Envious Detailing: pontiac given a new life!

[Envious Eric]

<o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com[img] http:=[/img]2000pontiac</o:smarttagtype> GTP….back from the dead!!!

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Car was riddled with the usual stuff…oxidation, scratches, swirl marks galore. Upon first arrival, and the estimate day, I looked at the car and thought to myself, no way this is going to come up easy! There was some significant damage to the paint, so I aimed for a 90% perfection cleanup. Well, 3 steps and 12 hours later, I was finally done! I’ll keep the talking to a minimum, on to the pics!

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Here is the starting condition of the car when I arrived….its not going to be pretty!

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Here you can see meguiars safe d-greaser (tires) and P21S wheel gel (wheels) doing its thing….this was only after 10 seconds!

[Envious Eric]

I then pulled the car inside to get some more pictures after the ONR washing. The halogens show an even worse story! I’ll basically take you around the car section by section, panel by panel to give you an overall of how the entire car looked.

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[Envious Eric]

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This is how I breakdown a section to clay it:

Spray entire area with clay lube, work in a section, apply more lube, work in a section, repeat. In this shot, you can see how big of sections I work!



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Here is a before and after shot group of pictures of compounding to remove the defects:

Before



Compounded



Other side, compounded



Polished with SIP (still one polish round after this shot)

[Envious Eric]

Now it was time to take it out for another bath to remove all the compound/polish dust – there was a lot of it!



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Little side bit…this was a really tasty dinner provided by the owner! PASTA to keep me going!!!



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OK, back to the car...after shots from 12 hours of working, 3 rounds of polishing, and one layer of blackfire wet diamond for durable protection!

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[Envious Eric]

Here is the rear trunk lid which was beyond repair without MUCH more work/sanding/time…it WAS pretty hammered! Huge improvement:







Finished wheel with M21 sealant applied to help combat the brake dust from sticking too much!





Process was the following:

ONR wash car

Apply P21S wheel gel to wheels, let dwell

Apply megs safe degreaser to tires, allow to dwell

Megs APC+ in the wheel wells

Go back and clean up all the wheels and tires and wells after a 5 min dwell time

Pull car inside, do a test section

Tape off car

Meguiars 105 on PFW at 1500

Menzerna SIP on tangerine hydrotech at spd 6

Re-wash car to rid of polishing dust

Menzerna FPII on uber blue pad at spd. 6

Apply blackfire wet diamond with PC sped 4 on LC black pad

Meguiars 21 to wheels

Apply chmical guys extreme wet to tires

Chemical Guys barebones in wheel wells

Meguiars glass cleaner

Meguiars final inspection on all door jambs/gas tank



Thanks for looking, comments are always welcomed…



Eric

[Envious Eric]

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[Innovative Detailing]

WoW Can you say "BUTCHERED"



That is definately a new lease on life for that vehicle! looks great, what a challenge! wonderful results....



Happy Holiday`s Eric!

[Barry Theal]

Great Work Homeboy!:xyxthumbs

[GottaGTP]

Whew, the before made me gag Probably out of sympathy for an identical car to mine



Phenomenal work! I find the clear on GTP`s quite finicky...



Way to go!

[imported_weekendwarrior]

Great Job. Bufferbarry would have sanded the entire car though - lol.

[imported_DJ Mayo]

Great job my man!!! Owner must be stoked!

[focus2069]

just curious......how much did a job like that cost the owner....if you dont mind me asking.







great freeking job though!!!

[Rob Tomlin]

Amazing turn around!

[tkc]

WOW! man that was an awesome correction! great job!

[OCKlasse]

Great job!