First let me start off and say this detail was a dream come true for me. Lets face it, some of our jobs really take the life out of us, they make us want to go home and watch TV or go to sleep. However this job FOR ME was not one of the. I loved just about every second of it. From the cleaning of the wheels with a paintbrush because my swissvax wheel brush hadn’t arrived, to polishing the door jambs; I loved every second.
This particular model Ferrari is a 2002 360 spider. This car is being sold at a dealership called brambelton imports for I believe $170k (incase anyone is interested PM me). The owner and manager of the dealer are both nice guys and it was fun getting the details worked out about the job, however sometimes a little aggravating, but it all worked out and worth it in the end.
Anyways, this detail took place on a few different days due to my school schedule, so I basically only had about 3 hours a day to work on the car (with the exception of today; Saturday).
Day one: Tuesday
The car proved hard to start and get into the detail bay due to the alarm system and the lack of a clutch… My preference would be a standard clutch manual transmission (incase anyone wants to buy me one:]). After calling foreign cars italia, in Greensboro NC, we got the car started and into the wash bay.
Here are some preliminary photos:
After the initial shock of... holy ****... its a ferrari wore off i set to work by cleaning the wheels. This process was very easy as there was only dust particulate, SLIGHT mud and almost NO brake dust. I used my EZ brush to get into the barel of the wheel, a paint brush for the faces and the brake caliper and a few q-tips for hard to reach areas. All of these products were used in conjunction with P21S wheel gel.
After the wheels were perfectly clean...
... I set about cleansing and decontaminating the paint.
My favorite shampoo has recently been Dodo Juice Born To Be Mild...
After the buckets were full and I was ready to rock and roll I foamed the car with my gilmour foam gun...
...and then washed the car using the two bucket method and my sheepskin mitt..
The car was then dried.
After a water/bathroom break I began examining the paint and prepping it before polishing...
In certain spots the car had mild to severe holograms that would require SIP (which i opted to use on the car). It also had micro marring and swirl marks throughout the entire car, which we all know is pretty normal on a car with as soft paint as ferrari.
So here is my test panel; I used SIP then finished up with 106... worked VERY well IMO. The paint was deep and glossy... and it felt like velvet too
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Before:
After:
Day one was winding to an end due to my homework needing to be done. So i packed it in around 6:30-6:45, which means i would have worked about 3 hours on tuesday.
Here are some pics from that day:
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