This car is a repeat customer from last year (fornicating mosquitos - Auto Geek Car Care, Car Wax and Auto Detailing Forum). The car has seen another year of automatic car washes:shakehead: There were also a few dents in both the front fender as well as the deck lid. My PDR guy to the rescue on those. (What an asset to have a PDR guy on call..really increases the service level you can offer). The driver's and driver's rear door had been painted which was visible by the orange peel. There is a pic of the door open and reflecting on the fender..the o.p. is visible in that shot. Those painted panels measured 8 mls with the ptg while the rest of the car only had 2 mls to work with. I was careful not to be too aggressive as to not thin it out too much. The rear 1/4 panel had multiple scratches that I improved upon by about 90-95% but didn't push it too far (I deliberately included a close up of that). Nonetheless, I was as happy with the result as last year. The hood shot was my signature shot for last year. 14 hour effort altogether. The Process: Wheels;Tires;Barrels;Wells Wheels & barrels cleaned with carbrite mag aluminum cleaner Wells cleaned with APC Tires cleaned with APC Tires subsequently dressed with DP gel Wheels cleaned with XMT 360 Wheels sealed with DG 105 Wells dressed with Adams Wash 2 bucket method Dry with leaf blower Paint: Compounded with rotary using UCCL (PG where necessary) with foamed wool pad at 3000 rpm Polished with rotary using Micro polish and gray LCC pad at 1000/1500/1000 Cleaned with rotary using DG 501 with blue LCC pad at 1000 rpm Glazed with rotary using DWG using blue LCC pad at 1000 rpm DG 601/105 applied by hand AW after curing period Exterior Trim: Lower trim dressed with DP tire gel Upper trim dressed with black wow Interior: Rubber mats cleaned with APC and dressed with Tire foam Carpet vacuumed Leather cleaned/treated with DG 221/441 Plastic surfaces treated with 303 Aerospace Door jams cleaned with ONR and finished with AW BEFORES: DENT REMOVAL CHALLENGES: AFTERS: PDR RESULTS: REFLECTION SHOTS: NOT OUT 100% ON THIS ONE: INTERIOR SHOTS:
All those scuffs in just a year? That paint was in bad shape. Very nice turnaround Richy! How did the handles rub out? I didn't see an after and was just wondering.
Thanks Carlos; I always value your opinion. Yukon..thanks a lot! Integrity..thank you and yes there were taken out by hand with either UCCL or PG. I forgot to take an after closeup of them..:sorry: MLifestyle..thank you!
