After 3 hours of buffing and Polishing...EXTREME MAKEOVER :), before and after +Smoked tails Options

[2celicas2love]

SO when i got this car it was u-g-l-y as far as paint goes. I didnt think any type of buffing would help this mess but, I finally had some time to try to see if i could make a difference with some hard-core buffing etc, with an electric buffer and 1,200,009 bottles of cleaner, wax, and polish I spent the most time on the hood I was really REALLY shocked with the out come, and you will be too , especially if you are a member that was at the so cal meet and saw this thing in person. I am pleased this will hold me over until I get my body work and custom paint soon
On the way from Arizona

my dad

now....after all that hard work







it was A L O T of work, but I am proud of my self

This post has been edited by 2celicas2love: Oct 30, 2009 - 12:05 AM

[SwissFerdi]

Does look pretty good, congrats.

I assume you used Niteshades on the tails, how many coats?

[2celicas2love]

Does look pretty good, congrats.

I assume you used Niteshades on the tails, how many coats?

I did 2 pretty concentrated coats, that stuff works really good

[marco-polo]

looks good!!!
like the tails!

[SwissFerdi]

Yeah, it does. I used it on my side markers. By concentrated, you mean thin? My sides came out just slightly darker than your tails, I think.

[2celicas2love]

Yeah, it does. I used it on my side markers. By concentrated, you mean thin? My sides came out just slightly darker than your tails, I think.

no concentrated means like thick i did my 7th gen first to see how the spray works, then when i did my 6th gen i did two thick coats

[manphibian]

That looks delicious

Nothing better than a shiny red celica



good work girl !

[MaskedMan]

OOO nice work! It's like a complete transformation! Looks like you put a lot of hard work into it .


This post has been edited by MaskedMan: Oct 28, 2009 - 8:06 PM

[2celicas2love]

OOO nice work! It's like a complete transformation! Looks like you put a lot of hard work into it .

OOO nice work! It's like a complete transformation! Looks like you put a lot of hard work into it .

thanks! I'm glad you saw this post because you actually saw with your own eyes "before", yea it was a TON of work I'm sure my arms will be dead tomorrow from the extra buffing i had to do aside from the buffing machine, well worth it tho!

[MaskedMan]

OOO nice work! It's like a complete transformation! Looks like you put a lot of hard work into it .

thanks! I'm glad you saw this post because you actually saw with your own eyes "before", yea it was a TON of work I'm sure my arms will be dead tomorrow from the extra buffing i had to do aside from the buffing machine, well worth it tho!

haha well I got your text, but since the picture was so small, I couldn't tell what you were trying to show me, but something told me that if I checked 6gc, you'd have a thread about it haha. I go through a lot of buffing pads when I detail my car so I haven't done it in awhile.

Just for reference, for those who didn't see the car prior to all the work she put into it, here is a before shot. You can she how she did an amazing job on the hood and front end.

[2celicas2love]

OOO nice work! It's like a complete transformation! Looks like you put a lot of hard work into it .

thanks! I'm glad you saw this post because you actually saw with your own eyes "before", yea it was a TON of work I'm sure my arms will be dead tomorrow from the extra buffing i had to do aside from the buffing machine, well worth it tho!

haha well I got your text, but since the picture was so small, I couldn't tell what you were trying to show me, but something told me that if I checked 6gc, you'd have a thread about it haha. I go through a lot of buffing pads when I detail my car so I haven't done it in awhile.

Just for reference, for those who didn't see the car prior to all the work she put into it, here is a before shot. You can she how she did an amazing job on the hood and front end.

wow! great pic!!!! shows it in it's glory WOW what a difference! thanks for the pic!

[SPID33]

it looks awsome..... good job and im loving those tail lights

[cheela]

WOW! good job! looks pretty good now

[dabazied]

Wow, great job! She's lookin great. Can't wait to see it at the meet.

[mmmchocolate]

100% improvement

[3WayStunna]

Wow, what an improvement a little elbow grease ( and an electric buffer ^_^) can do!! Nice job

[sunwukongg]

nice! it looks so clean now. i wanna smoke out my tails, but i was wondering if its illegal or not.. and how do you do it anyway?

[808celica]

should go another 3-4hrs. Great job though took me 4hrs to do half my car What chemicals did you use?

[TiGZ461]

Wow very nice. I really like how it looks now, and on a side note I taught I was the only one with that like broken off paint on the passenger side fender.. Lol it looks exactly like the damage on my car since its red and on the side spot and same brown spots . Other then that, you gave me a an excuse to spend more time on my car . Time to start buffing.

[2celicas2love]

nice! it looks so clean now. i wanna smoke out my tails, but i was wondering if its illegal or not.. and how do you do it anyway?

thanks! i think its illegal but its one of those things they don't really enforce like tint that is too dark, the spray is like $25 and from Japan you can get it on ebay