O.C.Detailing
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- Jul 24, 2009
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This 1998 Porsche Boxter had been on the lot for 9 months before I got my hands on it. My understanding is that 3 other detailers and a painter touched it before I did as well and it still wouldn't sell. After 18 hours of work on the exterior of this car, it sold 2 weeks later. Prior to me detailing this car, the owner of the lot stated that he hated this car and said he didn't care what happened to it. He only let me detail it because I had been pushing him to let me clean it up to see if it would sell, and it did. 
Process:
- Wash via 2-bucket method, Meg's Gold Class Shampoo and a bit of degreaser mixed into the wash water to remove any old product that may have been lurking on the surface.
- Clayed with Meg's Clay. Every square inch was clayed using Meg's Final Inspection as lube.
- Correction work was done with Optimum Compound on Yellow LC Cutting 4" pad using PC7424 (not the XP version). The front bumper was wet-sanded to remove all traces of orange peel left behind when it got repainted due to having far too many rock chips, then buffed out with Meg's Diamond Cut 2.0 Compound on another 4" yellow cutting LC pad. I then followed up the compounding stage with Optimum Poli-seal on a LC 4" Orange Light-cut pad.
- Wheels were cleaned with Meg's Wheel Brightener and aggitated with several brushes.
- Tires were dressed with Meg's Endurance Tire Gel
- No LSP was applied, but I think it came out incredibly, and lasted until the day it sold.
And now for the photos!
BEFORES:
These photos are before being washed...
...can you tell the bumper hadn't been wet-sanded out by the person who painted it? Really? Me neither!!!
Both headlights had clearcoat overspray on both of them and they needed to be wetsanded and buffed out to get rid of it...you can see it in the lower right portion of the light in this photo and barely see it in the upper left area as well.
The next couple pics are after it was washed, and Leroy was walking in the background, everyone say "Hi Leroy!!"
Nice reflection huh?
Though it's not apparent in this pic, my test area was the passenger's rear fender, which is correct in this photo.
And here's the same fender up close.
This photo is compounded, but not polished out yet.
Compounding finished on the driver's side, but still no polishing has been done.
Same rear quarter...gratuitous shot I guess.
Process:
- Wash via 2-bucket method, Meg's Gold Class Shampoo and a bit of degreaser mixed into the wash water to remove any old product that may have been lurking on the surface.
- Clayed with Meg's Clay. Every square inch was clayed using Meg's Final Inspection as lube.
- Correction work was done with Optimum Compound on Yellow LC Cutting 4" pad using PC7424 (not the XP version). The front bumper was wet-sanded to remove all traces of orange peel left behind when it got repainted due to having far too many rock chips, then buffed out with Meg's Diamond Cut 2.0 Compound on another 4" yellow cutting LC pad. I then followed up the compounding stage with Optimum Poli-seal on a LC 4" Orange Light-cut pad.
- Wheels were cleaned with Meg's Wheel Brightener and aggitated with several brushes.
- Tires were dressed with Meg's Endurance Tire Gel
- No LSP was applied, but I think it came out incredibly, and lasted until the day it sold.
And now for the photos!
BEFORES:
These photos are before being washed...
...can you tell the bumper hadn't been wet-sanded out by the person who painted it? Really? Me neither!!!
Both headlights had clearcoat overspray on both of them and they needed to be wetsanded and buffed out to get rid of it...you can see it in the lower right portion of the light in this photo and barely see it in the upper left area as well.
The next couple pics are after it was washed, and Leroy was walking in the background, everyone say "Hi Leroy!!"
Nice reflection huh?
Though it's not apparent in this pic, my test area was the passenger's rear fender, which is correct in this photo.
And here's the same fender up close.
This photo is compounded, but not polished out yet.
Compounding finished on the driver's side, but still no polishing has been done.
Same rear quarter...gratuitous shot I guess.
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