Black porsche Cayenne 800 miles >me *56K* LOL

erik7 said:
Great work.



I just got a 7336 for xmas, and am about to get into the world of polishing. I've been a Zaino user for a long time, but never did the real polishing. My question is how do you test each product? Do you wipe off the old residue and go with a new product to see if it "works"? Do you keep testing on the same panel? How long did it take for you to do all that testing? You listed like every product known to man!!! :)
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I tpyically test on the hood, but for this one I tested on the doors(the lighting that I had made this easier). I just test a product, wipe away, and inspect. For another product, same procedure, but different area. The testing took quite a while, the 3M PI-III MG was the last product that I tried, I almost gave up. :o



Thanks everyone!!
 
damn my family is in the porsche club and a lot of our freinds have cayyannes or however you spell it. this is the BEST looken car i have ever seen. you are my hero. i hope i get as good as u.
 
maybe the DACP and rotary does not work because you are using it at 1000rpm ? I get excellent results with when I'm up at 1500rpm with my orange pad using DACP :nixweiss
 
That is some crazy good work! I can't possibly see how you could mess a new car up that bad. I mean, you'd really have to TRY and screw the finish up. Oh well, at least we Autopian types can capitalize on hackers' crappy work.



Where do you get your pads from? I just got a Makita and I'm researching pads for it. Thanks
 
Porkanbeans said:
That is some crazy good work! I can't possibly see how you could mess a new car up that bad. I mean, you'd really have to TRY and screw the finish up. Oh well, at least we Autopian types can capitalize on hackers' crappy work.



Where do you get your pads from? I just got a Makita and I'm researching pads for it. Thanks
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I typically use the Meguiars pads, polishing mostly (6").



Tumbler, see my reply in the "solstice" thread. :)
 
OMG, what a transformation! Hopefully, someone at that dealership has got brains enough to make you the sole detailer for all their cars. I know I'd go ballistic if my car looked like that.
 
I was really looking forard to these pics after reading your initial write up a few days ago! You didn't dissapoint me!



Excellent work as ever
 
I just wanted to bump this up to the top to bring to everyone's attention that this vehicle was no fluke. It would appear as all of the non-metallic 2006 Black Porsche paint is UBER-soft.



I had this thread in the back of my mind when I went out to detail a brand new (423 miles to be exact) black 997 Carrera S yesterday but had convinced myself that the paint couldn't be as soft as was described here. The owner called me last week frantic becuase he had washed and waxed his new pride and joy ($95,000 worth after options) only to pull it out into the sun and nearly faint. Upon inspection it wasn't as bad as the cayanne here but it was more filled with swirls than my 130K mile Audi that hasn't seen a buffer in 16 months.



In starting in on the car last night I went with an orange light cut pad with SSR2.5 in order to get the majority of the surface cleaned up...some places required 2x application, some required SSR3 to spot fix. What amazed me is how badly this combo micromarred and hazed the paint and also how easy it is to scratch this paint. I kid you not with some of my softest microfiber from pakshak I was scratching the front and rear bumper with the cloth when removing polish residue. I thought that it was a dirty cloth but I could scratch the bumpers with ANY and ALL microfibers that I have. The metal surfaces were a little easier to work with. Onto cleaning up the hazing and micromarring. SSR1 and a white pad made things better...but there's still slight micromarring that I can see. I'm headed back tomoorrow with MG as suggested here and likely a finishing pad to finish up the polishing. I'm deathly afraid to even apply and remove sealants at this point becuase the paint is THAT easy to scratch.



Anyhow...great work man...I know what an ordeal this is as I'm only half way done with a similar project and your results speak for themselves.



Andy
 
I tried 2.5 at one point and the micromarring was so bad that I was scared to continue.



Are you working via PC or rotary? Either way IMO, the 3M PI-III MG will definitely be your polish of choice.
 
I've only started to use a rotary on customer cars about 6 months ago and to tell you the truth I'm deathly afraid of using it on this car so everything has been done via PC. SSR1 on a polishing pad seemed to bring out most of the micromarring (or fill it in...still need to do a wipe down to determine that). I've got MG and FP with me for this evening and I'm hoping when finished to have the following combo



SSR2.5 via light cut and polishing pads

SSR1 via polishing pad

MG ( or FP) via finishing pad.



Probably use another finishing pad to apply wolfgang and top with OCW.



My biggest fear at this point is not inducing more scratches or marring seeing how easily the bumper got light surface scratching I tried cobra, pakshak ultra's, and excel yellow supremes and all of them would leave fine scratches in the bumpers but would work fine on the metal surfaces. I ended up using pakshak ultra-fine's for the bumpers.



Andy
 
While I haven't run into one of the super soft paint jobs, I do wonder if this is a job for Menzerna polishes. Have either of you tried them on such finishes?
 
SpoiledMan said:
While I haven't run into one of the super soft paint jobs, I do wonder if this is a job for Menzerna polishes. Have either of you tried them on such finishes?
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I'm taking Menzerna FP with me tonight along with the 3M MG...but in my experience the FP is not any milder than SSR1. I'm willing to try just about anything at this point on this car to make it as perfect as I can.



Andy
 
Sometimes a very soft knitted lambswool pad is the only way to produce a fine, marring free surface on these finishes.



Why? :nixweiss I never had the 'luck' to try OCP, or 3M PI-III on this kind of paint...
 
Interesting about the super-soft clear. Maybe that explains why the black Cayenne turbo my wife looked at was so marred up (she was just appalled).



FWIW, I too have found some Cobra MFs and others to be not soft enough for some paints (my Jag's lacquer for instance). It's sure a drag to use a fine polish and good technique just to mess it up when buffing off the residue. I'm getting to where I only use the softest MFs for just about everything, figuring better safe than sorry.



Yesterday I found that my local autobody/paint supply place still has some quarts of PI-III RC/MG (05933/05937) on the shelves. People might want to check out such places and see if they can still find such products that way.
 
Wow, I odn't know if I am late to the party, but that's some amazing work. :woot:



If I ever get the chance to run into ya, I'm buying you the beverage of your choice. :clap:
 
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