Apollo_Auto
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Hi all! Well like the title says, this bad boy is going to an exhibition this weekend and the owner told me, "Jesse, thisa car needsa to be perfecto, capisci?" OK then! Once again I didn't have the opportunity to wash the car 
:wall, so I had to do a ONR/water wipe on the entire car to remove whatever dust that was on it. It wasn't dirty really, just some shop dust on it, but the wheel wells were full of dirt. I scrubbed them with a brush before they took it to my work area because I didn't want to take a chance on making the car dusty... they're still very dirty but before they take it to the show they're going to clean them... I hope. Anyway, this car has a little more than 3,800 Km on so so yeah, there were some scratches on it. Also, the whole car was full of holograms left by the guys at the factory. After the car was eherm, washed... I clayed it with my ONR/water solution and removed some pretty caked on dirt and dust; there was a pretty thick layer of it. After that I taped off the car and did another walk around to hunt for RIDS. I didn't stop and take a picture of every one of them, because there were too many and I was fighting with the lighting conditions the whole time... I'm lucky I caught the ones I did on camera. Here's some before pictures:
Lots of water spots, sand, dust, etc. in the engine compartment
Tar spots on the "gills" and the bottom half of the car.
Now I know these holograms are a bit difficult to see (even more difficult trying to pick them up on camera), but they're there
.
The whole car was this contaminated
The robots must have been daydreaming when applying clear to this spot...
More dodgy paint work
A couple of the scratches that I picked up on camera
Now this was an eyesore. This is the "gills" on the passenger side of the car. It has a rubber seal around it and when the car was painted, this got painted too.
All taped up ready for surgery...
I broke out my trusty Victorinox and used the tin opener to scrape off the paint then to tuck the rubber seal back inside where it's supposed to be.
Polish reside from the factory... eherm.
More scratches
And some more
Healthy readings all around
:wall, so I had to do a ONR/water wipe on the entire car to remove whatever dust that was on it. It wasn't dirty really, just some shop dust on it, but the wheel wells were full of dirt. I scrubbed them with a brush before they took it to my work area because I didn't want to take a chance on making the car dusty... they're still very dirty but before they take it to the show they're going to clean them... I hope. Anyway, this car has a little more than 3,800 Km on so so yeah, there were some scratches on it. Also, the whole car was full of holograms left by the guys at the factory. After the car was eherm, washed... I clayed it with my ONR/water solution and removed some pretty caked on dirt and dust; there was a pretty thick layer of it. After that I taped off the car and did another walk around to hunt for RIDS. I didn't stop and take a picture of every one of them, because there were too many and I was fighting with the lighting conditions the whole time... I'm lucky I caught the ones I did on camera. Here's some before pictures: Lots of water spots, sand, dust, etc. in the engine compartment
Tar spots on the "gills" and the bottom half of the car.
Now I know these holograms are a bit difficult to see (even more difficult trying to pick them up on camera), but they're there
.
The whole car was this contaminated
The robots must have been daydreaming when applying clear to this spot...
More dodgy paint work
A couple of the scratches that I picked up on camera
Now this was an eyesore. This is the "gills" on the passenger side of the car. It has a rubber seal around it and when the car was painted, this got painted too.
All taped up ready for surgery...
I broke out my trusty Victorinox and used the tin opener to scrape off the paint then to tuck the rubber seal back inside where it's supposed to be.
Polish reside from the factory... eherm.
More scratches
And some more
Healthy readings all around