Optimum Coating : Honda City Full Restoration

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This is a year 2007 Honda City, with more than 8 years of abuse from mother nature and the intense pollutions from Kuala Lumpur, it was sent for a repaint a few months ago. Custom painted to a black and white theme, the roof, grill and some trim where black while the rest of the car is a pearl white. After a few months of paint curing, we arrived at the car for the finishing detail.
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Upon arrival, we parked the car at a suitable location for the washing process.
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The sun was out, therefore its perfect for some sun shots.

Its obvious that the paint shop did a very rough polish, giving the paint a dull finishing.
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Regular paint shops in Malaysia are usually not very professional, if you found a shop that does painting professionally, we would ask you to stick with them for any future repaints or touch ups.
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Why we say most paint shops are not professional? This is why. Here is a poorly finished paint, with wrinkled up surface around the flat surface totally destroys the outlook.
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Windows clearly indicates watermark issues.
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With LED lighting, we can spot visible swirls as well.

Even on the black roof, swirls exist.
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We got the car washed in detailed and parked it at a shaded area.

We then started the paint correction process. Here is the restored surface.

The swirl level been fully removed. The percentage restored was more than 90%.
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After more than 6hours of paint correction, we were finally ready for the coating application. Check out the final results.
 

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