Migue
New member
This vehicle arrived looking like it had not been washed/cleaned in almost a year or more...caked dust on the interior surfaces and all kinds of staining,mold and junk on the exterior paint. Paint was 100% flat, no shine whatsoever. Had to split the detail into 2 sessions : 1st one (about 5hrs) was to do a thorough interior detail, exterior thorough wash and decontamination to prep for the next session(paint polishing). Interior:
-Thorough vaccum
-Seats were lightly shampooed
-All interior cloth was steamed cleaned
-Interior plastics wiped down with Megs APC 10:1
-Fabric protected with 303 fabric protector
-Hard surfaces protected with 303 Aerospace
Exterior:
-Door jambs cleaned with APC 10:1 and various brushes
-Tires and Wheel Wells cleaned with various brushes and APC
-Washed with Megs car Soap
-Rinsed, then Ferrex Sparyed on paint to start decontamination process, let it dwell for a couple of minutes
-Thorough rinse
-Nanoskin Red(aggressive) scrub pad was used with the wash soap as lube(didn't use glide since the paint was in such bad condition,what harm could i have possibly caused?), spent a lot of time on the hood and roof due to all the heavy embedded contaminants that sat there for so long,my nanoskin pad/sponge looked pretty beat after i was done.
Car was dried,tires dressed and sent Home until the next weekend to finish the work.
I tried a test spot using a LC CCS White Pad with HD Speed on the Flex 3401 with pretty decent results, but the remaining stains on the paint needed something a bit more aggressive so i stepped it up to a LC CCS Orange light cutting pad and the HD Speed. I wanted to see how Speed would handle this job and i was very impressed and please. Note that the objective was NOT to do any paint correction, but to bring back and rejuvenate the white clean color of the car,clean the paint and get rid of all the oxidation. the Orange pad finished up pretty well on this paint without any micromarring and it did great at giving the car some shine once again.
Head lights were treated with M105 on a 4" Orange LC CCS Pad on the PC, followed by M205 on a white pad.
Even with the heat at 95 + degrees, i was able to work around the car(indoors) while leaving the product on it to haze, and it all came off so effortlessly in the end.
You will see in some of the final shots that there are defects and RIDS on the paint, but once again the owner of the car was ok with this since she just wanted her car to be shiny and white once again. Pictures below, enjoy!
Final product :
Exterior upon arrival:
TEST SPOT:
Ferrex in action:
-Thorough vaccum
-Seats were lightly shampooed
-All interior cloth was steamed cleaned
-Interior plastics wiped down with Megs APC 10:1
-Fabric protected with 303 fabric protector
-Hard surfaces protected with 303 Aerospace
Exterior:
-Door jambs cleaned with APC 10:1 and various brushes
-Tires and Wheel Wells cleaned with various brushes and APC
-Washed with Megs car Soap
-Rinsed, then Ferrex Sparyed on paint to start decontamination process, let it dwell for a couple of minutes
-Thorough rinse
-Nanoskin Red(aggressive) scrub pad was used with the wash soap as lube(didn't use glide since the paint was in such bad condition,what harm could i have possibly caused?), spent a lot of time on the hood and roof due to all the heavy embedded contaminants that sat there for so long,my nanoskin pad/sponge looked pretty beat after i was done.
Car was dried,tires dressed and sent Home until the next weekend to finish the work.
I tried a test spot using a LC CCS White Pad with HD Speed on the Flex 3401 with pretty decent results, but the remaining stains on the paint needed something a bit more aggressive so i stepped it up to a LC CCS Orange light cutting pad and the HD Speed. I wanted to see how Speed would handle this job and i was very impressed and please. Note that the objective was NOT to do any paint correction, but to bring back and rejuvenate the white clean color of the car,clean the paint and get rid of all the oxidation. the Orange pad finished up pretty well on this paint without any micromarring and it did great at giving the car some shine once again.
Head lights were treated with M105 on a 4" Orange LC CCS Pad on the PC, followed by M205 on a white pad.
Even with the heat at 95 + degrees, i was able to work around the car(indoors) while leaving the product on it to haze, and it all came off so effortlessly in the end.
You will see in some of the final shots that there are defects and RIDS on the paint, but once again the owner of the car was ok with this since she just wanted her car to be shiny and white once again. Pictures below, enjoy!
Final product :
Exterior upon arrival:
TEST SPOT:
Ferrex in action:
