Toyota Solara

[twistedframe]

This detail was a first for me. The owner of the car has been trying to sell it for about 4months now with no luck. It has been sitting on the side of a road at a major intersection for that whole time and really has taken a beating from the elements. Heres where the twist comes in. the owner did not care what the car looked like in person, just wanted me to take good pictures of it. Now that may sound good, but I felt that I still couldn't take the easy way out, and even this car deserved to be taken care of. Fortunately the customer was willing to spend enough money to get it done right. This care didn't have a ton of swirls, and to me for the money it would cost to get it perfect, it wasn't worth it for this customer since they were only interested in the pictures. I am very happy with the end results of this car since the customer got what they wanted, and I was still able to do my job right without cutting corners.

Exterior
P21S TAW
DP Extreme Foam via foam gun
Megs Glass Cleaner
Ubar clay bar
Megs Detail spray for clay lube
Adams Detail spray for final wipe down
Menz PO85RD to polish
Poorboys EX-P for LSP

Interior
Megs APC 20:1 to wipe down dash and door cards
Zymol Leather cleaner and conditioner for seats and center console
303 Aerospace protectant for dash and door cards
Carpet only needed to be vacuumed

Wheels and Tires
P21S Wheel Cleaner Gel along with EZ Brush and Swissvax brush
Amazing Roll Off on tires
P21S TAW for wheel wells, agitated with black Schmitt
Wolfgang Tires gel
Adams Under carriage spray for wheel wells



These are before pictures to show just how bad the body really was. I tried mixing some TAW with my DP foam in the gun as a pre soak but it barely touched this stuff. I ended up pre-soaking the whole car in TAW then doing an additional wash with the DP Foam gun abd two bucket method.

These pictures are after wash and clay and an additional wash to clean the QD residue away. Notice the drip marks on the rear bumper. I couldn't tell you what this is since I'm still new to this, but nothing I had would take them off without polishing them away.

Wheel before.

Wheel after. I almost wish I hadn't cleaned the wheels because at least you couldn't see all the road rash and nicks under all the dirt. LOL

 

[twistedframe]

Headlight Before. The headlights were not going to be included at first to try and save the customer some money. When I was done with everything else I decided to try a rather mild approach to see if I could at least make a dent on them. I used Megs Plastic Polish followed by DP Plex All and think it did an ok job. Tell me what you think.

Headlights after

Interior After. I didn't take any before shots on the interior because it wasn't really bad at all. I still went ahead and wiped everything down with Megs APC and dressed it with 303 protectant. I also cleaned and treated the leather seats and vacuumed the carpet. I also tried something new for the wood trim. I had never even thought of polishing wood until I read a thread on Swissvax wood polish, so I gave it a try with Poorboys SSR1 since I didn't want to mess anything up, I think it turned out very nicely since it ended up removing some swirls that I have no idea how they got there.

Exterior Afters. Sorry for the lack of full sun pics, but the sun had already fallen down behind the tree line by the time I finished.

 

[robb01]

Looks good, has that nice white warmth to it

 

[Meghan]

Wow he sure let that car get nasty, good job bringing it back to life.

 

[twistedframe]

Thanks guys and gal! Hopefully he'll bring he new car to me once he sells this one!

 

[m4gician]

Great stuff.

With white it's challenging to see a difference unless you really spend time (which is what you've clearly demonstrated).

Offer the customer a free re-wax mid way through.