Hi all! Well I was supposed to start this car last Friday, but the factory called us on Thursday night and said that there would be a delay because there were paint problems with the car...
d: That's odd. Anyway, like the title says this is a very rare color for Ferrari and the name is "rosso fuoco". If you're one of the lucky kids to have this color Ferrari (or to have a Ferrari at all
), well it doesn't actually mean that you're lucky at all. It means that you were willing to shell out an extra €15,000 (zeros and commas all placed correctly) to have it. Now, after hearing that we all just kind of had a "pfft" feeling, but I sort of felt like "maybe this one will be OK if they're spending time to correct it?" "Could this have an effect on my income??" Nope. I got a call on Monday morning to come in and inspect and this is what I found:
The expected scratches and swirls induced by the "I'll work for the price of a cup of coffee" refugee that they let loose with a buffer.
Hmm, there's something else there, too... After I found what you're about to see, I was instructed to hold off on the surgery until one of the managers from Italy arrived on Tuesday to see it in person. Well, I went home and on Tuesday he never showed up so for a couple of days after seeing this you can imagine that I was waiting in antici...p..pation to see what I could do with this mess.
Ahhh! This paint has a sever case of the runs :doublesho!!!
Obviously somewhere during the painting process they screwed up. Then in an attempt to cover up their mistakes, they sanded, repainted and more clear coat was added... and well... FAIL. The pieces of masking tape that you see all over the car are places where I've either found runs in the paint or deep scratches (they were mostly runs, but the RDS's were also in da house).
Had to remove the index lights, you'll see why later...
Uhh... The only way to fix this is to remove the entire front wing...
Just being prepared so I had some 2500 grit soaking...
I decided to tackle the worst spot first. I took readings, but they were very wavy due to the runs in the paint.
After hitting it with a Scholl wool pad and Scholl S17. I think I took off about 10-20 microns but luckily I had enough paint to work with. Yes, it's more than I would normally take off on a car of this caliber, but... it's a brand new car with a €15,000 paint job that needs to be perfect... Here's some after readings and after shots:
Some ugly sanding marks on the back...
After Scholl S17 and wool pad. Now normally I would use InstaFinish, but my order hasn't arrived yet :**( so I had to cheat on my love today... but the Scholl distributor hooked my up with a lot of samples so I don't feel so bad now
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Some after shots in the little sun that I had today. This was after S17 and a wool pad, then onto S17 with a Scholl polishing pad (wicked) then finished up with a polishing pad and InstaCut #30 (jeweled for about 5 min or so). This was the suitable combo for the entire car.
On to the other damage...
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