Hey all,
This Corvette was just sold, so it needed to get cleaned up so it could go out on Thursday (yesterday). You are all probably wondering why I did this car by hand instead of using a buffer like I always do. It's actually kinda funny.... Well, not really
. My new Makita buffer that is only 4 months old died on me on the first panel. It was working off & on and then completely stopped working altogether. No big deal, I called the place I got it from and they came and picked it up and said they would either fix it or replace it with another one. In the meantime until the other one is fixed, I figured I'd go to my house and get my own personel buffer (identical buffer which is about 6 months old) and use that for the time being. So, I get back to the shop, set up the buffer, start buffing, and guess what?? This one did the same thing!! Needless to say, I don't think I will be buying another Makita rotary any time soon.
So, since I didn't have a buffer (actually 2 buffers) I decided to do it all by hand and do the best I could with what I had to work with. All in all it came out pretty good, but I felt bad and told the owner to come back when the car gets dirty and I would give him a free exterior detail to make it up to him.
Here is my process:
Washed complete exterior
Cleaned wheels & engine compartment
Removed grease & tar from bottom panels with Nylon Spotter solvent
Werkstatt's Prime by hand to complete exterior
Werkstatt's AJ by hand x2 to complete exterior
Werkstatt's CJ by hand to complete exterior
Werkstatt's Prime on wheels & exterior glass (worked awesome on aluminum wheels!)
Super Blue dressing on tires & wheel wells
BEFORE PICTURES:
THE AFTERS:
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