Many rental motorhomes make it to private owners once they have been sold off by the rental companies.
These ex-rental units make great value buys for their new owners and one of the reasons they are sold off cheap is that even though they have had their corporate branding removed it is still clearly visible. The oxidisation of the body paintwork makes this branding indelible and close to impossible to get rid of.
The owner of this campervan had heard of our successes with restoration of very bad paintwork. This to us is great as word of mouth references are the best for of reference.
So what did this owner want?
He ad owned it for several years and he wanted all the shadow branding removed from all sides of the van as he looks at it ever time he looks at the van and on top of that people comment everwhere he goes and that really annoyed him.
OK, we get to work
- We carefully remove the non essential lettering from the body
- claybar and wash the body with NDG Mega Gloss wash and NDG Aggressive claybar
- We then bring out the big guns and rotary cut the body with NDG Nano Diamond compound
- Mega Gloss wash the residue off the surface
- Wet the surfaces and applied NDG Hyperseal
- After 60 minutes we rotary buff the body on medium speed using a waffle pad
The challenges we faced
- were that the stripes on the side were running the opposite direction to the original branding stripes and intersected in several places this took extra skills to get this right without damaging the new stripes
- Very difficult to navigate around all the compartment doors, windows and conduit where most of the oxidisation had occurred.
- Owners arrived to find the results far better than they expected
The end result
The campervan was restored to it’s off the showroom condition which is something we wanted to achieve.
The owner said, “Sensational result. It will put my mind at rest not to turn and look at the van hoping not to see the shaddow branding. THANK YOU!
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