MikeyC
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- Mar 7, 2006
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Well about a month ago some guys from my car owners club asked me to put on a detailing clinic as I'm known as the local detailing expert. We held the class yesterday and were provided with the perfect location by one of our members. The class was held at Ballistic Motorsports/Vehinet in Manchester, NH. There was plenty of room to work and one bay had a drain in the floor for indoor washing.
The location . . .
I asked the guys to provide me with 2 neglected, black S2Ks and here's what I got . . .
We had in total 5 PCs and 4 pad sets at the class. Here's what I brought (90% of it bought from AG) . . .
We even detailed the two car's engine bays. Here's one car's engine before it got a visit from these guys . . .
Now it looks like this . . .
Here are some pictures of the class at work . . .
The first car was not extremely neglected. The rear plastic window was little foggy ('00-'01 S2000s have a plastic window), there was moderate cob webbing, and the car was mildly dirty. There were only 2 serious appearance problems on the car. First, the trunk had been repainted and the body shop had done a very poor job prepping the panel and painting it. Second, the front end of the car has more stone chips than almost any car I've ever seen. Here is the test spot we did on it . . .
Due to the moderate swirling and heavy chipping, I decided to use Pinnacle XMT #2 polish on a polishing pad followed by Pinnacle XMT Carnauba Glaze on a finishing pad. The #2 did a nice job removing the cob webbing and the glaze blended the chips in with the rest of the paint to some degree. Then we protected the car with DP Max Wax. Here are the afters . . .
The second car was pretty neglected. It's about 4-5 years old and has extensive modifications. Like another heavily modified S2000 I had detailed previously there was a lot of scratching on the front fenders from leaning on them while working on the engine. Also, I understand the car has only been washed about 3 times. The car had recently received a new freshly painted body kit. The new pieces were black and the rest of the car was as we called it "British Racing Grey" (the owner is British). The grey appearance was due to moderate to heavy swirling and scratching across the entire car. Aside from that the only major problem was a poorly done paint job on his aftermarket hood (the paint on his body kit was impeccable!!). One item of note is that the car seemed to have unburned gas & oil all over the car. We tried washing it off but the film wouldn't budge. So, I sprayed the whole car down with Meguiar's Safe D-Greaser. It was not something I was happy about but this stuff wouldn't budge. Here's the test spot . . .
We decided to go with XMT #3 with a polishing pad as that seemed to remove the paint defects present. However, #3 left a little buffer haze (as seen in test spot) and so we followed that up with XMT #1. We finished it all off with a layer of DP Premium Surface Shield (new formula). Here are the results . . .
Overall, I think it was a fun & educational day. The cars came out pretty well and the owners were very happy.
The location . . .
I asked the guys to provide me with 2 neglected, black S2Ks and here's what I got . . .
We had in total 5 PCs and 4 pad sets at the class. Here's what I brought (90% of it bought from AG) . . .
We even detailed the two car's engine bays. Here's one car's engine before it got a visit from these guys . . .
Now it looks like this . . .
Here are some pictures of the class at work . . .
The first car was not extremely neglected. The rear plastic window was little foggy ('00-'01 S2000s have a plastic window), there was moderate cob webbing, and the car was mildly dirty. There were only 2 serious appearance problems on the car. First, the trunk had been repainted and the body shop had done a very poor job prepping the panel and painting it. Second, the front end of the car has more stone chips than almost any car I've ever seen. Here is the test spot we did on it . . .
Due to the moderate swirling and heavy chipping, I decided to use Pinnacle XMT #2 polish on a polishing pad followed by Pinnacle XMT Carnauba Glaze on a finishing pad. The #2 did a nice job removing the cob webbing and the glaze blended the chips in with the rest of the paint to some degree. Then we protected the car with DP Max Wax. Here are the afters . . .
The second car was pretty neglected. It's about 4-5 years old and has extensive modifications. Like another heavily modified S2000 I had detailed previously there was a lot of scratching on the front fenders from leaning on them while working on the engine. Also, I understand the car has only been washed about 3 times. The car had recently received a new freshly painted body kit. The new pieces were black and the rest of the car was as we called it "British Racing Grey" (the owner is British). The grey appearance was due to moderate to heavy swirling and scratching across the entire car. Aside from that the only major problem was a poorly done paint job on his aftermarket hood (the paint on his body kit was impeccable!!). One item of note is that the car seemed to have unburned gas & oil all over the car. We tried washing it off but the film wouldn't budge. So, I sprayed the whole car down with Meguiar's Safe D-Greaser. It was not something I was happy about but this stuff wouldn't budge. Here's the test spot . . .
We decided to go with XMT #3 with a polishing pad as that seemed to remove the paint defects present. However, #3 left a little buffer haze (as seen in test spot) and so we followed that up with XMT #1. We finished it all off with a layer of DP Premium Surface Shield (new formula). Here are the results . . .
Overall, I think it was a fun & educational day. The cars came out pretty well and the owners were very happy.
Im going nuts waiting for the detail fest after the superbowl sometime with AG! :cheers:
