richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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I was really looking forward to doing this car! It is a rare car around these parts, especially one in this condition. The car has just under 100,000 miles, but you'd never know to look at it. I was hired to do inside and out and compound, polish and OG.
Here is the car as it arrived to me:
As you can see, it had 2 fair sized chips in the front and fairly heavy swirling for a white car.
Yes, she's a special model:
There were a few stains that I was tasked with removing as well. Got 'em out, but forgot to shoot interior pics at the end as the customer had arrived just as I was finishing shooting the outside. It was a crappy, rainy day too unfortunately.
First up as always was the wheels and tires. They got cleaned with Tarminator, Zep Citrus on the wheels. Zep Purple on the tires and ZC in the wells. The clear seemed stained unfortunately. I tried to fix that later.
After a foam wash, the car was washed with a strong mix of DG 901 and Dawn and then one more time with IronX gel and spray. Here it is reacting on the hood:
Not a ton of decontamination for it to remove, but definitely some. Next the car was brought in and clayed with CarPro foam clay block. The car was originally booked for a one step polish, but after stripping the paint, it became apparent that would not cut it (literally!). Here are a few shots where I tried to capture the swirls with the camera:
The first thing to get compounded was the headlights. They got done with a 3" wool pad and Menz Power Gloss followed by a yellow 3" B/S pad with M105 and then a white B/S with M205. Here it is taped up and ready to go:
The tail lights were also done the same way. Drastic improvement.
Here is the car as it arrived to me:
As you can see, it had 2 fair sized chips in the front and fairly heavy swirling for a white car.
Yes, she's a special model:
There were a few stains that I was tasked with removing as well. Got 'em out, but forgot to shoot interior pics at the end as the customer had arrived just as I was finishing shooting the outside. It was a crappy, rainy day too unfortunately.
First up as always was the wheels and tires. They got cleaned with Tarminator, Zep Citrus on the wheels. Zep Purple on the tires and ZC in the wells. The clear seemed stained unfortunately. I tried to fix that later.
After a foam wash, the car was washed with a strong mix of DG 901 and Dawn and then one more time with IronX gel and spray. Here it is reacting on the hood:
Not a ton of decontamination for it to remove, but definitely some. Next the car was brought in and clayed with CarPro foam clay block. The car was originally booked for a one step polish, but after stripping the paint, it became apparent that would not cut it (literally!). Here are a few shots where I tried to capture the swirls with the camera:
The first thing to get compounded was the headlights. They got done with a 3" wool pad and Menz Power Gloss followed by a yellow 3" B/S pad with M105 and then a white B/S with M205. Here it is taped up and ready to go:
The tail lights were also done the same way. Drastic improvement.
