Presidential_Detail

This customer had spoken to me about 4 or 5 months ago when he just picked up the car. I met up with him to look at the car and it was in bad shape from the start, and I mean BAD. Haha! The customer gave me a call last week and told me he wanted me to work my magic on the car before he moved to Ohio, so we scheduled the car. We were unable to get a 100% correction due to time and budget, if it was even possible to bring this thing back to 100%. It looked like it had sat underneath a hard water sprinkler all its life, no joke! While we couldnt get it perfect, Id say the results were outstanding for what we did do to it! Ill let you guys be the judge! Enjoy!

Products:

Exterior:
Dawn Soap Pre-Wash
Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash
COBRA UMF Wash Mitt
COBRA Deluxe "Jr" MF's
Dual Buckets with Grit Guards
3m Masking Tape
Adams Professional Clay Bar
P21S TAW
Meguairs APC+
Meguairs Hyperdressing
Menzerna SIP/Orange FLAT
Menzerna 106FA/White FLAT
Menzerna Top Inspection
Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)
Swissvax Pneu


LSP:
Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator

Tools:
Dual Work Lamps
Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary
World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush
Foam Pad Cleaning Brush
DD Detail Sponge
The Wheel Well/Fender Brush
The Spoke Brush
Canon Rebel XTi
Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow
E-Z Detail Wheel Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush

A few shots before I got started..




No reflection at all, just hard water etching!


Some spot touch up paint, some car lots will do this sort of thing!


50/50 on the hood after 2 passes with SIP/Orange at 1800rpm






This same spot painting up close..


Now fixed..


Before..


After 2 passes with SIP/Orange at 1800rpm


50/50 of trunk..

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Final Rinse..


Some sun shots I managed to get before sundown..


Rear 1/4 panel..


Trunk..


Roof..


Some reflections..
Now some afters..




















And a couple overal after shots..

dc4_wHORE

wow.. i wish my black car looked that nice. how long did it take?

=honda4life=

Damn thats sexy. Good Job! How much did you charge?

Presidential_Detail

I spent about 15 hours on this one..

BDogggUT34

Wow, looks incredible. Are there spots that you have to polish by hand? Or are you able to use the rotary most places?

Presidential_Detail

I was able to use a rotary, but like on the front fenders Id have to tape off sections so my backing plate wouldnt touch the adjacent panel. I also have a 3" backing plate and pads which helps for the super tight areas!

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iTrader: (1)

one of my favorite cars! black cars suck!! presidential does it again!

builthatch

for your rotary?

dang, i didn't know small plates like that were available for anything other than PC...

interesting!

Presidential_Detail

Yep, they sure are! Very funny looking on it though! haha!

builthatch

whew...i bet those little pads can generate heat VERY easily on a rotary. i know a PC it's easy to heat things up with a high texture 4" pad, vs say a 5.5 which will really take some negligence to heat up.

nskforlife

i use "buff n shine" 4in pads. they work pretty well. i'm in the testing waters phase of learning how to do some extensive paint recovery.

nandayo

I want to learn how to do that some day. Awesome work BTW! It looks clean as fawk now that you did your magic.

Presidential_Detail

Thanks guys!

B18C_EH3

Nice work! I wish you were closer

How did you get those blemishes off the back bumper/quarter panel?

Presidential_Detail

They came off with an medium aggressive polish using the high speed buffer.