 grit and quickly realized not only was the clear gone, but most of the base coat. I went through to the primer instantly in the first spot I tried to wet sand! Very carefully I proceeded and still lightened the base coat up in spots.

Here it is after four coats of clear were applied yesterday evening.

 

Wet sanded it this afternoon with 2000 grit then 2500 grit and finished with 3000 grit.

 

Here it is reinstalled and polished with Adam's Severe Swirl Remover on a green pad, followed by Swirl & Haze Remover on an orange pad and followed up with Fine Machine Polish on their white pad. I used the Flex XC 3401 VRG Polisher to do the work.

 

 

Yea, there's more orange peel in the spoiler than the rest of the paint, but it actually came out pretty nice for a rattle can.

[EGTGP]

Looks good man! About to do the same thing to a few lower trim pieces on my TGP seems like its the only bits loosing clear..

[Night Fury]

NICE!

[Garrett Powered]

that's cool man. turned out real good too! I am trying to restore a red tgp that has a bumper needing that same procedure.

[Garrett Powered]

the bumper needs it:

 

 

 

and one of the hood louvers:

 

 

I just washed the dust off it and put in a new battery so I can bring it out of hibernation.

 

 

[94 olds vert]

That looks really nice!

[Euro]

Nice job. I need to find $$ somewhere to pick up some pads, buffer, and polishes etc. My car got semi-baked from the California sun when it was out there before I bought it, and my hand job(giggity) that brought it back to life is starting to fade away.