2009 GT1 Corvette

[imported_Dust2Glory]

Car was taken to a "well known" corvette shop up in OKC to have some the car fully wet sanded to remove orange peel. I got the call to come and detail the car after it got back. Honestly, I was expecting to have to spend maybe 2 days on the car, do some minor polishing and full interior work. The car only has 1400 miles on it, but when I pulled the car out in the sun... looks like it had 140,000 miles on it.



I can not even begin to express my disgust with this business and how they could let a car like this, walk out of their facility in the condition it was it. All in all, I spent 3 days and close to 35 hours bringing this car back to life! There were buffer trails, severe scratches and sanding scratches all over the entire car. Along with that, they burnt some of the edges when they attempted to buff it out, left gouges in the rear bumper lip above the license plate and a few other thing.



I`ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.





Before the first wash:



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2832.jpg





Look at the lovely buffer trails!:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2833.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2834.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2835.jpg





Back in the garage after thorough wash/decontamination:



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2838.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2839.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2845.jpg



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http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2847.jpg





Next picture shows sanding scratches:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2849.jpg



Removed:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2850.jpg



Look at all the lovely defects they left behind:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2854.jpg



All better!

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2855.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2856.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2857.jpg





Even more sanding scratches:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2858.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2859.jpg





View of the passenger door:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2863.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2864.jpg





Totally uncalled for:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2865.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2865.jpg





The rear bumper I spend about 2 hours on alone compounding out all the scratches and whatever else was there, also the emblem had to be removed:



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2873.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2874.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2875.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2876.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2877.jpg





After the compounding phase:



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2880.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2881.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2882.jpg



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http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2885.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2885.jpg



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http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2888.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2889.jpg

[imported_Dust2Glory]

Finally the fruits of my labor:



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2902.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2903.jpg



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http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2931.jpg





Some beauty shots:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2932.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z101/preacher4jsus/2009%20GT1%20Corvette/DSCN2934.jpg

[Scottwax]

Excellent job bringing it back. :bow

[gmblack3]

Very nice work.

[Fast Eddie]

Amazing job on the Vette.