You can do this with an old school type rocks in a bottle abrasive compound with a wool pad or even inexpensive waxes that use harsh solvents as both abrasives and solvents will dull or haze the paint. The opposite would be to want a product that makes their paint lighter. When someone states that they don't like a product because it makes their paint darker, what they are saying is they don't want to see the true color of their paint. The goal for a person that wants the most out of their paint is to maximize clarity, gloss and richness of color. What you're seeing Robert are people that don't know what they're talking about. if a product does this for black paint, and the black paint has a clear coat over it, isn't this same product doing the same thing for all products? It looks like the product made the paint darker but in fact it restored the paint to its true color.
(no shades of gray, like 99% black is actually a shade of gray), then this is a good product. If you have a black car and you apply a product and it makes the black paint look darker or 100% Black. I had been reading some posts when one poster mentioned that he thought Meg's NXT made his paint look darker and he had switched to some other products. Then pick your poison for your LSP and go for it!
#CAR PAINT FLAKE FREE#
Make the paint as defect free as possible.If you want the metal flake, or metallic flake under your car's clear coat finish to *pop* then your goal is to, The black stuff on the clay is some type of ABOVE SURFACE BONDED CONTAMINANTS and contaminants create SURFACE TEXTURE and surface texture means the surface is no longer smooth so it's can never be as glossy as its potential. The roof and the other horizontal panels pretty much felt like sandpaper before we started.ĮBesides restoring gloss, by removing the film of contaminants off the paint you'll make machine polishing easier, safer and more effective and enable your choice of wax or paint sealant to better be able to bond to the paint.
Without the flash on here's what the clay looks like and this is what it looked like in person. This shot was taken with my trusty, dusty Canon Rebel with the flash on after claying the roof. This truck was re-painted approximately one year ago but just from exposure to the outdoors has made the paint vulnerable to air-borne contaminants. Here's some pictures of how the clay looked after claying JUST ONE HALF OF THE ROOF AND THIS ROOF IS SMALL. The metallic flake certainly does NOT *pop*. Note: You if you look at the below "BEFORE" pictures it's hard to see the multi-color metallic flake in the paint because all the surface defects cloud your ability to see past the clear to the flake below.
Note how the metallic flake POPS! after we applied Opti-Coat II Make the paint as smooth as possible because this creates gloss.ġ977 Can Am Corvette - Modeled by Amy and Janna - Pictures and Video! In the case of a single stage paint this will maximize richness of color. Make the surface of the paint as defect free as possible, in the case of a clear coat paint this will make it clear. I've been reading posts all my online life about how one wax is better than another wax to really make the metallic flake in a car's paint *pOp* but I've never bought into that idea once.
#CAR PAINT FLAKE PROFESSIONAL#
I have a close friend that doesn't believe a wax or a paint sealant or a coating adds anything to the end-results if a person does a professional job of polishing the paint. If you want the metallic flake to *PoP* then you want to get the clear layer of paint as clear as possible so your eyes can see past the clear layer of paint to the metallic flake embedded in the basecoat.Īny defect on the "surface" of the clear layer of paint will cloud your view of what's under it.Īfter you create a clear, smooth surface, then all you have to do is use a premium quality wax, paint sealant or coating to seal your hard work and take the results you've created to an even higher level.
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