VIDEO AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST Ok, so this car was so trashed that I decided I'd enter it in the monthly competition. I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked, but you get the idea. The story behind this detail is the car was purchased at night and when the owner saw it in the sun, he was very disappointed with how many swirls and defects were in the paint. It has been detailed twice, once by the dealer and once by a hack, and the owner had lost faith in detailing. The owner is my neighbor, and has seen the work I had been producing and decided to let me have a go. It's a daily driver, so we agreed to get it to be about 90-95%, which is exactly what it got to, only the deepest RIDS remained. For those of you who know me, I love to mix polishes, and this was no different. I mixed the last step, about 40%/60%-106FA/85RD and jeweled the paint after the 106 had broken down which added a lot of depth to the paint. Wash: Meguiars Gold Class 2BM w/ Grit Guard Sheepskin mitt Uber red and blue WW drying towels Clay: Riccardo Yellow Clay ONR Clay lube Uber red towels Paint: Makita 9227C/3M Perfect-It backing plate Uber Green/ M105 using the KBM Uber Blue/106FA,PO85RD Uber Original MF Towels M105 inside handles LSP: Gloss-it Concourso Gloss Uber Red notched applicator Uber No Name Super Plush towel Misc: 303 Aerospace 1Z Cockpit Premium Various Brushes and MF towels Meg's Wheel Brightener Folex Meguiars Hyper Dressing Meguiars APC + Meg's Endurance Tire Shine Leather Master's Vital Reconditioning Cream Lexol Leather Cleaner UQW in door jambs Surf City Grime Destroyer Stoner's Tarminator Meguiars All Metal Polish 0000 Steel Wool Poorboy's Wheel Sealant Black WOW The swirls were much worse than I could ever capture, I wish I could have captured the full extent of them. Unfortunately, it was mostly cloudy all day both days and I was only able to get a couple sun shots. When I inspected it, the sun would hit one side of the hood and the swirls would go all the way to the other side. It was insane. Everything that's possible to be wrong with the paint, was wrong here. Let's start with a couple general pics after the car was delivered. Oxidized bumper: Ok now onto the wheels, pretty bad but nothing that's I haven't seen before. It did take a while to remove the excessive amount of tar all over them, especially in the barrels. I forgot pics or the barrels, but you can see in the after pics that they are clean. I use a soft Proline Grout sponge for the face: Tires dirty as they can be: And then tar was removed: Crappy exhaust 50/50: Interior was in pretty bad condition, forgot to take many pics though. Looking for an OEM finish so Cockpit Premium was used and 303 on the plastic button and switches. 50/50 Various things: 50/50 of handle, top not done yet: Ok, now onto the fun! The paint. Be careful, remember this was even worse in person. You might :thud: So make sure someones nearby! You've been warned... Clay after about 1/3 of the hood, it was rough as sandpaper: Notice how dull and grey the paint is, I didn't even need light on it to see the scratches: :applause2: Concouso beading: VIDEO: YouTube - Detailing Bliss TSXD If you made it this far, thanks for reading! :mounty:
Is Phil paying you to have those towels all over the place?? J/K.. That was a nasty ass car, you did a great job!
I was waiting for this write-up ... outstanding work. I believe that color is black nighthawk pearl ... i looks awesome if it's done right. It has a lot of metallic in it so it pops like crazy. How many total hrs did you put into this one?
Thanks haha. Tried it out one day and it worked, I really want to get a license plate cover like F-Minus has but a towel will do for now. Ha thanks. I picked up the Halogen from Lowe's for $30(US). In retrospect, I should have bout the $40 one that's the same brand with a sturdier construction, but it's a great light for the price. Bulbs included btw. Thanks, and yea the color was amazing. I was thinking about how cool blue pearl would look on black paint, and the next day this car came to me :applause2: It did pop like crazy, especially at sunset it just made all the lines on the car a nice blue. I think I put in around 22 hours over 2 days, although the days were seperated by a week so re-washing and doing the wheels again is included. Haha nope just my favorite towels, basically all I use on paint anymore haha. I had some issues with one of the CG ones leaving micromarring so I switched to only using these. Thanks btw!
$30!! So cheap haha. I found this on craigslist: Halogen Worklight on Tripod Looks to be very sturdy. Not bad of a deal either.
I would pick those up. No way he paid 120 dollars for those though, those are the exact same ones I have with slightly more room for a middle light.
Amazing work! My dad used to have a nighthawk black TL and when it was fully corrected it really popped! great turn around
excellent work, those swirl marks look deep, I'm surprised you managed to restored the paint to that level.
Thanks! Ha thanks, they were pretty deep but the clearcoat was soft enough that I could cut right through most of them, I did leave behind some RIDS because I was already being generous for what I was getting paid. Are you on G35driver at all? I post on there under the same name. Thanks! I forgot to mention that I used your method to an extent on the car. In general, I was able to get enough cut normally, but some panels were worse than others. I just fully primed the pad, not with my hands but rather with the tip of the M105, however I didn't fully read on your method, I just had a general idea at the time but it increased the cut a good amount. Glad you enjoyed the write-up! I'll actually post another one right now, I have a couple that I've been putting off on writing up. Here's how I primed the pad, I know it's dirty, it was the last pass I made before I switched it out. As you can see, I would load it going side-side then up-down, add a couple of drops and do a panel. Worked very well :applause2:
