Detailed: Saab 9-3 Vector

pirex

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Did this car today for a customer, the car is black metalic. It gets a bit green in the sun. The paint was bad, swirls and scratses. Optimum got most out! Payment was 250$

Wash:


Degreaser on the whole car
To buckets metode, with meguiars gold class shampoo

Wheels washed with Meguiars hot wheels (Love this product)

Clayed with pinnacle ultra poly clay
Armor all tier foam on the wheels

Paint:

Optimum Compound (Great product)
Pinnacle finishing polish

Waxed with the pinnacle sig series ll. Havent got my souveran yet.

On the trim I used 303

Interior:

Pinnacle Vinyl Cleaner

Pinnacle Vinyl protectant

Meguiars APC

Pinnacle letter cleaner and conditioner

Before Wash:

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Paint Damage:

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Afters:
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HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!! :D

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Feed back please
 
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Good job pirex. It looked pretty bad in the before pictures.
 
Nice!! How did you feel about the CC's on that? Hard/soft? I just did a 9-3 last week and was pretty hard.
 
Nice work! Your combo cleaned up those scratches/swirls.
I like your signature scenery shot at the end! Cool!!
 
Whitethunder46 said:
Nice!! How did you feel about the CC's on that? Hard/soft? I just did a 9-3 last week and was pretty hard.
Thanks bro! To you to Gary :) Its mutch more soft than my audi and vw. But not as soft as a toyota/ford. But the optimum got out the swirls! I used a orange css pad! ;)

Alban: Thanks :D Its always nice to end the thread with a lake picture. :)
 
Nice! Love that reflex shot of your house, really nice!
 
those are some massive befor and afters on the outside... that car cleaned up dang nice. be very proud of that job.
 
Sweet job pirex, your best posting to date. Looks like new again

How did you feel the paint was to work on? heard some detailer say the SAAB paint can be tricky with a rotary, do u use PC?

God pinse
 
Dust2Glory said:
those are some massive befor and afters on the outside... that car cleaned up dang nice. be very proud of that job.

Thanks bro! It means something coming from you! I love your details!! :applause: I am a bit proud of that detail, one of my best. Its a good feeling :awesome:
 
Truls said:
Sweet job pirex, your best posting to date. Looks like new again

How did you feel the paint was to work on? heard some detailer say the SAAB paint can be tricky with a rotary, do u use PC?

God pinse

Thanks Truls ;) Can`t agree more with you on that :) I used a PC on this one. One of the best car I have worked on. Got the swirls out pretty easy :cheers: First time using optimum compund, worked great!

God pinse to you too :D
 
Very nice turnaround! I could not believe people let their cars get that dirty!
Really like this shot:

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Nice work pirex ;)

I'm attacking a 97' SAAB 900 cab soon. I use the word attack because this car has not bin detailed in 2 years and the amount times it has bin washed over these two years can be counted on one hand!

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Thanks bro :) This saab is a 2003 model, and havent been detailed before now. And always washed in a carwasher (paintkiller)
 
Very nice pirex, yea you can tell it has been neglected and taken to a few carwashes. You sure did a great job on that vehicle.

The best way to inspect a vehicle is under the sun and that vehicle my friend is flawless. It had massive swirls/scratches on the before pictures but you sure turned that paint around. Looks like new and the interior looks really good.

You do great work my friend and I love the pictures.

Thanks for sharing.
 
Nica said:
Very nice pirex, yea you can tell it has been neglected and taken to a few carwashes. You sure did a great job on that vehicle.

The best way to inspect a vehicle is under the sun and that vehicle my friend is flawless. It had massive swirls/scratches on the before pictures but you sure turned that paint around. Looks like new and the interior looks really good.

You do great work my friend and I love the pictures.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Nica! It was nice to get those swirls out of the paint. It was bad. Hope they don`t go right back to the carwashes :(

Thanks again :)
 
Such good work! You probably have the nicest view of anyone on this board, I think I'd be very tempted to just sit down and drink beer for a while!
 
P1et said:
Such good work! You probably have the nicest view of anyone on this board, I think I'd be very tempted to just sit down and drink beer for a while!
Thanks :D Can`t say the view is bad :p Its nothing like to sit down and drink a beer, and just look at the view! Im the MAN

Just got in now (The clock is 23.14 pm here now! Took some pictures:

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