OCDetail - SRT8 300 What do you call this color?

[Jsmooth]

Bring on the Hemi! I really am at loss at to what to call this color. Its not blue, it is not gray.... And I still don`t know if I hate it or love it. Either way I was willing to bring out the best of it! When it arrived it was in bad shape... Massive paint etchings from being left out side, water spots, and of coarse a swirls, scratches, and rids OHHH MMYYYY! Well after clicking my rupes together, spinning around 3 times, while holding a 4 leaf clover I delivered this poor paint to the promise land!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0027_zpsjfy6gdo7.jpg
Dull, lifeless, and HAMMERED!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0029_zps5puvsjhc.jpg
B pillars showing normal abuse
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0030_zpsakwl0alv.jpg
When I`m cold.... I see swirls
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0032_zps1xzjo1sx.jpg
More damage!!!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0033_zps5temqtli.jpg
Its hard to see, but there were what seemed like a million hard etched defects on this paint. Try as we might we not able to get any where near 90% on this one. A lot of the etches were
to deep to fix.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/FB39401C-D142-4CEC-A909-185FCB045BCD_zpszo6qjg8w.jpg
During correction customer asked for badge removal
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/8731CB06-20A5-4910-9AF9-51516F943B2A_zps1cz1nt2b.jpg
Removed and corrected!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/2ED27F07-8674-45A4-A9F6-B381104E99CA_zpsfnrltfol.jpg
Almost the whole car had water spots you could feel.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/8F44F0F3-BC28-4068-994F-8347B832B12B_zpsyvphoxz5.jpg
It took multiple compounding passes but they were coming out!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0025_zpsbkdov6ht.jpg
This was when it got here.....
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0091_zpszgk46k5q.jpg
This is done!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0093_zps00xl9xd8.jpg

http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0095_zps4wasmhw0.jpg

http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0097_zpszzyuikyp.jpg

http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0096_zpsscd4yktb.jpg

http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0072_zpsvhlvge3b.jpg

http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0068_zpsz1sfm6ki.jpg

http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/300%20srt/DSC_0085_zpsr3alnc75.jpg
This was fun!

Thanks for looking
Joseph Torbati
Bay Area OCDetail (http://www.bayareadetails.com)

[JSFM35X]

Nice job. Looks great. How did you handle the B pillars?

[Ronkh]

Shiney

[mjlinane]

Excellent work Joe!!!

[RaysWay]

Love the car and the color! I think the customer made a great choice removing those badges. What`d you use as the LSP?

[ShaneB]

Great as always! I see where you`re coming from with that color. Its different. I wouldn`t say I hate it but I`m not in love with it. It does look nice

[Pats300zx]

Looking good Joe. That color is awesome.

[MooreImpressive]

that color is really nice. I would call it Slate. its not blay, so it cant be grue, I think slate works well enough.

[Jsmooth]

Thanks guys!

Nice job. Looks great. How did you handle the B pillars?
I used a rupes mini and flat top followed by black fire finishing polish


Love the car and the color! I think the customer made a great choice removing those badges. What`d you use as the LSP?
I was going to put Finest on this but there were to many un correctable areas so I put 50ml of Cquartz UK on it IR baked :)

[zmcgovern45]

what a unique color... I also can`t decide if I love it or hate it... regardless, great work!

[Ronkh]

I used a rupes mini and flat top followed by black fire finishing polish


I was going to put Finest on this but there were to many un correctable areas so I put 50ml of Cquartz UK on it IR baked :)


What is "flat top?"

Why uk, does it fill ?

[Ccrew]

Looks good.

Looks to be a 2014 in Ceramic Blue.

[WaxAddict]

Love that first corrected photo, wow! Color is awesome.

Now, what is that guy DOING to that poor Lamborghini? Hilarious. Looks like he fell down and is hitting his chin on the mirror.

[LeadingEdgeDetail]

Looks better than new for sure!

[4u2nvinmtl]

Wow, it looks really good!