Saved Saab

**Tony@Cherished** · 12-09-2007, 12:15 PM

This Saab took two days to put right, it had heavy swirl/cobweb, deep scratching and heavy overspray on the grill.

First, a good cleanse, wheels with VP Bilberry and several Vikan brushes. Bodywork Citrus pre-clean, then Megs Shampoo plus with Sonus mit and towel.

Door jams with megs APC.

Dried off, and taken inside. Then clayed with CYC yellow Poly.

Inspected, looked a LOT worse in person, as the 50/50 will show when I get to them.

Masked off ready to go

First, a bit of wet sanding on some deeper scratching and poor respray finish on bumper, here`s some work on scratching, not completely gone, but as far as I was willing to go.

before -

During -

After -

Easy testing led quickly to Menz IP 85 RD with a Sonus SFX1 pad.

Finishing with Menz FF 106FA on SFX 2 pad.

Here`s some 50/50.

And when the polish choice was found -

Light clusters - SFX3

Wheel centers - Plastx

Ext.trim - AG Bumper care

Arches/rubber - AS Highstyle

Glass - AS Glass Clear

Wheels - Carlack twins

Bodywork -

Carlack NSC pre-wax clean

LSP - Swiss. Best Of Show.

Thanks for reading.

**baseballlover1** · 12-09-2007, 12:43 PM

WOW looks great!

**P1et** · 12-09-2007, 01:26 PM

Very nice work, those are some impressive 50/50 shots!

I like your working space!

**imported_Lightman** · 12-09-2007, 01:30 PM

Great improvement!

**Tony@Cherished** · 12-09-2007, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by P1et

Very nice work, those are some impressive 50/50 shots!

I like your working space!

Thanks for all comments.

It is a nice clean tidy space, not mine unforunatly though.

**CaptinFocker** · 12-09-2007, 02:15 PM

Looks great nice work

**imported_Sludge** · 12-09-2007, 02:32 PM

Huge improvement. Looks the way black should look. :xyxthumbs

**.VorteX.** · 12-09-2007, 02:42 PM

Car looked pretty bad before. You did an awesome job.

**Pats300zx** · 12-09-2007, 02:45 PM

Awesome job..

**jimtriz** · 12-09-2007, 03:05 PM

That car was a mess...great work!! Very impressive 50/50 pics. You had your hands full on that one!! Awesome finished product.

**David703** · 12-09-2007, 04:10 PM

FANTASTIC JOB!

I would have covered the convert top way before I would ever cover the windshield though.

**Tony@Cherished** · 12-09-2007, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by David703

FANTASTIC JOB!

I would have covered the convert top way before I would ever cover the windshield though.

Thanks for all comments.

Would have been a good idea wouldn`t it.

. Don`t know why I didn`t, it kept free of dust/splatter though. I did cover it when doing the windscreen surround.

**mparker30** · 12-09-2007, 06:52 PM

Will wetsanding do anything for scratches that are down to the primer?

**BlackElantraGT** · 12-09-2007, 08:32 PM

Wow, that is VERY impressive! Before I got my rotary, I tried to tackle the trunklid of a black Saab 9-5 with my PC and did not get very far with it.

Personally, I hate Saabs (too quirky for me and the build quality is worse than my cheap @$$ Korean Hyundai) but my wife`s side of the family are Saab loyalists. We even have an SPG in the family stable of cars. Unfortunately most of the Saabs I see are swirled to hell like the one you worked on.