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Ok so after time, and due to an incident where had to leave my car one summer under a tree, resulting in a bird poop bombardment on the bonnet of cataclysmic proportions my nice BC bonnet ended up dull. I guess I used the wrong polish on the surface when I cleaned it.
Anyway when scouting out body shops for my next stage of the cars development. I got chatting to a guy who suggested I use this aggressive cutting compound called G3. I was a bit doubtful but as it had quite a thick epoxy top coat he said it should work ok. So anyway using a little of this compound and his machine polisher he tested it on a corner and what do ya know it worked bringing it back to as new.
This was before christmas and I kept an eye on it and it still looks shiny. So I managed to borrow a dollop off a local crash repairers (long story). And thought I'd give it a go myself yesterday. It came up ok, not as good as the pro did, a mixture of there being a knack I am sure, and the fact the bonnets I bought for the machine polisher borrowed from work were to big so if I applied any pressure the head would just rotate inside the bonnets and the bonnet keep still (not the carbon bonnet of course, lot of bonnets going on here huh), oops!
Before:
After:
As you can see better but still needs work. I will try and get better fitting bonnets and try and work on a smaller area a time, I think I may have tried to do to big an area at first.
Anyway when scouting out body shops for my next stage of the cars development. I got chatting to a guy who suggested I use this aggressive cutting compound called G3. I was a bit doubtful but as it had quite a thick epoxy top coat he said it should work ok. So anyway using a little of this compound and his machine polisher he tested it on a corner and what do ya know it worked bringing it back to as new.
This was before christmas and I kept an eye on it and it still looks shiny. So I managed to borrow a dollop off a local crash repairers (long story). And thought I'd give it a go myself yesterday. It came up ok, not as good as the pro did, a mixture of there being a knack I am sure, and the fact the bonnets I bought for the machine polisher borrowed from work were to big so if I applied any pressure the head would just rotate inside the bonnets and the bonnet keep still (not the carbon bonnet of course, lot of bonnets going on here huh), oops!
Before:
After:
As you can see better but still needs work. I will try and get better fitting bonnets and try and work on a smaller area a time, I think I may have tried to do to big an area at first.