*Warning! No diving!* paint appears very deep! *No life guard on Duty*

[Langley Interior Car Kare]

..good to see u back dood!!!

 

[Don2000g]

I'll 2nd that FLONI. By the wayFLONI, who are those kids messing with your car outside! Hehe! Laters

 

[Langley Interior Car Kare]

actually today...they were all playing football outside....and i swear...as sso as i came out they all ran up to me to rat 1 kid out that he threw the ball into my car....i just laughed about it....then as soon as i pulled away and got around the corner............i jumped out and inspected the whole car........ sad that i couldnt let the kids see my insanity......

 

[db2]

I instructed my dealer just to wash and not wax or dress anything.

 

[imported_Intermezzo]

I've posted this before, but when I took my car to the dealer, I taped 3 large sheets of paper with the words "Do Not Wash, Please. Thanks!" on my windows. Much to my relief, my car wasn't washed when I came to pick it up. However, they did leave oily fingerprints on the hood, trunk, doors, and the thin panel right above the passenger door window. I QD'd them off only to find that the paint was marred where the fingerprints were.

 

[We're Here]

Our ML was left at Clair Motors (MA) for two weeks of warranty work earlier this month - sort of its home away from home. I made out the work order on Word and this went in the repair envelope, another was taped to the dash so it covered the radio. Both said, in giant red letters, "No Wash". When I picked-up the car the tag attached to the key also said "No Wash". Of course, they washed it! Swirls everywhere! This from the area's only Mercedes dealer!



I for one am trying to figure out what M-B is thinking. There are very few members of our ML-List that aren't incensed over build quality and the wash fiasco above is consistent with our service experiences! Wow

 

[Tru_Shine]

So I had one of my detailing buddies up in Bristol VA give me a ringer about this huge detail job that he had coming up on a 1999 Nissan Skyline GTR V-Spec. The car was used as a promotional car for the Fast and furious movies back in the day, and has since been repainted black. Here is what the car used to look like. http://www.superstreetonline.com/fe...999_nissan_skyline_r34_gt_r_v_spec/index.html

and now the current owner has changed some things around, such as wheels,wing, and other little things to her preference.


So When I arrived we got started right away with jacking the car up and started removing the wheels.

here are some before pics of what we were working with.

The wheels were super caked with brake dust.

we presoaked them with P21s wheel gel while we washed the car.

We degreased the wheel wells with some Chemical Guys Grime Reaper

and used P21s on the brakes

here is the motor

Next we sprayed the car down with the Foam canon mixed with Dawn soap and CG Grime Reaper

the grime just rolls off.

Next we both Washed it with 100 percent sheep skin wash mitts and two bucket method

 

[Tru_Shine]

Then the rinse.

Now that all the wax has been removed the Tru surface is revealed

Next we clayed the car using a fine grade claybar and Dodo juice Born Slippy lube concentrate

Look how the water just sets on the sureface now. no more beading, no more rolling off.

here is David drying off the car with a ReThickulous towel.

we dried all the jams and crevices with a Metro Magic air.

Now that the car was finished with the wash and clay process, It's time for the wheels.

We used some more P21s wheel gel and some 0000# steel wool to brake up all the caked on dirt.

These wheels took forever but came out great.

Then we polished up the outer lips.

Looks way better now!

 

[Tru_Shine]

So then, to keep them cleaner longer and to keep them protected, we applied some PB's Wheels Sealant to the insides and outsides of the wheels.

here is the final out come of the wheels

Before we put the wheels back on I applied some Megs Tech wax 2.0 to the calibers to brighten them up a lillte.

And then I took some steel wool to the rotors to get the ugly Rust look off of them.

next we brought the car in and began taping up all the plastic moldings useing meguiars masking tape.

here is what the paint looks like under the halogens

and here is a 50/50 using M105/Cyan via Flex 3401

I got the lower tight areas using my Griot's Garage 3in orbital with 4in backing plate and LC cyan pad with M105 compound.

Some of the scratches on the side skirts need some wetsanding. I used a Eagle supertack 1500 and then followed it with Eagle Bufflex 3000 (forgot to take after pics that night)

So we worked until 1 am and got the driver side mostly compounded. After a good nights rest we woke up and got back at it.

While David was correcting the paint, I started on the rear trunk.

There was a lot of Orange peel on the rear deck lid, so we removed the rear wing for it to be wet sanded.

I used a Meguiars G110 with my Eagle Supertack 1500 disc followed by 3000 grit.

 

[Tru_Shine]

After I wet sanded the trunk I removed the sand marks with a Mikita Rotary using the Meguiars W66 solo backing plate and a Solo maroon wool pad using M105 compound. Followed by M205/Tangerine.

While I was back there I finished up the tail lights and rear bumper.

Next was the Wing. It had all kinds of compound residue left behind from the previous buff job.

I soaked it down with some APC and agitated it with a brush

The top part of the wing had alot of deeper scratches so I wet sanded a small area to remove them.

And to buff it I put it back on the car for stability.

and polished it out via 205/tang pad with the G110v2

For the polishing stage we used our Flex 3401's with m205 and lake country Tangerine pads.

This is a picture of the Driver side skirt with all kinds of deeper scratches.

I wet sanded with 1500 then 3000 and this is how it came out.

This clear coat was ULTRA soft and would easily marr up just from wiping of compound dust so we finished up the paint with LC black pad and Menzerna 85rd.

After all of that the car was covered in M105 dust and slingage from the wetsanding so we decided to spray it down with the foam cannon using CG citrus wash and gloss.

we let it dwell for a moment and then power washed it off.

we sealed the car using BlackFire Wet Diamond with a Blue LC pad on the G110.

and david polished up the exhaust with some 0000# steel wool and polish

And Finally the finished product, we was running out of sunlight, so I didn't get any direct sun shots, but you get the picture.

 

[Tru_Shine]

Thanks for viewing, have a blessed day!

 

[Old Pirate]

One heck of a car, awesome save Eric on the R34. Bet the owner is very happy with your work!

 

[bmw5541]

Eric,
That was some KILLER work you did to bring back that Nissan. You were right. It looks remarkably wet. What an awesome job.:hurray::thumbup:

I don't know what is better. The work you did to restore the car, or the fabulous write up.

Your work always impresses me.:thumbup:

 

[imported_RaskyR1]

Awesome work Eric! What a beautiful car too! :notworthy:

 

[Harleyguy]

Awesome turn around guys .And the write was very impressive and very detailed thanks for sharing .

 

[CEE DOG]

Excellent work guys!!

Here it is :clap:

 

[Freddotron]

Incredible work on an incredible car. Are those Ohlin shocks BTW?

 

[PAR Detailing]

That was a fun read, great job on the car!

 

[grungy]

Help, Eric.. I fell into the pool!! No kidding on recovery! Great writeup and some bang-out work you guys did.

 

[imported_User Name]

Dude,

That was so amazing, I had to call my wife to look. Well done!