what we have here is the story of the ugly frog.
The initial message was has few scratches , chips and needs clay and a polish. My first impression when I saw the car: oxidation and swirl city , not big deal till I run the paint gauge around the car and see the real deal : 4 panels repainted/body work (clay bar was red after clay the rear window), 2 panels with thin spots (hood, roof), trunk very-very thin (under 100 microns).
With all know I decide to go light on trunk and everything else to bring to an 80%+ paint correction , full correction was out of question with all the repaint/thin spots panels.
Process: wash with nxt , clay bar , wash nxt again , tires and wheels was clean and dress with klasse and tire gel.
Mask everything , and went with rotary meg 83 on polish pad all around except trunk , was fallow by PC meg 205 on finish pad inclusive trunk .
Car was sealed with m21 on finish pad PC, and waxed with nxt 2, by hand.
Got some minor interior done , headlights restore , windows in and out.
I would say my paint gauge just paid itself on this project.
Enjoy the pictures of a 8 years old car, daily driver before and after detail.
Readings and thin spot on oxidize surface:



headlight before:

after:

swirl city:

after:

swirls, stain before:

after:

 

all this are after:

 

oaky someone has got to show me how to do this, cause i have the same car but its a TL Type-S and its has swirls, sctaches and rock chips, but not too much worse than this one, and i want to make it look like the CL, can someone please show me to a link where it tells you about what materials you need and a good tutorial and how to do it

 

well u invest in tools and learn yourself or you pay some pro to do it for you.
for removing heavy paint defects the best tool is rotary and is a powerfull tool. for polish or light defects an dual action orbital buffer / portal cable is good.
u need a min of 2-3 compoiunds/polish and 2-3 foam pads.
usually takes a good day to detail a whole car.
u wash the car , u clay bar , u rinse teh car again and before u start the whole car u do a test spot on hood or trunk and test what combination pad compound will remove the swirl and defects. afte rthat u do the whole car.
this is to have an idea of the process.

 

yeah im totally willing to do all of that, money is not a problem, i just need the proper info on whats needed, where to get it and how to use it, if anyone knows of such a place that can show me all of that, it would be much appreciatted

 

what area are you located?
i know meguiar`s keep open seminar classes in CA.
pm me your email and i can give u some stuff to read.
also if u send me some pic of your car with what u want to correct i may give u more details of what products to use and steps.

 

really you'll do that? thanks

im located in seattle area so cali is little out of the question but ill pm you my email in a sec

 

Thanks. I am new to this forum, U guys help me a lot. Cool place to learn.