911 ST.....

sure..... im happy to help! ask away............

i am about 2 months ahead of you as far as detailing prowess! i am an absolute newbie myself so i can and will only share what my completely novice experience has been..... i am, however, THRILLED with the end result.

the key for me was................. accept that it will take you a LONG time to complete it, it you get tired or frustrated, put your tools down and come back another time......

as matter a fact you should WANT it to take you a long time! i did and accepted it. worked out great there was no hurry and enjoy the WHOLE process.

i was very very very concerned MYSELF, like you. for a few reasons..... i was very happy with the way my car looked BEFORE..... i had no issues with a 10 foot car...... BUT freaking YOUTUBE got me thinking... what if i do a FULL details and a paint correction on my car?

the other concern is that my paint is 30 years old. how easy would it be to RUIN perfectly fine 10 foot away paint? VERY EASY i would imagine.

i have a young family and ruining a perfectly good paint job and incurring a 10K cost for a new paint job is just stoopid.

should i try it? do it? after watching "i am detail" and "AMMO NYC" videos....... i thought to myself... oh what the hell...... im going to try... doesn't look THAT hard........ and if i DONT use powerful power tools i wont run the risk of burning through my paint....... seemed worth the risk... i have the time, i want to put the effort in, AND i get to hang out with my sons in the garage... cant get better than that cant it?

i also CONSULTED with my friend COOPER BOGGS detail expert and the most generous professional you will ever come across. He gave me an incredible amount of advise and guidance and listened to my STUPID rookie questions. always responded immediately and graciously and complimented me on my progress..... i cant thank him enough.

ok.... getting back to the actual work and your questions.......

"But you go way to "fast" for me. And you loose me when you say "polish it in"."

ok.... "polish it in"...... i didnt mean anything too complicated, fancy sounding, or technical..... i meant litterally..... putting a couple of dots of product onto a pad and rubbing it into a small 1 foot by 1 foot section of the paint and rubbing the polish in by hand...... that's that..... i would rub the polish in for a minute or so using cross section passes to get all angles and letting the product do its job. there was NOOOO effort at all... just let the polish work itself into the paint... you will see it working and feel it absorb...... then, simply wipe it off with a new dry micro fiber towel, USE MANY of them. after you wipe the excess off and there is a shine.... you take ANOTHER micro fiber towel and wet the towel a bit..... then go over the same section with the damp towel...... THEN with another clean DRY micro fiber towel... dry it off.... THIS activates whatever the chemical reaction is and WHAM you get a crazy deep black POLISHED finish.. its amazing.

do that to the whole car. simple and time consuming.

in the smaller areas and curves i used a DRILL with a small 3 inch pad to do the same thing i was doing by hand....... took my time and really focused on what i was doing... couldnt be easier for a newbie like me.

i hope this is helping...... not to technical sounding on my part but im a newbie just like you.......

ask away..... im happy to share. :)

on a side note......

this weekend the wife took my 2 little palookas to a party so i had some "free" time on my hands...... i waited until the SUV left the driveway to my house and BOOM i was in the garage.... hahahaha.....

for 30 years my valve covers have been mocking me, ugly and chipped just sitting there all jacked up....... that ended this weekend!........ hahahahaha...... took a few minutes to tape off some stuff, covered the engine and blasted the covers with some high heat, flat black paint.

no more mocking me! hahahaha.

(no, i didnt do it correctly, no its not perfect, i know better BUT BUT BUT it is definitely BETTER looking than it was and i am perfectly fine with the end result.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1623086757.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1623086757.jpg

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/XPK1CSBYepHGAvbG7

here's a short video of the polishing half done....

30 year old paint.......

https://photos.app.goo.gl/5nydLRt9dxtE1V8v6


fender done......


https://photos.app.goo.gl/tmoQZQpYpe2hDU568

i had NOOOO idea you can polish plastic too.......

Black Coupe....... needed a little love, i just wanted to show a video of the clarity instead of just a picture........

Ya done good!
Now try it on some really old paint.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1628801923.JPG

wow
 

Dang Scott !!!! that's nice picture and polishing!

paint older than 30 years?

wowza... how old is your paint/pic ?

i'm gonna consider mine a "win" as i hadn't ever done anything like that with minimal tools (i used a 3inch drill attachment)

No idea how old the paint in that picture is or was. All credit goes to my son who did the job for me.
It looked like this when I bought the car:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1628805431.JPG
Picture was taken in 2003.

wow!

kudos to your son!

I can still remember working on a plain-Jane, steel wheeled, yellow 914 probably 45-50 years ago, that was relatively new and the guy had detailed and waxed the entire undercarriage of the car. Talk about free time! (and overkill).