Just completed, the vehicle needed some work after being driven like a sportscar is supposed to be driven........hard. The finish was in sad shape as Mario and his brothers in Marenello decided to let another Scud go out the door without a finish worthy of the price tag. This particular Ferrari had VERY hard paint, and it fought me a little but time was what was required and my new client wanted the best as the car will be entirely wrapped @ Premier this next week. With this color(red) it was difficult to capture some of the problems with my new camera, so I used my old one and a few of the pics showed the defects but not as much as I would have liked. The beginning........ outside pics as the car was dropped off. Holograms. Marring. More buffer trails. Some deep RIDS, later in the correction I would find X marks that had to be vandalism(which should carry the death penalty to deface this automotive beauty) which were sanded out(thank god). The biggest challenge would come from touching up the chips on the front of the car(over 100 chips were touched up). A little fallout was present as well. One of the numerous parts of the car with factory sand scratches not compounded out...........(my shocked face at this development ). Dry & scratchy. Marred front bumper. After first hit with the wool pad. More factory sand scratch lovelyness....... Compounded and levelled away. Making headway, all in the total job would be just shy of 43 hours spent. Challenge grill looking clear & glossy=tightness. O.E badge removed, Premier will re-install as they are doing a full body wrap. Aggressive compounding did smooth out some of the orange peel.
Polycarbonate engine cover needed some work, carbon truss bars needed to removed to get entire area. Looking good. Finish is popping now, just before paint touch up step. Start of a very long touch up procedure(late night action Saturday night 11:30 PM). The white primer not showing through any longer. As there would be no LSP due to the impending wrap I spent extra time fine polishing the finish. Clarity showing with the engine showing thru on the engine cover window. Marring on the carbon door shells. The carbon weave coming thru. Working the seat shells, as they were marred pretty good. These two pics show the marring pretty well. After. SUN PIC TIME
Great job. Car is so beautiful. Your work is really just stellar. How did the front bumper turn out after all the touch-ups? Who is the guy at the dumpster? LOL
Great stuff bob. Did u have the touch up paint made specially for the job. Did u add exrtra hardeners?
Very nice work on this one Bob Turned out extreme.. Did you sand down the "blobbs" after the touch-up?
No blobs to sand down as I used very just enough paint to fill in the chip, I have tried all the chip systems(langka,DrColorchip) and it never worked as advertised, as for sanding the touch up paint if the chips a bad enough to have to sand a non-baked touch up paint it is time for a re-spray(which was what I told this Scuderia client btw)and he declined. I have seen guys try and sand flat the touch ups they make, and as the paint is non baked 9 times out of 10 the paint comes right off leaving you right back where you started, so I tell clients not to expect perefection because you will not get it. I use VERY small paint brushes and touch up sticks(eztouch up) to get only enough paint in the chip itself and this is time consuming, I am thinking of not offering this service in the future because no matter how much you explain to a client the realities of the repair they want perfection on the "cheap" as opposed to doing the job right(re-spray) or wrapping the car right away with clear film.
