Dream Detail - Volvo S60R Flash Green

[TrKent]

Greetings all!

Here is my latest work, a Volvo S60R in Flash Green. The car has nearly 90,000 miles on the odometer. The car had been cleaned, decontaminated and deironed (by me) just a few weeks before this detail.

Wheels were cleaned with MINT+ and a variety of wheel brushes



The vehicle was washed with FLAKE. While this is more of a maintenance wash, the majority of decontamination had been dealt with just a few weeks before.



The following gif shows how FLAKE dissolves into warm water.



Water behavior while washing with FLAKE



To ensure the vehicle was still decontaminated, IRON SERUM was used. The wipe-on application does not show as much of the red-streaky iron removal but is still very effective and efficient. I used about 40ml over the whole vehicle. And as a bonus, the smell is a strong mint so it is quite pleasant to work with.



I applied a little heavy in this area to demonstrate its effectiveness/get the runny look.



The engine bay was given a wipe-down with polishangel ENGINE. This was not an extensive engine detail but it cleaned up very nicely.







The paint was compounded with polishangel Master Compound and the Lambswool Ultra Cut pad on the RUPES LHR21



The Taillights were worked out with the same combination on the RUPES LHR75





In some areas the Master Compound machine pad was used for cutting





Reflection after Master Compound









Invincible | Primer being used before Cosmic



(I love using this picnic table bench for working sides of cars )



Color-Matched, Flash Green Cosmic setting before residue removal



Reflection after the 2nd coat of Cosmic



For this detail, Cosmic, Viking Coat (not available in the US), & Viking Shield were all used for protection



The after photos, enjoy!

[TrKent]

[The Driver]

Love it! I`ll be doing my R in a couple of days. Was thinking of going with cosmic on it.

[mjlinane]

Beautiful work!

[TrKent]

Love it! I`ll be doing my R in a couple of days. Was thinking of going with cosmic on it.

Thank you!! something I meant to mention in the write-up is that I have used the color-matched cosmic quite a few times before and while it improved the color on each previous vehicle, it has made the biggest difference to this car. The green really pops, especially in person!

Beautiful work!

Thanks

[Mike lambert]

Very nice! Been thinking of trying some of those items!

[Husker Z]

Love that color combination on those cars. I previously owned a Sonic Blue R and the only color I liked as much as the Sonic was the Flash Green. Very original and unique, great job on the detail!