Hi all! So some of you may remember Ferrari 599 that I did recently the http://www.detailingbliss.com/forum/pro-studio/19662-ferrari-599-gtb-desert-storm-disaster.htm ... this is his wife's car... She takes her daughters to equestrian school several times a week and of course they usually pick up some friends along the way. Truck full of equestrians with dirty boots and butts combined with the muddy roads leading to the ranch... that makes for a pretty nasty looking ride. To make things even worse, this car has been washed almost exclusively in automatic car washes... It's 2 years old and has more 90k on it already! Here's the goods >> So here's one of the wheels... They've not had a proper cleaning... ever. Automatic car washes won't do the trick, as we all know. 2 years worth of burned in, caked on brake dust... yummy. Those of you familiar with BMW's know that the brakes dust extremely bad so if not cleaned regularly they look like this >> Some "remnants" of the muddy, ranch roads... I didn't waste time taking 100 pictures of the scratches on this car because well, the entire car looked like this. One good thing about automatic car washes is that they do keep us in business! The car was foamed, rinsed and washed with Wolf's White Satin shampoo, then clayed with WC-1L Pink Slip clay lube and Wolf's elastic detailing clay... I didn't take any pics of the calying process, but you can imagine what it looked like after 2 years and no proper washings... Exotic bug collection Some pictures of the paint that was on the car on the passenger side. Claying wouldn't remove this so what I do in this situation is "pick off" the head of the paint (works with hardened sap also) with a thin piece of metal like this (a paper clip will also work) and once the "head" is off, the rest of it comes off fairly easy. You've got to have a steady hand for this because you can scratch the paint very quickly. All you have to do is go back and forth very slowly, while keeping the tool at the same level. It will usually "snap" off in one piece. One spot of paint removed So I started with the wheels, as usual, but I knew that these were going to take a looooooong time to get clean so all throughout the 2-day detail I periodically sprayed the wheels with Wolf's WF-1P wheel cleaner, let it dry, rinsed and then applied again. I think each wheel took about 10+ applications to get all the brake dust dissolved but you'll see later that it was well worth it. Nice and thick so it stays on the wheel, not the ground. The engine was cleaned with Wolf's WT-2N APC at a 1:4 mixture and various brushes were used to loosen up the gunk. After about 45 minutes of scrubbing and wiping, the engine was dressed with Wolf's WO-1N tire and trim dressing. All hoses, wires, etc. were hand-dressed Remember the manky wheels? After 2 rounds of WF-1N and 0 agitation During the day the owner requested that I wash the Fiorano, as it had a serious collection of bugs on it already. His 10 year old daughter was eager to help, so I let her loose with the foam cannon. The car was foamed with Wolf's Active Snow Foam... no it's not pH neutral. It actually has cleaning agents in it that break down road grime so you actually clean something in the pre-wash stage (and no it won't remove the LSP unless there's abrasion involved) rather than spraying suds on it and rinsing it. Foaming a car with pH neutral snow foam is about like washing your hands by putting soap on it and rinsing it off without rubbing your hands together... just doesn't work like that. COMING SOON... AMG nice and scratchy flavored . When left to dry completely, Wolf's WF-1P will form a hard shell on the wheel. Once it does that, it can be blasted off with a PW and the gel shell acts almost like a piece of tape, "ripping" off the loosened contaminants. Here's what it looks like when it dries >> Blasted with a PW. You can still see some of the gel on the rim here... On to the interior... :yikes: Someone left a bag of these decorative, ceramic rocks in the back... and it was open... and turned upside down... made me happy . Scratches removed, gloss restored Enjoy the afters! Manky wheels: Handled. After all the brake dust was dissolved, I cleaned them one last time with Wolf's WF-1NT nano wheel cleaner. After that I gave them another coat of protection with WR-1NT nano rim sealant... that should keep them a lot cleaner . Hood before. The polishing was done with Wolf's WP-4N and a wool pad, which left me with an almost LSP-ready finish on this BMW HPS (Hard Paint Suckness as Bob would say ), so jeweling was a breeze with WP-1N and a finishing pad. And after. The LSP for today was a carnauba wax we've been working on for a while now... So far, it's surpassed even the "best" waxes I've got in my arsenal... and I've got quite a lot of them . I couldn't completely remove a lot of the stains in this car and the driver's side floor was one of them. You can see here (where the right foot constantly rests) it's still a bit stained, but the harsh reality of detailing is that you can't win them all. The driver's seat after round 3 of scrubbing. The center of it is still wet so that's why it looks darker than the rest of the seat. Here's the scuffed up plastic by the carpet before After lots of scrubbing with WT-1N and a stiff brush they came out quite well. Seat rails also cleaned front and back with a detail brush and WT-1N. The net isn't dirty anymore, it's just wet so it still appears to be soiled. All trim and plastics were cleaned during the prep stage with Wolf's WT-2N APC and a small horse hair brush. After that all outside trim was sealed with WM-1NT nano dressing. So the wheels took a very long time to get back to normal, but I did it without acid and with ZERO agitation (aside from the nano wheel cleaner application... you have to agitate it in this stage)... Before After The view of Budapest from the owner's back garden... It was almost a full moon this night so I started playing with my new camera while I waited for the owner to arrive . They came out nice I think! Thanks for reading and to all the Playboy subscribers, thanks for "reading'! - Jesse O'Connor
INSANE!!! That was for sure a McNasty with a side of WTF!!! Awesome job Jesse. Can't wait till I can order your stuff
nice looks amazing man did u just powerwash spray scrub and vacuum? or did u use a little bissel or something
Thanks Pat! I sure like them Thanks mate! I lightly saturated the carpets, scrubbed with a brush and wiped clean with a MF... been doing it like that for years, because I just don't see the point of getting the carpets completely wet... makes them stinky if they aren't dried properly. Anyway, if the carpets get wet there's not a vacuum on the planet that will completely suck them dry and the dirt will still be there in the end...
