The detail of this 1997 F355 Spider was completed over the course of a couple of days. The first day was just correct the hood. Apparently the car has had some paint work and it looked liked someone wetsanded the passenger side of the hood and never buffed it out! After talking with the owner of the car, we arranged to have the rest of the car detailed. Due to the shop performing some work I revisited the car two more times finally finishing today (Wednesday). I really didn’t bother with before (besides the hood shots below) since the car swirling was not that bad at all. The challenges the car presented resided from the massive overspray that contaminated the paint of the entire car, creating dullness. The interior needed some love as well, but I forgot to take before pics of that. Spent close to 14 hours on the car total. A LOT of time was spent claying to try and remove the landed overspray.
Process:
Hood:
EC with Foamed Wool @ 1800rpms
Menz SIP with Orange Cut @ 1500rpms
Menz 106FF with green CSS @ 1500rpms
Rest of the car:
Since car was relatively clean, I qd’ed and proceeded to clay.
More clay, more clay.
Then polished with Menz SIP and Polish Pad @ 1500rpms
Followed with Menz 106FF and Green CSS pad @ 1500rpms
Washed to remove dusting and cleaned wheels
Zymol Ital Applied by hand.
Tires dressed with Z16
Glass cleaned with IG and followed with FK425
Interior:
Vacuumed
Leather and carpets cleaned with Folex.
Leather treated with Z10 twice (two different days)
Plastic, vinyl, dash, etc treated with 303.
Here are the pics! ( I took a bunch since I provide the link to the owners of the car. If they pick out a few, I usually send them full-resolution shots.)
Hood Before (The heavy sanding marks from the body shop):
Hood After:
Hood Center Before ( Swirls and marring):
Hood After:
Bunch of After Shots:
The Sun was in and out the entire time I was shooting pics, hence the different lighting and color changes in the paint!
Process:
Hood:
EC with Foamed Wool @ 1800rpms
Menz SIP with Orange Cut @ 1500rpms
Menz 106FF with green CSS @ 1500rpms
Rest of the car:
Since car was relatively clean, I qd’ed and proceeded to clay.
More clay, more clay.
Then polished with Menz SIP and Polish Pad @ 1500rpms
Followed with Menz 106FF and Green CSS pad @ 1500rpms
Washed to remove dusting and cleaned wheels
Zymol Ital Applied by hand.
Tires dressed with Z16
Glass cleaned with IG and followed with FK425
Interior:
Vacuumed
Leather and carpets cleaned with Folex.
Leather treated with Z10 twice (two different days)
Plastic, vinyl, dash, etc treated with 303.
Here are the pics! ( I took a bunch since I provide the link to the owners of the car. If they pick out a few, I usually send them full-resolution shots.)
Hood Before (The heavy sanding marks from the body shop):
Hood After:
Hood Center Before ( Swirls and marring):
Hood After:
Bunch of After Shots:
The Sun was in and out the entire time I was shooting pics, hence the different lighting and color changes in the paint!
