A Black Mercedes 450GL - a TDekany tribute

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Well as Thomas has left our regional vicinity of North Virginia he was kind enough to refer me to one of his clients with a Mercedes 450GL. The customer that he referred me to was an awesome client who wanted to maintain his vehicle as best as possible.



I went and picked up the vehicle to take back to my shop to work on it. Upon initial inspection I just saw your regular light swirls which is expected. A deeper inspection however showed some halograms and previous clues of buffing,which I assume came from the prep shop at the dealership. Here are some before pics.



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We start the process with a pre-foam bath from the CamSpray Foam Cannon to loosen up the contaminents. I let the foam dwell for three mins. and then wash the car with Zaino Z7 Car Wash and a Lowes Grout Sponge.



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We also cleaned the wheels with Megs Wheel Brightner. We needed to do two applications along with some agitation due to the baked on brake dust.



This was our first test spot on polishing.



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The Process

After a few more test areas I settled on the #105 and #205 combo with a LC White followed by LC Green on the Makita. The paint on this vehcile was soft but corrected fairly well after the compounding step. Megs #105 did not finish as well as it normally does, but it was not anything that #205 could not take care of.





Z7 Wash

Clay

# 105 and LC White

#205 and LC Green

EZ Creme Glaze via PC speed 6 on a LC White Pad

Z6 Wipedown

2 Coats Z5 with ZFX

Application of Z8

Below is a pic of the passenger side after the polishing steps were completed.



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Here are some final shots. Enjoy!!



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