Mirror Detailing - Atlanta - Lotus Esprit Resurrection.

[MirrorDetailing]

I always love getting details like this. The owner of this car has owned is the second owner of the car and owned it for quite awhile. He has been to a few of the Ferrari gatherings we have at our shop and finally decided to bite the bullet and get the car detailed. He told me that it has <u>never</u>`been done before. The paint was a little worse for ware, it has had three different areas painted in its life and had some age marks on it. Customer wanted to go all out with exterior and interior, so after looking at the car, it was decided that my Exterior Level 2 would be the safest, most aggressive package to do on the car. It would bring a ton of life back to the car, but not go to far into the old paint. Interior also need all the panels cleaned and treated, leather seats and center console cover piece needed to be cleaned and conditioned and the carpet/floormatts needed some steam cleaning. Car took about 35 hours to do, but at the end, it was an amazing turn around and the customer was beyond happy with the car.`


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Here it was dropped off to me, prior to washing or claying the paint.`


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A few spots where the clear had given up.`


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Roof and truck lid were oxidized.`


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After getting it cleaned up and clayed brought it inside for some before shots.`


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Had a lot of areas to tape on the car. You will notice tape on areas of the panels, that was where some major age marks were that I did not want to worsen.


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Shot of the roof tested. Left side has been cut and polished, right side untouched. Some areas still had a lot of deep random scratches, but did not get them out. Purpose was to bring the overall appearance back to life.


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http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy217/mirrordetailing/More%20Pictures/Lotus%20Esprit/16_zps0807089f.jpg (http://s793.photobucket.com/user/mirrordetailing/media/More%20Pictures/Lotus%20Esprit/16_zps0807089f.jpg.html)


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Deck lid test area. Left side corrected and polished, right side untouched.


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Rood completely done.


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Deck lid completely done.


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Hood tested. Left side untouched, right side corrected and polished.


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Seats had never been done and really needed a good soaking. So over the course of a day went two rounds with Leatherique and a heat gun to help the leather pores open. Seats are currently soaking in these pictures.


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While the seats were being treated, steam cleaned the whole interior. Here is a shot of the difference it made on the floormatts.


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After 4 days the vehicle was finally done. I had to stand back and just admire...this thing looked completely different than when I started.`


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Interior looked 100x better than before.


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Here is the color of the water after cleaning the seats the second time. The water started clear. Ended in that color. Seats had a lot of grime in them.


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Water from the carpets. Its hard to tell...but the water is actually black.


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More afters before going outside into the sun.


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Now into the sun.


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[House of Wax]

Wow. She was rough when you started...owner had to be thrilled

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[Fast Eddie]

That Lotus was looking a little rough in the before shots for sure, nice work on the resurrection.

[Jean-Claude]

Nice job Mike. Let me ask you a question. How many times did you hit your head on the spoiler while working on the rear fenders with the engine lid up? Those spoilers are deadly haha.

[MirrorDetailing]

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That Lotus was looking a little rough in the before shots for sure, nice work on the resurrection.



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Yeah, was pretty rough. Only reason owner and I agreed not to go to over the top. Just make as much as a difference as possible without compromising the paint condition as it currently was. Owner could not stop when he saw the car after it was blown. He knew I could make it better...but he did not believe it could look like it did afterwards. He thought it was that far gone.


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Nice job Mike. Let me ask you a question. How many times did you hit your head on the spoiler while working on the rear fenders with the engine lid up? Those spoilers are deadly haha.



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Thanks JC. As for the spoiler none. A Xpel 18" box works perfectly as a prop between the engine cover and the rear hatch. lol.`

[MirrorDetailing]

Wow. She was rough when you started...owner had to be thrilled


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Owner was very thrilled. As he was walking around it, he could believe the difference the car had.

[House of Wax]

That`s gotta always bring a smile to your face

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[Scottwax]

Pretty amazing turnaround!`