So, here it is
Since it's about a huge brushed stainless steel surface, some precautions should be carried out. So, together with Andrea, we decided to test the product on a damaged rear quarter panel.
It came from this donor car:
As you can see, somewhere in time the car has been painted dark after a wreck.
Somewhere the paint has been stripped and the stainless steel surface, or the bondo, is clearly visible on the door and the right front fender.
So, now the right rear quarter panel is like this: all the bondo has been removed, the dents worked out at our best and the surface brushed with a 3M pad:
We didn't have any old microfiber available, so we had to use industrial paper towel.
We split the panel in three part with some blue mask tape: the left side was assigned to Dodo Juice, the central part to a stainless steel cleaner from Arexons company and the right side to Svitol, which is something like WD40, made by Arexons too.
Let's start! The black oxide immediately came out at the first shot..
That's me buffing! In my opinion, the product must be left on the surface for about 2 minutes before the buffing out process.
We needed to further use the product on a really dirty area:
These marks won't be buffed, and the more you use the product, the more it shines, thus not deleting the brushing.
And the beading was nice too..
Now, it's time to use the second product on the area in the middle..
A lot less oxide was removed..
You can compare the surfaces, considering that just the area in the middle, on the left, has been treated with Dodo Juice.
And now the surprise: the tape removal..
I further tried to remove the marks, by applying the Dodo Juice product on a stripe, but the mirror effect started to appear. This was too much..
The right area, cleaned with Svitol, had no interesting features and the difference before/after was irrelevant.
Now, it was time to test the DJ product on the inner part of a door..
This door belong to Andrea's car, which has never seen paint during its life.
The door light is the border area: on the right, Supernatural polish has been applied.
No Dodo:
Yes Dodo:
We even had the time to clean the tail pipes..
Before:
After:
And some small bits here and there to..
The coolant bottle cap:
And the fuel rail..
ConclusionsI think that the supernatural polish is an extremely good product to detail small bits here and there, like exhaust pipes, metal caps and so on.
But it's not suitable to detail an entire DeLorean car, especially if we consider that the surface may have accumulated oxide for nearly 30 years and the risk to polish the panels,
when continously trying to remove the blackened product, is real.
I would not recommend to detail a Delorean with it, if you are not searching for a shining polished surface.
Paper towels are not the best product to do this kind of job: a microfiber would have better performer the task, this is for sure, especially in buffing the black polishing detritus away.
Svitol product, on the opposite side, is very good as solvent to buff out supernatural polish.
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:53 pm
