How to Polish Black Paint on Cars

okay so what we have here is a base coat clear coat black finish so modern modern paint technology on a classic street rod and you can tell that it's all scrolled out can you come in here and do you need a light to even show it uh oh god well let me see that yeah now I'm blind I see little white lines there you go people it is totally yeah the whole car looks like this this is from being wiped hold on hold on I was going to show see the water spot water everywhere here so the first thing I got to do is a water to wash but we're going to go over the process to restore this back to a Flawless finish so um this gives me a chance to introduce a really cool product to some of you this is called prep wash and this is actually a product that Jim Leber The Man Behind Dr Beasley created after he watched me cleaning a car with glass cleaner and he said why are you using glass cleaner the bottle and I said because all all if if not most if not all of the waterless washes which there's a lot of great ones on the market they also do things like have polymers glossing agents maybe caruba maybe things that you don't want on the paint yeah it's they're like a finishing product I'm trying to just get it clean and as a professional I I tend to never wash cars like this because you introduce rust into places you cannot see Okay so we've got this thing wipe down so the next thing is the baggie test and I always tell guys to search around and just find the simple cheap ones that have a fold top not the zip lock you don't need the zip you're not going to preserve a sandwich but just come down here and then just feel it and it's it's not the worst car I've ever worked on but it's definitely contaminated all right here be quiet for a sec let's see if we can hear it yeah yeah and and so here's the thing so you know I've been teaching car detailing since 1987 and a most common question people will ask is they'll say well Mike won't buffing take those contaminants off and here's the deal yes buffing will but um if you're using a foam pad like this or any kind of foam pad what tends to happen is the foam in your product just tend to Glide over the little bumps they don't actually remove it I need that um I left my uh product over there here's a question for you sure um so the best way to move is to Clay it okay say somebody doesn't clay it could this happen say you're all right you know what I'm not going to Clay it I'm just going to use a buffing thing and something that's lodged onto the paint then get lodged into your pad could that not induce that could happen it's you know it means you really got some you know crap stuck on the paint but uh the biggest thing is is you just keep in mind if you're buffing with foam pads and orbital polishers in most cases that combination is not going to remove something that's bonded so tight that it didn't wipe off when I wiped it off with the water to wash okay so it's it's got a bond on there it isn't going to wash off when you wash the car in normal way so the this is the keyword the most effective way to remove bonded contaminants is using either a detailing clay this is a clay towel what this is is polymerized rubber with a pulverized abrasive in it so some people think clay Works cuz it's sticky and it it does kind of work as it's sticky but clay has a pulverized abrasive in it and when you rub this over the finish it literally Sands off the contaminants and with Clay it sticks it onto itself with this rubber polymerized rubber interface here it builds up on the surface but you can take and wash it off and then if you drop it you can use it over and over again so um I'm a big fan of clay and detailing towels um I'm pretty much just using this one because it's closest to my hand as I like to say okay so I just clayed this section here all the contaminants off and there's a lot of reasons uh to Clay a car um I'm a I'm an RIT for the Ida and one of the things I always test guys on is why do you clay a car now of course to remove the contaminants but there's other deeper reasons and here's a couple of them um gloss comes from a smooth surface so if you've got Bond of contaminant that means you got texture you don't have a smooth surface so simply clay and the paint will actually amp up the gloss even if the Swirls and scratches are still there um so that's one thing the other thing is is when you go to apply a wax synthetic paint sealant or a ceramic coating all those those three categories of products are formulated by a good chemist to bond to urethane paint not contaminants so one of the most common questions is is how long will that product Last 5 Years one month and the answer is it depends on how the surface is prepared to accept the product makes sense to me okay so let's go ahead and this has been played and clean now let's just take an inspection of the paint here oh yeah you can just leave it right there okay that's just trash it's not a show car you know well it's a show car just doesn't look like one right now show car okay so then we're going to talk about doing a test spot and you know you never know if the paint is hard or soft or if the defects are deep or shallow until you do the test spot so I'm going to start out doing my test spot and this is again what I teach in our classes is you don't want to start with a cutting pad whether it's fiber wool or foam and you don't start with a finishing pad this those are the two extremes finishing cutting so you want to start right in the middle of foam polishing pad and I'm going to use the Beast the XC 341 vrg It's always important I always show people use your thumb to the backing play look around look around as you're dropping down it's kind of like a spaceship landing on the moon you want to be perfectly centered up even if you're using orbal you still want to be centered up okay so then if we come up here I've got the Z1 the 150 the 95 and the 45 this is our ceramic all-in-one so I'm not using that cuz I'm going to do a showcard detail of this here's our more most aggressive product to 150 here's our least aggressive our finishing polish so 95 is where I'm going to start out and I'll see if a foam polishing pad and NSP 95 will remove the defects to our expectations and you really these are very concentrated products they're $39.99 a tube you don't be wasting this stuff they work exceedingly well and you get what you pay for in this world if you haven't learned that already okay so I'm going to do a section out here about the size of a microfiber towel let me go ahead and put a tape line down yeah it's all on you I'm going to put the tapeline down but I'm going to share something real quick whenever you do a tap line never buff on the tap line you know why yany yeah because you leave it there cuz you'll leave a line in the paint a lot of times you can't get it out so yeah we did that once on a video remember a couple times I think and I actually wrote an article the name of the article's called the line don't leave one okay so would this work for you it will work to show before and after yes sir okay one thing I'm just going to tell everybody up front is I'm not going to buff on it I'm going to buff up to it but not on it okay and for those of you at you know out in the internet land when you're doing your test spot you do not have to put a tapel line down so don't think that is something that this is for camera work yeah this is to show you guys a a hard lineation line yeah okay so we had four drops of NSP 95 I'm going to turn the speed down just kind of try to Prime that pad get some of those abraces moving around on the surface of the pad and now I'm just going to make I'm going to make I'm going to spread the product out that doesn't count that make four solid section passes and we'll stop the polisher and inspect normally I would run up to about eight just as a random General number but the thing is is if we if we run this up to like 8 9 10 12 section passes you'll never know at what point the scratches came out so you undercut how many you do when you're doing the test so I'm going to do four section passes after I SP that way you're not overworking yourself you're not overworking it yeah but you want to know what it took to get it out so let me just uh I'm going to spread this out there area I'm going to work okay so that didn't count now I'm going to bring my speed up and make four solid section [Music] passes one two three there is four now we'll we will'll wipe off and inspect the results and yansy from your point you can see better than I but we got that looks like 80 I would go 99 oh no I your angle is a different angle than mine I'm seeing deeper scratches okay you see a few deeper ones but the mass swirls compared to here well the swirls yes but there are some deeper scratches in there random rids rids rids random isolated deeper scratches okay so if if a passes got me to almost oh hold on before you get any more um cuz I just saw the replay on the uh iPad um light light and let's get some light on it so that way those out there in the internet land can uh go back towards the back of the building there you go right there all right so that's what we got now come towards me got just a slightly see I've seeing scratches right there a few yeah that's at the end of my reach too oh here yeah careful don't drop that on the car yeah there's just a couple scratches and the film that you see is what do you call it that is the part that helps the the ceramic we're going to apply bond to the paint let me wipe that off all right there to me I yeah I mean it's 9 95% it's pretty pretty so so but here's the big takeaway I fixed that with a foam polishing pad a medium cut polish four section passes and I wasn't even pushing on that thing hard so what that tells me is this paint is on the soft side um I I wouldn't call it super soft but it's definitely not medium it's in the soft range and then the good part about that is it's not going to kill me to try to correct it I'm not have to get a wool pad with a compound on a rotary polisher and come down and buff out this entire car so let me go ahe and make four more section passes and then we'll inspect and then I'm going to switch over to a rupes rup RZ and uh because it's soft and I brought I brought flex and I brought RZ up here but generally speaking a free spinning random orbital polisher will finish out nicer on softer paints than a gear-driven orbital polisher so that's the primary difference free spinning versus gear driven so I'm not going to add any more product [Music] here's a little tip bring that cord up under your arm okay there's one now I'm pushing down a little bit two three four so that makes a total of eight solid section passes you want to know why six is afraid of seven what's why to 789 789 you are you know you missed your calling you know never know America's Got Talent you missed your calling Seinfeld okay RZ this is the Bigfoot 15 this is actually the number six given to me by RZ when they introduced this tool I love getting uh low serial numbers just kind of a you know hold on hold on for everybody out there in the in the real world look touch okay so this is a free spinning tool and that means you can take your fingers and freely spin the backing plate or the pad this one here if I try that over here it's it's not going to spin it's it's gear gear driven so that's the primary difference and um okay so now for this I'm going to go this is a soft foam finishing pad and notice there is a black mark already on the backing plate and that's to help your eyes to monitor pad rotation and now I'm going to switch over to our finishing polish which is the NSP 45 and again I'm just going to put three psize drops and you know what a psize drop I'm not okay but you're learning I'm I had to change everything when I started using this abrasive technology cuz it's so freaking concentrated it's even hard to get a psize drop out of the tube so but there's my best three psize drops okay get my cord out of the way and just here's a little tip whenever you're buffing a lot of guys buff like this take your hand and go like this now this up instead of dragging across the paint yeah that's a good tip okay so low speed just kind of prime the pad i s to move the ab braces over the surface there and I'm going to bring my speed up to about I'm going to go with the Ford to start with just the weight of the tool all right you see the black line is moving it's not staying one spot so he has good rotation going on not pushing too hard not buffing at an angle see it coming around hold this Cricket it just stops so you got to hold the pad perfectly flat to the surface I forgot where so that was one okay so here's [Music] two [Music] three [Music] four [Music] five there six solid SE and here's the thing about that usually when you're when you're doing the initial uh paint correction step that you know the the heavier cut you know you need more passes but at this point I'm just refining to make sure that finish is perfect so when they Park this thing in full sun it looks as good outside as it does in here so what is you're saying I said it's a it's an art form polishing paint is an art form not a grinding process I've had people argue with me and say Mike it's a craft well it's a craft to you but you know what I do is I bring the human elements of care and passion to the table cuz I care about this car and and I'm passionate about what I do okay so there's wipe off now before we come down and take a look at the before and after results I'm going to go ahead and show you one of the key benefits about the NSP primers including the Z1 the ceramic AIO at this point I'm going to use this is bad technique but I'm going to I don't want to do bad technique you going to show bad technique I was going to show bad technique but here's what I do I'm going to put a bag up here and I'll show the products I'm going to use so this is a two component ceramic coating and the first component is the paint coating Builder so what this is going to do is it's going to prep the paint for the coating and it's going to add incredible slickness and gloss at the same time so just I'll give it one mist and then take the applicator pad these come with the autofiber coating Savers and I usually use gray for the paint Builder red like flat flashing red lights danger danger Will Robinson I'll use that for the uh coating part but then I have a a color code I can follow then you just apply this like a normal Coating in normal Coatings you use a cross-hatch pattern when you can if the panel is long and thin then you just go the direction of the length of the panel and try to overlap wherever you can so here's three and there's really no magic to four the whole big piter idea is uniform coverage you know uniform coverage for uniform protection okay then you want to let that sit for about 2 to three minutes before you wipe it off as it does this little magic voodoo on the paint surface all right hold on let me stop you right there so I noticed that there's some residue left from the compound so that you can go straight with it you might want to explain that might be see that if you look at that nanoel over there Nan that nanoel is the carrying agent and it it has it's everything that's in these products is inorganic nothing's organic including the nanogel so there's nothing in there that'll interfere with the bonding of the coating to the paint itself and the paint coating Builder kind of asks Chris Chris uh Rana our director of success likes to use the analogy of velcro once you lay that down you put the coating on top it makes that super strong bond so everything we're doing in this process is you're always walking forward in the process never going one step backwards so while that's waiting let me just talk about this um when they turn the cameras off tonight the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a Lynch roller and clean this beautiful canvas cloth top and then I'm GNA take this drop cloth and I'm gonna completely cover it up and why is that M because if I by accident throw some splatter up here in the buffing process which I don't do but if I did you got to come back and try to get it off and usually you leave a little marring in the cloth but the other reason why is just from experience I've had so many convertibles go through my classes that normally we covered up and this one time we covered everything up but we were using coverup towels and we ran out of towel so the center wasn't protected and I'm thinking well that's okay no one's going to lift their polisher up in there at high speed and hold it there and throw a splatter up there and guess what happened someone you jinxed yourself that's what happened someone got splatter in the middle of the canvas top so nowadays at any class I cover everything up because I don't know who's going to okay so then we'll just come back down here with this clean microfiber towel and one of the things if you ever use this product you can instantly notice is how slick that goes look how deep and dark and black it is also so whenever you're working on a clear coat keep in mind you're not working on um pigmented part you're working on just pure resin so the so when you're working on a single stage paint like we got back here at the 58 Impala the goal is to remove the oxidation Swirls and scratches and bring out what's called the full richness of color for the pigments when you're working on clear coats you want to maximize the clarity of the clear coat because it's like a window to the base coat you won't be able to see it with anything interfering with your vision so so then the next thing we're going to do is we're come back I'm going to switch over to the red side and give this a little Shake I don't think it it shake but I just watched the Talladega kns you know shake oh my goodness and bake shake and bake okay so there's the nanor resin MX and I'll just leave that there and then same thing repeat the process and of course I'll do this to the entire car at some point but I just want to demonstrate just how easy this product is to use and that you can go right over the NSP 150 95 45 and even the Z1 with no bonding in fact this will help to ensure that you don't have coating fill from an improper Bond so there's a lot of benefits to the na the Nano or the NSP primer technology now that there you wait about 30 seconds to a minute carefully wipe it off you should always inspect your towels and you know what I keep right over here yany let me guess you are tweezers I keep tweezers out here and I have a if you look over here I got a little laundry hamper just use whatever you can to try to keep your towels off the ground and keep it from getting contaminated now this this actually just looks like some white fuzz and it is because at one of my last classes someone thought they'd do me a favor make a washload and they mixed my terry cloth towels a microfiber towels it's a gift that keeps on giving it is the gift that keeps on giving but this probably went scratch but I'm kind of picky about my towels so I'm going to wipe that off especially on black paint that you just got done perfecting exactly and then look at it but also feel it with your hands because a lot of times your hands will detect things that your eyes cannot see then fold it four ways and what I always do is pull the edges up in my thumb lay this down flat kind of scrunch the towel between my fingers then come down and just gently wipe that off flip to a clean dry side I'm going to pull the tape off here and give it a second WIP and whenever you pull tape off yeah let me get on that angle let me share a tip that'll save you from buying someone to paint job pull it low and slow at an angle give the adhesive time to release I was doing a class with a longtime friend and I was just getting ready to explain how to do this and he grabbed the tape and lift it straight up and pull the paint off had to take it to the body shop where it was originally painted and have the whole Hood repainted to make it right so please take my advice do not lift straight up if and the reason why is because when you lift straight up you know if there is any kind of what's called adhesion issue between the paint the primer or any of this stuff you're going to pull that paint right off okay okay come down here and check it out all right where's uh your light here give it to me so that way I can move it with the camera okay there you go yeah you're you know what you're looking for all right hold it up a little harder I'm trying to find it there it is all right so there's the before there's the after so let me bring the camera back and I buff too much by this edge here I was more in the middle there after after does that look good yep it does so um I love these lights but they always blow everything out not to what real world is but that is the process that I'm going to use for the rest of this car and I have to tell you I'm thankful that the paint's not hard um I wish it was a little uh harder than it is because the biggest problem with soft paints is usually the owners can't take care of paint like this just you know you got to make sure your wash mitts are clean your drying towel is clean I mean if you use compressed air like a leaf blower that's one thing but a lot of people don't have those you know detailers have them but a lot of car owners don't so if they're driving some sort of drying towel or they wiping towels they're not inspecting them this paint won't last into that condition for very long so yeah no they'll wash until the first time they wash it or wipe it the car moving forward the what I'm going to show the owner here is as a professional and I just shared this in all my detailing classes it seems like common sense but um when you detail cars professionally always show your customer how to take care of your work so I always show them how to carefully wash it using the multiple toel system then I show them how to maintain it and in the real world if you think about it most people all they know is this how to push the button start the engine I mean that put the windows up and down that's all people to know so help them out but anybody can use a spray on wipe off product like the bead hero so then again clean t look I finally got you trained to put the labels out awesome I know you have just spread that around flip to a dry side I use the twoot tow method but you get the idea and now it is super super it was slippery before now it's really slippery people love having their paint feel slippery but that is the show car process I'm going to use on this car I'm thankful I don't got to use the NSP 150 I did have blue foam cutting pads down here to test in case the first process I tested didn't work to my expectations and if I really needed to I got microfiber pads and I got wool pads and rotary polishers I mean we could have done whatever it takes but the key thing is always do a test spot first and always use great abrasive technology all right okay that was a lot

Channel: Dr. Beasley's

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Keywords: paint correction black car, paint correction scratches, paint correction detailing, how to polish a car with a buffer

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Length: 25min 17sec (1517 seconds)

Published: Mon May 13 2024