2009 GT1 Corvette

Discussion in 'Show and Shine' started by Dust2Glory, May 27, 2012.

  1. Dust2Glory

    Dust2Glory Nuba Guru

    Car was taken to a "well known" corvette shop up in OKC to have some the car fully wet sanded to remove orange peel. I got the call to come and detail the car after it got back. Honestly, I was expecting to have to spend maybe 2 days on the car, do some minor polishing and full interior work. The car only has 1400 miles on it, but when I pulled the car out in the sun... looks like it had 140,000 miles on it.

    I can not even begin to express my disgust with this business and how they could let a car like this, walk out of their facility in the condition it was it. All in all, I spent 3 days and close to 35 hours bringing this car back to life! There were buffer trails, severe scratches and sanding scratches all over the entire car. Along with that, they burnt some of the edges when they attempted to buff it out, left gouges in the rear bumper lip above the license plate and a few other thing.

    I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.


    Before the first wash:

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    Look at the lovely buffer trails!:
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    Back in the garage after thorough wash/decontamination:

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    Next picture shows sanding scratches:
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    Removed:
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    Look at all the lovely defects they left behind:
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    Even more sanding scratches:
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    View of the passenger door:
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    Totally uncalled for:
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    The rear bumper I spend about 2 hours on alone compounding out all the scratches and whatever else was there, also the emblem had to be removed:

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    Finally the fruits of my labor:

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  2. Socal Brian

    Socal Brian DB Forum Supporter

    Nice rescue! Vette looks great now!
     
  3. Meticulous-Detail

    Meticulous-Detail DB Forum Supporter

  4. premshine09

    premshine09 Jedi Nuba

    Nice! Good work!
     
  5. hamza7

    hamza7 Welcome to Detailing

    Amazing results, we only had 17 hours on ours. Nice talking to you from 2500 km away
     
  6. bryansbestwax

    bryansbestwax DB Forum Supporter

    actually it was 19, but who's counting

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
     
  7. MartinD

    MartinD DB Certified Manufacturer

    Awesome job - I know it was worth it in the end. Looks great!
     
  8. Dust To Glory

    Dust To Glory Virgin Detailer

    Thanks, want to guess what it's wearing?!
     
  9. 02CAMSS

    02CAMSS Jedi Nuba

    Nice turn around !!!! That thing was a cluster f_ _ k!!! Whats it wearing ?
     
  10. Pureshine

    Pureshine DB Pro Supporter

    Very nice work!
     
  11. stingray23

    stingray23 Jedi Nuba

    great job
     
  12. 911Fanatic

    911Fanatic DB Pro Supporter

    Nice save Michael!! Absolutely brutal job by the shop in question.
     

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