Here is the 2nd full correction detail Dan and I had this past holiday weekend. Much like the first detail it needed quite a bit of love! The car is a 2006 Saturn Sky, 90k+ miles on the ticker and paint to show for it. This car came by way of my normal 9-5 job from a conversation about things people may not know about you. Worked out well and got to bring this little drop top back to being a head turner. As you will see the paint was in rough, rough shape. Dan and I spent 21 man hours working out as many defects as possible and restoring the finish. We ended up around 92-95% corrected and the heavier stuff blended and hidden in the finish. The car is certainly miles and miles from where it was and doesn't show the nearly 100k on the clock. The weather didn't help much and a corrupt camera card lost several of the beginning, process, and end shots but I was able to salvage enough to tell the story of the transformation. Thanks in advance for viewing! Materials: Porter Cable 7424XP Flex Random Orb. CG Citrus Wash and Gloss Westley’s Bleach White Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner Nano Skin ONR Clay Bar Dilution IPA wipe down Dilution Menzerna PF2500 Menzerna SF4000 Wolf's Hard Body Spray Away Glass Cleaner Mequier’s Natural Finish Dressing Mequier's NXT 2.0 CG Xtreme Shine CG Bare Bones CG G6 No. 7 Chrome Polish Raggtop Cleaner Raggtop Fabric Top Treatement Uber 5.5” & 6" Orange Uber 5.5” Green Uber 5.5” Black Uber 3” Orange Uber 3” Green Swissvax Wheel Brush Uber Boar’s head brush Uber Wheel Brush Wheel Woolies Swissvax interior brushes Uber UFO Red Applicator Pads Uber UFO Blue Applicator Pad Misc MF Towels Shop vac Pro Heat carpet cleaner Q-tips 3M Painters Tape Process Exterior: CG Citrus Wash w/ Micro Fiber Mitt, dried, taped, Nanoskin, PF2500 w/ Orange (2 passes), SF4000 w/Green (1 pass), IPA wipe down, Wolf's Hardbody by hand, top received Raggtop cleaning and 3 fabric treatments. Wheels: Sonax Full Effect, Westly’s Bleach White, Wheel Brushes, dried, wheels taped, PF2500 on Orange pad, NXT w/ hand applicator, tires dressed with CG Xtreme Shine Interior: Vacuum, Door jams cleaned with ONR and sealed with NXT, hard plastic Mequier’s natural finish wipe down, Glass cleaned with Spray Away Glass Cleaner Engine Compartment: Misc brushes, CG citrus wash by hand, rinse, dried, dressed with CG Bare Bones As delivered: Under the lights for closer inspection HUGE KEY MARK! Headlights needed some attention! All better... Fixing some trim defects.. Rims were in dire need of polishing! Tailights refreshed... Large Key mark on hood Blended in and hides very well in natural light Continuing down the fender... Little 50/50s... Dan working the rear fender Showing the interior some love... All ready and cleaned up... Hardbody applied and tested Nearing the home stretch Ready to step out in style, complete and looking super deep and wet!
Thanks everyone. Certainly was a lot of work to return the paint to a nice gloss with minimal defects!
