New Jaguar XKR detailed (66 pics and 6 video clips)

TH0001 · 07-18-07, 10:37

The reason this post is so pic intensive is because I because the owner of the Jaguar took a lot of pictures and several video clips of me working (I actually didn't know he was doing so). I decided to include everything into one, like a story board type of work up.

Outline

Rims cleaned with P21s Wheel Gel
Tires cleaned with Meguiars APC 10:1Wheel wells cleaned with Meguiars APC:1
Body washed using Optimum Car Soap with a Gillmore Foam Gun, 2 bucket method
Clayed using Zaino Z18 with Meguiars Last Touch
Dried using 210 MPH leaf blower and Meguiars Water Magnet

Polished with

Menzerna SIP P083 via rotary with Lake Country Purple Foam pad @ 1800
rpm on rough spots
Menzerna SIP P083 via rotary with Lake Country Orange CCS 7 1/4 pad
@ 1500 rpm on all panels above the belt line (roof, truck, hood, and upper body
panels)
Menzerna 106ff via rotary with Lake Country Orange CCS 7 1/4 pad @
1200 -> 800 rpm on entire body

Zaino Z-AIO followed by Z2pro on rims, glass, and trim
Zaino Z16 on tires
Meguiars Hyperdressing 3:1 applied to engine and wheel wells
Zymol HD-Cleanse entire body
Zymol Titanium via hand, entire body
Mothers Billet polish on brightwork and exhaust

Total Time was 8 1/2 hours, but I was not working at my fastest speed, instead taking several breaks and talking the owners ear off!

Lets get to the good stuff!

After washing and claying, drying the rims. The paint on this car was already in incrediable shape but there was some light swirls and a few deeper scratches despite being a couple weeks old!

Several pictures from the owner and myself of the Jaguar in the garage after I taped it up using 3M painters tape

There was very light swirling that I could only see in direct sunlight. However the paint did have a couple areas that looked like they where sanded or scrubbed with a rough brush. There was also several scratches on the hood and the driver's side rear quater panel (I was able to remove everything minus one scratch on the driver's side QP).

Here is the before of one of the scratched (sanded) looking defects...

After is the after of the same area. This required two high speed passes on the rotary with wool and SIP to remove completely.

After I completed taking out several of the scratches and deeper marring, I follwed this with an Orange CCS pad and SIP and finished down with a White CCS pad and 106ff.

Checking my work

Spott claying a bit of bonded contaminate before final polishing...

Excellence is in the details...

Finishing up with the white pad, almost done with the polishing...

A couple of videos of polishing the paint that the owner shot...

After dusting the jambs, emblems, nooks and crannies the owner and I dropped the top and removed the tape.

I wiped the engine down with a damp towel and srayed a little Hypressing on a foam applicator. The V-8 is blown and developed more the 400 horsepower!!!

TH0001 · 07-18-07, 10:38

Then I applied HD-cleanse with a foam applicator and wiped clean after twenty seconds...

After the HD-cleanse I took a couple minutes to finish up the details. The tires where dressed with Z16, the rims where hand polished with Z-AIO, then topped with Z2pro. When I washed the car earlier, I spend a lot of time on each rim, making sure that behind the spokes and barrels where very clean.

Z2pro with its amazing clarity made the flakes pop and made the rims look very glossy and wet...

Okay time for the Zymol Titanium...

I'm not quite this bad looking but it had been 7 hours to this point, in 98 degree heat with 80 percent humidity!!!

Making sweet love to another person's sexy Jaguar!

The owner snapped some photo's of the completed side as I worked my over the hood and back down to the passanger side...

A couple video clips of the the Zymol being applied/removed

A couple pictures in the garage after applying the Zymol.

Okay on the the outside pictures. Unfortunately, the weather can not be predicted and we where forced with horrible photographic conditions, it was bright outside, but overcast and as such it was hard to keep from everything looking bright and muted. Hopefully I will some more after photo's in better light on Tuesday.

TH0001 · 07-18-07, 10:40

TH0001 · 07-18-07, 10:41

*****Update*****

Been a little while since this one was done. I had the joy of riding to a local Jaguar Concours show (which two other Jag's I detailed competed in and won! One recieved 100 out of 100 points and is the first 100 point winner in the history of the Florida Jaguars Club Concours events and the second got a lowly 99.7 out of 100

! )

Since orginally detailed, the car had minor water etchings on the hood which I polished with Menzerna SIP on the rotary/Zaino Z-PC on the PC and applied another coat of Zymol Titanium over the whole car.

Enjoy the pictures from the show!

Notice the empty cup infront of the rear tire, we got an early start (9 AM) on the alcohol. Of course by 2 PM I was hating myself

)

Some sun shots...

New, factory style, chromed rims

Even the overcast sky (which muted the metal flake) couldn't stop with cat from looking liquid wet!

I closed the shutter and lense angle to reduce anylighting. You can see the surface is 100 percent flawless in terms of swirls or scratches...

Way2SSlow · 07-18-07, 10:43

That looks incredible. Not only do I love the new bodystyle, but you really did that paint right. Zymol definitely makes some great looking waxes. Too bad about the pricing on some of them though.

01bluecls · 07-18-07, 10:47

Todd AWESOME Documentation by you and owner! lol I see you did the foam spreading method I mentioned, how did that work out? The car looks great! THe new Jag's look identical to the Aston Martin (I know they are they same company, Ford). How did you like the Zymol Titanium? Again, Excellent work!!!

TH0001 · 07-18-07, 11:04

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Originally Posted by 01bluecls

Todd AWESOME Documentation by you and owner! lol I see you did the foam spreading method I mentioned, how did that work out? The car looks great! THe new Jag's look identical to the Aston Martin (I know they are they same company, Ford). How did you like the Zymol Titanium? Again, Excellent work!!!

Hey Chris thanks for your help behind the scenes! The car is absolutely beautiful. I was excited when the owner contacted me and let me know he had the new XKR, I had only seen them in a couple magazine photo's previously.

In person it is stunning. Much like the Maserati Quatrroporte and an Aston Martin, the car looks amazing from every angle. Powerful and aggressive, wide shoulders, long front, just amazing. Jaguar did an amazing job blending power with class in with this style!

I used the applicator several times when the I needed a more even coat though a lot of times I was able to get my with out it and get the Zymol, even and smooth. Thanks for the heads up though as it worked perfectly when needed.

I cannot give an honest opinion of the Zymol Titanuim yet because the lighting conditions where absolutely horrid for evaluating gloss and depth. I was very impressed by HD-cleanse though, as it noticably deepened the paint.

Quote:

That looks incredible. Not only do I love the new bodystyle, but you really did that paint right. Zymol definitely makes some great looking waxes. Too bad about the pricing on some of them though.

Thank you, the car is simply stunning and a very easy canvas to paint, if you will!

CHAOS · 07-18-07, 11:11

wow. ... i dont know what else to say... the hand applicating technique interests me... i understand the purpose but ive never been shown how to apply like that...

JL6er · 07-18-07, 11:12

wow, excellent video footage! great

qballjr13 · 07-18-07, 11:17

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Originally Posted by 01bluecls

THe new Jag's look identical to the Aston Martin (I know they are they same company, Ford)

Aston Martin is no longer owned by Ford. Ford sold them to independent buyer.

01bluecls · 07-18-07, 11:28

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Originally Posted by qballjr13

Aston Martin is no longer owned by Ford. Ford sold them to independent buyer.

I heard about that. Same people that own Loius Vitton (Spelling?) I believe. That was earlier this year. Im sure they used the same designs essentially when they designed these new Jag's over a year ago though.

VTechFan02 · 07-18-07, 11:34

Very nice job on an awesome car. Your hard work is apparent. One question:
I am a newbie but I was wondering why you went so aggressive with the polish/compounding. Was the paint very hard? The defects didn't seem too bad in the befores unless the camera misrepresented them.
Anyway, Great Job!!!