Presidential Detailed: Infiniti FX35

PresdntialDtail · 10-31-08, 05:00

This customer just bought the car recently and wanted to get it cleaned up a bit. The previous owner was a snowbird so it mostly sat, but the paint wasnt kept up too well, looked like multiple auto-washes,etc. So we set up the detail, and I spent a couple days to get it back in shape. It was moderately difficult to get the defects back out of the paint, but we got it to about 95% corrected. Anyways, on to the pics!

Exterior:
Dawn Soap Pre-Wash
Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash
DD "Uber" Red Drying Towel
DD "Uber" Wool Mitt
Dual Buckets with Grit Guards
3m "green" Masking Tape
Adams Professional Clay Bar
P21S TAW
Meguairs APC+
Meguairs Hyperdressing
Menzerna SIP/LC FLAT Orange 5.5" (x2 on some areas)
Menzerna PO85rd/LC FLAT Black 5.5"
Menzerna Top Inspection
Tons of Uber MF Towels
Black WOW
Griots Garage Wheel Cleaner Gel
Swissvax Pneu

LSP:
Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator

Tools:
Dual Work Lamps
Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary
World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush
Foam Pad Cleaning Brush
DD Detail Sponge
The Wheel Well/Fender Brush
The Spoke Brush
Canon Rebel XTi
Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow
E-Z Detail Wheel Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush

BEFORE:

Wheels getting treated..

After pre-wash..

PresdntialDtail · 10-31-08, 05:02

I forgot to get some before shots in the halogens, but the sun shots showed what condition the vehicle was in overall..here are the few that I did happen to capture..

Here is a 50/50 after SIP/Orange pad..

Now finished in the halogens..I had to hit some areas twice to get the correction I wanted.

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Couple shots I got during the day..

I finished the vehicle after the sun was set, so I couldnt get any full pictures unfortunately..but here are some reflection shots for ya anyway!

BigAl3 · 10-31-08, 05:08

what was the complete process?

PresdntialDtail · 10-31-08, 05:18

Oops, I forgot to post all of that. I used SIP/LC Orange, the follow it with PO85rd/Black. I was sort of on a time constraint, which is why I skipped the intermediate step, but the SIP finished very nicely on the Infiniti paint that it seemed OK to go straight to final polishing.

BigAl3 · 10-31-08, 05:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by PresdntialDtail

Oops, I forgot to post all of that. I used SIP/LC Orange, the follow it with PO85rd/Black. I was sort of on a time constraint, which is why I skipped the intermediate step, but the SIP finished very nicely on the Infiniti paint that it seemed OK to go straight to final polishing.

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