Hello again and here is another detail from OCD-ni and Gloss Workz. Once again a big thanks to Mark who helped me out on this one, even if I did scare the life out of him! This week’s car is a stunning red Nissan 350Z Nismo. The car was booked in for a 2 day correction but we decided to keep it a little longer because this car deserved to look nothing short of amazing! Recently OCD-ni has had a bit of a make over and we are now detailing as much for the love of it the pressure is now off and we can have fun hence why I thought I would have a bit of a play around with the format. I have decided this time to have some fun with the finished pictures as I have recently been bitten hard by the Photography bug. All correction and afters are original pics but I thought I would have a play with some of the afters. On arrival the car was very clean but with Nissan paint being as soft as a soft thing on a soft day it was heavily marked with pretty much no reflections what so ever. First off was a good wash and decontamination to see what we had let ourselves in for! WASH STAGE: Car was initially soaked in Orchard Autocare Citrus Preclean for about 10 mins while we worked on the wheels with Orchard Autocare Wheel Cleanse sprayed and agitated using various wheel brushes! Then all rinsed off. Door shuts engine bay and wheel arches were also done as well at this stage which thankfully were pretty much perfect thanks to the owner were looking after the care really well…. Car was washed using Uberfoam and a wash mitt then detarred using Tar Cleanse and clayed and to be honest we picked up virtually nothing on the clay apart from the roof and a few . Here are a few inprocess pics: CORRECTION: For this we decided to try out the Meguiar’s Microfibre system as up until now, we had a run of German cars with rock hard paint so we thought we would see how it would fare with softer paint. The car was corrected using a Megs Cutting pad and cutting fluid. The car corrected in normally 1-2 passes except for the bonnet that had been resprayed. For this, it was oflat sanded to remove defects and orange peel then refined using Megs 105 on a white Chemical guys pad then refined using Megs 205 with a Blue 3M Waffle pad. We found the Microfibre system worked really well on the car removing a minimal amount of paint. We did see some slight marking so decided to refine using Megs 205 on a blue 3M pad. Below are the work in progress shots. Once the correction was finished, the car was washed to remove any dust and any residue in hard to reach areas was removed. The engine bay was dressed with Orchard Autocare Trim dressing, Tyres dressed with Megs Endurance dressing. The interior was steamed and hovered with the plastics treated with Orchard Autocare Interior Wizard. Seats were conditioned with Gliptone Leather conditioner. Outside the car was treated to 2 coats of Chemical Guys EZ-crème and then 2 coats of Race Glaze 65 black Label! Now for the afters. For the afters I hope you liked the bit of playing about I did, Im only beginning so it’s just for fun to make the write up a bit different and if you liked it and would like to see more of this style it would be much appreciated if you left a comment. As always all C&C is welcome. Many thanks for taking time to look at the thread Rollo
Fantastic work. I love the first pics where you are washing the car at night. VERY cool. I should try that some time.
Cheers Richy it was unfortunitly they are soooo easy to get into this state due to teh paint being so soft..
