dsms detail- Black Porsche 911, most extensive correction yet...

[dsms]

Black Porsche 911, hands down the swirliest car I have corrected to date.



I did this car well over a month ago, just haven’t had the time to sort through all the pictures and put a write-up together.



Started off with the wash process. Did the wheels first, various wheel cleaners and brushes used. De-tarred the inner barrels Tires and wheel wells scrubbed.



Ragtop pressure washed and cleaned first.



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Pre-soaked the finish with a biodegradable APC, needed the finish fully stripped before correction.



http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/DSC_0020.jpg



2BM using concentrated shampoo/degreaser and MF mitts. I then clayed the car, used up 90% of a bar unfortunately.



Clay after some of the hood...



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I dried the car with some DetailersDomain waffles and gave the paint an IPA wipedown to prep it for correction. All emblems and edging were taped off after the alcohol prep.



Onto correction, paint had some issues ...





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The finish had a very hazed look, almost gray. Lost of rids, marring and some water etching.



50/50 after the first 3 stages of correction, a total of 4 correction stages were needed to get the car to a 98-100% level. I waited to finish the car down completely until I did the final wash on it after all the compounding… lots of wetsanding combined with some wool correction makes for a very messy car with some splatter and residue.



Much easier to just gently re-wash the car rather than continually doing alcohol wipedowns, less friction in trying to remove polish dots and residue when you use a slick soap and proper wash.



In compounding with a very very aggressive method, 3-4 hits were needed to get out the very heavy defects.



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Video 50/50 of the hood



http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/th_MOV06982-1.jpg (http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/?action=view&current=MOV06982-1.flv)



Front bumper before



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Making progress...



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Rids on passenger front bumper, camera flash coupled with LED light



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After correction, same angle, lighting

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A-pillar before, under LED



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A-pillar after, under LED



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Working my way around the rest of the car, same stuff, different panels



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Before



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After



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[dsms]

Onto wetsanding, there were 6 clusters of scratches which needed wet sanding attention.

4 of the 6 clusters were sanded starting with 1500grit paper, refined with 2000grit and then 3000grit to finish uniformly. The other 2 cluster were handled with 2000 and 3000.



Gouges on the driver rear quarter



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After wetsanding



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Laid down a bead and corrected with wool at high rpm



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Scratches gone after a few passes with the wool, lots of hazing and micro marring to clean up



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Finished down



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Readings taken before during and after, still healthy readings after



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50/50 on convertible cover



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Working around the engine cover, taillights and bumperettes.



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More wetsanding on the passenger rear quarter. Smaller cluster in this area basically one big L type scratch



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After the wool correction L scratched handled, cleanup time next with follow up steps (2)



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After that another cluster was sanded



Before



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sanded



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after (halogen handle in reflection unfortunately, no that’s not the old scratch)



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Door before



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Door after (left side only) after first 3 stages of correction, after which the car was re-washed and finished down



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[dsms]

50/50 passenger door



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Video 50/50



http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/th_MOV06992.jpg (http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/?action=view&current=MOV06992.flv)



After all the correction was finished (20 something hours worth) I re-washed the car. Foamed it first.



http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/DSC_0040.jpg



Foam/degreaser + the wash did a very good job of cleaning the paint to prep it for final finishing.



After drying the car I snapped 1 good sun shot, solid sunburst with almost no holograms made me very happy…. This made the final finishing process fail easy to carry out, the goal was to level the paint as much as possible BEFORE final finishing or jewelling and that stage to take it to the next level.



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Back inside to finish it down, I used some rotary and some DA for correction but for final finishing I prefer the rotary.



3” pad worked well on the contours



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Finished final polishing around 5, gave it a final wipedown and pulled the car out to see the result before LSP



After final polishing, no LSP



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Very happy with the level of clarity now, still some enhancements to be made.



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Pulled it back inside to apply LSP, do the interior and final touches.

Interior was in okay shape, really wanted it to look brand brand new with a faint matte finish



Seat cushions removed



http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/DSC_0055.jpg



The leather was treated a few times to get rid of the slight greasy finish prior and leave a soft natural feel behind.



Finished interior, I spent about 2 hours total on the inside.



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Keyhole, all plastic pieces etc finished up



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[dsms]

While the LSP was curing up all the trim and glass were done. Tailpipes before



http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh316/nosdrummer91/Black%20911%20swirl%20city/DSC_0047-2.jpg



Tailpipe after. Wheels were then sealed, glass cleaned, all trim dressed etc.



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Excuse the leaves



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Seals treated



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Final shots, straight from the camera to Photbucket. Used Nikon D60 w/ kit lens.



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Finish under the LED, no defects, no holograms



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Long way from this…



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Took a long time to finally get this one up, now its done... and im curious what they`ll say now



Time on the 911 was just under 30hrs, thank you for taking the time to read this whole thing

[vincewchan]

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

[Barry Theal]

Thats one outstanding paint correction! I loved this one. Great Job homeboy.

[imported_Jakerooni]

That was about as extensive as it gets. Awesome turn around.

[Kevin Brown]

Wow- you were right. That paint was a mess.



But you fixed it and she looks suuuu-PERB!! :bigups:bigups

[Leadfootluke]

Wow, that is phenomenal!



Well done!

[MichaelSpoots]

Amazing work!

What did the owner have to say? :up

[jimmie jam]

:soscared::soscared::soscared: unbelievable result!!!! how does someone let a car like this get to that point :hairpull. :furious:

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful turnaround Dave...

[MarcHarris]

great write-up and turn around. She went from abused to beauty and I hope the owner will keep her up now!

[Bobby@Autogeek]

Awesome paint correction. Keep up the great work.

[Scottwax]

Excellent job bringing the finish back! :)



Did you go over with the owner how to care for the car after you finished it? Be a shame if he undoes everything you did in a few washes.