2012 Ferrari 458 Italia Grigio Silverstone by Richie's Custom Detailing

[Richie's Custom Detailing]

I was contacted by my client after taking delivery of his 2012 458 Italia. He was extremely disappointed with the overall condition of this car at the time of delivery. I was called in to bring the cars overall appearance to a proper state, so let's get on with it.

After retrieving the car.

All rubber trim would need attending to. Notice the compound residue.

Every crevice of this car had compound residue in them.

A thorough wash and decon was carried out.

 

[Richie's Custom Detailing]

Wheels cleaned with Sonax.

Spotless.

The car had some LSP so it had to be stripped away.

Beading.

No beading. The lower half of the hood was covered with PPF...more on that later.

The rest of the wash was carried out with a multi step process.

Taped off and ready for the correction phase.

More residue around the emblem.

Now the defect removal.

Some RIDS on the roof.

Corrected.

Passenger rear quarter before.

Corrected.

Time to address the area around the emblem.

Dialed in.

 

[Richie's Custom Detailing]

Lower rocker panels needed some work.

50/50

Corrected.

More RIDS.

Gone.

The rear bumper had some serious RIDS.

Corrected.

More defects.

Corrected.

Time to replace the emblem.

Glass needed some work.

Spotless.

Exhaust tips were a little rough.

During.

Done.

Afters.

Some shots inside.

 

[Richie's Custom Detailing]

Now remember the PPF mentioned earlier?

These defects are caused due to installer error and lack of pride in your work. This installer has been doing this for seven years and still can't get it right. If I did the install it would never leave with defects like these.

Sun shots.

 

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Epic work! I love that car!

 

[tropicsteve]

it's hard to believe a dealer would release a car of that caliber to the owner looking like that. you definitely brought the finish back to where it should be. very nice.

 

[DKumarm3]

nice work bro.

 

[arack]

You did a great job with this cool car.

 

[Pats300zx]

Great job Richie !!

 

[Todd@RUPES]

That looks great Richie, great color on that car as well!!! Thanks for sharing and I hope all is well!