Berlina Black s2000, first write up, pic heavy.

mchant

mchant

New member
Joined
Feb 9, 2011
Messages
57
Reaction score
0
I was given this car for two days. It was in pretty bad shape, with RID's almost on every panel. I don't have a PTG so no wet-sanding the RID's. What was done was a simple two-step. Might be the most dramatic results I've yielded yet.

Wheels/Tires:
Sonax Full Effect
Zep Heavy Duty Degreaser 4:1
Poorboy's Bold N' Bright

Clay:
Meg's Mild w/ ONR lube

Paint Correction:
7424XP
m105 / 4"/5.5" Orange LC Flat
WG Finishing Glaze / 4"/5.5" White LC Flat

LSP:
Blackfire Wet Daimond / 5.5" Black LC Flat

On with the pictures:

Befores:


















Client wet-sanded but didn't have anything to fully buff it out.



Oxidized headlights.





Some 50/50 shots. I believe the one in the dark is the hood. I tried my best, but I'm still new to taking shots.

Buffed over the tape line while trying to create a 50/50 :doh:





Afters:


















Thanks for looking! I hope you enjoyed.
 
Very nice work on the S2K. As thin as the clear is on these cars I wouldn't wet sand one even with a PTG. The RIDS are there to stay. Thanks for posting.
 
Wow and I thought mine was bad. Great Job! 105 works wonders. It looks really good. I agree with TDave, some things you just have to live with, I have a lot of rids I'm stuck with but when you can make an improvement as drastic as you have here it makes it easier to live with.Again Great Job!
 
Really nice turnaround! Good job and don't worry about the RIDS....you can't get them all out! :xyxthumbs:
 
Nice work, great example of taking a car's paint to it's maximum potential...


tuscarora dave said:
The RIDS are there to stay.
Click to expand...

jkk7479 said:
Good job and don't worry about the RIDS....you can't get them all out!
Click to expand...

I agree.

It's usually not a good idea to try to remove all the deeper scratches on a daily driver. By removing the hundreds of thousands of shallow scratches you'll create the effect you're after and that's a swirl-free finish. It's usually better to improve the deeper scratches, (making them less noticeable), than try to completely remove the deeper scratches and instead just learn to live with them.

:dblthumb2:
 
Thanks for the love guys. :xyxthumbs:
Makes me feel better for leaving those RID's haha
 
Nice end result considering what you started with. That car was beat down!
 
You added about $2000 of value back into the car. I am wagering that it was a good ROI for the owner.
 
mchant said:
Some 50/50 shots. I believe the one in the dark is the hood. I tried my best, but I'm still new to taking shots.

Buffed over the tape line while trying to create a 50/50 :doh:
Click to expand...

best 50/50s ive seen in a while.. good job :D
 
Great save and turn around on that ap1.
You should tell the owner he should of gotten an AP2 lol

Sent from my SCH-I605 using AG Online
 
Wow... great job. I should post pictures of the NFR S2k that I'm working on. I'm just waiting on some more products to arrive and will be doing it this weekend. I'm trying to touch-up literally about 50 rock chips on the entire front.... :(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top