Race Valeting Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Right chaps I thought i'd start my write up now at the end of day 2 :doublesho Firstly the car was booked in for a full paint correction, engine bay and interior details also, when I went to quote the car I was aware of swirling and a few light scratches but now 6 wks on :censored: Here's how she was looking when it was dropped off yesterday morning. Firstly the worst job I had to try and tackle the wheels, looks like the inners have NEVER been cleaned on the car and also looks like a few track days have been participated in also due to the state of them. I firstly soaked them in strong AS Smart wheels and left for 5 mins before agitating with a selection of brushes, this hardly even touched them so out came the jack and the wheels were taken off 1 at a time, I used a strong acid free wheel cleaner sprayed on the wheels and left for a couple of mins to start working and then agitated, this was done once then I tried some tardis this removed abit but not a lot. Back to the strong wheel cleaner again and repeated about 3 times on each wheel to get them respectable and 4 hrs later time to start washing the car. Firstly a pre-soak with warm citrus de-greaser sprayed onto the lowers and left for a few mins before rinsing. Next up a snow foam using SSF via the kranzle, this was left to dwell for 6mins then rinsed. Repeated the snow foam process again and the car was filthy and all the rubber seals had mould/moss growing in them and needed cleaner using my swissvax style brushes. Next up I cleaned all the door/boot shuts with apc and swissvax style brush and gave the engine a thorough de-grease using virasol and a selection of brushes. Then back to the exterior, now time for a 2bm wash using dodo b2bm shampoo and a z sponge, this was then rinsed using the DI Vessel. Now for the clay stage, today using Dodo Mild grey clay and LT and lube. Before: After front wing: I used nearly half a block of the dodo clay on this car as it was so contaminated. Now lets see what the real damage is now it clean. I had time to have a quick play and get a good combo ready for tomorrow, started off with megs polishing pad via makita and some megs 83/80 combo, this was giving great correction but not leaving lsp ready so I tried finishing with menz ff on a black 3m glossing pad no joy here and tried a few different pad combos for finishing but seem to keep leaving marks so ended up using the pc and a red elitecarcare finishing pad and 3m ultrafina se this was finishing up lovely and bringing out the red fleck in the paint lovely. That was the end of day 1. Day 2 Started off bad with showers all morning so had a little sort out of the garage and then put half the car in and set up the lamps etc ready to start some more correction work. Heres some more shots of the defects I am faced with: some nice deep RIDS on the top of the bonnet 50/50 Bootlid corrected and finished with ultrafine se some more defects: Spoiler all corrected: Been held up lots today due to the weather and having to keep moving the car around. (SINGLE GARAGES GER :devil:) Tomorrow I need to do the roof both rear doors and then cleanse the paint, glaze and then some supernatural, and drss the engine bay and do the interior plus all the other bits tyres,glass,exhaust etc etc. Total time so far 16 hrs TO BE CONTINUED Right day 3, finish off correction/finishing then apply LSP todays choice was Dodo Purple Haze applied by hand to make sure total coverage. Heres a few more correction shots, also had some nice wet sanding to do to remove a nice scrape down the passenger side rear door. Finished pics only managed a few today as I wanted to get it tucked away in the garage for the night. Exhaust polished using 00 wire wool and megs nxt polish Before: After: Before: After: Will get more pics tomorrow if the suns out when Im back from another job, its not being collected until sat and still got the engine bay to dress and the interior. Another slow day today think I got 5 hrs in total working time the rest was rained off. Engine bay afters: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Awesome turn around in this!!! Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M350ZB Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Looking very impressive, the more and more i see pics like this the more i am ever getting closer to getting one done on my zed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MITZ@CougarStore Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Great work as always, good turnaround… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maccaman Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Wow! You certainly earned your money on that one. Would imagine the owner wll be ecstatic when he picks the car up. Really shows what a professional can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIXXERUK Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 the owner should be ashamed ! what a transformation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT1703 Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Very impressive. Great work again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick43 Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Amazing.... (don't think I'll worry with washing mine again, seeing that you can resurrect it every now and then ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Superb work Paul! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Valeting Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 Thanks for the comments guys, This has got to be my most challenging detail yet, not only the defects were so bad but the paint was so sticky and a real battle all the time and to top it off I was battling with the weather too. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H5 Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Mighty impressive piece of work there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimm Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Again, what a fantastic job great result... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 For car owners like that, just as well there are people that are capable of fixing it up. Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Very impressive chap. I hope you are taking one of his kidneys as payment! Thats one hell of a job. I nearly killed myself just going over mine with a DA polisher and thats soft Nissan paint and light correction. This is truely a mamoth job! Looking forward to some finished engine bay shots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1 HNK Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 incredible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazza Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 great work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Great work as always How did the engine bay turn out or was it a lost cause? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3FIDDYZ Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Great work as always How did the engine bay turn out or was it a lost cause? Hes just getting an eviction order against the mice that are still holding out!! Seriously though, top work, looks brand new now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWZ Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Quality job well done to you fela Out of interest, what tips can you give for cleaning brake dust from alloys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 What ever happened to the engine bay? Always wanted to see how much magic you worked on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Valeting Posted March 14, 2009 Author Share Posted March 14, 2009 What ever happened to the engine bay? Always wanted to see how much magic you worked on it Here you go Chris, not amazing but 100 times better, the metal couldn't be saved and was to far gone and pitted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 It's worlds apart form it's previous state tho, too bad the owner only "drove" the car rather than maintaining it too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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