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    OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    I`ve corrected more Tesla`s than anyone on the planet. And I know the paint on these cars. So usually its a repetition equals efficiency when correcting one. But this Tesla had 21k miles on it and had seen some better days... The paint was an absolute wreck! Covered in every type of defect you can imagine. I have to say I`ve been a little spoiled these days working on new cars that need correction work but ones that need restorations so this presented a challenge for me! I hope you enjoy this as I did this car start to finish my self and poured my blood, sweat, tears, and lost time with my 6 month old little girl over this one. Lets get on with it!







    This what the condition it arrived in and it looked far worse under shop lights.

    Solid black roof in equally bad shape.

    7 hours of compounding the roof alone gave me these results.

    The hood was another 4 hours of compounding and after I got all the water spots out, the next day a lot of them reappeared so I had compound the hood again for another 2 hours


    This whole car had signs that another "detailer" if you want to call them that had attempted to buff this car

    More improper use of a polisher....

    And more proper use of a polish by me!

    Deep scratches and swirls here...

    this went on for 3 very long days but my OCD and dedication to delivering nothing but the best results I pushed hard until 1-2am most days and even pulled a straight 35 hours from tuesday/weds

    Using ONR soaked paint safe towel I went around the car in this fashion

    After all my compounding I had made quite a mess so at 3am I decided it would be best to wash the car and clean up the dust.

    This car was so covered in defects I could only tape the trim as I had to go right up to the edge every where. But it wouldn`t be OCD approved if we didn`t address all this before being done!

    A credit card wrapped in an proper microfiber can be your best friend for this.


    After a long hard battle I was ready to really bring out the gloss in the before Cquartz Finest! Fast forward.... and...

    remember this?

    TA DA!


    Black roof looking amazing!







    And done!!

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    The time and attention to detail come out in spades! Beautiful job - I`m sure the customer was in awe!

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Wow. Amazing results. Is that Carpro`s Gloss Pad ? How is it and compared to other polishing pads does it work better with reflect?

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    <---- In awe


    WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Incredible as always !!!!!
    Formerly the "Best Detailer", now just Super Wax Waster Man. Not necessarily tactful, but normally right. It`s good to be da King !!!

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Excellent work Joseph

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    What products were used?

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Great work, worth the time spent.

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Nice Job, Looks great. 50 Hours, many your eyes must have been tired looking at that paint for so long. Mine start to blur at the 6-8 I spend on mine.

    How to you like Fixer and what do you get out of it after all that compounding and finishing?

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    OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Wow Beautiful job, this is the 4th car I`ve seen in which reflect made the paint look wet, this really was an epic restoration
    2015 Audi S4 (ibis white)
    1995 BMW M3 (alpine white)

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Thanks guys! And the reason this car took so long was because of the really deep defects present every where. Getting it swirl free was easy... But after that I left with "notched" pattern of deep scratches that took some major patients to remove with out taking off to much paint. I could of hammered this with something super aggressive and got done much faster but my Job is preserve as much paint as possible in my process.
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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    looks great Joe! nice work.
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    A-style executed flawlessly.

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    I hope that was for a new owner. Those cars are not that old that car was seriously beaten on. Amazing work, you may get to do it again in 2 years if its the same owner that destroyed it.

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    awesome detail
    Live life to its fullness

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    Stunning result! I love the turbine vane wheels on these.

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    Re: OCDetail - Model S EPIC 50 hour restoration

    Thanks guys!! I saw this car for a follow up and it looked amazing! The owner made the 2 hour drive back over so I could give her a washing lesson!
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