Mercedes S500. Detailing and ceramic coating.

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Mercedes S500, 2007.
10 years of very tough (in terms of care) operation, the car was in the public service and was washed 1-2 times a day negligently. We were given the task to put the car into an ideal state.

Engine detailing. Cleaners Koch-Chemie.
We forgot to make photo “before” (but believe me, there was a hell), we remembered about making photo when under the hood was already splashed with Golden Star.
In addition to protecting the engine and all kinds of plastic linings below, we also partially removed the wheel arch liners.

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The engine took about 5.5 hours to clean. Result:

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Further was dry cleaning of disks, arches, a body, and apertures – it’s a standard.
Then we proceeded to the interior. The condition is average.
The front seats and the rear seat were removed.
We worked with proven materials that we use regularly. The leather was cleaned with Colourlock cleaners. Cleaning of plastic with Koch Chemie MERZWECKREINIGER. Textile was processed with Koch Chemie Multi Star. On the equipment: Cyclone, Tornador, extender, brushes, fiber.

General condition before:

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After cleaning:

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In more detail:
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The car body.
It was in the saddest condition. All details were native, not repainted, except for bumpers, which were changed to restyling. Ceramic clearcoat.


The car body was polished in 3 stages:
- Koch wool + Sonax Cutmax at the Makita / Festool rotor;
- purple foam New Concept pad + Nanopolish New Concept at the Rupes Bigfoot 15/21/75;
- Rupes yellow circle pad + Koch HOCHGLANZ-ANTIHOLOGRAMM-POLITUR at the Rupes Bigfoot 15/21/75.

A little «before-after»:
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Condition under the handles:
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For convenience and as much as possible qualitative cleaning, the nozzles of the exhaust were removed.
Cleaning with the use of Autosol Metal Polish, locally we used Steel Wool to remove ingrained dirt.

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The final stage was the application of Everglass Premium + Platinum + Sample Coat VE nanoceramics (1 + 3 + 1) to fix the result.

The original anti-rain Aquapel is applied to all the windows and the panoramic roof.

All leather interior elements were covered with Everglass Leather nanoceramics.

Final photos:
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The whole work took 6 days in 4 hands.
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Thanks for watching.
 
Resurrected. Definitely looks like 6 days worth of work. Are door handles that easy to remove to polish the recessed area? I've never even considered it before.
 
Resurrected. Definitely looks like 6 days worth of work. Are door handles that easy to remove to polish the recessed area? I've never even considered it before.

I'd like to know how easily door handles are removed, too.
 
Nice job overall. Looks awesome...very detailed work (no pun intended). :)

I wish the owner went with some different tires, on that car. The GY Eagle LS2's are some of the worst tires I've driven on. For some, they may be OK, but, generally, they are just not very capable...and this is after riding on mine, for about 3500 miles. Once I have the extra funds, they'll be replaced with something more capable.
 
Nice save.

Looks like the previous owner used the car as a Hockey Puck


Too bad Mercedes-Benz does not provide even a smidgen of information to their customers who purchase cars with Ceramiclear paint systems on what they are and how to take care of them and why it's important to take care of them.



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Nice save.

Looks like the previous owner used the car as a Hockey Puck


Too bad Mercedes-Benz does not provide even a smidgen of information to their customers who purchase cars with Ceramiclear paint systems on what they are and how to take care of them and why it's important to take care of them.



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Thanks Mike
 
That isn’t detailing. That is a MB restoration!

World class work. The exhaust tips are my favorite as were removing the door handles. Thanks for posting and documenting the process.
 
Are door handles that easy to remove to polish the recessed area? I've never even considered it before.

It was easy to remove the handles. But here to put them back, we had to work a little.
 
Nice save.

Looks like the previous owner used the car as a Hockey Puck


Too bad Mercedes-Benz does not provide even a smidgen of information to their customers who purchase cars with Ceramiclear paint systems on what they are and how to take care of them and why it's important to take care of them.

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Sad And I agree, alot of owners can easily cause huge amounts of damage not knowing.

This is a great save too, what was used for in between the logo? I am thinking about getting a separate machine for 3 inch spot correction
 
Wow what a great turnaround, that thing was hammered. A true work of art.
Any tips/suggestions working with ceramiclear?
 
Wow...great job there.

Impress at level of work you did. I'm not so sure I would want to do something that hard! Chuckle...

Tom
 
Wow, respect. That fits the true definition of "detailed."

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