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The car as presented. New 20" Advan wheels as well as some choice carbon fibre mods (front lip, bonnet intakes, duck-tail boot lid). Also a very nice titanium exhaust setup

The wheels, whilst new, needed some work

Chemical decon picking up a fair bit

APC clean

Brushwork

Foam wash

Inspection showing light levels of marring, but enough to impact the clarity of the pearl for sure.

The aforementioned carbon boot lid

A walk-around with the paint depth gauge showed reasonably healthy paint levels

As the boot lid was carbon fibre, the standard ferrous/non-ferrous metal cheap paint depth gauge wasn't going to read into it. So out came the very expensive DeFelsko Ultrasonic gauge. It indicated lower readings, but not too bad. Certainly enough to work with.

Some adhesive residue on the lower rear exhaust surrounds. Probably from all the way back to dealer delivery

After

The gloss meter also came out for this one. Initial reading on the bonnet:

Gloss after first stage correction to remove marring. A small improvement, but the first stage correction was more for removing damage than providing high levels of gloss.

After the second finishing stage of correction we now see a BIG jump in gloss, which is to be expected as now the surface of the paint is being refined and honed to a high-gloss finish

Final pics, pre-coating. Not only is the lack of swirling obvious but visual gloss levels have jumped remarkably, backing up the gloss meter results.

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