Oakes - Detailed: 2004 Honda S2000 - Pic Heavy

OakesDetail · 06-29-09, 10:29

A full paint corrective detail, done by myself, of this Pearl Yellow S2000. Out of the 400+ pics I tried to find a good bit that really showed the full effect of the detail. However the weather and time weren't typically on my side, worked on this car at night mostly after my day time details as I had it available for almost 2 weeks time! Try and keep this as descriptive and organized as possible!

*Note: the Front bumper and Driver's side fender are a different shade of yellow due to a poor repaint by a body shop. Owner is having this corrected and the car brought back to me*

Process:
Full wash - Clay Bar
Menzerna Intensive Polish - PC, orange pad - 4 hours
Menzerna Final Polish II- PC, green pad pad - 2 hours
Menzerna Finishing Touch Glaze - PC, white pad
Optimum Opti-Seal - hand applied - cured overnight
Collinite's No. 845 Insulator wax - hand applied - cured for 3 hours.
Rewashed
Spray waxed

BEFORE PICTURES: Note swirling!

Before and after of wheels - painted factory wheels with vinyl pin stripe

50/50 Shots:

Fender Before/After - a mix of swirls and paint overspray

Paint Shots:

Interior Shots - PoorBoy's Natural Look, Mink Oil and a few other products went to work here

OakesDetail · 06-29-09, 10:30

Full car shots

Reflections!

Beading Shot - after the entire process

Daytime photos:

Reflection shots:

Mirror like finish every time

Enjoy!

Apollo_Auto · 06-29-09, 10:31

Nice job, mate! That color is sick!

OakesDetail · 06-29-09, 10:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apollo_Auto

Nice job, mate! That color is sick!

Thank you sir! I didn't know it had such a nice pearl effect to it

Thats Fresh · 06-29-09, 05:07

looking good!

OakesDetail · 06-30-09, 09:39

Thank you!

melt · 06-30-09, 12:24

nice job what did you use to clean up the tar splatter on the side?

jmkiang · 06-30-09, 12:43

Damn you've been busy! Great work.

bufferbarry · 06-30-09, 03:32

looks nice!

MuttGrunt · 06-30-09, 04:15

beautiful shine indeed! yellow is a rare color for s2k's, and this one looks very nice IMO - and of course u made it look outstanding

OakesDetail · 07-01-09, 09:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by melt

nice job what did you use to clean up the tar splatter on the side?

Luckily that tar was fresh from the drive to me, Pressure washer and foaming helped reduce it so a slight smudging and then some spot APC treatment took car of it!

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmkiang

Damn you've been busy! Great work.

Thank you! It's been slow the past 2 weeks do to the rain EVERYDAY here, but I've got a handful of cars to do for a car show that is a weekend from now!

Quote:

Originally Posted by bufferbarry

looks nice!

Quote:

Originally Posted by MuttGrunt

beautiful shine indeed! yellow is a rare color for s2k's, and this one looks very nice IMO - and of course u made it look outstanding

Thank you guys! Appreciate the compliments! This yellow is awesome in person

Scottwax · 07-01-09, 10:09

Other than the spoiler and black wheels, it looks like the one I just did!

Nice job, super wet looking paint.