Petrucci Detailed: Black Land Rover LR3

Petrucci Detailed: Black Land Rover LR3

Wash:
Chemical Guys Citrus Wash & Gloss
Gilmour Foam Gun

Clayed:
Pinnacle’s Ultra Poly Clay
Chemical Guys Synthetic Quick Detailer

Paint Correction:
Flex 3403
3M Backing Plate
Menzerna Power Gloss
Menzerna Super Intensive Polish
Menzerna Nano Polish
Menzerna PO85RD
50/50 alcohol/water wipe down
CM5300
Purple Wool LC pad
Orange LC pad
White LC pad
Grey LC pad
Blue LC pad
Detailer Domain Uber Towels
Highline Paint Gauge Meter

Protection:
Jetseal109

LSP:
Pinnacle Souveran

Trim:
303 Aerospace
Chemical Guys Silk Shine Dressing

Interior:
Leatherique Pristine Clean
Leatherique Rejuvenating Oil
1Z Cockpit
303 Aerospace
Chemical Guy’s Lighting Fast Stain Extractor
Metro Vac n Blow
Lil Green Bissel


Wheels:
EZ Detail Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush
Chemical Guy’s Grime Reaper
Mother’s Wheel Polish


Wash:
Started out with the wheels first and then rinsed off the trunk. Then loaded up my foam cannon with CG CGW and let the foam dwell. Then I proceeded to clay bar the truck, surpassingly there was not much on the body just on the lower panels



Interior:
I started with the interior first, after the car was dry and masked up with 3M tape. The interior was very easy to work with. Method here was vacuum first and then extract the soiled carpet with the Bissell. I then dressed all the panels with 303 aerospace and warmed up the Leatherique Oil for a few seconds in the microwave. Using gloves, I massaged each seat with the oil and let it sit over the weekend.

Before:





Leatherique Application:



Interior After:







Paint Correction:

After the interior was complete I took my paint gauge and went around the entire vehicle measuring how much clear I had to work with. The average readings around were averaging from the lowest of 127 to 200 micrometers. The only thing that caught my attention was the rear panel on the passenger side. There were readings all over the place. I had an average of 205 in some spots and some were up to 900, 500 and 600, obviously that area was repaired. There was also a terrible wet sand job and buffing, I just don’t understand how people can leave a car/truck in that condition and think it looks okay for the owner.

The paint, as you can see, was in dire need of help. The truck was a lease return and my client just acquired the vehicle I could tell the paint was never correct. I knew that I would have to use Powergloss with a wool pad. But in some areas all I needed was SIP with a orange pad and 106ff and a white pad. During a few of my process I experienced the dreaded sticky panel syndrome, this just drove me nuts as my polish would just gum up within five to ten seconds of the lowest speed. This was tricky and required extra time for those panels. I also noticed that the paint was super soft, which can cause headaches for those with “OCD,” even the slightest touch marred the paint. After the panels were corrected, I jeweled the paint with PO85rd on a Blue CCS pad with variable speeds.


Driver’s Fender Before



Driver’s Fender After



Driver’s Door Before







Driver’s Door After




Driver’s Rear Door Before





Driver’s Rear Door After







Paint readings from the passenger rear panel











Passenger Rear Door Before







Passenger Rear Door After




Passenger Door Before









After compounding with wool + Powergloss, notice the haziness left behind.



Passenger Door After






Hood Before









50/50 Shot
















Hood After

 

Final Shots, out of all the days that the sun shines here in Arizona today was nothing but overcast, except for this sliver of a beautiful AZ sunset. Thank you all for reading through my write up! Apologize for any grammatical errors, it’s late and I’m beat

 

Amazing work!!!

 

sick job its better then new :headbang:

 

WOW, Great turn around. It looks awesome. You did a fantastic job on a beautiful Range Rover...Thanks for sharing...:thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

Very impressive work with the detail, photography, and write up! How long did it take to complete the detail? Was the clear coat hard or soft on this vehicle?

 

Wow, crazy paint readings! You did great work on this one, no easy task!

 

the 2 I have done i also found them to suffer from sticky paint and paint to marr very easily...well done

 

Beautiful work, I didn't like these at first but they are growing on me. Still don't like the back. In any regard, that black paint went from NO GO to ALL SHOW!

 

That was a ton of work, great job!

 

Thank you guys!

Thank you, I started Friday night and finished up around 6ish Sunday evening. The clear was super soft, not something I'm really used to. I always seem to work on BMW which are the complete opposite. But yeah, anything would marr the paint, it was a nightmare at times.

Thank you!

I was reading through some previous ones before I started, and I was surprised to a lot of people ran into these problems. I know that I never want to do a black one again lol. Thanks again!

Thank you for the kind words guys :worship2:

 

Beautiful correction

what's the deal with the crazy readings? part of the vehicle resprayed?

 

That was some incredible work, as expected! The paint correction was superb and I always enjoy some proper interior detailing as well. Be proud of this one as it was a big undertaking:worship2:

 

Thank you, as a matter fact yes. Thank God for these meters.

Thank you for the kind words. Btw are you located in NJ? I've got a lot of BMW guys looking for a detailer up there and I thought I saw a NJ license plate in one of our write ups.

 

man that is some of the nastiest paint i've ever seen

nice job turning that around!

 

Petrucci, i love you work! it's incredible, great work!:thumb:

Thanks for sharing...

 

Excellent save as that baby was pretty hammered. Great work.

 

Petrucci, agree with the others - excellent work (as always). Question, though - in a couple of the polishing "after" pics, under the bright lights the paint still looks a little bit "hologramy" if that's a word. Did you notice the same thing? Maybe it was just the camera? :shrug:

I'm specifically asking because I've noticed the same look on my car, which is gloss black... I'm hoping that some jewelling this spring might remove it.

 

Thank you guys.

As far as the pictures goes. I have my camera on a really slow shutter speed somewhere around 6 to 8 seconds in each shot and the light going into camera will make a hologram like blur.

I wish I could of got some sun light pictures but of course I ran out of light and that day was just not working with the sun.

 

Well done, vehicle turned out great, love those 50/50 pictures :applause: