Orinda Auto Detail
Opti Coat Pro Certified
This weekend I had another Tesla S in for full correction and Opti-Coat pro application. To say the least this car was HAMMERED from the factory. You name it rids, halo's, pig tails(sanding marks) every where, and the paint just looked lifeless for a jet black car with less than 1500 miles on it.
Correction was carried out with a combo of BF SRC compound, BF SRC Finishing polish, and FG400(spot buffing for deeper defects)
I used my Rupes21 for most of the car, but my rotary did see action as well.
Pads used were a combo of MF pads, Lc Foam, and Car pro velvet leveling pads.
LSP of choice Opti-Coat Pro.
Lets get on with it!
You can see here where bird bombs had already etch the fragile clear of this beautiful car
Buffer halo's everywhere.
I know black is tuff...But really Tesla??? For 90k I would of had a coronary if my new got dropped off like this.
Hmmm I think the bumper cover got De-nibbed(dust in paint from a not so clean paint booth that has to be sanded out) and they forgot to polish out the sanding scratches
Before washing I removed the rear plate so to give me easy access to clean everything
Had to get the wheels real clean as they were to Opti-Coated as well.
Bird bombs mess up clear like no other!
After wash and decon back out side to look at it again and do some test spots.
Much worse than before after stripping what ever wax or glaze was on the car.
Hard water etching on the mirror as well hood and fender on passenger side
If you look under the swirls there are some NASTY scratches here looks like left over from sanding. You would think with all the obvious sign the car got buffed they could of at least got the scratches out.
Here's a 50/50 of the hard water on the hood. I got this out using BF compound and an MF pad
Close up
Sanding scratch be gone!!
This bumper was a nightmare it took me almost 3 hours just to get all the scratches and bug etchings off of it!
Pig tails!
Here's what they look like they in the sun.
Here after some aggressive compounding. You can see it hazed the paint which took a few steps to fix
SRC compound only made a 85% improvement
From the factory massive amounts of compounding dust all over the car.
Correction was carried out with a combo of BF SRC compound, BF SRC Finishing polish, and FG400(spot buffing for deeper defects)
I used my Rupes21 for most of the car, but my rotary did see action as well.
Pads used were a combo of MF pads, Lc Foam, and Car pro velvet leveling pads.
LSP of choice Opti-Coat Pro.
Lets get on with it!
You can see here where bird bombs had already etch the fragile clear of this beautiful car
Buffer halo's everywhere.
I know black is tuff...But really Tesla??? For 90k I would of had a coronary if my new got dropped off like this.
Hmmm I think the bumper cover got De-nibbed(dust in paint from a not so clean paint booth that has to be sanded out) and they forgot to polish out the sanding scratches
Before washing I removed the rear plate so to give me easy access to clean everything
Had to get the wheels real clean as they were to Opti-Coated as well.
Bird bombs mess up clear like no other!
After wash and decon back out side to look at it again and do some test spots.
Much worse than before after stripping what ever wax or glaze was on the car.
Hard water etching on the mirror as well hood and fender on passenger side
If you look under the swirls there are some NASTY scratches here looks like left over from sanding. You would think with all the obvious sign the car got buffed they could of at least got the scratches out.
Here's a 50/50 of the hard water on the hood. I got this out using BF compound and an MF pad
Close up
Sanding scratch be gone!!
This bumper was a nightmare it took me almost 3 hours just to get all the scratches and bug etchings off of it!
Pig tails!
Here's what they look like they in the sun.
Here after some aggressive compounding. You can see it hazed the paint which took a few steps to fix
SRC compound only made a 85% improvement
From the factory massive amounts of compounding dust all over the car.
