Porsche 911 Carrrera 4S 996 vs Ciamach - 0:1

I detailed my first Porsche today. I could use a nice car wash with heating, lots of space and karcher and a service room with plenty of space. I focused on the paint, altogether it took me 9 hours without any breaks. I was anxious as I heard that Porsche paints are quite hard.

Time to get to work. I entered the car wash and saw a really fat and really dirty butt:





Dressed as Dutch soccer team fan I stared to wash the car, having lots of fun, Meg’s NXT shampoo, 2 buckets, Meg’s sponge in play, rims cleaned with Wurth’s red gel and SV Wheel Brush:



I clayed the car with Swissvax blue and NXT shampoo/water as a lube, quite a lot of dirt was picked, then taped the car up:




Welcome to Swirl City. Also some oxidation and hazing, lots of scratches, some of them to the meat, I assume that some heavy chemistry and automatic wash was going on:










I grabbed my new Makita 9227CB and started the correction, I used 3M orange, yellow and blue pad with Extra Fine and Ultrafina SE:


Here are some 50/50s, not all of them show the truth, but here they go anyway:









Car was rinsed, re-washed and dried, I pulled it into service room to finish it up. I polished the tailpipes, cleaned the rims and dressed tyres with SV Pneu, I also cleaned the headlamps and tail lights with Meg’s PlastX .Paint was given an IPA wipedown and thin layer of SV Onyx was applied by hand:




The wax was left to cure for more than an hour, after that it was removed with thick Meg’s towels and finally polished with SV Micropolish:



Lowing the exhaust note I pulled the car into the middle of the room to show you the effect:









Some close-ups. Check out the fenders, no swirls, just pure gloss:





The rest looks fine as well:









I made her carry all my equipment, made her wait outside in the cold all day while I was playing around with fat black german one. I got some remorse, so I pulled my DC2 inside and told her that she’s the only one that matters, even if she’s a bit dirty. I guess she appreciated that, cause she took me home:




Thank you for watching.

 

Very nice work and work place. That car look like in ran in the Drakar Rally!

 

Polish roads can emulate that conditions very often, unfortunately. Thank you for your comment - I'm a huge fan of your work.

 

very nice work. the shot of you in the wash bay was funny.

 

nice glossy pics there!
YEah, that was a funny shot!

 

Nice work, gotta love the curve son a P-car when properly detailed!

 

was the 996 clear as soft as the 997 clear?

 

Car looks fantastic. A fellow hand applicator, nice to know I am not alone. I just wanted to tell you how jealous I am of your fantastic lighting in that shop.

 

now THATS what a Porsche should look like! Congrats on the nice job.

 

Awesome job! Looks like you were having a little too much fun with that pressure washer.

 

Awesome DC2! I wish I could get my hands on those UKDM tail lights.

 

nice. i like the last integra comment lol.

u need better camera. looks grany, iso might be too high. im sure it looks better in person then on pics

 

I'm thinking about new one, the problem is I don't know which one to buy

 

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