Apollo_Auto
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Hi boys, girls and others 
! It's been a while since I've posted here so I thought I would share some of my recent work!
It's been a while since I've done a write up and I have a ton of cars to post, but I really enjoyed this one so I fingered I'd share it first. He (the car's name is "Odin") belongs to a good friend of mine and we've been trying to get him detailed for several weeks, but something always came up. My driveway is now finished and my buddy took off to Colorado so I had Odin for a week to get him "Jesse'd up"! His previous car was a Maserati Coupé GT named "Gino" that I was rather fond of, but my buddy insisted that he be replaced.
I was sad to see him go, as I've taken such good care of him, but on the way home with Odin my foot "slipped" and hit the gas and my tears of sadness quickly (I mean, REALLY quickly) turned into tears of butt-puckering joy. 505 HP is something else on this little car... On to the detail!
The paint was in pretty bad shape and it had obviously been "polished" a couple of times.
Wheels not too bad
Good amount of bug damage on the front bumper
Tons of polish/wax in the crooks and nannies...
Eeeeeek...
At least someone's been playing with him properly
I handled the engine first with Wolf's "The Outsider" APC and various brushes. After that I hand dried and dressed everything with Wolf's "Black Out" tire and trim restore
Some glue that needed to be removed
Uhh... so I removed it
After...
The worst part of the entire paint... Not only full of holograms, but riddled with RIDS and there were some deep ones here. The bonnet was resprayed and although they didn't do a bad job on it, the color was off and the paint was EXTREMELY hard!! Every time I think I've encountered the "hardest paint in the world" something like this comes along and just throws me for a loop! I put about 6 hours total into the bonnet alone over the 4 day detail... Curse you painter man...
The boot wasn't as bad, but still full of RIDS
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" Removing the badges was a must, there was just too much crud in them to leave them on. If you put a piece of masking tape on the badges before you remove them, you will keep them in their original alignment.
Then take some dental floss and gently cut away the foam tape behind them. The tape also keeps them from falling on the ground, or more importantly the paint.
Some serious gunk behind there...
I sprayed this several times with tar and glue remover to let it soak. After it was nice and gummy it was "easy" to remove.
This is what was left behind... Glue as hard as a rock! Nothing would budge it so I had to machine it off with a wool pad and Wolf's WP-5N polishing compound
Left a pretty nice finish after the polish broke down fully!
Badges up in my cave and glue boogers removed with my trusty Victorinox bottle opener
Double-sided foam tape pieced on
Done one letter at a time
Done!
One of the only sun shots I could get... the weather has been pretty cloudy lately
Carpets and leather cleaned with Wolf's WT-1N APC
Exhaust cleaned with steel wool and some metal polish. This isn't ours, but we're working on a metal polish :thumb:
Lamps polished with Wolf's WP-1N finishing polish "The Jeweler" and a finishing pad. The rest of the car was polished with WP-5N and our new cutting pad (soon to be out, but we're still waiting on them!) and finished with our finishing pad and WP-1N. After all the polishing was complete, I gave it a wash with a new shampoo that I'm testing to remove all the oils and waxes. Tires were dressed with WO-1n "Black Out", leather conditioned with WL-1N leather conditioner Looking good so far! Of course, the LSP for this car was none other than Wolf's Body Wrap nano coating and rims sealed with "Rim Shield" nano rim sealant
Enjoy the afters :thumb:!
You can see some of the RIDS that were too deep to remove in this picture. No, not all details are 100% corrections, so it's always best to know what you just have to let go!
Love this shot...
One of the other sun shots I managed to snap between cloud gaps...
! It's been a while since I've posted here so I thought I would share some of my recent work! It's been a while since I've done a write up and I have a ton of cars to post, but I really enjoyed this one so I fingered I'd share it first
. He (the car's name is "Odin") belongs to a good friend of mine and we've been trying to get him detailed for several weeks, but something always came up. My driveway is now finished and my buddy took off to Colorado so I had Odin for a week to get him "Jesse'd up"! His previous car was a Maserati Coupé GT named "Gino" that I was rather fond of, but my buddy insisted that he be replaced.
I was sad to see him go, as I've taken such good care of him, but on the way home with Odin my foot "slipped" and hit the gas and my tears of sadness quickly (I mean, REALLY quickly) turned into tears of butt-puckering joy
. 505 HP is something else on this little car... On to the detail! The paint was in pretty bad shape and it had obviously been "polished" a couple of times.
Wheels not too bad
Good amount of bug damage on the front bumper
Tons of polish/wax in the crooks and nannies...
Eeeeeek...
At least someone's been playing with him properly
I handled the engine first with Wolf's "The Outsider" APC and various brushes. After that I hand dried and dressed everything with Wolf's "Black Out" tire and trim restore
Some glue that needed to be removed
Uhh... so I removed it
After...
The worst part of the entire paint... Not only full of holograms, but riddled with RIDS and there were some deep ones here. The bonnet was resprayed and although they didn't do a bad job on it, the color was off and the paint was EXTREMELY hard!! Every time I think I've encountered the "hardest paint in the world" something like this comes along and just throws me for a loop! I put about 6 hours total into the bonnet alone over the 4 day detail... Curse you painter man...
The boot wasn't as bad, but still full of RIDS
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" Removing the badges was a must, there was just too much crud in them to leave them on. If you put a piece of masking tape on the badges before you remove them, you will keep them in their original alignment.
Then take some dental floss and gently cut away the foam tape behind them. The tape also keeps them from falling on the ground, or more importantly the paint.
Some serious gunk behind there...
I sprayed this several times with tar and glue remover to let it soak. After it was nice and gummy it was "easy" to remove.
This is what was left behind... Glue as hard as a rock! Nothing would budge it so I had to machine it off with a wool pad and Wolf's WP-5N polishing compound
Left a pretty nice finish after the polish broke down fully!
Badges up in my cave and glue boogers removed with my trusty Victorinox bottle opener
Double-sided foam tape pieced on
Done one letter at a time
Done!
One of the only sun shots I could get... the weather has been pretty cloudy lately
Carpets and leather cleaned with Wolf's WT-1N APC
Exhaust cleaned with steel wool and some metal polish. This isn't ours, but we're working on a metal polish :thumb:
Lamps polished with Wolf's WP-1N finishing polish "The Jeweler" and a finishing pad. The rest of the car was polished with WP-5N and our new cutting pad (soon to be out, but we're still waiting on them
!) and finished with our finishing pad and WP-1N. After all the polishing was complete, I gave it a wash with a new shampoo that I'm testing to remove all the oils and waxes. Tires were dressed with WO-1n "Black Out", leather conditioned with WL-1N leather conditioner Looking good so far! Of course, the LSP for this car was none other than Wolf's Body Wrap nano coating and rims sealed with "Rim Shield" nano rim sealant
Enjoy the afters :thumb:!
You can see some of the RIDS that were too deep to remove in this picture. No, not all details are 100% corrections, so it's always best to know what you just have to let go!
Love this shot...
One of the other sun shots I managed to snap between cloud gaps...
