richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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This job was a referral from the Z01 Corvette I did a few weeks back. This was going to be a full correction, wheels-off job. Unfortunately I only had one cigar left!
Here's the car as it arrived:
The entire top surface of every panel was scratched and swirled due to auto car washes. I attempted to capture some in the late day sun:
Here's what the wheels looked like:
There was a fairly large scuff in the plastic back bumper that they hoped I could remove:
First up was the removal of the wheels. I did one at a time. I jacked up the front first, removed one wheel and cleaned the wheel well and caliper. The caliper was cleaned with Wolf's Decon gel and/or Tarminator. The wells were cleaned with Zep Citrus and a long handled brush. After that, I went over the plastic wells again with ONR. I then used my master blaster and dried everything off very well. The caliper was then sealed with OG.
Here's work in progress on the first wheel:
The wheel barrel got attended to next. The right front was terrible! It had contamination marks (spots) on the barrels that Tarminator, Wolf's, IX, Megs WB all would not remove. They seemed to have eaten into the paint on the barrels.
Next the face was cleaned with Tarminator, and then Zep Citrus. The tire was cleaned with Zep Purple.
The wheel and tire was dried front and back. I put it on my folding table and then tried buffing out those marks in the barrel with M105 and a yellow 3" Buff and Shine pad and my GG 3" DA. Waste of time. Zero improvement. I wasn't getting my way and I was not happy, LOL.
The barrel and face then got sealed with OG. The wells were shot with my air gun and DP tire gel.
All four wheels got cleaned in a similar fashion although the other barrels were not nearly as bad as that one.
Caliper done:
Well dressed:
Wheel face done with OG:
Doing the wheels took me 4.5 hours on this car.
It was pitch black and late so the rest of the car wash would be done the next day.
Here it is getting foamed the next day followed by a strong wash to remove any wax. There were several spots of tree sap that were stuck to the surface. Tarminator took care of those. One was old and had scored the paint on the roof. Shame.
Here we are after claying with Elastofoam. I tried to capture the many scratches on all the top surfaces:
The compounding stage was typical for hard GM clear. I had just received some Surbuff pads and wanted to try them out on the hood using M105 and my Megs DA. That gave me pretty and shiny scratches. Out came the rotary (Dyna) and my black wool Tuf Buff pad. That did it! I followed that up with a green B/S pad with D300 and my DA. That was followed by M205 and a white pad on my DA.
Here is a shot of the hood in progress:
Here's the car as it arrived:
The entire top surface of every panel was scratched and swirled due to auto car washes. I attempted to capture some in the late day sun:
Here's what the wheels looked like:
There was a fairly large scuff in the plastic back bumper that they hoped I could remove:
First up was the removal of the wheels. I did one at a time. I jacked up the front first, removed one wheel and cleaned the wheel well and caliper. The caliper was cleaned with Wolf's Decon gel and/or Tarminator. The wells were cleaned with Zep Citrus and a long handled brush. After that, I went over the plastic wells again with ONR. I then used my master blaster and dried everything off very well. The caliper was then sealed with OG.
Here's work in progress on the first wheel:
The wheel barrel got attended to next. The right front was terrible! It had contamination marks (spots) on the barrels that Tarminator, Wolf's, IX, Megs WB all would not remove. They seemed to have eaten into the paint on the barrels.
Next the face was cleaned with Tarminator, and then Zep Citrus. The tire was cleaned with Zep Purple.
The wheel and tire was dried front and back. I put it on my folding table and then tried buffing out those marks in the barrel with M105 and a yellow 3" Buff and Shine pad and my GG 3" DA. Waste of time. Zero improvement. I wasn't getting my way and I was not happy, LOL.
The barrel and face then got sealed with OG. The wells were shot with my air gun and DP tire gel.
All four wheels got cleaned in a similar fashion although the other barrels were not nearly as bad as that one.
Caliper done:
Well dressed:
Wheel face done with OG:
Doing the wheels took me 4.5 hours on this car.
It was pitch black and late so the rest of the car wash would be done the next day.
Here it is getting foamed the next day followed by a strong wash to remove any wax. There were several spots of tree sap that were stuck to the surface. Tarminator took care of those. One was old and had scored the paint on the roof. Shame.
Here we are after claying with Elastofoam. I tried to capture the many scratches on all the top surfaces:
The compounding stage was typical for hard GM clear. I had just received some Surbuff pads and wanted to try them out on the hood using M105 and my Megs DA. That gave me pretty and shiny scratches. Out came the rotary (Dyna) and my black wool Tuf Buff pad. That did it! I followed that up with a green B/S pad with D300 and my DA. That was followed by M205 and a white pad on my DA.
Here is a shot of the hood in progress:
) and since you just did one, I was wondering if you could comment on what I plan to do.
. I assume your using a detail gun to apply the dressing. You have any problem with overspray or having it drift onto stuff in the garage? Same reason for not using dressings on body shops sort of question. Also what model are you using and at what pressure?