It's BIG, It's black, and it's a Cadillac! My friend and I gave the works to this low mile 2005 Cadillac Deville in tuxedo black. Car is used primarily as a special occasion car and was in need of sprucing up. When we received the car it didn't look bad over all, it had some rough spots where bird droppings and pine pitch was rub aggressively off the car leaving some heavy damage, when we got it under the lights it was a different story :yikes: The interior was not in terrible shape it just needed a good vacuum and wipe down but the seats were in dire need of cleaning and dressing to return the light grey finish. Paint correction was slow with what seemed to be an acre of paint! It tend to micro marr with our aggressive compound and required a bit more technique to reduce the marring to make the final pass easier. Final pass removed all marring and finished leveled the paint. After 30hrs of work the car is 99% corrected and looks dripping wet and we couldn't be happier with the results. Hopefully the owner will agree when he takes delivery tomorrow afternoon! Lots of pics sorry for the poor outside shots, it's Fall in New England and it goes dark at 5pm it seems! I hope you enjoy!!! Materials: Porter Cable 7424XP Flex Random Orb. CG Citrus Wash and Gloss CG Maxi Suds II Westley’s Bleach White Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner Mother’s Clay Bar Kit ONR Clay Bar Dilution IPA wipe down Dilution Menzerna PO203 Menzerna 106FA Menzerna Powerlock Prima Banana Gloss Stoner’s Invisible Glass Mequier’s Natural Finish Dressing Lexol Leather Cleaner Lexol Leather Conditioner NXT2 Liquid Wax Prima Slick CG Xtreme Shine CG Bare Bones No. 7 Chrome Polish Uber 5.5” Orange Uber 5.5” Green Uber 5.5” Black Uber 3” Orange Uber 3” Green Swissvax Wheel Brush Uber Boar’s head brush Uber Wheel Brush Swissvax interior brushes Uber UFO Red Applicator Pads Uber UFO Blue Applicator Pad Misc MF Towels Shop vac Pro Heat carpet cleaner Q-tips 3M Painters Tape Process Exterior: CG Citrus Wash w/ Micro Fiber Mitt, CG Maxi Sud II Foaming, rewash with Micro Fiber Mitt, dried, taped, claybar, PO203 w/ Orange (2 passes), 106FA w/Green (1 pass), IPA wipe down, Powerlock w/ Black (45min set-up), Prima Banana Gloss, Prima Slick during delivery Wheels: Sonax Full Effect, Westly’s Bleach White, Wheel Brushes, dried, ONR wipe down, clay bar, No. 7 Chrome Polish, NXT w/ hand applicator, tires dressed with CG Xtreme Shine Interior: Vacuum, Door jams cleaned with ONR and sealed with NXT, hard plastic Mequier’s natural finish wipe down, Leather Lexol Cleaner and Preserve using Red Applicator pads, Glass cleaned with Invisible Glass. Engine Compartment: Misc brushes, CG citrus wash by hand, rinse, dried, dressed with CG Bare Bones As delivered: First signs of damage from improper containment removal. White paint on the tail light Big nasty glob of pine pitch Wheels getting a bath :gross: Dried and under the lights for inspection... :yikes: Claying away... It actually wasn't all that bad! 50/50 working out the process to be used...:shead:... This is going to be NICE :headbang: More on the Pine Pitch... Removed...now need to correct the damage! Blacker then night and all gone... Door handles? We got those covered... Damage from containment removal? We got that covered too... Decklid correction... Looking good! Rear bumper is a bit chewed up.. ... all better... Nearing the home stretch... Rubba Rubba Rubba.... :buffer: And making quite a pile... I got clean-up to do... Interior work... :gross: Extracted from the carpets.. Arm rest 50/50... Interior done and door jams cleaned (sorry I don't have more pics, to dark in the garage for good ones ) Engine bay complete! And the final product! Outside in the ultra low light....
VERY nice job. One of the nicest ones I've seen recently! That's how a caddy should look. Congrats! :thumb:
Thanks all! We really enjoyed this one and likely well end up being one of the last details before it gets too cold to work, so we finished the year with style! Yeah the LGM does a great job for the money spent, but does tend to leave things a bit on the wet side if you aren't careful. I have found spritzing the heavily soiled areas with Adam's Carpet Cleaner then hitting it with the LGM gives the fastest and best results and reduces the need for a ton of water. Overall the paint was average for a Chevy, not terribly hard like on the 'vettes, but not soft like a Honda black. It did tend to marr with the aggressive compound (PO203) if you didn't work it long enough, but once you stepped down to the FA106 it cleaned up real nice.
Damn, that's amazing work. Love these final model Devilles, awesome cars despite the front wheel drive ;-) Really impressive corrections and great work on the interior too!
Your customer will get noticed on those special occasions when the Deville is taking out. I had the same marring issues with GM black before, just have to take an extra finishing step with soft MF towel like you did.
