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A gentleman from Rhode Island had contacted Rick and I regarding a paint correction on a 1986 Porsche 930 Turbo single stage red and was looking to have it brought back to it's maximum glow and have all the scratches and swirls removed. He said that it had some thinning paint in few certain areas from all the years of polishing and that it was painted over 10 years ago. It also had some sand blast pitting from all the years of driving on the hood and rear quarters. He wasn't expecting a miracle, but we told him that we would exceed his expectations and not to worry.
Rick was going to work on this one with me, but he was putting his heart and sole into an M5 that he was working on. He did wish me luck and told me to have fun!
I noticed when washing the car it was beading tremendously and wasn't sure if it was Zymol or Zaino, but I knew it was a high quality beading product. I inspected all the moldings and noticed heavy wax caking ( many years of ) so I knew it was some sort of carnauba.The owner said he had just waxed it and it was Zymol Concours. I then proceeded with an alkaline based wash to remove the silicones from the wax and spent many hours removing the old embedded wax from the cracks, crevices, and moldings. I wanted to make sure the surface was 100% clean and clear so there were no polishing issues at all. I then clayed the whole body perfect and soaked the whole car in 91% IPA to remove any little faint traces of anything. This was not fun. This process took a total of 6 hours.
I then inspected the paint heavily and marked out each panel of the car on paper and highlighted all the trouble spots. There were only like 5 mild weak spots on the car and wasn't all too bad for being a repaint over ten years ago and polished how many times by who knows. I did find a piece of blue wool in the rear badge that was caked in there for many years. It looked like they didn't even tape anything off the last time being polished. I have done a lot of these cars and I always see the same areas where bodyshop/detailers have problems with the edges and corners.
I spent a couple hours taping everything off with 3M tape and taped all the edges off with thin Fineline edgeless tape. I then proceeded with the polishing process for what would work best on this paint without taking much paint off. Menzerna really did wonders considering that it has paraffin in it and it acts as a safeguard on certain soft paints. I had to multi stage all my polishing processes at slower speeds due to being single stage and I needed to keep as much paint on the car as possible. It was a VERY time consuming process but was all well worth it.
The rear quarters, doors, and fenders had some severe scratches and marring that needed to be removed and the paint was a good thickness on these areas. SIP did not want to budge at all, so it was out with some compounds on a polishing pad only. I tried 105 (nothing), 3M X-cut (nothing), a few others (nothing). I had some old school Presta liquid rocks in a bottle and added some additives I got from a chemist last year to the mix and bang it was dead on perfect. I worked all the trouble sections at a slow pace and worked them out to a perfectly flawless finish. I used 91% IPA between each polishing session and nothing was hiding at all. I then finished off the paint with numerous Menzerna polishes to get a spectacular look and correction I was after. I used 2 full bottles of 91% IPA on this whole job.
A total of 30 hours went into this car and they were very long hours on high alert, but all went extremely well. After all the polishing was done and I went over the whole car and inspected it, I then sat back and had a couple cold ones and admired my work with joy. I had a very huge smile on my face on the huge accomplishment I have achieved once again. If you stare at this nose long enough, it looked like it was smiling at me.
The weather was very crappy for a couple days here and I could not get any sun shots. I had to wait a few hours for the rain to stop just to get it outside to get pictures. When the customer came to pick the car up he was in such extreme shock and could not even believe this was even his car. Rick and I were just staring at him for 5 minutes as he was still speachless inspecting the car under halogens. I wish I could have video taped it, it would have been priceless. I felt bad that he had such a long drive but he said it was all well worth it.
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The Befores
Sorry, I could only take a few before pics because my camera batteries died. It had severe RIDS on the fenders and rear quarters and was dulling bad after I had stripped everything off of the car.
A gentleman from Rhode Island had contacted Rick and I regarding a paint correction on a 1986 Porsche 930 Turbo single stage red and was looking to have it brought back to it's maximum glow and have all the scratches and swirls removed. He said that it had some thinning paint in few certain areas from all the years of polishing and that it was painted over 10 years ago. It also had some sand blast pitting from all the years of driving on the hood and rear quarters. He wasn't expecting a miracle, but we told him that we would exceed his expectations and not to worry.
Rick was going to work on this one with me, but he was putting his heart and sole into an M5 that he was working on. He did wish me luck and told me to have fun!
I noticed when washing the car it was beading tremendously and wasn't sure if it was Zymol or Zaino, but I knew it was a high quality beading product. I inspected all the moldings and noticed heavy wax caking ( many years of ) so I knew it was some sort of carnauba.The owner said he had just waxed it and it was Zymol Concours. I then proceeded with an alkaline based wash to remove the silicones from the wax and spent many hours removing the old embedded wax from the cracks, crevices, and moldings. I wanted to make sure the surface was 100% clean and clear so there were no polishing issues at all. I then clayed the whole body perfect and soaked the whole car in 91% IPA to remove any little faint traces of anything. This was not fun. This process took a total of 6 hours.
I then inspected the paint heavily and marked out each panel of the car on paper and highlighted all the trouble spots. There were only like 5 mild weak spots on the car and wasn't all too bad for being a repaint over ten years ago and polished how many times by who knows. I did find a piece of blue wool in the rear badge that was caked in there for many years. It looked like they didn't even tape anything off the last time being polished. I have done a lot of these cars and I always see the same areas where bodyshop/detailers have problems with the edges and corners.
I spent a couple hours taping everything off with 3M tape and taped all the edges off with thin Fineline edgeless tape. I then proceeded with the polishing process for what would work best on this paint without taking much paint off. Menzerna really did wonders considering that it has paraffin in it and it acts as a safeguard on certain soft paints. I had to multi stage all my polishing processes at slower speeds due to being single stage and I needed to keep as much paint on the car as possible. It was a VERY time consuming process but was all well worth it.
The rear quarters, doors, and fenders had some severe scratches and marring that needed to be removed and the paint was a good thickness on these areas. SIP did not want to budge at all, so it was out with some compounds on a polishing pad only. I tried 105 (nothing), 3M X-cut (nothing), a few others (nothing). I had some old school Presta liquid rocks in a bottle and added some additives I got from a chemist last year to the mix and bang it was dead on perfect. I worked all the trouble sections at a slow pace and worked them out to a perfectly flawless finish. I used 91% IPA between each polishing session and nothing was hiding at all. I then finished off the paint with numerous Menzerna polishes to get a spectacular look and correction I was after. I used 2 full bottles of 91% IPA on this whole job.
A total of 30 hours went into this car and they were very long hours on high alert, but all went extremely well. After all the polishing was done and I went over the whole car and inspected it, I then sat back and had a couple cold ones and admired my work with joy. I had a very huge smile on my face on the huge accomplishment I have achieved once again. If you stare at this nose long enough, it looked like it was smiling at me.
The weather was very crappy for a couple days here and I could not get any sun shots. I had to wait a few hours for the rain to stop just to get it outside to get pictures. When the customer came to pick the car up he was in such extreme shock and could not even believe this was even his car. Rick and I were just staring at him for 5 minutes as he was still speachless inspecting the car under halogens. I wish I could have video taped it, it would have been priceless. I felt bad that he had such a long drive but he said it was all well worth it.
Thank you for looking and please leave a comment!!!!
For all you guests looking, please sign up and become an Autopian member, you will be glad that you did. This is the best site bar none. We are all full of extreme knowledge, help, ideas, product advice, etc......
Enjoy
The Befores
Sorry, I could only take a few before pics because my camera batteries died. It had severe RIDS on the fenders and rear quarters and was dulling bad after I had stripped everything off of the car.
Can't wait for that one! :woohoo: