dsms detail - Porsche 996 Turbo

dsms · 04-24-09, 07:50

2003 996 turbo booked for a 2 day extensive detail

Upon arrival: no wash process pics sorry

Maxi suds foam
CWC 2BM
Gloss-It green mild clay
Gloss-It wheel gel 1:1
Megs APC 3:1
Stoners Tarminator (tires)
Autosmart Tardis

The owner wanted everything perfect and I was happy to go all out on a silver car for a change and not do the usual "1 step"

Starting with the headlights and Gloss It one step machine gloss w/ a compounding pad and followed up once more with a finishing pad

Drivers side before

After

Passenger side headlight under the LED

Even with 3 or 4 different light sources it was pretty difficult to pick up the defects on camera, the car had a lot of wash induced stuff and some deeper RIDS (the hood needed some wetsand attention)

Door under the LED... light being refracted in a million directions

A cluster of scratches by the drivers side windshield had to be wetsanded, as usual I picked one scratch to test

Before 2000grit

After

2000grit compounded out with Gloss It extreme cut worked well on the test scracth so I proceeded to take care of the rest of the cluster with 5 or 6 more

After spot compunding the sanded areas the rest of the car recieved a 2 step process. The paint was a little stickier than expected so I broke out the Flex DA for the first time in 6months and I wondered why I left it collecting dust for so long:shead:

Gloss-It Evolution cut w. GI green/yellow polishing pad Flex 3401
Gloss-it Evolution polish w. GI blue finishing pad Flex 3403
Gloss-it EVP pad primer

Even though the flex random did an excellent job on the first part of correction I still broke out the rotary for jeweling as I find I can refine the finish a bit more working slow passes at low RPM. The GI polishes are a no brainer for sticky paints btw!

I rarely get the chance to go for 100% correction on silver or white cars but this car is very special to the owner as he wanted everything to restored to as close to new condition as possible.

Working evolution cut (some areas needed the little flex rotary as the flex random was too big)

jeweling

The taillights were a bit faded w/ some moderate swriling as well so the saem 2 step process as before was carried out

After

The "mystery" exhaust system on the turbo took about 40minutes of hand cleaning and polishing to get back to a presentable state

Noxon metal polish
#00 steel wool (inside the tailpipes only)
#0000 steel wool (outside tailpipes)
re-polished w/ Noxon using a finger pad

Before

After

The trim was well dried out, first I did a thorough cleaning with IPA and then applied Gloss It TRV dressing using a foam stick (pictured later and works great for applying any exterior dressing)

Before

I find the foam tipped stick is much more accurate for applying dressing in small areas (especially those areas next to paint)

Lower rocker panels finished

Before

After

dsms · 04-24-09, 07:51

The engine was in fairly good condition, a quick APC de-greasing and dressing was all it required, gotta love Porsche engines for detailing:thumb:

Before

After

The glass was machine polished using Gloss It one step machine gloss and a polishing pad to remove some fine hazing and swirls

I went around and finished cleaning all the door jambs and dressing the rest of the trim before Applying LSP

I got a chance to test out an outstanding glass sealant from Japan which the owner of the porsche supplied, I have a feeling I applied it correctly but the directions were in japanese so I used my logic and hoped for the best :giggle:

Its a liquid filled bottle which dispenses through a felt pad which you rub onto the windows...

It goes on like butter but it cures ridiculously hard, I let it sit overnight before buffing off with ice cold distilled water (helps dissipate some of the smearing)

I got a chance to put this "top secret" sealant to the test on my own car this week and was blown away! Its almost as if this stuff is afraid of water, I have never seen rain sheet and bead as quickly in my life, the problem was I only had 1 bottle!

I imediately called the owner of the Porsche to see where I can get more and I found that I simply "cant!", It is not sold in the United States and can only be imported from Japan... that is if you know where to find it in Japan.

Luckily I managed to contact his source who travels to Japan frequently and begged to get me a case of the updated version of what was used on the Porsche, it uses stronger polymers which sheet water faster and it lasts up to 6mponths on a single coat:headbang:

My case of 20 I will have it in a few weeks what it costs me to get the bottles from Japan alone was outrageous.

I will post up some videos of its performance soon, hopefully some in car driving videos as well in the rain!

Back to the interior, while cleaning underneath the seats I found what seemed to be wet tabbaco. This car was bought used so I was probably left by the past owner. Hadnfuls of tabbaco were stuck underneath and in between the seat and electric motor area.

Some pics of the wet tabbaco after shoveling out whatever I could by hand...

After 20minutes and 30 q-tips I was able to remove the reamaining tabbacco from underneath the seat.

Afters

A few damp MF's, tons of 1-tips and the LED light helped get the job done

The interior was cleaned with Gloss It satin leather cleaner and conditioned with Gloss It satin leather polish.
The plastics and carbon trim were treated with P&S express interior cleaner and then the carbon was sealed with Gloss Finish

Wheel were treated with Rejex and tires recieved 2 coats of Gloss it signature tire gloss

LSP: DWG+JW AJT X3

Some afters

The CF inlays really set off the interior IMO

Some finished shots

Waited for the sun to come out..

dsms · 04-24-09, 07:52

And it finally did...

Sun was going down, best attempt

I got a chance to drive the turbo before the detail and I was very very impressed to say the least (:yikes. Its truly amazing how a proper tune and some BPU's can make these cars pull so hard. The car was tuned by GMG racing, heres a quick exhaust video when the owner came to collect his ride

Hope you enjoyed

-Dave

mburns813 · 04-24-09, 08:04

Great results dsms. That glass sealant looks pretty cool.

oski83 · 04-24-09, 08:19

awesome work.....as usual

Thats Fresh · 04-24-09, 09:04

nice. cant wait to see the glass vids... so you took the car for a spin eh? lOL

TSC17 · 04-25-09, 04:17

Dave...very nice work as always my friend, and great attention to detail in both the work and the write up. Keep 'em coming!

Auto Concierge · 04-25-09, 06:33

How many people clean under the seat?, Dave it's nice to get an "easy one" once in awhile(kidding) even silver can be tough

dmw2692004 · 04-25-09, 06:50

sexy car! great work!

jucaraman · 04-25-09, 10:14

Awesome work, your before and afters keep everyone coming back for more.

I liked the star pattern you left in the passenger side floor carpet, instead of the usual candy cane lines.

Also nice find on the AmetVi glass stuff, sounds like a pain to mess with, but well worth the results. Now you just need to convince the guy picking up your case to get a Japanese to English translation. The translation might show you a different process that is easier to remove without say the ice cold water.

I found a couple links here on how to use it, but Im not sure if this will help you any.

howto:goto glass coat then click dent type coating

Translated version of http://www.soft99.co.jp/howto/

here is the product page in english

SOFT99 - Glass Coating

dsms · 04-25-09, 12:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by jucaraman

Awesome work, your before and afters keep everyone coming back for more.

I liked the star pattern you left in the passenger side floor carpet, instead of the usual candy cane lines.

Also nice find on the AmetVi glass stuff, sounds like a pain to mess with, but well worth the results. Now you just need to convince the guy picking up your case to get a Japanese to English translation. The translation might show you a different process that is easier to remove without say the ice cold water.

I found a couple links here on how to use it, but Im not sure if this will help you any.

howto:goto glass coat then click dent type coating

Translated version of http://www.soft99.co.jp/howto/

here is the product page in english

SOFT99 - Glass Coating

^^^ I dont use Glaco anymore, the case I have coming is Amet and is much stronger!

nighthawkcoupe · 04-25-09, 01:20

Awesome car and great job on it

About the glass sealant- Has anyone tried Wet Paint Glaze?
A member of an accord forum I belong to introduced a bunch of people to it and we all love it. It has a similar pink color, sprays on and wipes off but also leaves an extremely hard, glass-like finish. It can be used on paint and glass and does sheet water like crazy.