Porsche Carrera, Honda 600F4

[Scottwax]

2005 white on black Porsche Carrera. Regular (couple times a year) Austin customer bought this Porshce in Ohio. The original plan was to fly up there, pick it up, drive to his Dad's house in Mequite (which is a 40 mile drive one way vs 200 in Austin) and have me detail it. He ended up having it trucked to his Dad's and flew in after I finished it to drive it back to Austin. I actually got my hands on his car before he even saw it. My understanding is this is one of two white on black Carreras sold in the US for the 2005 model year.

Overall it was pretty clean inside (and dammit, forgot to take pictures!) but the outside needed a moderate amount of claying. Once I finished with that, I inspected the paint with an LED light and my camera flash (thought I'd have sun to work in but the covered parking in the drive negated that opportunity) and saw the paint had light to moderate spider swirls.

Before:



After using Meguiars #105 cut about 20% with Optimum Polish using my PC and a yellow Meguiars polishing pad. Why not the rotary? Not enough opportunity to inspect the car in the sun. The gas was low enough when I intitially started the car to move it, the message on the dash said "consider fuel level". Plus I had already tried the combo on a Mini I have yet to post and found it to work very well.



Same combo on the next two sets of before and after:









I finished the car with Pink Moose plus (again, not revealing what the "plus" is) and waxed with Carnauba Moose:

[Scottwax]

Honda 600F4. Not sure what year, he said it was several years old. Really wasn't too bad, just spider swirls and the paint looked flat. Washed the bike with Optimum No Rinse and used Optimum Power Clean on the greasy/oily areas. All the chrome and metal was polished with Clearkote's Blue Moose. The paint was first polished with Optimum Compound using an orange Soft Edge cutting pad via PC (just too tight to use a rotary, plus like Honda cars, the paint was on the soft side), switching to a Meguiars yellow polishing pad for the final couple of passes. I then used Pink Moose and a Meguiars polishing pad, then a new version of Red Machine Glaze (looks wetter and leaves the finish noticably slicker) with a blue Soft Edge polsihing pad (which is more like a finishing pad) and waxed with Carnauba Moose.

[BigAl3]

Originally Posted by Scottwax

After using Meguiars #105 cut about 20% with Optimum Polish using my PC and a yellow Meguiars polishing pad. Why not the rotary? Not enough opportunity to inspect the car in the sun. The gas was low enough when I intitially started the car to move it, the message on the dash said "consider fuel level". Plus I had already tried the combo on a Mini I have yet to post and found it to work very well.

hey scott, do you feel if maybe you would of used an orange pad, it would of removed a little more of the defects?

[Scottwax]

I was worried about marring and with a polishing pad I was getting close to 95% defect removal on most of the car anyway. Next time I go down to Austin I'll hit it with the rotary if necessary.

[BigAl3]

Originally Posted by Scottwax

I was worried about marring and with a polishing pad I was getting close to 95% defect removal on most of the car anyway. Next time I go down to Austin I'll hit it with the rotary if necessary.

got ya, both look great BTW...

[David Fermani]

2 very sweet machines. Great job scott. I'm not sure which one I'd like to test drive more?

[TSC17]

Looks great Scott! As always...

[kaval]

Scott, great work as always! That white looks super wet! How was it working on a bike? How do you price details on bikes?

[Scottwax]

Originally Posted by kaval

Scott, great work as always! That white looks super wet! How was it working on a bike? How do you price details on bikes?

I do 4-5 Harleys per year, this was the first crotch rocket I've done in a long time. Harleys start at $125 for a basic detail and chrome polishing, Did this bike for $100 (he tipped me $20), took two hours.

I like detailing bikes, more relaxing because you can sit down for much of the detail.

[charlesaferg]

Oh ScottWax you did the right thing, those Porsche single stage paints absolutely love the PC.

I worked on a black Carrera a while back with just the PC, but if I really wanted to get intensive I could have burnished it off with 85RD and a rotary on a real soft pad to make it absolutely glimmer - but the client didn't require that.

[tdekany]

Beautiful finish on both Scott!!!!!

[landcruiser]

Originally Posted by charlesaferg

Oh ScottWax you did the right thing, those Porsche single stage paints absolutely love the PC.

Pretty sure that's clear coated, not SS.