Detailer's Domain: S2000/Swissvax Glacier

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Believe it or not this was the first S2000 I have ever done, not a bad car.

I got this car from an S2KI.com member. Great guy always pushes for me on the board.



I guess I didn't really know what I was in for, the car just got back from the body shop and as we all know this car had over spray, rail dust, just about everything from sitting at the body shop for awhile. The interior was pretty dusty and unkept (I believe this was the body shop not the owner)



So here was the plan.. Wash, Clay, Menzerna PO203 with an Uber Orange/Green Pad (Makita/Metabo) and to finish Menzerna PO85RD with an Uber Blue Pad.



The wax well I finally got to try out Swissvax Glacier (and I like it, I'm going to try it out on a silver car next)



The interior, well the usual, Leather Master Strong Cleaner followed by Leather Master Vital.

Dash and plastics cleaned and treated with Einszett Cockpit.



Windows were cleaned with Lusso Glass Polish and an Uber Glass Towel.



As for the engine we used Adam's All Purpose (a nice inexpensive degreaser) and a Swissvax Wheel Brush. Einszett Vinyl Rubber Care for the rubber and Black Wow for the plastics.



Products Used:

Exterior:

Lusso Auto Bath in the Cam Spray Foam Canon

Swissvax Paint Rubber and Optimum Instant Detail Spray and Gloss Enhancer for clay lube

The Uber Menzerna PO203S/PO85RD Kit

Menzerna Top Inspection

Swissvax Glacier



Wheels and Tires

Uber Wheel/Tire/Wheel Well Kit

Replaced Swissvax Pneu on this one for Einszett Vinyl Rubber Care



Interior and Glass

Lusso Glass Polish

Leather Master Strong Cleaner

Leather Master Vital

Einszett Cockpit

Einszett Plastic/Vinyl Cleaner



Engine:

Adam's All Purpose Cleaner

Black Wow (on covers and plastics)

Einszett Vinyl and Rubber Care (rubber etc)



Tools:

Infratech 5300

Brinkmann MaxFire

Metabo PE12-175

Makita 9227 Hi Speed Rotary

The Uber Foam Pads (5.5inch)

Tons of "Uber" Microfiber Towels

Uber Drying Towels

Cam Spray 1500A with Cam Spray Foam Gun





Here are the pictures and more descriptions:



Before:

Door jambs are extremely dirty

Trunk jambs filthy

Dirty Cowl

By the time I started on the car I wasn't able to get the rail dust on the car and good before shots but you get the picture with the shots above, the rest of the car was just as bad.



We started with the engine first:



Engine before shots:

Engine with Adam's All Purpose dwelling:

Cam Spray Pressure Washer with Cam Spray Foam Canon with Lusso Auto Bathe, worked awesome and smelled great!

Uber Boar's Hair Wash Brush in action:

After the rinse we dried the car with an Uber Jumbo Waffle Weave Towel

The car was clayed with a Swissvax Clay Bar and Optimum Instant Detail Spray (the Swissvax Mixing bottle insures proper measurement and the nozzle is very efficient)

Believe it or not there was rail dust/small rust specks even in the door sills

Trunk:



Top Inspection was used to clean them up a bit.

Before:

 

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After of a small section of the trunk jamb

Door jamb before:

After:

Einszett Plastic/Vinyl Cleaner with Swissvax Brush used to clean the cowl

Breaking out a new Metabo for the shop and for customers to demo

Metabo in action:

Raggtopp was used to clean and protect the vinyl top

Einszett Vinyl Rubber Care in the rubber parts of the engine

Engine After:

After the wheels were dried we clayed the contaminants off them (tons of it)



Products used Uber Wheel/Wheel Well/Tire Kit (with Einszett Vinyl Rubber Care)



Before

Claying:

Take a look at the wheel after the contaminants were removed

Swissvax Autobahn removal

Final shot

As you know its hard to take shots of defects on white but here goes:



Before:

After:

Interior:

This should tell you the story of the interior in 1 shot:

or 2

Dusting:

Wiping:

Cleaning windows:

Vac

Afters:

Swissvax Glacier

 

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Final shots of the car:

Enjoy!

 

[jordanrossbell]

Looks great Phil!

 

[Rickymx]

i think white rims are a big problem!

nice job :2thumbs:

 

[DetailersDomain]

thanks guys!

 

[trhland]

nice job phil!!!

 

[rickssimpala]

I love white cars. that looks awsome. :clap:

 

[daman]

Love white,,Phil how strong/safe is your Adam's All Purpose Cleaner???



great job :drool:

 

[imported_OrangeStang]

Great job!



Blows me away how people can spend money top mod their cars and yet then treat them so poorly.

 

[DetailersDomain]

adam's APC worked well.



orangestang, unfortunately it wasn't the owner it was the body shop that worked on it.

 

[MarcHarris]

i still can't get over those wheels. lot of detail went to them and it paid off. looks outstanding!

 

[DetailersDomain]

Mutt, they were an extreme pain! is all I can say and honestly since the customer didn't pay to have them taken off they were about 80% by my standards.

 

[SoFreshSoCean]

Looks great! Good Job.

 

[jmkiang]

Great job Phil!



I need to order some of those Uber BHBs soon

 

[AeroCleanse]

Always a great job!

 

[DetailersDomain]

thanks guys!

 

[jucaraman]

very unique look to that car, good job I bet that riccardo clay made it alot easier to deal with

 

[DetailersDomain]

the clay was actually some of Swissvax Paint Rubber that I have in yellow.

 

[SonicBlue05GT]

nice job..



on a side note, that hood is extremely cheap and tacky looking