Porsche 996

[Gleaming Kleen]

hi guys just thought id post up bit of my work.

This was booked in over 2 days and just returned from a few days at "Spa" race circuit and has over 600BHP and a few other Mods

First up was to clean the wheels with P21S wheel gel and various brushes.

Tyres and wheel arches cleaned with Megs Super Degreaser

Vehicle was then soaked with a citrus degreaser including door shut

vehicle was washed with megs shampoo plus and a ***** sponge and then vehicle was sprayed with AS Tardis to help with the claying

Vehicle was then clayed with Sonus green and last Touch as lube

Paint reading were taken with the bonnet showing a reading that showed it had been resprayed with rest of vehicle averaging 100-110microns apart from roof which showed 70 a average of 70 microns

Some of the defects

the true extent of the defects cleary shown with the halogen lights

I decided to hit the bonnet first which was done with 3m Fast Cut Plus on a cutting Pad and took 2-3 hits

Once i finished the bonnet I started to work on the front wings and work my way down the car using menz 3.02 amd a 3m black waffle pad and this is when the problems begin. The "sticky paint syndrome started at this point and the polish instantly started gumming up and the paint grabbing the pad so I gave up with taking correction shots. This really tried my patience and made it into a long day and several times I had to stop to calm down. I tried everything i had but found adding Ultra Fina and loads of last touch helped a little but still fought all the way with it and had to change my techinque

50/50's

Before

After

Before

After

After this I refined the finish using Ultrfina on a 3m blue pad and gave the vehicle a rinse before giving it a wipe down with IPA. 3 coats of zaino Z2 was applied to paintwork and wheels and then a final wipe down with Z8

Tyres were treated with 2 coats of z16 and wheels also recieved a coat of zaino cs

Afters

thanks for looking

 

[tmacsad]

Nice

 

[jaybs02]

Beautiful job :bigups

Love the car :drool:

 

[southerndetail]

Do you have any pics of your rig?

 

[Gleaming Kleen]

Do you have any pics of your rig?

I will post some tommorow for you SouthernDetail

thanks for the comments guys

 

[Old Pirate]

Hate them days of the sticky paint syndrome, I know the pain it can be, but the end result looks awesome. Great recovery Gleaming Kleen...............:cheers:

 

[CharlesW]

:bigups :bigups :bigups
Were the swirls caused by quick wipe downs at the race circuit? It almost looked like it had been wet sanded.
Whatever, you did a great job taking care of them.

Kind of off topic, but can that type of car get much use of the horsepower other than at a track? I was under the opinion that open space was not real common in England. (Not that it's that easy to find open uncrowded roads here, either.)

 

[Gleaming Kleen]

:bigups :bigups :bigups
Were the swirls caused by quick wipe downs at the race circuit? It almost looked like it had been wet sanded.
Whatever, you did a great job taking care of them.

Kind of off topic, but can that type of car get much use of the horsepower other than at a track? I was under the opinion that open space was not real common in England. (Not that it's that easy to find open uncrowded roads here, either.)

it was done from just poor wash techinques. The owner said he never washed the car till he got the car back to the UK from the track and even then it sat for days before he ever washed it.

And yes that kind of horsepower is only really for the track..Thats the only time owner drove it..Good to see a car being used properly and pushed

 

[hemin8r]

Nice job on that Porsche GK. The color almost seemed to change on the polished side of your 50/50 shots.