2009 Maserati Gran Turismo Correction

Just completed recently, a vehicle with roughly 2,500 miles on the odometer. The finish was not horrible but required compounding as there was marring and few places with factory sand scratches(but not near as bad as a typical Ferrari finish).

My goal on this job was to make the car look for the owners like the vehicle had never been driven, as the car was not delivered in "as new" condition.

As it was pretty hot the week I took in this vehicle, I used my low pressure washer and cleaned the car in the shop, after the wash/de-contamination I removed the right front wheel for repair.





The wheel had some pretty good road rash.







Cleaned the wheel for dismounting @ my old shop(performance art) .





Made the trek down to PA, here is Dave Graff dismounting the wheel on the Corghi Artigglio a touchless wheel mounting/dismounting machine.









Dave SAFELY removing the TPMS sensor.





Onto the paint correction, some 50/50's......







Wet sand scratches.





Correction acheived.





More examples of the marring.



More wet sanding scratches.



Corrected.





Here is a area where I had to agressivly rotary compound the finish, so as a result holograms were put in the finish.





Holograms removed.





Marring on the trunk lid.



50/50 pic of the trunk.



Entire trunk lid corrected.



At least 25 shots of correction will used in this write up:thumb:.

Some deep RIDS on the hood.



Wet sanded to level the defects.



Defects corrected.



Factory sand scratches on the front bumper, I would later hit the whole bumper with 3000 grit Trizact to correct it.



Corrected.







Took a break at this time from the correction as the wheel was repaired, then back to PA for re-mounting the wheel. Taped off the new painted finish just in case.



Dave re torqueing the TPMS sensor to the correct inch pound spec.



Re-mounting the wheel.





Ready to loadforce balance the wheel.

 

As the wheels were off, it was time to clean up the "carpeting" in the wheel wells as well as the suspension parts.





There was also heavy rust build up on the hub mounting face, which I removed with some croakus cloth.



Rust removed, which can be a safety issue as the wheels may not seat properly. As a side note due to this and the wheels being put on with too much ft/lbs torque I needed a breaker bar to remove the wheels.........not good.



"As new " wheel well.



"Dirty carpet".



Clean carpet.



Pic of the repaired road rash.



Dirt build up in the wheels.



Crusty lug bolt.



Polished lug bolt.



All lugs polished.



Deep scratches on the wheels.



Corrected.



More scratches.



Not 100% corrected, but a big improvement.



"Supercleaness" for all the wheels.



A few places needed paint touch up.





Touched up.







The wheels had these hurting plastic valve caps......



Time for an upgrade.....



6061 aluminum logo cap tightness was required.



Cleaning the exhaust tips.



Dry & dirty.



After.



Polishing all door jamb paint.





Also upgraded the plate frame as the 1199 frame was clipped....... with ingraved tightness.



Matching snap caps for the finishing touch.



Total package.



Interior was not bad at all, but I went all out to make it look as if the car rolled off the assembly line.









The car also had some beautiful aftermarket mats.





Footwell and pedals cleaned.

















Trunk hinges cleaned.



And painted areas.



All the tires were low so I topped them off with the proper tire pressure.



Longacre gage tightness.



Finished product, wearing two coats of BFWD and one coat of Collonite 915 which brought out the flake on this color known as "Blu Nettuno".









LED pics.











Sun pics, which I barely got due to time crunch on a BMW correction along with the delivery of this car.





















Polished and sealed up wheel.

 

Bar, raised

Bench, marked

. Period

 

thats just plain beautiful!

 

Awesome job

 

Stunning work bob. Your details never cease to amaze me. You truely do go above and beyond in every aspect of your work.

 

Nice Bob. Another great job.

 

Incredible work as usual, Bob!! I love that blue color. I was wondering where you had disappeared to.

 

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you know its post like this that make me want to work harder and longer on each car

 

What a car.
What a beautiful detail and presentation.
Thanks Bob.

Joe D.

 

Simply Amazing Bob...True perfection.

Your attention to detail is unmatched...:worship2:

 

Total "Bobness" achieved .

 

great work!

 

Love your write up Bob, not to mention your work. 1st class all the way.

 

Great job!

Bit confused why they use the "carpet" for the wheel liner?? Italian's eh . . .

 

Knockout work Bob!

 

2:52a.m. :headbang:

 

There is 2 things:
1. What lift did you use to jack the car up while working? I have been after one for my garage.
2. After wasting all the time fixing up the wheel, cleaning rust area for safety reason.... you put that kind of tire back on??? I do believe that is more dangerous driving around/risking life than putting the wheel on without cleaning up the rusty rotor.

 

The bead was not compromised at all, know a little about tire & wheel stuff as you can see there is no belts showing and no sidewall deflection. Any questions??.

 

amazing work, Bob!