Scottwax
09-27-2008, 10:55 PM
2005 white on black Porsche Carrera. Regular (couple times a year) Austin customer bought this Porshce in Ohio. The original plan was to fly up there, pick it up, drive to his Dad`s house in Mequite (which is a 40 mile drive one way vs 200 in Austin) and have me detail it. He ended up having it trucked to his Dad`s and flew in after I finished it to drive it back to Austin. I actually got my hands on his car before he even saw it. My understanding is this is one of two white on black Carreras sold in the US for the 2005 model year.
Overall it was pretty clean inside (and dammit, forgot to take pictures!) but the outside needed a moderate amount of claying. Once I finished with that, I inspected the paint with an LED light and my camera flash (thought I`d have sun to work in but the covered parking in the drive negated that opportunity) and saw the paint had light to moderate spider swirls.
Before:
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_before1.jpg
After using Meguiars #105 cut about 20% with Optimum Polish using my PC and a yellow Meguiars polishing pad. Why not the rotary? Not enough opportunity to inspect the car in the sun. The gas was low enough when I intitially started the car to move it, the message on the dash said "consider fuel level". :nervous2: Plus I had already tried the combo on a Mini I have yet to post and found it to work very well.
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_after1.jpg
Same combo on the next two sets of before and after:
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_before2.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_after2.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_unpolished1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_polished1.jpg
I finished the car with Pink Moose plus (again, not revealing what the "plus" is) and waxed with Carnauba Moose:
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_front1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_frontend1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_rear1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_side1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_backend1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_front2.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_frontend2.jpg
Overall it was pretty clean inside (and dammit, forgot to take pictures!) but the outside needed a moderate amount of claying. Once I finished with that, I inspected the paint with an LED light and my camera flash (thought I`d have sun to work in but the covered parking in the drive negated that opportunity) and saw the paint had light to moderate spider swirls.
Before:
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_before1.jpg
After using Meguiars #105 cut about 20% with Optimum Polish using my PC and a yellow Meguiars polishing pad. Why not the rotary? Not enough opportunity to inspect the car in the sun. The gas was low enough when I intitially started the car to move it, the message on the dash said "consider fuel level". :nervous2: Plus I had already tried the combo on a Mini I have yet to post and found it to work very well.
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_after1.jpg
Same combo on the next two sets of before and after:
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_before2.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_after2.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_unpolished1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_polished1.jpg
I finished the car with Pink Moose plus (again, not revealing what the "plus" is) and waxed with Carnauba Moose:
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_front1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_frontend1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_rear1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_side1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_backend1.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_front2.jpg
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/29242005_Porsche_Carrera_frontend2.jpg