Ferrari 458 Rosso Scuderia Detail

Here is the car last October @ Premier, I did the prep and then the clearfilm was installed.





Compound in the the most hard to reach area of the car.








Removed.





The usual marring and sand scratches.








All lights in the shop turned off to backlight the panel, marring & defects removed.





Silver dollar sized cluster of DA sand scratches.





Same area now looking beautiful.





Close up of the area corrected.





Deep holograms on rear deck.





Corrected on the left, holograms visible on the right of the tape line.








Sand scratches on the door handle.





Smooth & clear .





Fingernail marring above door handle.





M101 handled this quickly.





Yes .....................even sand scratches on the turn signal indicators.





Corrected.

 

How this kind of stuff gets out of the factory..........................





After compounding steps.





This got missed as well.





After four passes with M101, and two passes with D300.





Roof was not looking so hot, deep marring.





Paint is now defect free.





Tips needed some attention.





"Cleaness"





Working in the engine bay.





Just a light cleaning needed.








Optional forged wheels looking their best..............tires with matte satin sheen.








Alcantara interior needed little.














Finish is glowing.







LSP was CG "Lava Wax".

 

A few sun pics.

 

wicked job Bob!

must have been hot weather there, you're working hard and sweating...=)

 

A top notch car and a top notch detail. Awesome

 

Looks great Bob. I'm still amazed at how bad the finish is from the factory. 4 passes with 101 to remove some of it? Brutal. Just brutal.

 

I have AC in the shop, but when it gets above 85 degrees it gets stuffy. I ordered a Kuulair KA55 which I saw @ SEMA last year which is also portable and will lower the temps by 15 degrees(Kuulair claim) so that will help..................Bing in Orlando with the TropicalNESS conditions has a COLD AC unit with 1700 BTU for his garage and sets it in the mid 60's as right now without that he would be up S**t Creek with that humidity. (90 plus with 90 percent humidity index).

Yes Ken this is how the car always come from Ferrari, actually this one had some of this best paint over all I have seen on the 458's, look at Dave's(Streetdreams) write up.............that Spider 458 was "Jacked up".

 

Thats not sweat......... he is "glistening" LOL


Bob, is that a blue R32 in the picture? whats the deal with that car?


Nice work as always

 

Looks great Bob! Any problems with the humidity from the swamp cooler? Like to much humidity? Any of the units I ever saw cool but the drawback is the HIGH humidity. Hence the reason the Bing has got a traditional AC unit. I Florida swamp coolers in the garage would mean a wet death!

 

Very nice work Bob

 

Insane.

Excellent work Bob!!

 

I'm guessing it's NZ's right Bob? Tightness as always Bobcat!

 

impressionante!

I too am looking into some portable cooling units, heat here in SC...especially in enclosed garages without duct work can be sheer torture, and robs ALL the fun out of detailing!

 

Yes another "Apple guy".................................. lol, they are killing it over there...........Love my ipad2, but still sport the analog oldness for the phone.

 

Wednesday appointment for the V-Dub.

 

Lol Bob. Nothing wrong with an analog phone until the battery stops charging.
My dad just got the ipad3 and now my wife has me picking it over the Asus TF300 tablet
I'm not sure which way to go :shakehead:

 

Bob, as always, you have showed some exemplary work. The car isnt bad either.

 

Bob-

Some of those shots were gorgeous..!

Sitting outside in the sun, that car looks WICKED-MEAN.

Very nice job, looks like it's dipped in GLISTEN-ALL.

 

Stellar work once again Bob! :thumb:

 

What is "glisten-all" the coating on my forehead...lol, want to come up and play on a Black Ferrari 575 with Daniel and I this weekend??