First off, thie SUV is simply amazing in person.
The owner is Nick W, a pioneer of the import scene. He had the very first imported Skyline into the US. While I was working on this car, he told me 2 very cool things:
1) You're GONNA wash my ferarri (355 Berlinetta in a silver/blue color) - pardon my spelling!
2) You're gonna make ALOT of money off me!
His other cars that he has include a brand new VW GTi R32, a 1969 all original Jaguar (sorry, I forget what model) and a S13 Nissan 240XS converted to a Silvia. (the jag and nissan are currently at the shop, I can snap some pics next time I go there)
For a rich young dude, he is very personalble and down to earth. . .an awesome thing!
OK, on to the FX45. . .car has just over 10K on it and he said it hadn't been washed since he owned it. It was pretty dirty (as the pics will show.) The paint was in surprisingly great shape. No major scratches. . .no swirls. . .no major blemishes in the paint. I didn't have time to pick up some clay, so I didn't get a chance to propperly prep it.
here's what I did to it:
Wash with Gold Class shampoo using 2 bucket method.
DACP with a Meguiars maroon pad on the front bumper (some dried in dead bugs that the wash didn't remove) and on 2 small scratches that I noticed.
NXT with a grey finishing pad on paint, windows and wheels
Meguiars endurance tire gel on tires
Floormats were cleaned with a 1:30 mixture of TOL's interior cleaner
Motor was wiped down with a damp terry cloth and dressed with 303
Interior glass was cleaned with Stoners using newspaper
Interior trim was wiped down with a damp MF and buffed dry with a dry MF. No 303 applied as it was practially new and looked spectaular, just a bit dusty.
Exhaust tips were cleaned with Target brand glass cleaner, #0000 steel wool and buffed dry with a MF
Wheel wells were scrubebd with a 1:10 mixture of Simply Green/H2O, then sprayed down with water from a spray bottle the wiped clean with a terry cloth
Enough talk, on to the pics ( a few are blurry, sorry!)
His friends Lotus Elise
FX front end before
Side before
Rear Shot Before
More pics to come. . .
The owner is Nick W, a pioneer of the import scene. He had the very first imported Skyline into the US. While I was working on this car, he told me 2 very cool things:
1) You're GONNA wash my ferarri (355 Berlinetta in a silver/blue color) - pardon my spelling!
2) You're gonna make ALOT of money off me!
His other cars that he has include a brand new VW GTi R32, a 1969 all original Jaguar (sorry, I forget what model) and a S13 Nissan 240XS converted to a Silvia. (the jag and nissan are currently at the shop, I can snap some pics next time I go there)
For a rich young dude, he is very personalble and down to earth. . .an awesome thing!
OK, on to the FX45. . .car has just over 10K on it and he said it hadn't been washed since he owned it. It was pretty dirty (as the pics will show.) The paint was in surprisingly great shape. No major scratches. . .no swirls. . .no major blemishes in the paint. I didn't have time to pick up some clay, so I didn't get a chance to propperly prep it.
here's what I did to it:
Wash with Gold Class shampoo using 2 bucket method.
DACP with a Meguiars maroon pad on the front bumper (some dried in dead bugs that the wash didn't remove) and on 2 small scratches that I noticed.
NXT with a grey finishing pad on paint, windows and wheels
Meguiars endurance tire gel on tires
Floormats were cleaned with a 1:30 mixture of TOL's interior cleaner
Motor was wiped down with a damp terry cloth and dressed with 303
Interior glass was cleaned with Stoners using newspaper
Interior trim was wiped down with a damp MF and buffed dry with a dry MF. No 303 applied as it was practially new and looked spectaular, just a bit dusty.
Exhaust tips were cleaned with Target brand glass cleaner, #0000 steel wool and buffed dry with a MF
Wheel wells were scrubebd with a 1:10 mixture of Simply Green/H2O, then sprayed down with water from a spray bottle the wiped clean with a terry cloth
Enough talk, on to the pics ( a few are blurry, sorry!)
His friends Lotus Elise
FX front end before
Side before
Rear Shot Before
More pics to come. . .
