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Tony@Cherished

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This Saab took two days to put right, it had heavy swirl/cobweb, deep scratching and heavy overspray on the grill.





First, a good cleanse, wheels with VP Bilberry and several Vikan brushes. Bodywork Citrus pre-clean, then Megs Shampoo plus with Sonus mit and towel.

Door jams with megs APC.







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Dried off, and taken inside. Then clayed with CYC yellow Poly.

Inspected, looked a LOT worse in person, as the 50/50 will show when I get to them.





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Masked off ready to go





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First, a bit of wet sanding on some deeper scratching and poor respray finish on bumper, here's some work on scratching, not completely gone, but as far as I was willing to go.



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Easy testing led quickly to Menz IP 85 RD with a Sonus SFX1 pad.

Finishing with Menz FF 106FA on SFX 2 pad.





Here's some 50/50.





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And when the polish choice was found -





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Light clusters - SFX3

Wheel centers - Plastx

Ext.trim - AG Bumper care

Arches/rubber - AS Highstyle

Glass - AS Glass Clear



Wheels - Carlack twins



Bodywork -



Carlack NSC pre-wax clean



LSP - Swiss. Best Of Show.



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Thanks for reading.
 
That car was a mess...great work!! Very impressive 50/50 pics. You had your hands full on that one!! Awesome finished product.
 
David703 said:
FANTASTIC JOB!

I would have covered the convert top way before I would ever cover the windshield though.
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Thanks for all comments.



Would have been a good idea wouldn't it.:idea . Don't know why I didn't, it kept free of dust/splatter though. I did cover it when doing the windscreen surround.
 
Wow, that is VERY impressive! Before I got my rotary, I tried to tackle the trunklid of a black Saab 9-5 with my PC and did not get very far with it.



Personally, I hate Saabs (too quirky for me and the build quality is worse than my cheap @$$ Korean Hyundai) but my wife's side of the family are Saab loyalists. We even have an SPG in the family stable of cars. Unfortunately most of the Saabs I see are swirled to hell like the one you worked on.
 
Tremendous improvement on that Saab. Your 50/50 shots really show the quality of your workmanship, and the Menz.



Great work!!!!!
 
Thanks for the great replies guys.



I'm not a fan of Saabs myself, but this did look nice when finished. The owner had the plates off after the detail to replace, and even though it's done a few miles and is 3 years old, both the PDR guy and someone else working on it assumed it was fresh from the dealership new. THAT made me smile, and feel proud of the results achieved.
 
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