Premium - Garry Dean - Tampa, FL Detailed 2005 black Cadillac CTS-V

[Garry Dean]

This past weekend I made a trip up to Jacksonville from Tampa to detail a 2005 black Cadillac CTS-V for a new client. The job was to consist of sanding down several touched up paint chips and to do a 1 step polish on the exterior as well as a complete interior detail and protect.

This car was very well kept, but still it was 5 years old and had some minor swirling. The owner had some paintwork done on the engine cover of this 400 horsepower LS6 engine. It was a very nicely airbrushed alligator. The engine bay was not part of the deal, but I felt it very necessary to go ahead and clean it up a bit.

Exterior:

Wash with Dawn
Clayed with Pinnacle Ultra Poly clay bar
Dried with the Absorber
Exterior windows cleaned with Adams Glass Cleaner
Taped with 3M and Duct Tape making tape
Wet sanded touched up paint chips with 2500 grit Meguiars wet sanding paper
Wet sanding marks were compounded out with 4” LC orange pads on G110 and Megs M105
Polished with PC7424XP, 5.5” Lake Country Orange pads, and Menzerna Power Finish
1 coat of Adams Americana paste wax
LSP was Adams Detail Spray

Tires and wheels:

Wheels and tires were sprayed with Purple Power
Wheel barrels were cleaned with Daytona Wheel Brush
Lugs cleaned with Carrand lug brush
Tires dressed with Optimum Opti-Bond tire gel and Eagle One tire swipe

Interior:

Vacuumed with Rigid 5hp portable vac
Interior windows cleaned with Adams Glass Cleaner
Leather, vinyl, and all plastics cleaned with Megs APC+ 20:1
All interior surfaces dressed with Optimum Protectant Plus
Door Jambs were cleaned with Adams Detail Spray

Here are some pics!

Before









After wet sanding chip touch up



After M105, all gone!



A pic of some of the tape



Some 50/50’s. Please excuse the polish residue I didn’t wipe completely off.









Hard at work. A pic of the battle zone.



Now for some afters!



















Please excuse the piece of lint on the right.



Thanks for looking!

[Beemerboy]

Nice work, super sharp car!!

Must of been fun to work on!!

[mrclean81]

Damn I love those cars. The airbrush work looks awsome too. Excellant work man.

[tuscarora dave]

Suberb Job on a really nice car.

[MAD992]

wicked job , wicked car

[OCDinPDX]

The engine cover art is not really my style but the car looks great!

[Garry Dean]

Thanks guys! It was a real pleasure to work on this car. The paint was on the softer side too.

[cwcad]

The engine cover art is not really my style but the car looks great!

My thoughts exactly. I love the car and the color but a painted picture of what looks to be a snake is not my cup of tea. But most did not like all of my stainless steele and chrome on my old black truck so it really doesn`t matter now does it?

Good post and I am especially glad that you had fun. I am envious!!

[Pander5]

Beautiful work Garry. Nice job.

[Garry Dean]

My thoughts exactly. I love the car and the color but a painted picture of what looks to be a snake is not my cup of tea. But most did not like all of my stainless steele and chrome on my old black truck so it really doesn`t matter now does it?

Good post and I am especially glad that you had fun. I am envious!!

Its an alligator.

Thanks for the comments!

[cwcad]

Its an alligator.

Thanks for the comments!

Well my Father was right again... I need to see what I am looking at...eh?

[Garry Dean]

Lol.

[mc2hill]

Nice work Garry (as usual!).

[Garry Dean]

Thank you, Sir!