Beat-up 2009 IS250 Revival

[Darkstar752]

This car came to me from a friend looking to refresh her car, I haven't seen it in at least a year. That's probably not the only thing it hasn't seen for a year, I would say a wash is up on the list too. This car had the toughest brake dust I've come across so far. Also, I was using my sister's DSLR, and I lost it for a good chunk of the detail so I apologize for the lack of correction pictures.



This was just a one-step detail, just looking to bring a little life back into the paint. Please excuse the dirty garage, we just moved into the new house and we're still trying to clean it up and get everything out of the way. Sadly, a couple days after the detail, an old man managed to back up into her car and smash the front bumper :shakehead:





Wash:

Meguiars Gold Class

2BM w/ Grit Guard

Sheepskin mitt

Uber red and blue WW drying towels



Clay:

Riccardo Yellow Clay

ONR Clay lube

Uber red towels



Paint:

Makita 9227C/3M Perfect-It backing plate

3M Black Waffle pad/Menzerna P203S

Uber Original MF Towels

M105 inside handles



LSP:

Gloss-it Concourso Gloss

Uber Red notched applicator

Uber No Name Super Plush towel



Misc:

303 Aerospace

1Z Cockpit Premium

Various Brushes and MF towels

Meg's Wheel Brightener

Folex

Meguiars Hyper Dressing

Meguiars APC +

Meg's Endurance Tire Shine

Leather Master's Vital Reconditioning Cream

Lexol Leather Cleaner

UQW in door jambs

Surf City Grime Destroyer

Stoner's Tarminator

Meguiars All Metal Polish

0000 Steel Wool

Poorboy's Wheel Sealant

1Z Gummi Pfledge

Black WOW



Here's the car as it arrived:

Caked-on brake dust:

APC soak for front bumper and all lower panels:

Trim agitated:

Here's how dirty it was, driver's side door not done yet. After shot of the rim cleaning, now these rims took 4-5 round of wheel brightener EACH. The most I've ever needed before was 2 rounds at the most. This is when I realized this car was gonna be harder then I thought:

Clay bar:

The car was rough:

PTG readings taken, the car was showing consistent healthy readings of 160-150:

Some of the defects present in the car, it was very hard to capture these. Hard water spotting:

Random spots on the car looked like they had been washed with a brillo pad. Also a deep scratch in this picture.:

Hazy headlight correction. Before:

After. No wetsanding, just a polish to clear up the haze:

Tails also corrected:

Sorry no paint correction pics! Here are the afters. Please Excuse the minor streaking in the first one:

The pearl really popped and shimmered. Here's it reflecting the light onto my garage door icture:

Only 2 daytime during correction pics:

Clean rims, but sadly the brake dust had just been on for too long. There was nothing I could do :shakehead:

 

[Darkstar752]

Thanks for reading :thumb:

 

[Concourswanna b]

Those wheels were insane. Good detail. Nice historic house in the background as well. That looks like a nice place to work out of. Glass cabinet doors.

 

[alloutdetailing]

I love the fact that your garage floor is a mess with the extension cord and buffer on the floor, polish on the floor! Seems like everyone here I see has everything so perfectly place. I have no clue how the hell they can work like that! haha Nice work!