Hello AcuraZine detailing peeps. During my ownership of my 2010 Acura TSX, I noticed some horrible marring/swirls due to the previous owner probably hitting automatic car washes. Finally figured it was time to try and tackle this myself as a stage 1 paint correction in my area is around $400. I've never tried to do anything like this before, other than the basic clay bar/wax application. Armed with a borrowed orbital and appropriate pads, as well as a 1 step Meg's Ultimate Polish I decided it was time.

Prior to even starting on the vehicle, did a wash to remove dirt and debris. Below are pics after the ​​​​​​ clay bar to show the damage.







The clay wasn't as dirty as I expected it to turn out. I honestly should of taken more pictures, but I didn't. The first pic shows the top of the trunk, and the whole trunk looked this way. Below is a picture of how the trunk turned out.




Here we see a untaped 50/50 of the drivers door.




I went ahead and completed the rest of the vehicle. Honestly at this point I was super excited, for wax application. Which I used some Mother's Liquid Wax (horrible choice after the fact). Below is the finished product.









With all this being said, I completed this last June. Here in the next couple weeks, I will be doing a more aggressive correction with Meg's M105/205, as well as CarPro UK 3.0 Ceramic Coating to protect the paint.

Another main reason for the 2nd correction is shortly after this was completed, I got hit in a hotel parking lot and had the front bumper replaced for the Sport (Modulo) bumper. Which I've thrown in a pic of how the car looks now. Still shiny, but winter was not kind to my car. The Mothers wax was a terrible choice, and I'm ready for a ceramic coating to keep that luster/shine all year round.






Thanks for looking! I want to note, I wasn't striving for 100% perfection here. I was thoroughly happy with my results. Any pointers would be appreciated!

 

Great job with the paint correction! Will you be applying the ceramic coating yourself too?
I'm going for my 2nd stage 2 paint correction at the end of the month, and then following it up with a ceramic pro seal.
After the first stage 2 I had done, I noticed just how "soft" the paint was on our vehicles, any little rub up would leave a blemish.
It's costing me more this time, but the results should last much longer as well

 

More than likely yes. I have plenty of friends in the business in my area to get pointers, or able to call with questions. Like when I did the stage 1, I kept having the polish get streaky and spotting, quick call resolved that. Apparently I was applying too much pressure. It was nearing the end of the correction progress and it was 95 degrees in my garage, so I'm sure I was just getting tired. Thanks for the kind words!