Bella Macchina: 07 Maserati

TH0001 · 01-29-08, 08:40

Brian and I were absolutely owned by this car. This is car was an add on at the end of a very long strech (5 Ferrari's detailed for concours as well as a Z06 in a 3 day stretch). The owner had this car in the shop and when it was returned it was "swirled" badly.

The owner is one of our favorite clients, and demands absolute perfection, time and cost is no object. This Quattroporte took 25+ man hours over two days because of the depth of the defects as well as the ultra soft paint that we had to develop new techninques to finish out. What appeared as swirlmarks where really a bunch of random isolated scratches, and the paint was so soft that going more aggresive then SIP left deep circular marring. So not only did the paint require a lot of polishing to remove the rids, but then took a long time to finese out and finish 100 percent micromarring and hologramming free.

We started around 3 PM Saturday, worked until 10 Saturday night, and returned Sunday at 11 AM and finished up 6 PM. In total we made about 7-8 passes over the paint using SIP/IP/OP/UF/RMG with various 4 inch and 7 1/2 inch LC pads. The paint was waxed with the new P21s 100%.

Some before pictures in the halogens. There was trails, holograms, light swirls, and tons of RIDS.

A lot of the polishing on this car (remember this client demands 100 percent from every edge, corner, seam on the paint) was done with 4 inch pads working various tough to to areas.

Video of working SIP down very well. Each step had to me finished out completely, as the soft paint was absolutely unforgivening if each product was not taken completely down.

Some afters in the halogens...

We constantly checked the paint in the sun to ensure there was no holograms or micromarring. After polishing, the paint was wiped with Prep Sol and inspected in various light.

Video tape of the Quattroporte in the sun, after a prep sol wipedown and no lsp...

The owner loves 'nubas so it was time to try the new P21s 100 percent. It really has a crisp, deep look that compliments this car perfectly.

Final walk around video clip...

Joshua312 · 01-29-08, 08:56

Love the last picture which you cropped! Great work guys

Greg Nichols · 01-29-08, 09:00

Looks outstanding! Keep us posted about the 100% P21s. The last shot is a pure glam shot for a portfolio for sure. glad you have a client that values such a car! How did you apply the RMG, and did it make a difference worth the effort? I've been considering it for some black cars I have to do.

Again.........absolutely astounding work!

Cheers,
GREG

Hey, Moe! · 01-29-08, 09:00

We're going to have to invent new words to describe your work!!

Looking at this made my morning. It beats looking out the window at the freezing rain.

Cool car and a super job!

RickRack · 01-29-08, 09:07

Very cool Todd and Bryan!

I've been waiting for some more of your Click and Brags.

The paint on the Maserati came out phenominal! Incredible depth and gloss. The new
P21S is on my list of nubas to purchase.

What did you end up using for a pad for your correction work with the SIP?

Keep up the great work! Looking forward to seeing more work from you guys.

TH0001 · 01-29-08, 09:18

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Originally Posted by Joshua312

Love the last picture which you cropped! Great work guys

Thanks Joshua!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg Nichols

Looks outstanding! Keep us posted about the 100% P21s. The last shot is a pure glam shot for a portfolio for sure. glad you have a client that values such a car! How did you apply the RMG, and did it make a difference worth the effort? I've been considering it for some black cars I have to do.

Again.........absolutely astounding work!

Cheers,
GREG

Hey Greg, thanks! The RMG was definetly worth it, IMO. The problem we ran into finishing the paint was that the borders of our passes would have light micromarring because the polish would not get broken down all the way on the edges (yes it was that finicky). So we polished whole sections, then added a little RMG to the pad and buffed whole sections, blending the polished areas together. Of course we used Prep-Sol on sections to make sure we where not filling anything, before using this process over the whole paint. We used black LC pads and low RPM to burinsh the RMG into the UF film and create perfection.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hey, Moe!

We're going to have to invent new words to describe your work!!

Looking at this made my morning. It beats looking out the window at the freezing rain.

Cool car and a super job!

Thanks Moe, glad I could help

Thanks for the kind words man

If you invent a word, let me know and we will get it on our site and quote you, lol.

TH0001 · 01-29-08, 09:22

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Originally Posted by RickRack

Very cool Todd and Bryan!

I've been waiting for some more of your Click and Brags.

The paint on the Maserati came out phenominal! Incredible depth and gloss. The new
P21S is on my list of nubas to purchase.

What did you end up using for a pad for your correction work with the SIP?

Keep up the great work! Looking forward to seeing more work from you guys.

Thanks Rick! For the SIP we ended up using purple wool a lot of the correction over several passes, then used SIP/white remove the wool marring and bring the paint to 95 percent. From there it was just a long tedious task to get it 100 percent correct. The paint made Infiniti G paint seem hard by comparison.

P21s 100% is on my list as well as Brian and I had an accident with the owners car lift squishing the tin...