Black Porsche Boxster: Heavy marring corrected

[Anthony Orosco]

Ron and I have about 2 weeks worth of details coming up, this does not include our regular clients, so we have had to work just about everyday of the week. We even worked through the days of rain we had here. This Porsche is owned by a gentleman that just wanted a wash and wax, as his secretary put it, well after talking to him a bit I convinced him his Boxster needed some love.

It had a large ding in it in the driver rear quarter panel, one ding in the driver side front fender and two nipples on the front and rear lids. Ron took care of those and di an impressive job on the large ding above the driver rear wheel. Sorry, no pictures of those.

Then it was on to the interior. It had your basic gunk and grime which cleaned up well. I finished the interior Friday afternoon and this morning (Saturday) Ron and I tackled the exterior.

Here is a picture of the Boxster BEFORE getting washed.









Here is the rear lid









After the wash this is what it looked like under my halogens.









Not too pretty. Ron and I knew that we would need the Optimum Hyper but what pad to start with was the question. I tried the Optimum black wool pad first with the Hyper but this left far too many swirls. I then did another panel with the orange pad and Hyper and this turned out much better with minimal swirling.



Here is a picture of another panel, passenger door.










After the orange pad and Hyper I used the Optimum green pad and again Hyper Compound. This left us with a pretty nice finish but not at all what we were looking for. So we then used an LC white polishing pad with Optimum Polish, Optimum blue pad with Optimum polish and finished the rotary work with an Optimum white pad and Optimum Polish.

I quickly ran the Cyclo over the paint with Optimum Polish and Ron followed me with Optimum spray wax.




Ready for a few AFTER pics?




Well here is the rear lid after all that polishing









And the hood



















Here is a picture of the rear window, BEFORE









Here is AFTER. Now alot of stuff on the BEFORE picture is just dirt but there was some hazing and yellowing that the polishing removed. I used my rotary and a white pad on the exterior with Optimum polish and did the interior by hand.









This was one LONG detail.....PHEW!!

Thanks for looking,
Anthony

[DieselMDX]

wow car looks great!


surprise you didnt use PS then top it with OCW

[Gen2]

The Boxster looks real good and a great job on the defects removal, now the car looks brand new .

[Dave1]

Very very nice job......

[Rio96GT]

Excellent job!

[J.J.]

Why did you go from OHC to OP? Did you have OC?

I'm trying to decide between the purchase of OHC or OC. WOuld OC remove the defects you pictured?

[GTFreddy]

beautiful work

[Anthony Orosco]

Originally Posted by J.J.

Why did you go from OHC to OP? Did you have OC?

I'm trying to decide between the purchase of OHC or OC. WOuld OC remove the defects you pictured?

One can go from OHC to OP as long as your pad change is not drastic, in other words one may have difficulty going from OHC to OP if the OHC step was with an orange pad and the OP step is with a fine finishing pad. One needs to step down gradually from one pad to the next.

So I believe I used 4 different pads with 2 products. Orange pad + Hyper, Green pad + Hyper These two steps leveled the paint down well enough so that I could now begin the polishing step. I used the LC white pad and OP first and then OP again with a blue pad. At this point the paint was good enough to be finished but I wanted to see what a white pad and OP would produce.

The OC would reduce greatly the amount of marring but it would not level down as well as the Hyper.

Hope that helps,
Anthony


Thanks for the compliments and encouraging words everyone

Anthony

[BlackElantraGT]

Excellent work, Anthony!

The glass on that convertible, is it actual glass or plastic? OP did an awesome job on that.

BTW, are the Optimum pads something already out or a new product? This is the first time I've heard of it.

[^&04types]

via PC OR ROTARY?

[Anthony Orosco]

Originally Posted by BlackElantraGT

Excellent work, Anthony!

The glass on that convertible, is it actual glass or plastic? OP did an awesome job on that.

BTW, are the Optimum pads something already out or a new product? This is the first time I've heard of it.

Hey thanks

It is plastic, newer models have glass. I think this was an 03.

The pads have been out for awhile now, you should be able to find them at the main Optimum site.

Anthony

[Anthony Orosco]

Originally Posted by ^&04types

via PC OR ROTARY?

I did this by rotary, as in paint work.

The rear window I also did with my rotary, OP and a 100 ppi foam pad.

Anthony