Busy Weekend, 99 Vette, 98 Vette, 89 Vette, 05 4Runner

JoshVette · 02-21-07, 12:28

I had a busy weekend in Houston last weekend.

Process:
All four got the same treatment.....and needed it too.
My 1 step machine polishing process.

Wash ONR
Interior with 303 mainly
Claybar
3M Compound Perfect it II with PC
Zaino Z5 or RejeX

Here's some pics.

99 NBM Vette,
Lots of swirls and with only doing 1 step polishing swirls wont' come out of a C5, but they're fewer for sure.
Beautiful color, love the Navy Blue Metalic

JoshVette · 02-21-07, 12:37

These next pics are crap, but here ya go.

Forgot to take them when the sun was out.......very dark but kind of cool looking.

98 120,000+ miles
hood

top

05 4Runner

My first attempt ever at spot removal. Used 303 and scrubed then vac.
before

after

mikebai1990 · 02-21-07, 12:43

Oh no! What happened to the wheelwells on the vette? Other than that, a beautiful job on the cars! The 4runner pictures are very nice and wet

mose · 02-21-07, 12:43

The cars look great!! Are the wheel wells not part of your Step 1 process? Dirty wells kind of take away from the overall look!!

JoshVette · 02-21-07, 12:46

Next up was a 1989 Vette

Not bad shape for it's age.
Well over 140,000+ miles.

little fender bender cleaned up
before

after

before

after

all afters,sun was setting

JoshVette · 02-21-07, 12:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by mose

The cars look great!! Are the wheel wells not part of your Step 1 process? Dirty wells kind of take away from the overall look!!

Are you talking about on the black vette?? You can only reach up in there so far, have you ever treated the wheel wells on a vette or any other lowered cars?? I got what I could reach.

The flash also shows you the inner wells which won't be seen while standing next to the car and is also in a shadow......
I did okay on the 4Runner wells didn't I?

.....everyone's a critic.

mikebai1990 · 02-21-07, 12:58

Hehe

I haven't done any corvettes, so my fault

You can try turning the wheel to get into the front wheelwell, although I have no idea whether that works on a low vette. You probably know already, but jacking it up might help also. Nice work on that white one also

JoshVette · 02-21-07, 01:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikebai1990

Hehe

I haven't done any corvettes, so my fault

You can try turning the wheel to get into the front wheelwell, although I have no idea whether that works on a low vette. You probably know already, but jacking it up might help also. Nice work on that white one also

That's okya, I've done roughly 50-55 Vettes in the last year.

I used to own a 02 vette and I'll tell you right now it's not so easy to jack them up, first have to have a low profile jack, if not, then you have to role it up on a few boards and try to squeeze under to get a jack to the center of the car where the jacking points are. Or you have to have a specialized jack "puck" to put on the jack to lift it from the side rails which is not the safest for the intergrity of the side molding.....could crack if too much weight placed in one spot.

On a more expensive overnight job I might would jack it up and do the undercarriage and such, but they're not paying me THAT well.

Scottwax · 02-21-07, 02:45

You need to find a brush with a low profile head on it to get into those fenderwells. Even with a C6, the one I have gets pretty deep into them. I usually get mine at Pep Boys and have seen them at Big Lot! too. I believe the brand is Carrand.

The paint looks really good on all of them. Nice when you can have relatively easy details when you take the show on the road, eh? That is how it was for me last time I was in Austin, the time before that, not so easy!

When you go down there, is there a way for you to arrange for them to be at a central location? Really saves time if you can do that. One of my Austin customers has access to a warehouse and everyone just brings their cars there for me to do.

JoshVette · 02-21-07, 03:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scottwax

You need to find a brush with a low profile head on it to get into those fenderwells. Even with a C6, the one I have gets pretty deep into them. I usually get mine at Pep Boys and have seen them at Big Lot! too. I believe the brand is Carrand.

The paint looks really good on all of them. Nice when you can have relatively easy details when you take the show on the road, eh? That is how it was for me last time I was in Austin, the time before that, not so easy!

When you go down there, is there a way for you to arrange for them to be at a central location? Really saves time if you can do that. One of my Austin customers has access to a warehouse and everyone just brings their cars there for me to do.

Thanks, I'll have to check into that brush.

All these vettes were horribly swirled, but for what I'm charging them and the amount of time I have to work on them, I can't get the swirls out, plus with the PC on a C5.....no way I'm getting the swirls out with a one time shot. But the cars do look nice and wet when I'm done and most of the smaller scratchs come out.

RUSSH · 02-21-07, 03:23

Great job on all Josh

How is that 3M perfect-it on regular clears? Excluding Corvettes.

Nimble · 02-21-07, 04:59

They all look nice, good work. Those Fikse FM5's on the Blue one though,