SRTSean
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My Dad just bought this 2012 Mustang GT 5.0 brand new a couple weeks ago and after taking a look at it I told him he had to let me fix what the dealer had done to it. Lots of DISO going on, with enough scratches in it to the point that it looked like the car had been washed with a push broom being drug across all the panels on the car. The crazy part is that this car was only on the dealer lot for one week. 
Lucky for this car it was adopted in to the right family.
This is by far and away the most time I've dedicated to detailing a vehicle as it took about 25 hours spread out over a week's time. My timing couldn't have been better as the day after he brought it over to me it began snowing quite a bit for the next 5 days so the car had no choice but to stay in my heated garage.
rops:
I washed/decontaminated the car's paint last Friday and then spent the next 4 days compounding and polishing the finish. During the first day of compounding my Meguiars G110v2 went belly up on me with the notorious power cord failure. This is the second G110v2 I have had fail on me because of this issue. Hopefully they've corrected the issue by now (ridiculous that my replacement unit was the same faulty design) as I'll be sending this one back under warranty. So I actually did 90% of this detail using my old school Porter Cable 7424. That machine has never let me down no matter how hard I hammer on it. I'll keep it in my stable until the day it dies.
Products used:
The view outside my garage while I was inside doing work. We ended up getting 10" of snow!
Here are several examples of what the paint looked like prior to any correction. The entire car was covered with these defects.
Not even the tail lights were safe from the dealers "washing" methods.
This is that same tail light after correction.
More shots after correction (prior to P085rd and LSP).
And here's the final shots 2 days after applying Opti-coat 2.0 to all paint, hard plastics, glass surfaces (less windshield) and the wheels.
Lucky for this car it was adopted in to the right family.This is by far and away the most time I've dedicated to detailing a vehicle as it took about 25 hours spread out over a week's time. My timing couldn't have been better as the day after he brought it over to me it began snowing quite a bit for the next 5 days so the car had no choice but to stay in my heated garage.
rops: I washed/decontaminated the car's paint last Friday and then spent the next 4 days compounding and polishing the finish. During the first day of compounding my Meguiars G110v2 went belly up on me with the notorious power cord failure. This is the second G110v2 I have had fail on me because of this issue. Hopefully they've corrected the issue by now (ridiculous that my replacement unit was the same faulty design) as I'll be sending this one back under warranty. So I actually did 90% of this detail using my old school Porter Cable 7424. That machine has never let me down no matter how hard I hammer on it. I'll keep it in my stable until the day it dies.
Products used:
- Porter Cable 7424 DA (not the XP)
- Meguiars Gold Class car wash
- Sonax Full Effect w/ sprays of Griot's HD wheel cleaner for foaming action
- Surbuf 4" & 5.5" pads
- Lake Country 4" yellow, white & black CCS pads
- Lake Country 5.5" yellow & white flat pads
- Chemical Guys 5.5" black hex pad
- Meguiars M105 & Ultimate Compound (UC used for added working time)
- Meguiars M205
- Menzerna P085rd
- Carpro Eraser
- Blue rolled edge microfibers
- Griot's orange polish removal microfibers
- Optimum Opti-coat 2.0
- Wolfgang Black Diamond tire gel
The view outside my garage while I was inside doing work. We ended up getting 10" of snow!
Here are several examples of what the paint looked like prior to any correction. The entire car was covered with these defects.
Not even the tail lights were safe from the dealers "washing" methods.
This is that same tail light after correction.
More shots after correction (prior to P085rd and LSP).
And here's the final shots 2 days after applying Opti-coat 2.0 to all paint, hard plastics, glass surfaces (less windshield) and the wheels.
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