Well I will start this last weeks work off with the car that finished the week out. A 01 camaro SS. I was contacted in April by a soldier in Iraq. God knows what time it was for him to call me at 2pm in Seattle. After a long conversation he booked his car. The car has had some extensive body work done. Along with a horrible detail. Since then it had basically been in one type of storage or another for 3 years. Right now it puts 425 at the rear wheels, with a 250 shot of NOS on top of that. (if your ears can stand it.) The before shots. More before shots. The damage done to this poor car is amazing. Here we start to see the car during a decontamination wash, and claying. I had talked to Mike at 1z a while back about a particular problem i had had with a brand new g37. This car was exhibiting similar characteristics. So, after cleaning the wheels and wheel wells with Custom wheel Cleaner. I proceeded to blow, flush rinse out all 3 years of bonded contaminants that could be removed. After the rinsing, I sprayed the car down with 1z plastic. I did not have W99 to try, so I used plastic. The problem i had had with the new g37 i mentioned above was a certain type of contamination that needs a high alkaline to remove it. This is why i went with plastic. In the past I have tried using P21s TAW for this purpose but it simply does not have the alkalinity needed. With 1z plastic. (given a choice i would have used w-99) Dwell time for the plastic was about 10 min. At that point I started my normal wash procedures with the foam canon and 1z glanz wash. (a little adams thrown in) Upper windows and roof were washed first. Hood and rear deck lid along with rear bumper next. Here are the first shots of the car after claying and taping. The true extent of the previous detailers work can be seen. Along with some bad body work. continued Mike at Einzett had forwarded me a sample of a update to their HGP (high gloss polish) This sample had been reworked to work with wool, and foam at high speeds as compared to HGP's original 1000rpm limit. I started with the new HGP on the hood and was immediately surprised. It was 70-75+ with the humidity making sip completely worthless. I simply could not get sip to work. HGP on the other had worked extremely well on warm paint, (black at that) and finished down as good or slightly better than sip. Wiping it off in the warm weather with the high humidity was very easy. My plan of attack was HGP via ccs purple foamed wool at 1200-1500 (depending on the area) I ended up polishing the majority of the panels twice with the purple wool/hgp combo. I think i would have been able to achieve the correction in one pass had i been inside my garage. I also could have stepped up to my schlegel #1 pad if i wanted. My concerns there was the previous detailers crappy work. How much was left. With that in mind I stuck with the purple/hgp x2 combo. The following two shots are after HGPx2 Why did I not go to Intensive paste from 1z? Well I had tried it on the hood, and was not happy with what it removed. That could be because of the temp/humidty combo. With the pressure i was putting and the speed Hochglanz seemed to cut more cleanly and finish down better. The only way i can describe it is to post the email forwarded to me from the chemist.
To give you an idea of what One pass was doing i have this photo. Unpolished area on the left polished on the right of my reflection. un polished on the left of the deck lid line, polished on the right. Continued, Full sun had started to hit the car. Out came the canopy. At this point I had been around the car twice with HochGlanz. I was impressed. Dusting was at a minimum even under the baking sun. The issue now was finishing it down. At first i tried 106ff, but with the heat and humidity it was just like taking 1 step forward and 3 back. I opted to go to 3m ultrafina on a white ccs pad. 1000-1500-900 polishing combo. While that dealt with 95% off the micro marring, I moved forward with 1z metalic on the flex with white ccs pad. speed 6, worked it in quite a bit. (when i say I, i really mean Mike Swale. At this point he had tired of working on the 993 C4S in my garage). Ack missed a picture, this is where Hochglanz left the panels after 2 passes on the purple pad. Okay back to after 3m ultrafina, 1z metalic,1z glanz via pc red pad. Continued, more after shots. Take special note of the body work to the left of the light. Continued. full shots. Here is what the owner had to say about it. I have another project this week where I plan to give Hochglanz a thorough trial by fire.
Wow..looks great. I'm lucky I have a portble air conditioner in my garage so Menz's parculiarities aren't an issue for me. The right side above the wheel looks like the bodyman took a file (a rough one at that) to it and painted over top of it. What a hack.
I was lucky enough to detail a GL450 in an air conditioned 3-bay garage on Sunday, it makes the world of difference. Absolutely MINIMAL dusting from SIP. M105, on the other hand, absolutely useless.
