Jaguar XK8

[House of Wax]

Jobs are starting to roll in. This gentleman is a friend of my Uncle and is bringing me 3 vehicles over the course of a few weekends here. First up this past weekend was this gorgeous 03 Jaguar XK8. He recently purchased the car from an acquaintance with only a little over 32k miles on the clock. With the low miles and obvious care by the previous owner, it was overall in very good shape. The owner was comfortable just getting a cleanup with an AIO, so the product/process looked like this:

Rinseless Wash with UWW+
Decon with Nanoskin fine grade prep towel (UWW+ for lube)
Polished/protected with HD Speed using white Lake Country flat pads via Rupes 21
Tires cleaned with Tuff Shine tire cleaner
Wheels cleaned with 1Z Einszett Colortec wheel cleaner
Interior including seats cleaned with HD Total
Seats followed up with Meguiars Gold Class Leather Cleaner/Conditioner
Carpet and headliner wiped down with Folex
HD Dress on rubber seals and wheel wells
Tires dressed with Meguiars Endurance Tire Gel

On to the pictures....As I said before, the outside was in good shape, so no dramatic before/afters:

















There was a lot of left over dried wax like this all over the car:





The interior looked decent from 10 ft. away, but once you got up close and the cleaning started, you could see how dirty it actually was. All the leather took a bit longer than I anticipated, but HD Total did a good job of getting things cleaned up:



50/50:



Better:












Cleanup of the tires and wheel wells made a huge difference












AIO of choice....good stuff:



Paint had some minor marring and swirls, but they were hit and miss and you had to really look for it





You can see in this picture it`s cleaned up on the right light:

[House of Wax]

nd we`ll wrap things up with a completed pic dump

























































Overall it turned out pretty good. This color would be fugly on most other cars, but it really looks nice on this Jag. Owner was quite pleased when he picked her up and is sending me his Yukon this Friday.

[Ronkh]

Nice work

How was the hd stuff to work with?

[House of Wax]

Awesome. I find speed to be an outstanding AIO, and Total worked well. I used it cut 2:1 for 90% of the interior and the few stubborn spots that were left were taken care of at full strength

[Ronkh]

Awesome. I find speed to be an outstanding AIO, and Total worked well. I used it cut 2:1 for 90% of the interior and the few stubborn spots that were left were taken care of at full strength

thanks

[Scottwax]

Nice work, used to do a lot of those, now I hardly see them. Too bad, pretty cool cars.