A Killer Croc - My Cayman GT4 Ownership Journal
08-31-2015, 12:10 AM
#92
Luckily replacement headlights aren't THAT crazy to replace pricewise ($450) if you do choose to polish it anyway. It most likely won't haze up unless you go nuts and wet sand the coating off completely.
Edit: whoops, taillamps, not headlights
Edit: whoops, taillamps, not headlights
Last edited by soupy; 09-01-2015 at 12:13 AM.
08-31-2015, 11:23 PM
#93
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
08-31-2015, 11:59 PM
#95
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I finished the detailing tonight. I was feeling pretty darn good until I realized I nicked up the leading edge of the side scoops trying to get my 7424 in there. Apparently the buffer was vibrating enough that the metal guard rubbed some pretty deep nicks in the paint. Pretty pissed that the car was perfect until that happened. Wish it would've been perfect a little more than 700 miles...
09-01-2015, 12:14 AM
#96
Very nice Accel... I have a couple of combat wounds myself, slightly scraped front lip, and a few rock chips where it's not Xpel covered. Oh well, it's going to happen eventually. 
The leading edge of the side scoops are going to get pelted anyway, and the nicks don't look too bad really.
The leading edge of the side scoops are going to get pelted anyway, and the nicks don't look too bad really.
09-02-2015, 08:24 PM
#99
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
Dropped the GT4 off this evening for clear wrap. Installer is going to do Suntek on the front and Xpel on the rockers at his suggestion. My sister-in-law took some photos of what else they are working on. The other GT4 there was apparently flipped by a 918 owner who also owns the RS in the photos. He bought both cars and flipped the GT4. I'll try to refrain from giving my opinion on that...
The silver GT3 has Xpel on the front and up the rockers. The Maserati had Suntek and the paint looked so deep it was impossible to tell it was wrapped. The Carmine GT4 had Suntek on the front which again I didn't even notice was already applied. You could not tell it was there on the panels he wrapped edge to edge.
The silver GT3 has Xpel on the front and up the rockers. The Maserati had Suntek and the paint looked so deep it was impossible to tell it was wrapped. The Carmine GT4 had Suntek on the front which again I didn't even notice was already applied. You could not tell it was there on the panels he wrapped edge to edge.
Last edited by Accel Junky; 09-02-2015 at 09:08 PM.
09-02-2015, 11:20 PM
#102
Burning Brakes
I finished the detailing tonight. I was feeling pretty darn good until I realized I nicked up the leading edge of the side scoops trying to get my 7424 in there. Apparently the buffer was vibrating enough that the metal guard rubbed some pretty deep nicks in the paint. Pretty pissed that the car was perfect until that happened. Wish it would've been perfect a little more than 700 miles...
09-03-2015, 12:00 AM
#104
Burning Brakes
It is hard to tell but I think definitely through the clear. I tried buffing them out but didn't want to get too aggressive. The car is being wrapped now and the scoops with it. I'm hoping that'll perhaps mask it a little. It isn't that noticeable unless light is shining on it but still I know it is there and that is enough to bug me... At least the scoops are small and removable if I ever wanted to have them refinished...would try to avoid that though.
As an FYI here's a technique I've had very good success with:
1) clean out the scratch/gouge with IPA and dry
2) overfill with touch up paint (until it's a bump above the paint)
3) allow to dry/cure (you can apply heat but I always leave it at least a day because I find that paint touch-ups continue to shrink even after they're apparently dry and sand-able)
4) wet sand with 2500 grit wrapped around a cut-off piece of a foam sanding block ( I usually use a little piece about the size of a miniature Hershey's candy bar - best size description I can think of as I'm hungry)
5) continually stop to wipe the surface, but continue sanding until the area is leveled (you know that when the whole area you're sanding is dull vs. dull in the center where the blob of touch up was, moving out to a shiny area of paint at the edge of the touch-up and then dull again out to wherever you finished sanding)
6) when the little area is uniformly dull just polish out with your DA (I usually use a finer polish and take longer vs. a compound and then a polish. On small/tricky areas you can usually even hand-polish out the sanding marks to minimize the area you're polishing... If you can be bothered)
Maybe unnecessary advice since you're having film applied anyway, but I HATE it when these sorts of things happen to good people, and maybe it's something you can use in the future (hoping you never have to!) should you get another scratch, chip or nick. You can literally make the repair such that you can't even find it sometimes, which means that no one else will ever notice...
Last edited by IrishAndy; 09-03-2015 at 12:02 AM. Reason: Typo
09-03-2015, 12:08 AM
#105
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
OK, we'll it's being wrapped so hopefully it's protected.
As an FYI here's a technique I've had very good success with:
1) clean out the scratch/gouge with IPA and dry
2) overfill with touch up paint (until it's a bump above the paint)
3) allow to dry/cure (you can apply heat but I always leave it at least a day because I find that paint touch-ups continue to shrink even after they're apparently dry and sand-able)
4) wet sand with 2500 grit wrapped around a cut-off piece of a foam sanding block ( I usually use a little piece about the size of a miniature Hershey's candy bar - best size description I can think of as I'm hungry)
5) continually stop to wipe the surface, but continue sanding until the area is leveled (you know that when the whole area you're sanding is dull vs. dull in the center where the blob of touch up was, moving out to a shiny area of paint at the edge of the touch-up and then dull again out to wherever you finished sanding)
6) when the little area is uniformly dull just polish out with your DA (I usually use a finer polish and take longer vs. a compound and then a polish. On small/tricky areas you can usually even hand-polish out the sanding marks to minimize the area you're polishing... If you can be bothered)
Maybe unnecessary advice since you're having film applied anyway, but I HATE it when these sorts of things happen to good people, and maybe it's something you can use in the future (hoping you never have to!) should you get another scratch, chip or nick. You can literally make the repair such that you can't even find it sometimes, which means that no one else will ever notice...
As an FYI here's a technique I've had very good success with:
1) clean out the scratch/gouge with IPA and dry
2) overfill with touch up paint (until it's a bump above the paint)
3) allow to dry/cure (you can apply heat but I always leave it at least a day because I find that paint touch-ups continue to shrink even after they're apparently dry and sand-able)
4) wet sand with 2500 grit wrapped around a cut-off piece of a foam sanding block ( I usually use a little piece about the size of a miniature Hershey's candy bar - best size description I can think of as I'm hungry)
5) continually stop to wipe the surface, but continue sanding until the area is leveled (you know that when the whole area you're sanding is dull vs. dull in the center where the blob of touch up was, moving out to a shiny area of paint at the edge of the touch-up and then dull again out to wherever you finished sanding)
6) when the little area is uniformly dull just polish out with your DA (I usually use a finer polish and take longer vs. a compound and then a polish. On small/tricky areas you can usually even hand-polish out the sanding marks to minimize the area you're polishing... If you can be bothered)
Maybe unnecessary advice since you're having film applied anyway, but I HATE it when these sorts of things happen to good people, and maybe it's something you can use in the future (hoping you never have to!) should you get another scratch, chip or nick. You can literally make the repair such that you can't even find it sometimes, which means that no one else will ever notice...