2008 S63 AMG w/ 5600 miles This one shares the same chassis w/ the S65 that I detailed 2 weeks ago. But the S63 "only" has a: So the powerplant along with the AMG-enhanced 7-speed automatic will propel this 4600lbs beast to a AMG reported 0-60 time of 4.5 seconds. This was a full exterior polishing and the client requested just a vac on the interior. Sorry for the lack of pics, but sometimes you just got to get it done. I did a vac on the interior. I foamed, rinsed, refoamed and 2BM for the wash. Wheels cleaned with P21S gel, swissvax wheel brush and a few other brushes. This takes about 45 mins on these wheels. Tires and wells cleaned with 1:6 AM red hot APC. Everything rinsed. I then clayed the paint with Zaino clay and Z6. Befores: Consider that this was the 2007 black S65 from two weeks ago: So I am thinking no problem at all. I can use the same process from the black 2007 S65 that I just did. If you look closer at the before pic from this car the swirls are deeper. Infact they are deep enough that 4-5x of SIP/orange CCS at 1700 would only get out about 60% of the defects. Both cars have the same ceramiclear finish. I then tried M105 mixed with a little ZPC, first with a white CCS and then even a orange CCS. This is not working either. So after consulting with the master of polishing, I figured I would have to go to 3M ECC (thanks Ryan!) I tried that with the orange CCS but still was getting nowhere fast. I took out the LC purple foamed wool and still had to make 2-3x to clean everything up. I then followed with SIP/orange CCS/1700 and UF/blue CCS/1700. This pic was after: 2x of the ECC/Purple foamed wool/1700-1800 SIP/orange CCS/1700 UF/blue CCS/1700 Sorry I did not get all of the UF wiped off: As you can see there where still a few swirls left. So this area was polished out again with the full process. I noticed that I was running low on SIP, so I gave Bret a call and he was nice enough to bring some by. When he arrived it was approx 2pm and I still had alot of polishing to do. So he stayed and helped me polish out the car. I polished the left side of the car with the 2-4x of the ECC/Purple foamed wool/1700-1800 combo While Bret followed behind with the: SIP/orange CCS/1700 UF/blue CCS/1700 We took the car out while we still had some good sun and still noticed a few areas on the left side that needed repolished. so Bret broke out the 4" orange CCS pads and used SIP to spot polish areas that needed it. Now this stilll took 2-3x with this combo and Bret was working in the direct sun so that he could see everything very well. I started on the right side and gave the yellow edge wool/ECC/1800 a try to see if it would cut quicker. After 2-3x this seemed to work quicker then the purple foamed wool which required 3-4x. I then followed with green edge wool and presta 1500, this worked fine and is quicker then the SIP/orange CCS combo. Bret finished up his flawless work on the left side and come over to help me with the final polishing with ultrafina. Bret worked the curvy from fender with the 6" euro 3M blue foam pad at speeds up to 2000 to really jewel the surface and I did the doors with the blue CCS also using speeds up to 2k. The car was refoamed after the polishing with Z7 carwash to remove the UF polishing oils to ensure proper zaino bonding. We applied 3x of a 80% Z5pro/20% Z2pro on shot of Z8 and 4 drops of ZFX. We also did an application of Z8. Tires got Z-16 and wheels got ZAIO. Dusk had arrived and I tried to take some pics without the flash and I did not have my tripod with me. So of course my hands are not that steady after 8 hours of polishing and only a few came out.
Great work, about the shaky hands there is a thing called trypod and it's like $30 beats the shaky hands.
Hey, this one looks very familiar, hahahaha... Very nice work, I found that paint reacted very well to Zaino.
Great results! I have a Black CLS55 AMG lined up next week that's in much worse condition than this one. Hopefully, i can get it looking as good as yours. :applause2:
Thanks P1et! Thanks Tuner! From the 2 that I have polished in the last few weeks, I'd say its 50/50. Thanks Angelo! Thanks Pat! Thanks GBS! Thanks! I think Phil polished out a 55 AMG that was in pretty bad condition as well.
Thanks again Ryan for your help!!! Thanks Carlos! Thanks Phil! Thanks Tonya! I still have alot to learn about taking pics. Thanks er1k024!
Bryan..thanks for taking the time to outline your challenges and steps..we all learn from seeing these..oh,ya,..and btw....AWESOME JOB!!!:applause2:
