What we have here is a 2010 Toyota Venza, dressed in Pearlescent White, with roughly 30k on the clock. But you wouldn't know it :giggle: The owner took extremely good care of the car and it showed inside and out, not to say we can't do anything for it but just made our job a bit easier. There are the usual wash swirl marks but very light, but the biggest issues were the iron spots along the doors and rockers, and the clear bra engulfing the front. After 24 man hours, struggling a bit to see defects in the paint because of the pearl in the paint, the car ended up a 9.8 out of 10. We are super pleased with the outcome and a new fans of pearlescent white (fantastic color in person aside from the difficulties in seeing defects.) Anyways... Materials: Porter Cable 7424XP CG Citrus Wash and Gloss CG Maxi Suds II Westley’s Bleach White Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner Mother’s Clay Bar Kit ONR Clay Bar Dilution IPA wipe down Dilution Menzerna PO203 Menzerna 106FA Menzerna Powerlock Autoglym HD Stoner’s Invisible Glass Mequier’s Natural Finish Dressing Zaino Bros. Leather Cleaner NXT2 Liquid Wax Prima Slick CG Xtreme Shine CG Bare Bones No. 7 Chrome Polish Uber 5.5” Orange Uber 5.5” Green Uber 5.5” Black Swissvax Wheel Brush Uber Boar’s head brush Uber Wheel Brush Uber UFO Blue Applicator Pad Misc MF Towels Q-tips 3M Painters Tape Process Exterior: CG Citrus Wash w/ Micro Fiber Mitt, dried, taped, claybar, PO203 w/ Orange (2 passes), 106FA w/Green (1 pass), IPA wipe down, Powerlock w/ Black (45min set-up), Autoglym HD by hand, Prima Slick during delivery Wheels: Sonax Full Effect, Westly’s Bleach White, Wheel Brushes, dried, ONR wipe down, clay bar, 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, Leather Zaino Bros. Preserve using Red Applicator pads. Engine Compartment: Misc brushes, CG citrus wash by hand, rinse, dried, dressed with CG Bare Bones Enough of that on to the pics!!! Delivery. Car was very clean, defects were hard to see but there... Engine bay before and cleaning Tires are DIRTY! Clear bra hard edge contaiminated with old wax and dirt, totally detracts from the car Iron spots, by the time I was 1/2 way done claying them out I was wishing I had some IronX in the arsenal! Pics are super saturated to show the spots, but you can see the pearl in the paint SWEET! Wishing for the IronX right about now... All better... Dealer tag... We don't leave these on and this on in particular detracted from the look of the car... All better... Clayed and taped, ready to go into the garage for correction Under the lights. Defects were next to impossible to see let alone get pics off. Key we found was the spill the light along the car and keep you head low to the paint to see anything Couple of in process Nearing the home stretch! Power lock setting and odds and ends around the car Ready to go out into the light, but not before a few shots. Car shifts colors depending on the light, so cool Remember this? Much better now! Remember this hard line from the clear bra? Almost invisible, more then we could ask for Final shots out in the light. Color shift is real nice and the car has some great lines. Enjoy! Such a cool color! Thanks for viewing!
