This is a friend's car. in fact, the owner of this car is the guy who got me into waxing cars... but i took it to a much higher level after that! Anyways, the car is usually zaino'ed or waxed every so often, and usually washed by the owner using a sheepskin mitt and, for the most part, proper washing media. However the car hasn't been polished since it was purchased back in 2006. the car was scheduled for just a 2 step SIP/85RD polishing job, but once i got started, that combination wouldn't have been enough to take out all of the imperfections. after talking it over with the owner, he told me no matter the price, he wanted the car to look as good as i could make it. total time on this detail was around 30 hours over three days. Exterior -Wash -1Z Anti-Insekt -Valugard ABC paint Decontamination -CG CWC -Meg's mitt -Wheels -CG CWC -CG Citrus Sticky Gel -EZ detail brush -Swissvax wheel brush -OXO tire scrubber -black shMITT -ARO (tires) -Wheel Wells -Simple Green -EZ detail Brush Clay -CG gray clay -ONR lube Polishing -Exterior paint -Meg's unigrit 2000 paper -Meg's unigrit 3000 paper -Meg's sanding block pad -M95 via Black Wool pad @ 1000-1800RPM -Menzerna SIP via Orange CCS pad @ 1000-2000RPM -Menzerna PO85RD via blue 3M UK Ultrafina pad @ 1500-2000RPM -Makita 9227C -3M Yellow Foam Backing Plate -1000w halogen lights -ISA 50/50 wipedown -DD Uber MF towels -Exhaust -#0000 steel wool -1Z chrome polish LSP -Paint -Swissvax Cleaner Fluid -Swissvax Mystery -FK1 # 425 -CG 530XL MF towels -Wheels -Swissvax Autobahn -FK1 # 425 -Optimum opti-bond tire gel -CG Barebones (wheel wells) Glass -Stoner's Invisible Glass -Aquapel Rubber trim -1Z Gummi Pflege Interior -CG Leather Cleaner -ARO (rubber mats) -Aerospace 303 (floormats) -1Z Cockpit Premium Before: The paint didn't even look black... it had a hint of gray in it from all the oxidation and imperfections. it had some pretty severe rain etching and RIDS. the front bumper used to have a lip attached to the bottom, but it fell off from running over a parking stop. hence the scratches and leftover betalink on the bottom portions. i was really surprised to see how dirty the clay was after only doing 1/2 of the roof, considering how the owner actually takes care of the car! and from the other 1/2 up close shot of the scratches now this scratch seen here is from a peice of a tire smacking the front of the car while driving on the highway. most of it was too deep to completely remove, but i tried as best i could without removing an excess of paint. so i first tried M95 with a black wool pad to see if that would have enough bite. as you can see, it looked better, but not good enough for me. so i decided to wet sand the scratch a little bit to round out the edges of the scratches to make it less noticeable. I decided to use 2000 grit followed by 3000 grit sanding paper for this. this part came out with just M95 on the wool after compounding out the scratches i went with a 50/50 on the hood. After two passes with M95 on the black wool yeilded these results: the un-polished part looks like a completely different color! and the rest of the hood after compounding another scratch which needed wet sanding i only decided to use the M95 and wool on the horizontal surfaces, since they were the more damaged parts. before/after two passes of SIP another before/after After polishing with 85RD and swissvax Cleaner Fluid For the exhaust i decided to use #0000 steel wool and 1Z chrome polish Finished pictures! Swissvax mystery- "Achieves a shine that goes beyond normal perceptions of shiny." -Detailersdomain.com It's a mirror!!!! most of the scratch was able to be removed. at least now it's not so noticeable. Mirror!! Don't mind the dust, i wiped it off afterward. thanks for looking, and have a happy thanksgiving! Dom
Wow Dom that paint was trashed, but you really brought it back to life. Amazing work and the car looks completely different in the afters.
Wow, that looks amazing! I've really seen your work grow the past couples of months! Incredible :worship2::worship2:
Nice work. He needs to get the black badge for the front and his taillights look nice. What yours thoughts on the valugard ABC and gummi pflege?
thanks! thanks! i like the valugard ABC. as you can see, the car still had a lot of contamination afterward, but when i did clay the car all the contamination came out in 1-2 passes of the clay. and gummi pflege works great! makes the rubber nice and soft again. the owner washed his car with dawn a few times before using Zaino, so that dried out the rubber. Gummi pflege brought it back to life!
Holy crap Dominic! Fantastic job! If that whole living in the sun and getting to wear shorts all year round doesn't work out for you, you just let me know and I'll set you up out here! Thats just the kind of guy I am!!LOL
