Apollo_Auto
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Hi boys and girls!
Here's a car that I've been waiting to do for quite a while now. The owner came into the Ferrari dealership with this one day when I was working there and asked if I could repair some damage on the polished aluminum (I hate typing that word for some reason...) and I said, "Yes, but it's not a simple process, so it will take time so here's my card." He never called, but recently he brought his 599 in for some paint touch up and it popped back into his mind that we were supposed to take care of this, so we made the appointment.
Anyone who says this car is "ugly" I say, "Iki iki iki iki patang zupoing zowzou mrf" and just please have a closer look at it
. It's a masterpiece in my opinion and from this model there's only 15 floating around the world, so a collector's item indeed... On to the detail!
Wheels haven't been properly cleaned in... well probably never.
Deironizer starting to work...
Agitated and left to dwell while I cleaned all the other wheels
Rinsed and clean
Wheel wells haven't had any love either...
Cleaned with Wolf's WT-2N outside APC and various brushes and tar removed.
Here was the biggest damage on the aluminum (still hate typing that word...) He brought the car to a car wash and they used some sort of acid on it :wall: It was marred pretty badly as you can see...
I started off with the least aggressive combo, which was some metal polish and a foam applicator, but it didn't put a dent in it, which can be seen here. After that I tried some of out heavy cut polish WP-6H and that didn't have much of an effect either
So then I broke out some 3,000 grit sand paper and used our clay lube, "Pink Slip" to wet sand it.
Some deeper marring that I had to let go. 3,000 grit was getting me somewhere, but the sand paper was wearing very quickly and not really getting me where I wanted to be so I broke out some 1,500 grit and went to town on it!
After wet sanding with 1,500 grit
After the 1,500 I went back down to 3,000 grit and smoothed things out, then to WP-6H with a microfiber applicator and then finished up with a metal polish and a foam applicator. This was all done by hand and just this piece alone took me about 3 hours!
Before
After
The roof
Ariel view
After
Ariel view
After polishing with a DA and a metal polish with a cutting pad on speed 6. No Zenith method or anything, just speed 6 :thumb:
The B pillar before
After the above mentioned combo
All of the aluminum pretty much looked like this >>
The side mirror, pretty manky
After
After the polishing I applied Wolf's Rim Shield to the aluminum and even after cleaning it with glass cleaner, this is what Rim Shield still picked up. I applied it until the cotton pads came up clean.
After
The front spoiler
After some hand polishing with a foam applicator and metal polish
Side
After
The door shuts
After
Some gunk in there
After
The boot
Random engine compartment shots before
Before
After
I had to remove the back glass to access the engine bay. All cleaned with Wolf's WT-2N and a steamer
Removed the weather stripping, too.
Here's a car that I've been waiting to do for quite a while now. The owner came into the Ferrari dealership with this one day when I was working there and asked if I could repair some damage on the polished aluminum (I hate typing that word for some reason...) and I said, "Yes, but it's not a simple process, so it will take time so here's my card." He never called, but recently he brought his 599 in for some paint touch up and it popped back into his mind that we were supposed to take care of this, so we made the appointment.
Anyone who says this car is "ugly" I say, "Iki iki iki iki patang zupoing zowzou mrf" and just please have a closer look at it
. It's a masterpiece in my opinion and from this model there's only 15 floating around the world, so a collector's item indeed... On to the detail!Wheels haven't been properly cleaned in... well probably never.
Deironizer starting to work...
Agitated and left to dwell while I cleaned all the other wheels
Rinsed and clean
Wheel wells haven't had any love either...
Cleaned with Wolf's WT-2N outside APC and various brushes and tar removed.
Here was the biggest damage on the aluminum (still hate typing that word...) He brought the car to a car wash and they used some sort of acid on it :wall: It was marred pretty badly as you can see...
I started off with the least aggressive combo, which was some metal polish and a foam applicator, but it didn't put a dent in it, which can be seen here. After that I tried some of out heavy cut polish WP-6H and that didn't have much of an effect either
So then I broke out some 3,000 grit sand paper and used our clay lube, "Pink Slip" to wet sand it.
Some deeper marring that I had to let go. 3,000 grit was getting me somewhere, but the sand paper was wearing very quickly and not really getting me where I wanted to be so I broke out some 1,500 grit and went to town on it!
After wet sanding with 1,500 grit
After the 1,500 I went back down to 3,000 grit and smoothed things out, then to WP-6H with a microfiber applicator and then finished up with a metal polish and a foam applicator. This was all done by hand and just this piece alone took me about 3 hours!
Before
After
The roof
Ariel view
After
Ariel view
After polishing with a DA and a metal polish with a cutting pad on speed 6. No Zenith method or anything, just speed 6 :thumb:
The B pillar before
After the above mentioned combo
All of the aluminum pretty much looked like this >>
The side mirror, pretty manky
After
After the polishing I applied Wolf's Rim Shield to the aluminum and even after cleaning it with glass cleaner, this is what Rim Shield still picked up. I applied it until the cotton pads came up clean.
After
The front spoiler
After some hand polishing with a foam applicator and metal polish
Side
After
The door shuts
After
Some gunk in there
After
The boot
Random engine compartment shots before
Before
After
I had to remove the back glass to access the engine bay. All cleaned with Wolf's WT-2N and a steamer
Removed the weather stripping, too.
