i got this job on the back off the scotish motor fair when i were setting up the 3 lambo`s that our clients very kindly lent us for the weekend the owner of the spyker came over and said WOW when can you do the spyker not even how much will it cost but when. he then said our cars on display are showing up his 3 cars so on monday there it was leave the house at 5 in the morning rubbing the sleep out of my eye`s, so went to pick up and then down that A9 following that sat nav to livingstone so first off was pre soak the spyker with the citrus then to put the extreme foam ontop leave to dwell then rinse off. after the pre soak time to wash with the 2 buckets and wash mitts and dry off with the sonus der wunder towel now time to check the paint :doublesho now this car is new and only 254 miles on the clock and god what a mess not only with very bad swirls but it was also covered in light scratches as if someone had taken one of those ruber blades to dry it off and also the front looked as if there had been stone chips touched up before as you can see its a bit of a mess so we took the paint readings on all panels and downloaded to the laptop then masked up the car using nearly 3 rolls of tape the front needed wet sanded along with the rear off side qaurter panel as we felt the state of the paint was that bad the only way to get a perfect finish was wet sanding wet sanding we used meg`s unigritt 2500 after the wet sanding we got the makita`s out with cutting pads and the power gloss we also had to use the power gloss on most of the other panels next was the menzerna IP with a 3m polishing pad for the whole of the car after the IP we went for the menzerna final finishing polish with a 3m finishing bad after we finished the taping of the car at 10 and we finished the paint work corection at 5 :wall: onlly stopping for 15 mins for lunch once we were happy with the paint it was time to cleanse the paint work so out with the HD cleanse this helps the wax to bond with the paint and for this we dont use any other product so now the paint work was cleansed it was time to get the vintage out as always the vintage was put on with my bare hands the wheels were also treated to the HD cleanse and vintage the glass was cleaned with the HD cleanse all alloy was polished up the head lights were de swirled here`s some after pics hope you like some of the inside some pics outside we were very happy with the out come of this job even though i didn`t get home till 12 at night thanks for taking the time to read this post mike @ extreme detail
Great job Mike..I don't know if I've ever seen one of those before..it must look nice with the top down, b/c it's fugly with it up. Love all the vents; it looks cool.
WOW Looks outstanding! Sad that a car with 254 mile looked so bad! You did an great job! Congrats and thanks for sharing!
Great job! I actually might end up working for a Spyker/Panoz/Lamborghini dealer in the near future! That's crazy to hear how much tape you used!
