A few weekends ago we saw a visit to Wiltshire to meet up with a sexy young Italian model, in the shape of a Ferrari F355 Berlinetta. The machine was to have a 'wheels off' detail including leather clean & paint correcton. Upon Arrival at 7:55AM I was greated with this.... Hardly what one would call 'in a state' really. So I get busy, starting with jacking the car up to facilitate removal of the wheels...... So off came the wheels & time to get started on the arches. First off was the front right arch, as it started out....... so time for a rinse with the P/W & a good spray with G101 & agitation with a Vikan soft brush & a Halfords wheel brush, taking care not to remove the dealer applied underseal. Brake calipers cleaned with Bilbaerry 4:1 Various tar sport were treated with Tardis, then the arches were dried off with a couple of my older M.F's & treated to a dose of Bare Bones. The rear arch was treated in the same way.... Before After This was repated for the LHS. Then it was time to move onto the wheels, which started like this. Close up. First I started with some Bilberry at 4:1 and the Vikan Soft brush again. I was left with various heavy tar deposits that needed a good dose of tardis to start them shifting. After 4 hits of tardis I was left with this. Nice easy clean with Bilberry 4:1 on the front face. Finished wheel. So ready for some Rim Wax to protect. Agian, this was repated for all wheels, the rears took 2hrs to get looking respectable. Then my attentions were turned to the engine bay, which was basically clean. Used G101 on the most part, a litte Meg's Wheel Brighter on the alloy castings and once cleaned off & dryed dresed with Bare Bones, Swisswax Pneu & Aerospace 303. Final job for the day was the leather, started by masking a door panel to see what I was dealing with. Then a spray of Chemical Guys Leather cleaner, worked in by hand mainly, with some light agitation from a brush as required. And time for the 50/50 At which point the owners returned from shopping & were made up with the improvement in the leather colour & condition. The finished door panel... Then the seats were treated in the same way... Dash panels were also cleaned in the same manner, but light was fading so no befores. And then finished off all of the leather with some Gliptone. There was some mild cracking to the leather, so I passed on LTT's details. And the dash... Then just time to torque wp the wheel nuts & then it was time to pack up as the light had gone........ Returned 8AM on Sunday morning and first thing was a good session with the snow foan, which didn't really want to stay put as the car was so clean anyway. After two minutes most of the Snow Foam had run off. So time for a jet wash off & a wash. Cleaning the door air intakes in the doors. Getting around the sidel ights with the Envy Brush. And getting all around the grille, again with the Envy brush. And found some dirt behind the side air intakes. Witch was cleaned out with some G101 & an Envy detailing brush again. A couple of tar spots needed sorting. The car was carefully dried with the massive Plush Drying towels and a spritz of Last Touch & all of the door & boot/bonnet shuts were carefully dried too. Then it was time for the clay bar, Dodo Juice Gentle Grey, which I needed to soak in warm water to soften as it was pretty cold. Gentle Grey after half the roof panel. The whole car was clayed ready for polishing. The correction was going to be carried out using the Cyclo where possible, and in the more intircate areas the new Kestral DAS-6 with 4" pads. Started with the front R/H wing - Before. After a hit of Meg's #80 on Orange LCC pads & Men'z FF on LCC white pads. Then on to the bonnet, same approach, only needed go to #83, followed by #80, then FF to get a decent level of correction. Bonnet before. Bonnet after. Then it was the same for the rest of the car, Meg's #80 was enough on most panels, with a couple of areas that needed #83, finished off with Men'z FF in all cases. R/H Rear wing before. R/H Rear wing after. Nice reflection on the door after correction. Rear light lenses lightly swirled. After polishing. Time to get the car in the garage as it started hoofing down with hail & rain. L/H Front wing before correction..... And after a couple of hits of Meg's #80 on an Orange LCC pad, followed by Men'z FF on a white LCC pad....... Then it was a good dose of Lime Prime Lite all over. Time for the LSP, this time Dodo Juice Supernatural, and whilst it was curing the plastics were treated with Aerospace 303 & the glass cleaned with Meg's glass cleaner. LSP curing. No chance of any decent finished pics I'm afraid as it was 6pm by the time I finshed, dark & still raining. Roof reflection Thanks for looking:thumb:
Well done, vehicle looks great :thumb: I enjoyed the write up as well, great job on the rims and wheel wells by the way. That 50/50 of the leather was nice, well done.
Nice finish there. That has to be the smallest garage I've ever seen. More like a car closet! LOL How do you like the RIMWAX?
