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    Oakes - Detailed: Pair of BMW M3's

    Recently completed a pair of E9x platform M3's. Combined the two in one write up to share with you all! Their descriptions are with their groups of photos. Check em out!! 2008 BMW Alpine White Coupe A supercharged, Alpine white on Novilla Red M3 Coupe came to me after sitting outside for...
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    Detailing your Daily Driver, like a Pro - Video ft. Ferrari Scuderia

    This video is explaining the process that professional detailers, like myself, go through in order to properly detail a vehicle. Not necessarily a "How-To" video, but to help understand what goes into these caliber of details. The photo/text write up can be seen here: Ferrari Scuderia...
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    Ferrari F430 Scuderia Detail - 45 hours with Oakes!

    A six day, concourse preparation, full paint corrective detail performed by myself on this 2009 Ferrari F430 Scuderia, dressed in Grigio Silverstone. A frequently driven vehicle, seeing almost 5,000 miles in the warm months of 2010 alone, was in need of a proper refreshing detail. We took on...
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    A preview of write ups coming!

    Behind on writeups! Feel like I've fallen off the grid, just getting myself situated in our new facility and handling the new area and clients. Just something to tease everyone until I get the full stories up! Hope everyone is keeping warm and enjoying the holidays! :clap...
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    Oakes Detailed: 2010 EvoX Octane Blue new car prep with CQuartz

    This 2010 EvoX was fully corrected at end of October by us and has since sat in storage waiting for its wheels to be refinished and for us to get in our order of CQuartz. The car made it back, and was reprepped by us with a full Dawn/Citrus combination, followed by a complete metal...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2006 Spyker C8 Spyder

    Having worked on many exotics and high end vehicles over the years, it's been a while since I've done something completely new to me. Not surprisingly so as there aren't too many of these very exotic looking vehicles around, being the Spyker C8 Spyder. This particular example, came in the...
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    Oakes -Detailed: 997 Porsche Carrera 4S High Mile Revival

    This 72k mile daily driver, was clearly showing it's use, as expected. Definitely not abused, however, it needed some revival. We spent quite a bit of time restoring this beauty to factory like condition. The wheels came off, the top was treated, the mufflers were polished in the wheel wells, as...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2004 Mitsubishi Evo, saved from life support!

    This 2004 Rally Red Evo VIII was a successful revival, from a very near critical condition as you will clearly be able to see for yourselves. When I first saw the car in it's pink very faded state, I almost feared we were witnessing failure, but I didn't give up on it then and there. After...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo - Daily Driven Resto

    This daily driven, Seal Grey 996 911 Turbo, with 60k miles was corrected by us at Good Vibes Autosport. While a daily driven, considerably milled car, it was in rather decent shape. Definitely many swirls and defects on the vehicle, however definitely kept in great shape being a garaged vehicle...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2004 Acura TL - Pearl White DD

    A 2004 Acura TL in pearl white, was done by us to bring out the pearl and get rid of any swirling and defects. Belonging to Good Vibes Autosport we went to their shop to perform the work on this gently used daily driver. Aside from being dirty, this car was in rather good shape, nonetheless...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2006 Audi A6 - Double Tap

    The story behind this car, is enough to make any proper detailer's head spin! This 2006 Audi A6, in black of course, was in dire need of a restoring detail. The owner was looking to get the paint back to the way it should be, after suffering some improper buffing and other defects. When we...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2007 Porsche Cayman - Black

    A 2007 Porsche Cayman came to us in hopes to remove the swirling in it's black paint. The owner had used two detailers before in hopes to get the swirls out, and it seemed they never completely went away. The goal was to do just that, and it was obvious that the previous detailers had used some...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2005 Mercedes Benz SL500 - Total Revival

    A referral from a previous client, this recently purchased 2005 Mercedes SL500 was brought to us with a lot of attention needed. From 10 feet away, the car looked great! However, turn on the halogens and start looking for the pointed out issues, and newly discovered ones, this paint corrective...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2003 Saleen 281

    Good Vibrations, in Horsham, PA has been a great help to us in referring work! This is one of their client cars, the 4th Saleen S281 that we have detailed as a result of this shop, that was in need of a corrective detail. This 2003 Saleen S281 in Red, has had a LOT of work done to it, very...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2008 Subary STI Aspen White

    A 2008 Subaru STi in Aspen White, has been brought to us, in dire need of a proper detail. Since new, and 32k miles in between, this car has never seen wax. The owner, drives the car the way it was made to and takes it often to the track and auto-x events, a proper way to own a performance car...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2008 Subary STI Aspen White

    A 2008 Subaru STi in Aspen White, has been brought to us, in dire need of a proper detail. Since new, and 32k miles in between, this car has never seen wax. The owner, drives the car the way it was made to and takes it often to the track and auto-x events, a proper way to own a performance car...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2008 Inifiniti G37 Coupe

    This 2008 Infiniti G37 Coupe, in Black was a referral from an Audi client that was in need of a total refresh, not to say is was in desperate shape like a certain G35 we recovered recently! The owner had a few requests for us, things like removing the swirls and debadging the trunk of the...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 1995 Acura NSX Formula Red

    This 1995 Formula Red NSX came to us in search for a full paint corrective detail, the car was in fantastic shape for it's age and just needed to be refreshed as it had picked up a few deep defects over the years. One main concern being a deep gouging scratch down the passenger rear quarter...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 2007 Inifiniti G35 - Dealership Hackjob

    This 2007 Infiniti G35 was in desperate need of a proper correction detail, a recent purchase by it's owner with only 13k original miles on it. Clearly it had fallen victim to poor dealership detailing and the damage was evident even in the shade, as you will see in the pictures to follow. This...
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    Oakes - Detailed: 1984 Ferrari 308 GTB - Concours Prep

    This mostly original 1984 Ferrari 308 GTB was in need of a full corrective, concours preparation detail, since it was being entered in the Reading Ferrari Concours that coming weekend. As you can see, the car was in considerably good condition given it’s age and 90% original state, however had...
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