Black 2010 Porsche Panamera Correction, Engine & Interior - Our first 200k+ car

[MusicMan]

This was by far one of the most interesting details we ever came across. From how we got the job, the fact that it was our first detail on a car worth more than 200k and that this would be a dual detail in that after this car we would be doing the owners OTHER car ....a Ferrari 458 Italia...but lets not get ahead of ourselves, i`ll start from the beginning.



I was online a few weeks back and saw on one of the sites that i advertise on that the owner of a Ferrari and Porsche Panamera was looking for a full detail on both cars and a follow up maintenance every couple of weeks after this. Needless to say my eyes got rather wide as, you just do NOT see requests like that for those types of cars very often...if ever. To just have an open request like that and to list that those were the cars he was looking to get detailed was rare indeed!



So I of course replied right away to the request saying that viewing the cars in person and talking to him about what he wants to have done would be the best way to go about doing this, in my opinion. Well, 9 days went by....no reply...nothin. So on the one hand i thought, well maybe he already found someone else, on the other hand i figured...it won`t hurt to send a follow up email, so i did. THIS time he replied and surprisingly enough he had not yet hired anyone, but instead left his # for me to call so we could set up a time for us to be able to check out the cars. I didn`t get the email till the next morning and as i was reading the email...he calls me! We spoke for a few minutes, he was giving me some history on the cars and got around to telling me...these aren`t babied exotics....no, they were their daily drivers. Not only that but they frequented the track quite often to run these babies as they were meant to be. We arranged to take a look at the rides later that afternoon.



We showed up around 2, he was out front, said hello and then went inside to pop the garage for us to check out the Ferrari first. He pulled it and wow...what a car. Red of course (as a Ferrari should be) and also swirled lol. We talked about options for it, decided on a full correction, engine detail and interior. Shortly thereafter we took a look at the Porsche...and this is what we saw:



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....goodnight...it was filthy, it was black and it was swirled up the ying yang! But hey, this is what we do so...not a big deal. After speaking with the owners we found that not only were these two both passionate about their cars...not only did they both DRIVE their cars but on top of that, they were very cool and down to earth people. THIS was going to be a fun couple of details...if we got the job.



After talking a bit more with the owner, he informed us that he had either 11 or 13 responses to the request he had put up, 6 alone in our city, but that he had a good feeling about us, that he liked what he was hearing as far as our approach and knowledge of what we`d be doing...and then he told us that on top of all that....he admired the fact that we followed up our first email with a second one. He said it showed him that...we wanted the work. We weren`t being pests, but were being thorough and just covering our bases and to him, that said that we WANTED the work, where others he spoke to once and never heard back.



I had never given it much though, as i usually like to follow up with customers, potential or existing, to see if they are still interested, or for existing customers, to see if they are completely satisfied. Apparently it is a good thing to do .



SO, we set a date! This was early in the week but, he wanted them done ASAP, i think he would have let us start right then if we had wanted lol, but we were booked the whole week up until Saturday. He said ok, lets do it Saturday then. Then we told him we`d need a day per car so the Ferrari would have to be done a second day. He kind of smiled at us and said something along the lines of "Oh you weren`t kidding about needing the car all day huh? My last detailers spent 7 1/2 hours and were able to do both cars." The way he said it though, we could tell he was kind of intrigued as to what exactly we`d be doing that would take so much longer....well, he would soon find out



Date set, car set....week went by and Saturday morning came.





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NO, i did not post the wrong photo here. That LR4 shown above....thats what we had just finished Friday. 9 a.m -9 p.m. Full correction, full interior and Opti-Coat. THAT big beast is what we were coming off of. On top of that we only had about 4 hours of sleep as we were a bit excited and amped up to be doing this Porsche the next day.



We decided that the best approach for the Porsche would be to wash it first while it was still somewhat cool out. Note we`re in the desert and we were already breaking triple digits and this drive way and full sun exposure. We`d get it washed, dried and then i would start on the engine (which NORMALLY i would do first but, we had to make adjustments) while my sis started on the interior.



My sister...well...she was still feeling the effects from the 12 hour marathon from the day prior....can you tell?



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Our first exotic detail Dani...what do you think! "I`m f***ing tired" hahahaha. You see though...my sis when tired is kind of like a diesel engine. Might be a bit slow to get going, but once she starts a freight train couldn`t stop her. I`ll put it this way, ill take her work TIRED over anyone elses when they`re fresh and ready to go. Nevertheless...this was a funny freakin picture lol!



Now for what you`ve been waiting for...the paint condition...well first...lets look at the 18 lbs of dirt thats on it. We had 2 dust/rain storms in the past 2 weeks....and it hadn`t been washed in just as long:



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Now in this picutre...yes...there is a ton of dirt, but look in the upper left hand corner hahaha.....yeahhhhhhh she`s still waking up!



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She`s thinking "Are you done with the damn pictures yet? Can we start already...." Along with "Didn`t we JUST do this yesterday, and tomorrow we have the Ferrari!" Oh i forgot to mention we also had a full correction on a Camaro that same week on Wednesday...point being, it had been a LONG week....but hey, its what we do.











We also found a bit of an oopsy...i`m THINKING this was probably done from previous detailers, kinda looked like all purpose cleaner was sprayed on and they forgot to rinse it off and it stained (as APC will do).



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As for the swirls...well...just look:



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The swirls were not bias, they were high, low and in between. Here is the roof:



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So as you can see, even through the loads of dirt, we had a TON of swirls on this paint. On top of that, there were water spots and just a LOT of down right cleaning to do to even get the car preped properly before we could ever think about polishing.



First up...the tires and rims. Oh yeah, i forgot to show you those huh?



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You see fast cars tend to need good brakes lol. And good brakes tend to dust A LOT. As you can see these guys were coated witha a nice thick layer of brake dust, with a little desert red dirt mixed in. Not fun....but thats why we do these first. No since washing a car just to end up splattering this crap all over the paint that you just cleaned. And let me tell you, it took more than a quick spray and rinse to get these guys back into what we`d consider acceptable shape....



Here is a close up...note it managed to find its way around the lug nuts...nice and thick there as well:



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Here is the cleaner dwelling, breaking down the mounds of dust:



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Next it was time to scrub. This was about 1/2 way through the process. I usually scurb the bottom part first. If you start at the top you will end up having water from your brush dripping down and diluting your cleaner that is still dwelling, thus reducing its ability to break down the break dust. The bad part...due to a thing called gravity...the top portion has a tendancy to DRY first...so be sure you keep that top part wet with cleaner while you are scrubbing the lower parts. Wheel cleaner drying on the rims is a no no...



Scrub time:



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As you can see, not just the face of the rims gets cleaned. You`ve gotta get deep in the barrels and man this thing had some DEEP barrels! My brush was just long enough to reach the back.



Gotta get in between the tight spots too...



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Note the multiple brushes in the bucket. All were needed and all were used.



Small brush for lug nuts and calipers



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Some spots took a couple of applications but...hey, they turned out pretty good don`t you think?



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Next we did a prep wash on the car. Pressure washed the loose dirt free (didn`t help much, most of this was baked on), then foamed it up and gave it a thorough wash. Pressure washed it again, dried it and then popped the hood and made a discovery! Apparently the dust bowl did not end, it just got swallowed up by this monster engine!







Heres a couple quick foam pics:



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(Note in real time i took these pics just before the wash, thus the reason for the visible dirt on the front quarter panels)



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This engine is a beast! A freakin sedan that can do 0-60 in under 4 seconds....really? Now THATS a family car! Right now however...it`s filthy....



After a very careful pressure wash, followed by spraying APC to small sections of the engine bay at a time, aggitating with several brushes and then rinsing clean....I then applied a dresseding to the engine bay and spray wax to all painted surfaces. Here is our transformation...



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Before from a different angle:







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And after:



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And of course the head on before was the most explicit in showing the amount of dust that had accumulated:



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But the head on after was equally as explicit in showing the beautiful turn around :)



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After wiping down the areas that i had gotten wet with the pressure washer (mainly the quarter panels) we grabbed a few more photos of the swirls/scratches throughout the car, but this time without the layers of dirt.















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The clear bra had the worst of it...only so much could be done for it. But we were able to improve it. Now for the actual PAINT:



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Oh yeah, it was bad.



REALLY freakin bad...



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What do you get when you put a black car - use it as a daily driver, take it to the track and add in some dust storms and rain at the same time...You get this:



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Well, now we had clean swirls! I should say somewhat clean swirls...because again, before we touched it with a polisher, it had to be squeeky clean...and right now it was rid of obvious dirt but, there was still a noticeable drag to the paint...obviously a clay bar was needed next.



We pulled it into the garage so i could start claying while Dani continued the interior detail.



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The clay bar never lies....while this car looks nice and clean in the shade...the clay bar told another story:



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This was after doing about half the hood....gross,, seriously gross. If you`re detailer isn`t claying....they aren`t detailing. This is SUCH an essential and neccessary step even on cars that APPEAR clean...that includes brand new ones.





I continued around the car...my sis did the same and as usual we finished about the same time. She then started taping of the trim while i got the polishers ready.





While she finished up with the tape...i started inspecting the paint one last time inside the garage with the door closed and the halogens set up. We always use multiple light sources to view the true condition of the paint...though i think a candle in this case would have shown that this paint was in DESPERATE need of polishing. Here`s what we found:



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Ouch...



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Sun gun on the door:



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The Porsche lettering was not looking so good:



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Below the window on the door....



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Gas tank....



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Close up anyone??



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Even the pillars were in sad shape:



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Up above the door handle



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This area here was particularly lovely...



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The halogen lights showed the damage quite well too



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Can you sayyyyyyyyyyyyy deep...



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This picture here pretty much says it all....



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So all in all...you get an idea as to the condition of the paint. Deep scratches and THOUSANDS of them....we had some work to do.



After performing a test spot on the hood and making a few tweaks to our technique we were able to pin down our process for this swirled mess. The Flex along with Optimum MF cutting pad and Meguiars 105 followed by Lake Country Polishing pad and 205 yielded a beautiful finish. Some areas took a couple of extra passes with the compounding process, but hey like i said before, thats what we do.





Lets revisit this photo one more time:



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We turned this, into this:



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Look, its metallic! This paint was a bit tricky to compound in some spots but, we pretty much knew what we had to do. My sis picked up the Griots and followed behind me doing all the polishing while i pushed ahead doing the compounding. Let me tell you something...this car had a LOT of paint and a LOT of area to cover.

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Once getting around to the back hatch area...we found some wonderfully deep swirls. The LED REALLY showed up just how bad these were:



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Oh yeah, aren`t those nice? This was such a nice surprise to be greeted with at the half way point! It was time to break out the 4" pad for this and do a double cut on this area in order to get rid of these lovelies. After Dani came up behind me and polished out the light haze left behind...we ended up with this:





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Here is one more look at this area before....like i said....DEEP!



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And close up look at it after....



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Excuse the little bit of dust





At this point, we took a quick lunch break...during that time we pulled this baby out in the sun to take a look...and all i can say is...wow.

Heres a taste of what we saw....note, we had only done 1/2 the hood



Here is the hood section that was finished, if you look way up towards the top you can see the passenger side where the swirls still remained:



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And this previously horrible area:





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Was restored into this:



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A couple deeper ones remained which would later be worked out, but the initial comparison was awesome.



And remember this?



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We were able to bring it to this:







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Essentially we took the paint from looking sort of flat and greyish in the sun (before) back to the brilliant metallic black that it was suppose to be.



And the back hatch area that was trashed...now looked like this:



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Yeahhhhhhh buddy, NOW it can wear the Porsche name proudly!







And here is a 50/50 shot of the hood. Top undone (note the water spot etching and swirls), bottom is finished:



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Another view of the hood...





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Yeah we were coming along quite well. Lots of work in a HOT garage (it was about 100 degrees with the garage door closed and halogen lights right ontop of our heads!) We thought about changing our name to Sauna Detail! Guess the slogan could be the sweaty swirl removers...though that doesn`t sound very appealing lol.







OK! "Break" was over, time to get back at it. We had another half of the car to compound and polish and then re-wash the car to remove all the polishing residue and dust and then finally apply the final wax, Wolfgang Fuzion. The of course do all the small things like dress the tires, clean the windows, clean exhaust tips and dress any plastic.





Back to the salt mine we went. Working our way around slowly, diligently ..but surely. The roof seemed to take forever and then there were the low and difficult runners to work around...because yes, they get compounded and polished as well. My sis caught up to me so she grabbed the 4" compounding pad and machine to help cut the tight areas like the pillars, under the side mirror, the running boards etc.



Finally a few hours later we made it back to where we began...the hood:





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Gotta be just as focused at the end as you were at the beginning.



Finally done. Now time to wash....CAREFULLY wash, this beautifully polished ride. The paint was just glowing, even in the fading light. But we still had some more work to do.



After the wash was done, i did a bulk wax with the DA and a finishing pad while Dani started hand waxing the tight areas. Here she is touching up a spot I had missed around the door handle:





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Every inch was waxed, protecting the paint we had just worked roughly 10 hours on polishing. The Fuzion wax gave the paint that extra pop and with metallic like this, it just made the car glow that much more.



We then removed the wax and did all the other little `detail` things that make the car truly `finished`, replaced the license plate (on polish out jobs license plates are removed so that we can clean, polish and wax behind them) and finally...finally after 13 hours total...knocked on the door to let the owners know we were finished.



Now the owner will probably be reading this so hopefully she won`t be too upset for me saying this but, she was a little bit giddy when she saw the car lol...just a little bit (sorry but you were!) Her husband came out and kinda gave his cool smile, shook his head in disbelief as i walked around with him, carrying the halogens so that he could see the condition of the paint in direct light.



He turned to us and told us "No one has ever spent that amount of time on any of our cars, it looks better than when we bought it." ...mission accomplished in our minds. We were satisfied, but more importantly so were they. Funny thing, it was the small stuff, the details, that she was very pleased with. One of her concerns was the fact that the chrome trim around the windows was pretty scuffed up in soem areas...my sister made it a point to polish those areas as thoroughly as possible as she came around polsihing behind me...the owner noticed. Some scuffs were too bad to be REMOVED, but they were surely IMPROVED.



Her husband then came to us and said "So i heard you spent about 12 hours yesterday on a Land Rover...and you`ve been here going on 14 hours now...thats nearly 26 hours of work in two days. Would you like to put off the Ferrari till later in the week?" We told him if he needed/wanted it done the following day, as we had planned, we`d be there bright and early in the morning again to spend another 10+ hours working to bring his Ferrari up to par with his wifes car. When we first set the dates earlier that week, there was a bit of disappointment that we couldn`t get to the cars till the weekend, he was very anxious to get them done. Now, after seeing what we put into and what we accomplished with the Porsche, he was willing to wait a few extra days to have us come to do the Ferrari. He assured us that there was no huge rush for us to do the Ferrari that Sunday, so we rescheduled for later the following week.



To us, that was one hell of a compliment and an extremely kind courtesy to extend to us. If he hadn`t, we would have been back and put 110% into his Ferrari just like the Porsche, but, we definitely appreciated the day off ...it was needed.



We asked if they would mind if we swung by Sunday to snag a few after photos while the car was still fresh and they were kind enough to accommodate.



We pulled up Sunday afternoon....rested, clean lol and with LOTS of memory space on our camera!

Hope you guys enjoy these after photos, we sure did.



First lets start with the beautiful interior detail my sis performed...gotta have a clean interior!



Leather cleaned and conditioned:



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Cockpit:



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See that red and white sticker, it says something about the car is LIMITED to 150 mph lol...some safety thing lol. We were told there were controls, 5 buttons apparently, which totally controlled the timing and basically how the car runs...so if you`re on the track you can have it run one way and if you`re in the city you can have it run another. Crazy right?





Door panel lookin sharp as can be:



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Inside of the back seat, check out the cool location of the AC vent :





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I love this angle:







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And as for the exterior...hah...well, i think you know:



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Want reflection? We`ve got reflection..



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I LOVE how the reflection in this next shot just rollllllllllls over the curves of the car:







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The roof, also swirl free....even the little antenna was polished:



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Side reflection shot:





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The slick look of a sports car extended into the body of a sedan...with an engine that will pin you to the back of your seat:







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Quarter Panel Reflection:





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The hood didn`t even look like it was from the same car:









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No swirls to be found here folks. I really like the metallic on this paint...it obviously has a great presence about it, but it is subtle enough to where it still allows GREAT reflection like a straight black paint would:



http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff374/Wills_WindowsAndWheels/Cindys%20Porsche%20Panamera/Finished8.jpg



These guys sure turned out nice:







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I kinda liked the framing of this photo



http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff374/Wills_WindowsAndWheels/Cindys%20Porsche%20Panamera/Finished1.jpg?t=1338935556





And of course a couple of shots with us next to the car





http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff374/Wills_WindowsAndWheels/Cindys%20Porsche%20Panamera/Finished32.jpg?t=1338935710





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Thats the story of of our first Porsche Panamera....and as a little teaser, the Ferrari turned out just as nice and that write up will be coming soon, i promise.



I hope you enjoyed the journey of our work on this beauty. It was a back breaker but then again, what all out detail isn`t?





Thank you for taking the time to look and (hopefully) read.

[C. Charles Hahn]

Awesome write-up and work as always! Just goes to prove that good customer service skills and putting your best foot forward with every interaction pays off in the end.

[ajnavo61490]

Haha I love write-ups like this.. its like a story. Congrats on getting the 458 in the end! I`ve done one of them before, fun car to work on!

[hamza7]

Great Job on that write up Team...amazing job on that vehicle.

[MusicMan]

Awesome write-up and work as always! Just goes to prove that good customer service skills and putting your best foot forward with every interaction pays off in the end.



Thanks for checkin it out C man. It does pay to have good customer service skills....or as i like to call it, just having a personality lol. We went to a boat sales place yesterday and the owner was talking with us and told us that 2 truck drivers, who apparently looked the part, had come in to his place to check out some boats....so he went out and said hello to them and asked if he could help them out. The guy told him "You just sold a boat." The owner looked at him like "huh?" and said "I just met you, what do you mean?" The truck driver guy said "You`re the first person out of 5 or 6 marinas to come out and even say hello to me, you just won my business." Just bein human can go a long ways.








Haha I love write-ups like this.. its like a story. Congrats on getting the 458 in the end! I`ve done one of them before, fun car to work on!



I really try to involve the whole history of the job, especially one like this that happened to come about in such a strange way. It was pretty flattering to know that out of 11 or 13 other detailers that looked at his car, he picked us. Thanks for reading the whole thing lol, as my sis would say "Im long winded", but i do like to bring everyone along for the ride :). I still think the pics of here tired as hell were priceless hahaha.




Great Job on that write up Team...amazing job on that vehicle.





Thanks for checkin it out man. Was really a fun job to see such a nice car in such BAD shape really come back to life. Its also nice to know WE get to maintain it so it will never get into that condition again. I mean its a driver that gets raced and sits outside...so a periodic light polish will surely need to be done, but it won`t look like freddie cruger got his hands on it :)

[maxepr1]

Nice Work! Always nice when you have good customers who appreciate and understand what it takes to bring a car back to like new condition!

[Scottwax]

Excellent job as always! The paint looks 100x better after polishing. :)

[natural320]

holy balls! that is an a-mah-zing job on that car. truly stunning results.

[MarcHarris]

Looking good Wills!



Nice turn around and always great to meet and exceed the expectations of the owner.

[imported_ZimRandy]

I just noticed that the car has Minnesota plates. He is a long ways from home!



Randy

[mikenap]

Wills and Dani, tremendous work here! Great pics, great write-up and backstory, just a great C&B. Glad to see you guys are staying busy, and it`s obvious with your skills (including people skills;)), your rep will continue to grow. Now I`m looking forward to a 458 Italia write-up in the near future!

[MusicMan]

Nice Work! Always nice when you have good customers who appreciate and understand what it takes to bring a car back to like new condition!



Yeah that makes a big difference. I think at first there was a little bit of a question as to what we considered ALL DAY lol, but after we were there literally....all day, i believe they saw that we walked the walk ya know?




Excellent job as always! The paint looks 100x better after polishing. :)



Scott, glad you dropped by man! It was a sweet turn around. I`ll try to get the LR4 write up done soon, i appreciated the info you gave me on the OC, made applying it a bit easier...still took a while but turned out nice. Just did a wash on it the other day, they drove to vegas and back and man it was bug and break dust city. Still had to work some of the bugs off but...much easier w/the OC on. And the water just sheeeeeeeeeeeeeted right off, was pretty cool :)




holy balls! that is an a-mah-zing job on that car. truly stunning results.



Hahaha, thank you. Love replied like that :)




Looking good Wills!



Nice turn around and always great to meet and exceed the expectations of the owner.



For sure Marc. Like we talked about on the phone, its the small things that really make the detail. The paint can be gorgeous but you still wanna make sure all the little stuff is taken care of as well. It killed us to not be able to do the front windshield as nicely as we wanted because it had a split going almost ALL the way across...and we didn`t want to risk putting too much pressure on it until it was replaced...so it was a bit streaky...but the windshield guy came 4 days later so it was all good (except for the fact he wiped down all the dirt on the hood when he was done....argggggggggh!)




I just noticed that the car has Minnesota plates. He is a long ways from home!



Randy





Lol just a little ways :) Weather is better down this way Randy!




Wills and Dani, tremendous work here! Great pics, great write-up and backstory, just a great C&B. Glad to see you guys are staying busy, and it`s obvious with your skills (including people skills;)), your rep will continue to grow. Now I`m looking forward to a 458 Italia write-up in the near future!



Big Mike whats up! I told you i`d get one of the write ups done lol. I hope it was worth the wait. This has been a pretty good year for us and i think our rep is definitely growing. It has taken a lot of work but....sure would be nice to be known as one of Az`s elite detailers...we`re getting there one detail at a time :). Just keep the same attitude and work ethic for every car ya know ;)

[GoodnClean]

Looks great! Great work and write up, you`re so right that customer service is everything. Its something thats so lacking nowadays. Looks like you and your sis have fun too, which people can see when they talk to you.



Those things aren`t as expensive as you`d think, believe it or not that probably "only" cost $100k-$110k...when you think about the uniqueness of that vs something like an S class...its a lot of bang for the buck.

[Underdawg736GTC]

An intense write up for an intense detail! awesome....awesome....AWSOME! So now that couple will have a new rivalry going on as to who`s ride has the best shine, depth, perfect finish......well y`all get the idea.



This is one of the best write ups I`ve ever seen. I`m dying for MORE!!!