richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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This very cool car belongs to the same gentleman for whom I did the XJ-R a few weeks ago:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/51482-pretty-kitty-mean-too.html
He wanted the paint corrected, but did not want me to spend the kind of time that I did on the Jag. Fine, but the paint on this thing was rock hard and it was fiberglass to boot. Not an easy beast to correct with a limited time frame! Anyway, on to the writeup...
First up was how it was when it landed. Here are the before pics:
Unfortunately a stone or something caused this permanent damage to the paint on the left front fender.
The engine in this thing was just awesome!!
It did not have a top on it so I had to be very careful washing it!
He also did not want me to do the pipes. He liked the look of them the way they were:
The mark on the paint from the top was difficult to completely correct, but was improved upon immensely.
First up as always was the wheels. They were untreated aluminum and not easy to do. I tried a few different cleaners including DG aluminum cleaner on them. I am not a fan of this type of wheel!
The tires were cleaned with Zep Purple.
The wells were cleaned with Zep Citrus.
The car was foamed and then washed. I took precautions washing it so to protect the interior:
After foaming and washing, the car was clayed with the Elastofoam block.
Correction:
The paint ended up getting a 3 stage correction with black TB wool and 105 with my Dyna rotary followed by D300 and a B/S yellow pad followed by B/S white pad with M205. It finished down well considering the time. I also did multiple paint touch ups which always adds time, but is so very worthwhile.
The back end had overspray of some type which also added to the time. I used Langka with cotton makeup pads to remove it. There were many of them and I didn't take the time to remove all of them, but got most. Here's what they looked like:
The chrome was nice and I used D300 and a mf to polish it. D300 is a very nice chrome cleaner. Aggressive enough, but not too much.
The trim protection on the front of the rear fenders was treated to Solution Finish and topped with UTTG.
The interior was vacuumed, cleaned with AG interior pad and OPC and then treated to UIGP.
I also spent a wee bit of time polishing the chrome under the hood but forgot to shoot pics of that at the end. Sorry. That chrome was done with DG 501 as was the chrome strips on the step plates.
All the paint, chrome bumperettes and windshield were sealed with OG.
The tires were treated to DP gel applied with an air compressor spray gun.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/51482-pretty-kitty-mean-too.html
He wanted the paint corrected, but did not want me to spend the kind of time that I did on the Jag. Fine, but the paint on this thing was rock hard and it was fiberglass to boot. Not an easy beast to correct with a limited time frame! Anyway, on to the writeup...
First up was how it was when it landed. Here are the before pics:
Unfortunately a stone or something caused this permanent damage to the paint on the left front fender.
The engine in this thing was just awesome!!
It did not have a top on it so I had to be very careful washing it!
He also did not want me to do the pipes. He liked the look of them the way they were:
The mark on the paint from the top was difficult to completely correct, but was improved upon immensely.
First up as always was the wheels. They were untreated aluminum and not easy to do. I tried a few different cleaners including DG aluminum cleaner on them. I am not a fan of this type of wheel!
The tires were cleaned with Zep Purple.
The wells were cleaned with Zep Citrus.
The car was foamed and then washed. I took precautions washing it so to protect the interior:
After foaming and washing, the car was clayed with the Elastofoam block.
Correction:
The paint ended up getting a 3 stage correction with black TB wool and 105 with my Dyna rotary followed by D300 and a B/S yellow pad followed by B/S white pad with M205. It finished down well considering the time. I also did multiple paint touch ups which always adds time, but is so very worthwhile.
The back end had overspray of some type which also added to the time. I used Langka with cotton makeup pads to remove it. There were many of them and I didn't take the time to remove all of them, but got most. Here's what they looked like:
The chrome was nice and I used D300 and a mf to polish it. D300 is a very nice chrome cleaner. Aggressive enough, but not too much.
The trim protection on the front of the rear fenders was treated to Solution Finish and topped with UTTG.
The interior was vacuumed, cleaned with AG interior pad and OPC and then treated to UIGP.
I also spent a wee bit of time polishing the chrome under the hood but forgot to shoot pics of that at the end. Sorry. That chrome was done with DG 501 as was the chrome strips on the step plates.
All the paint, chrome bumperettes and windshield were sealed with OG.
The tires were treated to DP gel applied with an air compressor spray gun.
