richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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I kinda find it hard to believe, but I've never detailed a yellow car. Probably 90% or more of what I do is black, but I've never done a yellow car before. So, I was really looking forward to it! This car needed a 2 step correction to remove a lot of swirl marks from a previous owner and this owner wanted it much better and the wheels pulled too. He decided upon Americoat to mitigate the cost. A good, sound decision I believe.
I ended up having a conflict with the weekend as my wife on the last minute decided we were going to host Thanksgiving, so I asked him to bring it early and luckily, he was able to oblige. I was waiting to deliver the last one (the '16 black Stingray) when he arrived with his 2007 Z06. I captured this shot of them both. I don't think my driveway had ever looked better!!
Here is the Z06 when I started it late Sunday afternoon:
There was a mark under the emblem which needed correcting.
Paint chip at the very nose:
First up as always was the wheels. The barrels were cleaned with Tarminator followed by Zep Citrus and Megs HW and my EZ Detail brush. The faces were cleaned with ZC and HW with a demoted wash mitt. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505 and the wells with LA Totally Awesome.
The paint at the back had visible contamination, so it was shot with IronX spray followed by IronX paste and a wash mitt. The car was washed with Megs HW and then the rest of the car was washed a 2nd time with IronX paste. No contamination left. Here is the IX doing its thing:
Next it was brought inside and clayed with my CarPro clay towel and then blown off with my Master Blaster. Here's what the naked paint looked like:
Next up was the wheels. The previous owner had put this body cladding on the sides and it prevented me from getting my small jack in there to lift the car. I was going to skip the wheels and the owner was disappointed. I had a brain storm coming home from work the next day and got my scissor jack out of my Lincoln (I've never used it) and used it to jack up the car. The owner was very pleased that I was able to do them.
The wheels were in a dire need of more cleaning. The barrels took a magic eraser and a heavy dose of Tarminator to get clean. Here's one for example:
After that cleaning stage, I used Duragloss Squeaky Clean to clean the barrels thoroughly prior to coating. They were given 2 coats of Americoat. A similar but less aggressive approach was used on the faces. Here's that same barrel all done:
The calipers were given the same treatment:
On the first wheel, I coated the plastic barrel with DP Black Diamond All Surface coating. I wasn't really happy with the look:
I ended up using Solution Finish on the remaining wells, and boy, did that do the trick!!
The wheel was re-mounted and then I dressed the tire just prior to lowering it down. I shot my Opti Bond directly onto the applicator with my air gun like I did on the last Vette as it worked so well. Each wheel was torqued back to spec afterward.
After trying several different combos on this hard, hard paint, I settled on Flat Top + Tuf Buff black wool + Rupes 21. That was followed by Megs burgandy pad + M205. Paint chips were filled and then the car was coated with 2 coats of Americoat. The glass was treated to Fly By 30 and the rear trim was treated to DLux. The rest of the trim and the body cladding was coated with Americoat.
After being in my garage for a full week (and my belly full from Turkey), here's how it looked:
One very happy customer pulling away:
I ended up having a conflict with the weekend as my wife on the last minute decided we were going to host Thanksgiving, so I asked him to bring it early and luckily, he was able to oblige. I was waiting to deliver the last one (the '16 black Stingray) when he arrived with his 2007 Z06. I captured this shot of them both. I don't think my driveway had ever looked better!!
Here is the Z06 when I started it late Sunday afternoon:
There was a mark under the emblem which needed correcting.
Paint chip at the very nose:
First up as always was the wheels. The barrels were cleaned with Tarminator followed by Zep Citrus and Megs HW and my EZ Detail brush. The faces were cleaned with ZC and HW with a demoted wash mitt. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505 and the wells with LA Totally Awesome.
The paint at the back had visible contamination, so it was shot with IronX spray followed by IronX paste and a wash mitt. The car was washed with Megs HW and then the rest of the car was washed a 2nd time with IronX paste. No contamination left. Here is the IX doing its thing:
Next it was brought inside and clayed with my CarPro clay towel and then blown off with my Master Blaster. Here's what the naked paint looked like:
Next up was the wheels. The previous owner had put this body cladding on the sides and it prevented me from getting my small jack in there to lift the car. I was going to skip the wheels and the owner was disappointed. I had a brain storm coming home from work the next day and got my scissor jack out of my Lincoln (I've never used it) and used it to jack up the car. The owner was very pleased that I was able to do them.
The wheels were in a dire need of more cleaning. The barrels took a magic eraser and a heavy dose of Tarminator to get clean. Here's one for example:
After that cleaning stage, I used Duragloss Squeaky Clean to clean the barrels thoroughly prior to coating. They were given 2 coats of Americoat. A similar but less aggressive approach was used on the faces. Here's that same barrel all done:
The calipers were given the same treatment:
On the first wheel, I coated the plastic barrel with DP Black Diamond All Surface coating. I wasn't really happy with the look:
I ended up using Solution Finish on the remaining wells, and boy, did that do the trick!!
The wheel was re-mounted and then I dressed the tire just prior to lowering it down. I shot my Opti Bond directly onto the applicator with my air gun like I did on the last Vette as it worked so well. Each wheel was torqued back to spec afterward.
After trying several different combos on this hard, hard paint, I settled on Flat Top + Tuf Buff black wool + Rupes 21. That was followed by Megs burgandy pad + M205. Paint chips were filled and then the car was coated with 2 coats of Americoat. The glass was treated to Fly By 30 and the rear trim was treated to DLux. The rest of the trim and the body cladding was coated with Americoat.
After being in my garage for a full week (and my belly full from Turkey), here's how it looked:
One very happy customer pulling away:
