Time to give Red Zed some love: Pulled it out of the garage from where I parked it after our drag night in June... put it away wet: Hard to see from the pic, but the paint is pretty badly swirled and oxidized. Haven't been cleaning & waxing like the other Zeds. Time to fix that. Again hard to see, but there is pretty bad swirl and hazy oxidation: Paint just looks dull and feels rough when you brush your hand along it: Paint polish time... start with 3M PerfectIt #1 cut and switch to #2 to get through the crap on the surface. Using Makita 9237C variable speed polisher & Feracla 6" compounding pads. two passes with cutting compound: Of course, every rock chip is now highlighted, spent about a half hour with the lacquer touch up pen. Finish with #3 polish with polishing foam pad, swirls are mostly gone and the paint feels smooth: Zeds are easy to power polish with all the rounded edges: Think we're aboot there: And how does it look in the sun? Still lots of rock chips and paint damage on the sills... not going to fix it with a polisher. Could do another pass but my arm's given out. Now I gotta go wax...
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