Grey 350Z to a Pearl White 350Z- Lots of pics

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This is one of my good friends' 350z that I had the priveledge of making it shine and bringing it back to life. I enjoyed working on this car because I had a while to play around with it while I did other cars... He was in the Phillipines while his car was taken care of. I tried some new products that I haven't tried on this car.

Just an FYI the front bumper and rear bumper is getting painted this week so he will be back for me to cut and buff it out. We jsut got the majority of the car done while he was on vacation.

Exterior Cleaning

-Foamed with Griot's Garage car wash and foam cannon

-Hand washed with Griot's garage car wash, Grit Guard bucket and wash mitts

-Clayed with Griot's Garage Paint cleaning clay and spray on car wash

Wheels and Tires/ Fender wells

-Cleaned with Griot's Garage Car Wash and various brushes

-Wheel wells treated with Griot's Garage Under Carriage Spray

-Wheels treated with Griot's Garage Sealant

-Tires were dressed with Griot's Garage Long Lasting Tire Dressing

3 stage polish

-Flex 3403 Rotary Orange CCS Smart pad and Menzerna Final Polish

-Flex 3403 Rotary Black CCS Smart pad and Menzerna PO85RD

-PC 7424XP and Blue CCS Smart Pad and Menzerna Finishing Glaze

-Applied Griot's Garage Paint Sealer with PC 7424XP and Red CCS smart pad

-Applied 2 coats of Griot's Garage Best of Show Wax by hand and let the second coat stay on for a couple hours

Interior

-Vacuumed and cleaned carpets with Griot's Garage Carpet Cleaner and brush, with the floormats I had to pull out the PC and a soft carpet brush for the best appearance possible

-Cleaned all plastic with Griot's Garage Interior Cleaner and various brushes and MF's

-Seats I cleaned with Griot's Garage Interior Cleaner and PC with softest brush attachment, than applied Griot's Garage Leather Rejuvenator with a brush and let sit over night

-Cross bar in rear hatch that has the Z logo was polished with PC Black CCS smart pad and PO85RD, it showed some minimal scratched

Engine Bay

-Cleaned with Griot's Garage Engine Bay Cleaner and various brushes and MF's

-Dressed with Griot's Garage Vinyl and Rubber Dressing and hard plastic was dressed with Mother's Back to Black



Here's how it showed up to me

Motor before

Interior Shots Before

Foamed the car and let it dwell for 8 minutes than washed it twice and dried it with Griot's Garage Drying towel

Clay bar before and after

Some shots of the car taped and after the clay bar

Here's some shots under the halogens of the damage on the rear hatch and spoiler

Spoiler 90% corrected, there was a scratch that I couldn't get out because it was down to the base coat, but I got it as good as I can

The roof had some slight marring

Here are some shots that I think look really cool, process shots with the first stage of polish

Here are some after shots of the hood and rear hatch

 

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50/50 shot of the carpets getting done. On the driver side floor mat those are actually wear marks, the carpet actually got removed from the heels.

All done with the floor mats, I even took a carpet towel and lightly rubbed the carpet cleaner on the Z logo to clean it up a little bit. It helped, but I didn't want to tear up the embroidery

Here's the driver seat. Very neglected and cracked. I couldn't do anything about the cracks, but I cleaned and rejuvenated the seats.

Before

And after

Well I think you guys get the process so here are some after shots of the car

Motor all cleaned and dressed

Exterior all done with 3 stage polish, Sealant, and 2 layers of wax

Thank you for looking!

 

[Deep Gloss Auto Salon]

NICE!!:2thumbs:

 

[tssdetailing]

OMG, did it EVER get washed??? That thing was nasty. Don't give it back to him...

 

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lol too late.. It's already back in his posession. Thanks to him his neighbor with a corvette may be getting his car detailed as well!

 

[jsilas]

Great turn-around there! And I see you're a Griot's man - I'm a big Griot's user myself!



Great work...

 

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Ya I have a Griot's Garage really close to me... Other Stuff I order from autogeek. I wasn't really impressed with the best of show wax on this car (first time I've used it). I think I'm gonna order some FK 1000 or something else.

 

[RIDDLE]

im surprised an autotopian can be friends with someone with a car in that condition:LOLOL

nice detail!

 

[Pats300zx]

Nice come back on the 350Z

 

[vtec92civic]

damn that poor car was disgusting. Came out looking great though. May i ask where you got that brush attachment for your PCXP?



You just use that with some APC or some form of a carpet cleaner and brush with the PCXP?

 

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I got the brushes from autogeek.. They have 4 options there's a soft white (which I used on the leather seats) there's a hard white (I used for the carpets) and there's a teal and a black one... I used Griot's Garage Carpet Cleaner

Thanks everyone for your comments!

 

[5.4 Shelby]

Dang, what does your friend use that car for? Is he running a landscape business out of? Carrying bags of topsoil inside it and strapping the shovels to the paint? That is almost criminal abuse of a nice car.



Nice save.



I agree with tss, never give it back.



BOS wax is one of the few Griots products I am not impressed with. Most of their stuff is pretty nice.

 

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BOS wax is one of the few Griots products I am not impressed with. Most of their stuff is pretty nice.

I agree with that! I love Griot's products, but I don't think they have the best exterior stuff like polishes, glazes, and the wax. I use their sealant and window polish. but the machine polish and wax I wont really use.

 

[toxin440]

that poor Z -- i can see the curb rash wheel and looks like they hit something.



I can't understand how people can live with a car that filthy

 

[xspwrstang]

Great work!!! If the owner neglected the appearance of this car that bad I can only imagine how the engine internals look like.

 

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Yea I'd be curious too... He's got a set of 20's going on this and getting his bumpers repainted. We will have some new pics here soon! I just got the call from his neighbor with the corvette today and he told me to keep the car for a week.

 

[15951]

Wow, great example of a car that has been abused and neglected. You did a nice job with it, but some of that abuse would actually take effort. How the heck does someone manage to do that to a car??