Tropically Detailed: Midnight Blue Metallic Lotus Elise

[Todd@RUPES]

Sorry for the lack of documentation photos, but the new halegon`s took another dump.



The car was very swirled, but luckily the paint was on the softer side and corrected easily. I did have some problems with the microfiber marring the paint lightly when I was wiping of the polish, which meant I had to recorrect a few spots.



Process Wash



Wheels cleaned with P21s Wheel Gel

Wash with Meguiars Hyperwash, 2 bucket method

Clayed with Meguiars Pro Line mild clay

Dried with Cobra Guzzler



Process Interior



Lightwipe down with Meguiars APC 10:1

Meguiars Natural Shine on dash, rubber

Zaino AIO followed by Zaino Z2pro on painted interior surfaces/carbonfiber

Meguiars Pro Line windown cleaner on windows, mirrors, ect..

Zaino AIO on door jambs

Zaino Z9/Zaino Z10 on the leather



Process Paint



Polished with

Menzerna SIP with Lake Country purple foamed wool @ 1500 rpm

Menzerna 106ff with Lake Country white CCS pad @ 1200 rpm

50/50 wipedown

2 x Zaino Z5pro (ZFX`d)

Zaino Z2pro



Process Misc



Zaino AIO followed by Z2pro on rims/glass/trim

2x Zaino Z16 on tires

Eagle One NeverDull on exhaust and underpan

Meguiars Hyperdressing in wheelwells, engine





Some before pics



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I sprayed the wheels with P21s and let it dwell for about 5 minutes before scubbing the barrels and using the P21s sponge to clean the rims...



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Then I washed the car and snapped one more before picture before it was time to start...



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Detailing, is (suprise!) about the details. Because the lip of the door jambs is visible, they also needed to be polished.



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I snapped some photos after I polished with the wool pad. You can see the swirls where greatly reduced, but there was slight hologramming that would be dealt with on the final step.



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After 106ff....



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I finished up, applied 3 coats of Zaino, dressed tires. ect.. then pulled it outside...



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Opps, forgot to wipe the Zaino off the glass :O



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[Todd@RUPES]

The glass looks better now!



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[imported_GregCavi]

I have NEVER seen a more incredible blue! Amazing job as usual!!



Greg

[mgm2003]

If anyone can get 110% out of a finish it`s you.



Absolutely insane work!!

[Brian_Brice]

Todd, I envy your clientel and couldn`t admire your work anymore.



Sopping wet paint for sure.

[imported_fishbonezken]

excellent documentation, after sun shots looks great,

as usual Todd, you da man!! great work

[ThEGuN1]

very nice! I almost thought that the color was black for a minute...

[DaGonz]

Fantastic work!

[tod071]

Love that color AND the car. Great work!

[gmblack3]

WOW! Excellent work inside and out. :bow



Best part of the detail has got to be that haircut. :cooleek:

[Pats300zx]

Outstanding...great job...:bigups

[David703]

OMG that is sweet! Looks like you poured dark blue paint all over it and its still wet!!!!!!!!!:2thumbs:

[envirocbr]

NICE.... Good on paying attention to those...details

[rwisejr]

Your Skills are awesome !!! Super Wet !!!

[golfdude]

I`m blinded by the SHINE! Excellent work. Between midnight blue and magnetic blue, I wouldn`t know which color I`d get! Did this Elise have the starshield on it...I didn`t notice it?? You are lucky that you had the touring pack wheels though...the sport pack wheels are a pain in the butt to clean. The touring pack wheels are especially easy to clean both inside and outside spokes due to the fact that they stick-out! A question though...what is "50/50"? Thanks and keep up the shine.