MTLean
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- Jul 27, 2012
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Hi fellas, this is about my 10th detailing job and i can say it was a real test for me and my buddy who gave me some help on this one. I was fortunate enough for the owner to lend me a commercial garage that is for rent with some great lighting, spot could easily be great for a detailing location (with a couple of downside since the front part of the building is 3 offices with a cafeteria...). It felt great to have our detailing spot for the weekend as it gave me an idea of what i could beg working with in a near future.
This is the car we received it
all the little spots on the hood are these nasty tree sap that have been sitting there all summer long and that he tried to remove with varsol, hot water, degreasser, etc.. the paint was in bad condition where he tried to remove it.
The car was first washed with the usual 2 bucket system w/ grit guards using some lovely smelling DG 901 using my Lake Country Foam Wash Sponge wich i think is amazing, my buddy rather' s the Meguiars wash mitt, dried up with the Guzzler and I used the Meguiar's drying cloth. We used some Riccardo clay bars to get the paint smooth again along with some ONR Clay lube.
Tar-X was used to remove the sap with some good scrubbing with a medium cut hand pad because the stuff was so intense. It took us about 4 hours to get through all of the sap.
Other products used: IronX, P21s Polishing soap, Simple Green HD, WG Upholstery restorer, CG Extreme Shine, Collonite 476
50/50 shot
We ended up using M105 on LC CCS yellow pad followed by UP on a CCS orange. The hood and trunk required a couple of passes with PB SSR3 (yes the bag-o-rocks!) on HT cyan pad (which oddly the velcro is starting the tear off only after a couple of passes) since working with the PC7424XP requires more patience and working in the swirls.
test spot beading was pretty fun to witness
first couple of panels were a blessing to look at and reminded us how good the rest of the car would be looking like as we went along
This is the car we received it
all the little spots on the hood are these nasty tree sap that have been sitting there all summer long and that he tried to remove with varsol, hot water, degreasser, etc.. the paint was in bad condition where he tried to remove it.
The car was first washed with the usual 2 bucket system w/ grit guards using some lovely smelling DG 901 using my Lake Country Foam Wash Sponge wich i think is amazing, my buddy rather' s the Meguiars wash mitt, dried up with the Guzzler and I used the Meguiar's drying cloth. We used some Riccardo clay bars to get the paint smooth again along with some ONR Clay lube.
Tar-X was used to remove the sap with some good scrubbing with a medium cut hand pad because the stuff was so intense. It took us about 4 hours to get through all of the sap.
Other products used: IronX, P21s Polishing soap, Simple Green HD, WG Upholstery restorer, CG Extreme Shine, Collonite 476
50/50 shot
We ended up using M105 on LC CCS yellow pad followed by UP on a CCS orange. The hood and trunk required a couple of passes with PB SSR3 (yes the bag-o-rocks!) on HT cyan pad (which oddly the velcro is starting the tear off only after a couple of passes) since working with the PC7424XP requires more patience and working in the swirls.
test spot beading was pretty fun to witness
first couple of panels were a blessing to look at and reminded us how good the rest of the car would be looking like as we went along
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) so i disnt charge a crazy amount. I keep learning on every job i do and this one was no different.