Terrible Porsche - Mirror Detailing -

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Customer dropped off his Porsche he has been wanting to get done for close to a year after I did his wifes G35. Porsche has had a full repaint by the previous owner and it was not the best paint job. This goes down as one of the worse clears I have ever worked with. Still managed to do my Exterior Level 1 Package on the paint and get "over" 80% correction. Also had the leather seats cleaned and conditioned.



This was one of the worse paints I have ever worked with. There was no way possibly too wipe anything off without causing towel scratches. Which means I could not find a way too put protection on the paint. Luckily, thanks too Joey (smoknfastlegend) and Dan I was able to modify an idea of theirs and seal the car and then wash it off with doing the least amount of scratching too the paint as possible.



Before...



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Condition of the paint outside before...



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Once I got it inside, washed and clayed...



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Started my test area on the driver quarter...



What it looked like before...



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Half and Half...



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Then tested the hood...



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Once I got all the correction done and started beating my head against a wall with getting the final polish off and any protection off without scratching. I applied Powerlock too the whole car and let it sit for about 30 minutes. After that I did a serious foaming wash, heavy ONR soak and then with soaking my sheepskin wash mitt in a ONR mixture for 2 hours, washed all the sealant off. It only caused some very fine light scratches, but it was the best I could do.



After washing the sealant off, cool shot of the water beading...



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Once washed, using my best drying towel would scratch the hell out of this thing so....150PSI to the rescue.



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Once everything was done, moved it outside to get some better pictures...



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While it was there, had my buddy pull a large 3" dent out of the middle of the driver door...



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Door after pulling out the dent...



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Very nice Mike! Soft paint like that makes me want to commit acts of violence, but you found a creative way to work around it. The result looks gorgeous, and night and day better than before.
 
Nice work! Too bad all your efforts will be for naught over time.



I was tearing my hair out over a soft clear on black. Any MF with any sort of nap at all would leave marring when removing polish, sealant or wax residue. After much trial and error I found a MF WW misted with M34 minimized the marring. I called the owner and told him he was getting Opti Coat instead of the wax he insisted on, told him why and he eventually agreed. I applied the Opti Coat with a variation of Anthony Orosco's blue-shop-towel method and used a sueded MF instead of the shop towel. No marring during application and the OC added enough additional hardness that it wasn't a total nightmare to wash and dry if you were real, real careful.



TL
 
detailfanatic said:
Really nice afters. Nice save.
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Thanks.



C. Charles Hahn said:
That looks like a total nightmare... nice save!
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You have no idea Charlie.



WCD said:
80%? Give yourself a little more credit... 92%! Very nice. Imagine, paint so soft it marrs with your best towel and a breath.
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It was more than 80% but in the two sun shots after, you can just faintly make out some light horizontal scratches. They were light and you had to get it in the right light to see them, but they were there. Luckily the owner was very happy.



Scottwax said:
Nice job, sun pics are hotness.
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Thanks Scott.



hamza7 said:
Permanon comes in on it's own here but what you did looks good too. Great work
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Permanon?



mikenap said:
Very nice Mike! Soft paint like that makes me want to commit acts of violence, but you found a creative way to work around it. The result looks gorgeous, and night and day better than before.
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Thanks Mike. You have no idea, the first night, when I got down to trying to finish it...then figured out that I had to do the whole car with an additional polishing step, got that finished and got it off as best I could... Applied Poxy too two panels, wiped them off, shined my light on it and just about put my first through the wall. At that moment...I was "Im done for the night."



TLMitchell said:
Nice work! Too bad all your efforts will be for naught over time.



I was tearing my hair out over a soft clear on black. Any MF with any sort of nap at all would leave marring when removing polish, sealant or wax residue. After much trial and error I found a MF WW misted with M34 minimized the marring. I called the owner and told him he was getting Opti Coat instead of the wax he insisted on, told him why and he eventually agreed. I applied the Opti Coat with a variation of Anthony Orosco's blue-shop-towel method and used a sueded MF instead of the shop towel. No marring during application and the OC added enough additional hardness that it wasn't a total nightmare to wash and dry if you were real, real careful.



TL
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Yeah Opti-Coat might have worked, that way it could level itself into the scratches created from the application of it, but the customer would not have paid for it. He is just planning on getting the whole car repainted at a future point now. Since he knows that no matter how perfect of a wash process he uses, within a year the paint will be scratched to hell again. But hopefully never as worse as it was.



dsms said:
Very nice correction work, great job!
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Thanks David.



Brad B. said:
I don't have much love for 996's but you made that one look really, really nice. Great job.
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As Charlie said, why the hate for the 996's?
 
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