Just had the chance to resize, border, and post up these shots, but this detail and debadge session is about 2 weeks old. I got this car in December and I already have 11k on the clock 
. I drive this car about 700 miles per week and consequently, it sees some road abuse. It's been washed by 3 machines (1 in dealer prep, 2 after oil changes) and until now I only had a layer of Clear Seal on it (3 months old, beading well 
---in the badged pic). The car needed some claying on the nose and lower panels and some swirls had accumulated. Being that I use it so often, I wasn't going for perfection, but I wanted to make it more presentable (to me---everyone else thinks I'm crazy). To date, I have removed the front plate, tinted it (35%), and debadged the "SEBRING" from the tail.
To debadge the letters, I heated them up briefly with a hair dryer, then used fishing line to pull off. Following, I used AutoGlym's Intensive Tar Remover to loosen the adhesive, then a plastic razorblade to complete the deed. I polished out the trunk 3 times with 106FF to insure any scuffs and marrs were removed.
My finals on the detail were:
-Z7 Wash
-Z18 Clay with Z7 as lube
-Menzerna PO106FF via rotary and LC CCS White Polishing Pad @ 1300 rpm
-IPA wipedown
-Zaino Z6 wipedown
-Zaino Z5 Pro (ZFX'd) x 2 (on paint, glass, trim)
-Zaino CS x 1 (on wheels)
-Zaino Z16 x 2 (on tires)
-CG VRT cut 2.5:1 in wells
Badged
Debadged
I'm prepping Liz's Saab for sale tomorrow, so expect some more pics then.
Cheers!
. I drive this car about 700 miles per week and consequently, it sees some road abuse. It's been washed by 3 machines (1 in dealer prep, 2 after oil changes) and until now I only had a layer of Clear Seal on it (3 months old, beading well ---in the badged pic). The car needed some claying on the nose and lower panels and some swirls had accumulated. Being that I use it so often, I wasn't going for perfection, but I wanted to make it more presentable (to me---everyone else thinks I'm crazy). To date, I have removed the front plate, tinted it (35%), and debadged the "SEBRING" from the tail.To debadge the letters, I heated them up briefly with a hair dryer, then used fishing line to pull off. Following, I used AutoGlym's Intensive Tar Remover to loosen the adhesive, then a plastic razorblade to complete the deed. I polished out the trunk 3 times with 106FF to insure any scuffs and marrs were removed.
My finals on the detail were:
-Z7 Wash
-Z18 Clay with Z7 as lube
-Menzerna PO106FF via rotary and LC CCS White Polishing Pad @ 1300 rpm
-IPA wipedown
-Zaino Z6 wipedown
-Zaino Z5 Pro (ZFX'd) x 2 (on paint, glass, trim)
-Zaino CS x 1 (on wheels)
-Zaino Z16 x 2 (on tires)
-CG VRT cut 2.5:1 in wells
Badged
Debadged
I'm prepping Liz's Saab for sale tomorrow, so expect some more pics then.
Cheers!
, only the premium models. My dad's 300C does have CeramiClear, it's great.