This detail involved a first for me. The owner of the car has been trying to sell it for about 4months now with no luck. It has been sitting on the side of a road at a major intersection for that whole time and really has taken a beating from the elements. Heres where the twist comes in. the owner did not care what the car looked like in person, just wanted me to take good pictures of it. Now that may sound good, but I felt that I still couldn't take the easy way out, and even this car deserved to be taken care of. Fortunately the customer was willing to spend enough money to get it done right. This care didn't have a ton of swirls, and to me for the money it would cost to get it perfect, it wasn't worth it for this customer since they were only interested in the pictures. I am very happy with the end results of this car since the customer got what they wanted, and I was still able to do my job right without cutting corners. Exterior P21S TAW DP Extreme Foam via foam gun Megs Glass Cleaner Ubar clay bar Megs Detail spray for clay lube Adams Detail spray for final wipe down Menz PO85RD to polish Poorboys EX-P for LSP Interior Megs APC 20:1 to wipe down dash and door cards Zymol Leather cleaner and conditioner for seats and center console 303 Aerospace protectant for dash and door cards Carpet only needed to be vacuumed Wheels and Tires P21S Wheel Cleaner Gel along with EZ Brush and Swissvax brush Amazing Roll Off on tires P21S TAW for wheel wells, agitated with black Schmitt Wolfgang Tires gel Adams Under carriage spray for wheel wells These are before pictures to show just how bad the body really was. I tried mixing some TAW with my DP foam in the gun as a pre soak but it barely touched this stuff. I ended up pre-soaking the whole car in TAW then doing an additional wash with the DP Foam gun abd two bucket method. These pictures are after wash and clay and an additional wash to clean the QD residue away. Notice the drip marks on the rear bumper. I couldn't tell you what this is since I'm still new to this, but nothing I had would take them off without polishing them away. Wheel before. Wheel after. I almost wish I hadn't cleaned the wheels because at least you couldn't see all the road rash and nicks under all the dirt. LOL Headlight Before. The headlights were not going to be included at first to try and save the customer some money. When I was done with everything else I decided to try a rather mild approach to see if I could at least make a dent on them. I used Megs Plastic Polish followed by DP Plex All and think it did an ok job. Tell me what you think. Headlights after Interior After. I didn't take any before shots on the interior because it wasn't really bad at all. I still went ahead and wiped everything down with Megs APC and dressed it with 303 protectant. I also cleaned and treated the leather seats and vacuumed the carpet. I also tried something new for the wood trim. I had never even thought of polishing wood until I read a thread on Swissvax wood polish, so I gave it a try with Poorboys SSR1 since I didn't want to mess anything up, I think it turned out very nicely since it ended up removing some swirls that I have no idea how they got there. Exterior Afters. Sorry for the lack of full sun pics, but the sun had already fallen down behind the tree line by the time I finished.
Thanks guys! I hope it does help get the car sold, since the guy seemed like he really needed to get rid of it. He offered to sell it to me "cheap" at least 5 times while we talked. LOL Denzil, this isn't my first detail, I just meant it was the first time a customer told me they don't care what the car looks like in person.
That came out real nice. I like white alot. It's nice to be able to compromise w/the owner like that. It's a nice feeling...:thumb:
