Audi A8 ; Cobalt 3434 Fast Boat ; Carver 44' Sojourn Yacht

[Mirror Detailing]

The last week Mirror Detailing and Fast Eddy's Detailing (Southrnstyle) have teamed up to do a full correction on the Audi A8 L Edition and the Cobalt and Carver boat.

Audi A8 - was done by another mobile detailing business in the area that from what the customer was saying had gotten kinda lazy with the detailing. So he wanted to give us a shot at becoming his new detailers. Guy had a serious lust for bike's, atv's and nice cars. Collection consisted of a Ford GT, ZR1, GT500 and a 360 Modena along with about 47 misc bike's and atv's.

Audi A8 Process

Wash:
Foam Gun - Chemical Guys Citrous Wash
Adam's Citrus Wheel Cleaner - Dilutted
P21 Polishing Soap on exhuast
Pinnical Ultra Clay - ONR Lube

Correction:
M105 / Dewalt 849 / Meguiars 2.0 Soft Buff Purple Pad - Two Passes
Menz. SIP / GG DA / LC Orange Pad
M205 / GG DA / LC White Pad
Super Finish / GG DA / LC Gold Pad

LSP:
Blackfire Wet Diamond - first layer
Pete's 53 - second layer
Dodo Blue Velvet - third layer - put on the following day

So before washing...

Checking the paint...

Notice the large circle in the paint...last detailer was using a wool pad and had something caught in it...so these circiles were in a few of the panels and very deep.

Sun was down by the time we were done...

Afters:

Interior:

Now the better reflection shots...

 

[Mirror Detailing]

After we were done with the Audi the customer wanted us to come back and get to working on his 34' Cobalt 3434 Fast Boat. He was planning on putting it up for sale and wanted it looked good. When we went to start on it the following day, when we got to were the boat was parked a guy walked up to us who worked at the marina. Seem's he was the guy who last detailed this boat. When it was purchased the paint was VERY milky. So he was paid to clean it up. He told us that he wet sanded the thing and I quote "I just detailed this thing. Took 2000 grit to it as much as possible. Sanded it down as far as I could possibly go." The paint was terrible heavily faded and some seriously bad wet sanding marks. Which was even worse the gel coat was so sanded down that the blue paint was similiar to single stage, that as we were just cleaning up the paint with a light polish with the DA's blue was coming through the remaining gel coat.

Customer knew that the paint was bad and if he was planning on keeping it would have it repainted. But since he was not he just wanted it to look as good as possible.

Process -
ONR Wash
Meguiars Marine Line High Gloss Polish via DA's w/ LC White Pad's
Sealed with Blackfire Wet Diamond
Waxed w/ Natty's Blue *yes car products...customer wanted this to look shiny! lol *

 

[Mirror Detailing]

Yesterday and today after we finished the customers Cobalt...he wanted us to get to his favorite toy... a 44' Carver Sojourn Yacht. Again this either had holograms from the factory or another detailer had been to this before us and the customer wanted as much of the holograms removed and the paint to really shine.

The boat had some staining on it that I can only figure came from a highly concentrated wash that sat on for to long so even though the customer only wanted a 1-step...we 2-stepped most of the boat to really get a better look from the paint. Now since this was on the water, everything used had to be Bio-Degradeable...

Wash:
Deep Crystal Boat Wash via Foam Gun
Washed afterwards via buckets and boar's hair large brushes

Process:
Meguiars 1-Step Compound via Rotary w/ LC Orange Pad
Meguiars High Gloss Polish via GG DA w/ LC Orange Pad Speed 6
Meguiars High Gloss Polish via GG DA w/ LC Orange Pad Speed 4 *actually finished nicely*

LSP:
Collinite Premium Boat Wax
Meguiars Pure Carnuba Wax

Misc.
Vinyl Windows done with Stoners Rain-x Window Cleaner
Seats cleaned and treated with 303
Carpets shampooed and treated with 303
Railings cleaned with Adam's Metal Polish and sealed with Jet Seal

Over all the holograms came out and we corrected about 20-30% of the scratches in the gel coat at the same time and made the boat really shine as the customer requested.

Some water beading and reflection shots...

 

[cobalt9123]

Awesome work...you need to do my brother's Z06. I think it would probably take a rotary for the hard clear on C5s.

 

[02blackout]

Dude thats some legit-ass work. Nice job!

 

[A4 1.8tqm]

Wow, that's a lot of work. I'm impressed! rops:

I hope the the bottom of the final bill had the same phrase as the back of the yacht.

 

[Mirror Detailing]

Awesome work...you need to do my brother's Z06. I think it would probably take a rotary for the hard clear on C5s.

Thanks. Plus your brother doesnt like others working on his vehicles. :xyxthumbs:

Dude thats some legit-ass work. Nice job!

:xyxthumbs:

Wow, that's a lot of work. I'm impressed! rops:

I hope the the bottom of the final bill had the same phrase as the back of the yacht.

:dblthumb2:

 

[cobalt9123]

Thanks. Plus your brother doesnt like others working on his vehicles.

haha that's very true but I don't believe my GG ROP will be able to handle it. If I tell him that I trust your work he may go for it, lol.

 

[sullysdetailing]

Great Job