Dealer `Prep`

**Vincent Vega** · 02-29-2004, 10:03 PM

A friend of mine bought this car late last fall. He said the dealer tried to buff out some scratches before he picked it up. He wanted to know if I could "fix" it. The buffed out areas where the scratches were was all hazy. The car was heavily swirled.

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Before:

After:

**stilez** · 02-29-2004, 10:05 PM

Nice work! The paint looks exceptionally more glossy and wet!

Dealer`s should take away their detailing option as it does more harm than good most of the time.

**gb387** · 02-29-2004, 10:55 PM

wow look at the difference! That is a good looking red! You would think a dealer could do a better job than that, look like some nasty buffer marks, its sad whe the consumer can do a MUCH better job and can get a much better looking finish, it should have looked like the after photos when it left the lot!

**foris2** · 02-29-2004, 11:01 PM

Just like night and day. Great work!

**CRXSi90** · 03-01-2004, 12:00 AM

Looks excelent!

Where in Wisconsin are you?

<---I`m in northwestern Wisconsin...

**GoodnClean** · 03-01-2004, 01:20 AM

Looks great!

Did it really darken the finish or is that just the picture?

**spetulla** · 03-01-2004, 01:55 AM

looks amazing now!

**Scottwax** · 03-01-2004, 01:59 AM

Dealer prep = pure evil

Steve-first pics are in more direct sunlight, but removing rotary swirls does make the paint look darker.

BTW, outstanding work Vincent.

**Vincent Vega** · 03-01-2004, 08:23 AM

Scottwax is right about the lighting. Before pics were taken at 10:00am after at 3:30pm. The first pics had more direct sunlight. It definately made a difference in the color. It was really washed out. Some spots were awful. It looked like they used TW rubbing compound to remove scratches and left it as is. I`m in Stoughton(20 miles from Madison).

**rtcat** · 03-01-2004, 08:44 AM

Great looking results!!! I`ll bet the owner was happy :up

**Big Leegr** · 03-01-2004, 10:03 AM

That last shot - Holy Smokes!! Makes me wonder why I`m not out doing some detailing myself! Oh wait, 3 feet of snow here still. Riiiight. (crap.):sosad

**TN9thSi** · 03-02-2004, 09:10 PM

Those swirls are very similar to what was done to my beautiful Lapis Blue Mazda6 today by the bodyshop. Now I get to fix their mistakes. Nice work. Looks so much better!