It's been a while since I have contributed to the Show & Shine outpost but work amongst other things has been keeping me tied up. Thankfully now that I am on leave I can catch up on a few things Righty then, this particular car came to me after the owner was unsatisfied with the condition it was delivered in. It was booked in for a 2 day paint correction detail which was completed in a little over 19 hours or so. First up, some pics of the vehicle as it arrived... Bug guts all over the front end Front grille would be interesting to clean up :gasp: Exhaust all carbon'd up Small stone stuck between the bumper and rear lights :yikes: Some muck in all the cracks and crevices Wheels were filthy as well With the intial inspection over it was time to get the car washed up and cleaned. First as usual was the wheels which were seen to with Sonax Xtreme rim cleaner and various brushes... Sonax doing it's thing Ez-Detail brush in action. I find I usually turn to the Ez before going for the Daytona. I think the more densely packed bristles are better suited for more soiled wheels IMO Caliper and lug nuts cleaned with my detail brushes With the wheels and arches sorted I set about rinsing the car thoroughly before cleaning all the panel gaps, emblems, etc with 5:1 APC. Trim & panel gaps Front grille was scrubbed 3 times with APC to try and shift some of the calcium deposits With all the small details cleaned the vehicle was re-rinsed and washed using the 2BM before being clayed and dried. Clay came up pretty clean which was surprising With the vehicle clean and dry I could now properly inspect the paintwork to see what we were dealing with... Lots of light swirling and marring Having seen the paint defects out in the sunlight I moved the car inside to take a closer look under the halogens before getting started on the paint correction stage... Overall the paintwork was in quite a sorry state considering the vehicle was only a few months old. Just goes to show the level of damage that can be caused through poor washing techniques :thud: I taped up a small test section on the bonnet to try and find a suitable combo for this one. Needless to say this car had some nasty sticky paint and I wound up shredding a nearly new 3M compounding pad along with a 3M polishing pad. At the end of the day I settled on a combo of FA + FCP for the more deeply swirled bits, with FA & SIP being used on the remainder of the vehicle. Before 50/50 And after Center of the bonnet corrected with the 50/50 section in the top half of the photo Paintwork nicely cleaned up and swirl free Flake coming back to life Some random shots from around the car Mirror before And after A-Pillar before And after Rear fender before After Rear C-Pillar before After With the paintwork corrected I got stuck into the plastic B-pillars...Let's just say they were trashed! Due the condition these were in I opted to hit them with FCP before refining with SIP and finally FA Afters With all the correction completed I rewashed the car to remove all the polishing dust before tackling all the smaller details. Exhausts were cleaned up and shined Missus gave me a hand with the front grille (small fingers FTW). Overall it came up pretty well IMO :thumb: LSP for the day (iirc) was Poor-Boys EX sealant topped with a layer of Pete's 53 for some added protection. Trim got 303 Aerospace, tires got Meg's Endurance Gel and windows were cleaned with AG Fast Glass. Some afters Some reflection shots Final one As always thanks for looking :thumb:
Lovely work Carn, liking the Jag. I really like the attention to detail, and the flake pop is amazing.. Keep them coming:thumb: Kind regards, Ebbe
excellent work, you see the real difference in clarity when you have the 50/50 outside.. shows you what polishing does to darken and clarify the finish, truly awesome work!!
Carn..it's great to see you posting some work again! You worked on my favourite Jag of recent times. Luckily for you those wheels looked like an easy design to clean..that's always a bonus but then you paid for that with that bloody grille! You know what you might try is a baby bottle brush..it might be a small enough diameter to get in there...I don't know, just a suggestion. (I was wondering what I would use if I got one of those.) For metallic paint, your results are extraordinary...thanks again for posting your work.
Like you said, it's terrible how poor washing technique will damage the paint. You did a great job getting that luster back, I'm sure the owner will be amazed ! :thumb:
Thanks for all the compliments, much appreciated coming from you guys :thumb: @ Richy, yup the wheels were a breeze due to the design...The grille well, let's just say it took some time to clean up even with 2 of us chipping away at it! Good idea on the bottle brush, I need to go see what I can find in the local baby store...Missus is gonna be excited when I tell her we going to the baby store
