Some of you may recognize some of the upcoming pics from the previous 'Teaser' thread I posted around a week or so back. We had a bit of an elderly goose in for some much needed TLC The car in question is a Mercedes 560 SEC, year model unknown but these were produced between 1988 and 1992 or thereabouts so it's around 15 to 20 years old I guess. All in all the previous owner/s have kept the car in pretty good condition but having been over the whole car it has definately had some work done to it at some stage. Speaking of work I might add that the owner has had around R150k's worth of engine work done and the old girl puts out around 280kw or so :yikes: Products used include... General: Meguiars NXT Wash Poor-Boys Clay (thanks for the sample Don) Meguiars Quick Detailer Meguiars APC Menzerna SIP Presta Compound Wheels and Tires: Sonax Xtreme Rim Cleaner Meguiars Endurance Tire Gel Mother's Fenderwell Brush Mobile-Image Detail Brushes Moto Quip Spoke Brush Smartwax Rimwax Various Microfibers Interior: Meguiars APC 10:1 Vanish Carpet and Stain Remover Jeff's Werkstat Satin Prot Meguiars Leather Cream Various Microfibers and terry towels Glass: Sonax Glass Cleaner Microfiber Glass towels Tools: B&D PW1400 Pressure Washer Gardena 5lt Pump Sprayer Fragram Rotary Makita 9227 Rotary Lake Country Purple Foamed Wool Pad Lake Country CCS Orange Pad DD Waffle Weave Drying towels Meg's Waffle Weave towels (shuts and wheels) Meguiars Slide Lock Detail Brush Various microfibers Anyways on to the actual detailing, not much in the way of pics on this one as it was done in stages as there was considerable work required and the owner told us to take as long as we need :applause2: Before This old girls paint was as hard as nails and required a combo of Presta Compound on Purple Foamed Wool and Orange LC pads followed with up to 2 hits of Menz Sip on Orange LC pads again :thud: Polishing Before After Wool & Presta After LC Orange and Presta 50/50 after SIP on LC Orange Some other 50/50's from around the car... And finally some finished pics after polishing prior to LSP Wheels Next up was the wheels, again some of you may recognize these pics from my Smartwax Rimwax thread but here they are again anyways...Anyone who hasn't used the Rimwax, you don't know what you missing :wink: Interior With the polishing out of the way we turned our attention to the interior. Again no before pics but a quick 50/50 of the carpets while cleaning... And some finished shots of the interior LSP The LSP of choice for this one was 2 coats of 4 Star, the more we are using the 4 Star the more we are loving the finish it produces and the lovely wetness it adds to the paint. I'll let the pictures do the talking... With everything done and the customer fetching the car we snapped some final pics before we bid the old girl a fond farewell... Thanks for looking :thumb:
Looks like the old girl made you work for it. What a great detail. It came out just beautiful. SmartWax RimWax. O-kay...:thumb:
Oooh great vehicle, such a great colour too. I bet this vehicle had an extremely hard clear coat :nod: A job well done, I like this picture: :applause:
Thanks guys, was a tag team with my partner Rustbucket as always.....it's so much easier when there is 2 of you
Great work Carn as usual. Man the skills you and Rustbucket have are just awesome. You guys are doing some incredible work. Oh and the 4 Star is looking good. I told ya you would like it!
