Adonis Detail- Black Porsche Panamera 4S Paint Correction

Porsche is known for having some pretty finicky paint. Seeing the condition of this black Panamera i can fully understand why! In total I put 26 hours into this car 4 hours for the Decon and interior then 22 full hours polishing the paint as close to perfection as i could in the time frame.

That said 90-95% correction was achieved.

With the recent rain showers here in SoCal and this car being a Daily the exterior was in pretty rough shape with plenty of road dirt covering the exterior and caked on brake dust covering the rims.





The paint has seen better days. Plenty of swirl marks, DEEP rids and dealer/scratch repair man installed holograms.











Front fenders both had pretty bad buffer trails.





Started the Decon process by first cleaning the large 6 piston brakes up front. These things are dusty and required two separate application of Sonax.





Moved onto cleaning the body of the vehicle. This received a citrus based wash via a foam gun followed by a thorough two bucket wash.







The defects are much more apparent now that the dirt has been removed from the paint, here's an example of what i had to deal with on this car.

Holograms:




Swirl Marks:










Both:



Pulled the car inside to start the polish prep(Clay bar, IPA wipedown, Taping)







Defects under the halogens/LED:













After i documented the defects and took 624 pictures i decided it was finally time to start polishing.



After two steps:



Front fender gave good 50/50 shots





So did the door....



Removing holograms from the front bumper. Luckily the fenders corrected out pretty easily.





That's a protein muffin BTW. 14g protein per muffin!



Done for the night at 11PM i started on the interior



5 point harness baby seat, dude isn't messing around.

Day 2: 6am started polishing out rear half of vehicle



Taillights WERE Jack3d!





Pulled the car outside for sun shots midway through step number 2 to check out the progress... And to hear the startup exhaust not once more



Getting there.













One more step of polishing then everything was tidied up and LSP was applied.













Final Shots:











Sun Shots






























26 Hours later, A polished gem...







Thanks for looking!

Regards,

Tim Coats

Adonis Detail

 

Awesome work Tim!

 

Nice work Tim! How many doses of Jack3d did it take to get through that monster?

-Kody-

 

Nice work Tim! I can't believe that thing was so hammered in it's short life. Poor car, but great save!

 

Getting it done........................"Certified tightness" Tim. BTW I need to order some of those "Organic protein bars" you told me about.........call a brotha.

 

Nice save. That was messed up. What was the LSP on that?

 

Great work Tim! That car was indeed jacked up!!! You also did a very thorough documentation! It really shows the level of detail you put in to this car.

I noticed you were using Meg's MF system for the compounding step. What finishing polish did you use as your 2nd step? And like what 911Fanatic asked, what LSP did you use?

Happy Holidays!

 

Tim - I have same car in need of similar correction (not quite as bad) and would appreciate your feedback on the products you used so I'm not reinventing the wheel to achieve similar results - Thanks

 

Great work!

 

great job Tim!

 

Great work knockin' out a late nighter Tim.

 

Tim this came out insane, paint is now perfect, geat job!

 

Great Job Tim!!!

 

Awesome job, really made that black shine.

 

Tim, exceptional work. I hope you're proud of it, because you should be!

The Panameras have been getting love lately.

 

You killed that correction buddy, looks amazing!

 

Excellent work Tim!

 

Thanks for the kind words and support guys! I am proud of the final product that was produced in the time frame i had on such a large vehicle.

Needless to say this was an awesome test for me and my skill level and i'm looking forward to tackling more challenging projects in the future.

 

great job im so in love with this car

 

Amazing job! That paint looked trashed on arrival. Sounds like you had an interesting muffin too lol.