Restoration for 1996 Porsche C4S

Just completed, this car was purchased recently by a new client who heard about me through Moe @ Glistening Perfection in Aliso Viejo(Thank you Moe...) and his new to him car was in real bad shape, that being said it had the "Bones" of a good car and would eventually require 91 hours to restore the vehicle to a very nice condition.
The vehicle as it arrived to the shop.




Dried out by UV rays the trim was in awful shape.




Peek at the wheel wells which later would be a horrific and time consuming task.




Start of the 2.5 hour de-con/wash step.




Dirty jambs.







"Un-tightness.




Even though it was a "Wheels off" correction I made a pass with Sonax.




Time to strip the finish.




Iron X made a tough job a little easier.




Heavy LSP present.




LSP removed.




Door jamb hinges cleaned.







Cleaning in every crevice.




After the wash, the car was brought back into the shop and all turn signals/headlights/ tailights were dis-assembled.







Seats removed.




Tailights/filler cap removed.

 

Readings from the wing, good to go for the correction.

It was nice using my new 200 series from DeFelsko, thanks Phil!!!.





Readings taken with DFT on the metal parts of the car.




Time to correct the finish, initial 50/50's during compounding stage.











Cowl area before.




After initial hit of compounding.




Wing was in bad shape, note dull reflection of halogen bulb.










Reverse angle.




Entire wing corrected.




Heavy wool pad compounding.




Right rear quarter before.




After.




Before.





After.




Dried

out paint.​

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Took a break from paint correction as I had to clean the wheels which were sent out for repair/painting. The heavy dirt would later turn out to be "Slurry seal" which was on the wheels and entire wheel well area.




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Cleaness...............




A gift from the body shop........




Corrected.




Before.




After.




More "Body shop gifts".




After compounding step.




More sand scratches, with deep tracers.




After.




Before.




After.




Reverse angle of hood.




Entire hood corrected.




Deep RIDS.




After.







50/50 of lower rocker.




Deep marring.




After.

 

Dry trim paint.




After.




Built up dirt in the leading edge of factory clear film.




After.




Cleaned in the tailight housing.







While seats were out I steam cleaned those areas.




Even though nobody will probably see this part of the seat.......................




Front bumper turnsignal housings cleaned.




Correcting tailights after re-installation.







Lugs needed some help.....




Much better after some "Wurth's" was used in the re-spray.




Polishing stage.




On to the "Horror" of wheel wells covered in baked on for 10 years plus slurry seal.

 

Before.




After.




"As bad as you want........".




Making progress.




What can you say...............over 14 hours to get the crud comepletly off.







Before.




After.












Engine pics.













Trunk area.

 

"Home stretch".................

























Interior was very clean(Compared to the exterior) so no before shots needed.







Clean glass.



















Pic of the owner documenting "Certified tightness".




Painting the lugs made a big difference.







Long day..............happy client who is passionate about his "New Porsche".

 

Bob, what can you say. Remarkable job. Car looks stunning.

 

wow very nice! I believe you will have one happy customer.

 

Wow that was great turn around. The car look fabulous.

If you don't mind me asking, what did you use on the wheel wells?

 

Awesome job Bob. The car looks absolutely amazing! Probably in better condition then when it rolled out of the porsche factory.

 

Great save and turnaround on a very nice Porsche.

 

wow. what a task this car was. amazing work!

 

Wow car looks fantastic!, by the way just saw this video and you were in it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDCocMU9T5M&feature=related

 

Amazing turn around!

 

O M G !! no he didn't do it again and again... absolutely stunniness!!!! is that a word?

 

Bob, simply an amazing job. I love white porsches. You certainly did that one some justice. What did you use to bring the trim back to life? Glad your are posting here. Awesome work!

 

:thumbhenomenal work Bob you left no corner un turned. I cant believe you were able to clean all that road grime and build up out of the wheel wells, that was just amazing!

 

awesome job. I cant believe those wheel wells were actually white.

 

Most detailers wouldn't have noticed those wheel wells were covered in something.

Of course, Bob is a supa-detailer and this definitely proves it.

 

Outstanding work Bob, those wells were terrible, great save