This car had never been detailed. it was about a year old, it has been taken to the car wash for a wax every so often, but this time the owner wanted PERFECTION. and thats just what he got. this car needed wetsanding in some places, and a full 3-step polish. as far as he paint goes, it was in pretty bad shape...

Exterior

-Wash
-P21s TAW Pre-soak
-CG CWG
-CG Waterspot Remover
-White/yellow shMITT

-Engine
-Meguiar's Super Degreaser
-Meguiar's Hyper Dressing

-Wheels
-CG Citrus wheel cleaner
-Meguiar's Wheel brightener
-CG CWG
-EZ detail Brush
-Black shMITT
-Amazing Roll-off (tires)
-Swissvax Autobahn

-Wheel Wells
-Simple Green
-black shMITT
-Meguiar's Hyper Dressing

-Clay
-CG Gray clay
-CG Synthetic QD for lube

-Correction
-2000 grit (3M wet-or-dry) sanding paper
-Menzerna Powergloss
-Menzerna SIP
-Menzerna PO85RD
-LC Foamed Wool
-LC yellow compounding pad
-LC orange pad
-LC white pad
-Sonus SFX white pad
-Sonus SFX blue finishing pad
-Makita 9227C
-3M yellow backing plate
-Edge foam pad cleaner
-ISA wipedown

-LSP
-Collinite 915
-FK1# 425

Interior

-CG leather Cleaner
-CG lightning fast
-1Z ****pit Premium
-1Z Gummi Pflege
-Zaino Z10
-303 protectant
-Stoner's Invisible Glass


Well to start, i arrived at fire station #4 (again!) at 7:00AM. i took a quick look at the car and i told the owner that it didn't look like it was in too bad of shape, except for some big scratches, which i was told to remove. first off i decided it would be better to degrease the engine before moving on the the paint, so that i would not dirty the paint.














Letting Meguiar's Super Degreaser soak in. then i gave the heavily soiled areas a scrub, then rinsed off.





now it's time for the wash. using the two-bucket method with grit guards. i first washed the wheels, then the car. after the wash i clayed the entire car using CG's Gray clay since this car had never been clayed in the past.

 

after the wash and clay

 

CG's Citrus wah n gloss sure does leave a nice looking shine! but don't be fooled! now onto the halogen lights!

 

well that paint was in pretty bad shape... so i decided to try a test panel using SIP on a orange pad.







it got most of the defects out of that panel. so i decided to go on with that combination. i moved onto the hood.

 

now that didn't seem to do much as far as taking care of the RIDS... so i decided to bump it up a notch to Menzerna Power Gloss on a Purple Foamed Wool Pad.




still left some RIDS...






after 1 pass with Power Gloss




after 2 passes






so at this point i had to resort to sanding using 2000 grit paper in order to get rid of the RIDS







and after powergloss of the same panel





the center of the hood

 

1 pass wasnt enough....


did anyone say powergloss isn't dusty?




more before and after shots

 

these scratches were caused by a luggage cart from a hotel running into the car. they had to be sanded out. some small parts of it had unfortunately gone too deep...






after powergloss



after SIP












and that was the end of day 1. i left at 11:00PM.

the next morning i arrived back at the station and got started again at around 8:30AM. i re-washed the car because it sat outside at night and got rained on. then i went back to polish the whole car (including the roof) over with SIP on the white sonus SFX pad because my CCS pads were acting up for some reason. i think it had to do with the "sticky clear coat" issue.

SIP finished down pretty well on the hood with the sonus SFX white polishing pad.

 

now for the final result of 2 hard days of polishing. these shots are after polishing with PO85RD on the blue sonus pad and given a ISA wipedown

 

50/50 of Black WOW

 

after LSP
















that marked the end of day 2. i have another job at a restaurant that i had to be there at 7:00PM, so i left the station around 6.


Day 3 was at the owner's house. this was just to do the interior. i started out with cleaning the carpets with CG's Lightning fast stain remover.







extracted water...

 

the doors, steering wheel and seats were full of body grease and makeup (it's a woman who drives the car)










so i gave the leather a good cleaning with CG's leather cleaner, the plastic and LCD screens with 1Z ****pit, and then applied 303 protectant to the dashboard, and Zaino Z10 to the leather seats. then i applied 1Z gummi pflege to the weather seals. then cleaned the glass using stoner's Invisible Glass












and to finish it off i cleaned off the door jams with FK1 # 425

 

well i hope you all enjoyed looking at that! it took a lot of hard work to get that shine out of the paint!

thanks for looking!!!


if anyone in the miami/Ft. Lauderdale area is looking to get any detailing work done on their car, feel free to PM me with any questions you may have!

 

very nice work. Looking to get my car done. Pm'ed.

 

Wow, that thing was rough. I'm surprised someone that let it fall that far to begin with now wanted perfection.

 

thank you! sent you a PM