Apollo_Auto
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Hi all! I was actually supposed to be detailing this guy's Ferrari today, but it's still in the shop so when I showed up he said, "OK then, just do the Porsche now and we can do the F360 next week." I'd love to be able to say that... Anyhoo, the guy was a bit indecisive about what exactly he wanted to do have done on the car so I looked at it with him and told him that a polish/wax and cleaning the leather seats would do it justice. Later I wound up doing a spot-cleaning on the carpets and a general tidy up on the interior.
When I measured the paint I got some REALLY low readings, especially on the back of the car and on the hood. The back of the car was in the 60's and in most places on the hood it was between 80-100... not a whole lot to work with there. The sides of the car were fairly healthy showing thicknesses up into the 140's, but not very consistently, as there were more places that were in the 110's-120's, which is still pretty healthy.
Now, taking into consideration the readings on the sides and what I got on the hood, roof and back, I figured that those places were chiseled down right about to the basecoat... After taking readings I informed the owner of the situation and told him that this wouldn't be a huge correction detail and explained to him why... I basically told him that this would be a 1-step polishing job, which is good for me because he'd already haggled me down on the price of the detail. OK I don't mind giving him a good deal though because I've already got an appointment with his friend for tomorrow
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Enough of my clucking... da goods:
An all-around little swirly monster, but I've seen worse. There were also some deep scratches in a few places, which didn't come out 100%, but with the amount of paint I had to work with they look very nice now. At least I was able to round them off so they don't catch the light as much now.
Scratch on the back door before:
After:
Low readings on the bonnet...
Very low readings on the back...
Some scratches and swirls on the front wing. Most of this was cleared up after a few passes with a polishing pad and InstaFinish #15, but the rest I left there because of the thin paint. I haven't done too many Porsches, but the paint on this one wasn't as soft and sticky as I'd expected; it was rather hard THB... The pad and polish combo I used finished things up very nicely and normally I would have left it at that being that the customer only paid for a 1-stage correction, but then the Proper Polishing Panda tapped me on the shoulder and reminded me of the Heinous Hologram Hamster could be lurking beneath the paint. Therefore I made the decision to sacrifice a little more time in order to protect my name and polished/jeweled it with a finishing pad and InstaFinish Premium Polish. This was in fact a great idea, because this polish is a finishing polish but it's also a Teflon/nuba sealant and man did it leave an awesome finish! Very glassy look and extremely slick! I'll be finishing up more cars with that in the future, because it kills two birds with one stone (final polishing/jeweling and LSP). The InstaFinish distributor says he gets more than 4 months protection out of this polish.
Checking for holograms... nope, none there!
No, I didn't dress the wheel wells. The tires were dressed with InstaFinish Premium Protect All.
Leather seats a little dingy, but cleaned up nicely with an interior mix of APC and a horse hair brush. Later treated with InstaFinish Leather Conditioner.
The carpets were given a surface cleaning with some new spray foam cleaner that I have. I'll have to test it more, but it cleaned things up quite nicely. The foam goes into the carpet and lifts up the dirt to the surface. I merely sprayed the carpets down, let it sit for a minute and then wiped them clean with a MF. All the door panels were also cleaned with the same foam cleaner and a MF.
The owner asked me not to take the blue stuff off the pedals...
OK then.
Thanks for reading and to all the Playboy subscribers, thanks for "reading"!
- Jesse
When I measured the paint I got some REALLY low readings, especially on the back of the car and on the hood. The back of the car was in the 60's and in most places on the hood it was between 80-100... not a whole lot to work with there. The sides of the car were fairly healthy showing thicknesses up into the 140's, but not very consistently, as there were more places that were in the 110's-120's, which is still pretty healthy.
Now, taking into consideration the readings on the sides and what I got on the hood, roof and back, I figured that those places were chiseled down right about to the basecoat... After taking readings I informed the owner of the situation and told him that this wouldn't be a huge correction detail and explained to him why... I basically told him that this would be a 1-step polishing job, which is good for me because he'd already haggled me down on the price of the detail. OK I don't mind giving him a good deal though because I've already got an appointment with his friend for tomorrow
. Enough of my clucking... da goods:
An all-around little swirly monster, but I've seen worse. There were also some deep scratches in a few places, which didn't come out 100%, but with the amount of paint I had to work with they look very nice now. At least I was able to round them off so they don't catch the light as much now.
Scratch on the back door before:
After:
Low readings on the bonnet...
Very low readings on the back...
Some scratches and swirls on the front wing. Most of this was cleared up after a few passes with a polishing pad and InstaFinish #15, but the rest I left there because of the thin paint. I haven't done too many Porsches, but the paint on this one wasn't as soft and sticky as I'd expected; it was rather hard THB... The pad and polish combo I used finished things up very nicely and normally I would have left it at that being that the customer only paid for a 1-stage correction, but then the Proper Polishing Panda tapped me on the shoulder and reminded me of the Heinous Hologram Hamster could be lurking beneath the paint. Therefore I made the decision to sacrifice a little more time in order to protect my name and polished/jeweled it with a finishing pad and InstaFinish Premium Polish. This was in fact a great idea, because this polish is a finishing polish but it's also a Teflon/nuba sealant and man did it leave an awesome finish! Very glassy look and extremely slick! I'll be finishing up more cars with that in the future, because it kills two birds with one stone (final polishing/jeweling and LSP). The InstaFinish distributor says he gets more than 4 months protection out of this polish.
Checking for holograms... nope, none there!
No, I didn't dress the wheel wells
. The tires were dressed with InstaFinish Premium Protect All.
Leather seats a little dingy, but cleaned up nicely with an interior mix of APC and a horse hair brush. Later treated with InstaFinish Leather Conditioner.
The carpets were given a surface cleaning with some new spray foam cleaner that I have. I'll have to test it more, but it cleaned things up quite nicely. The foam goes into the carpet and lifts up the dirt to the surface. I merely sprayed the carpets down, let it sit for a minute and then wiped them clean with a MF. All the door panels were also cleaned with the same foam cleaner and a MF.
The owner asked me not to take the blue stuff off the pedals...
OK then.
Thanks for reading and to all the Playboy subscribers, thanks for "reading"!
- Jesse
