05' Lincoln Limo Detail - 56k talk a walk

GregCavi

GregCavi

Pinnacle Detailing Owner
I got this detail from a bodyshop in my town. It was a real treat to work in a nice heated shop for a few days. The shop owner was great and a super nice guy. This was broke up over 3 days and spent about 9 hours on it. The shop owner kept covering it with a plastic sheet so that kept causing some marring. Sorry no befores, but this thing was horrible swirled and scratched up!!!!

Final Process:
-#425 to clean surface
-Menzerna Power Gloss via LC 6" + 7.5" orange light cut pad @1500 rpm
-Menzerna po85rd x 2 via LC 6" black finishing pad @1500 (multiple passes becuase the cover left some marring)
-OCW x 2

Misc:
NL on tires
OCW on wheels
Wheels were unable to be dressed (SORRY)
#425 on windows and on top to clean

PICS: (sorry about the quality, it was in the shop or outside were it was dark :) )


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MORE PICS COMING
 
Looks gorgeous Greg! Very nice job! Hopefully you made quite an impression for some references in the future! :punk:
 
Wow -#6 is the money shot!

That's A LOT of paint to polish out, and it looks very nice!

What did the owner have to say?
 
Very nice job, that thing is just huge. what did you end up charging for the whole job? I remember the thread where you were trying to figure that out.
 
CharlesW said:
In the upper Mid-West, clean and dressed wheel wells last about 3 minutes in this weather.:)

Charles
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Meh... true, but sealing them up with some undercoating or cheap black spray paint makes a huge difference, and can make future clean-up a breeze. :yes:
 
CharlesW said:
In the upper Mid-West, clean and dressed wheel wells last about 3 minutes in this weather.:)

Charles
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Exactly, Charles!!!


Greg,
Very nice looking job!! What a massive amount of paint to work on. It is a very impressive job to go over that amount of paint surface in that amount of time. I am impressed and envious. I would be crippled by the time I finished the same job in that amount of time. :yes:

Thanks for sharing the pictures!!
 
Shiny Lil Detlr said:
Meh... true, but sealing them up with some undercoating or cheap black spray paint makes a huge difference, and can make future clean-up a breeze. :yes:
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Could be, but when the salt and sand hits the streets, I just hit them with the DIY spray wash and wait till spring.
It took me close to 20 minutes to just do that after a recent road trip with the Montana.

Charles
 
Thanks everyone! It was alot of work but I am new a speed demon on the rotary. Its big jobs like this that really teach you how to do things quickly. I got 250 for the job which is a good price for a first timer. I will charge 300-350 in the future, for these animals.

On the issure of wheel wells, they were very dirty, and I didnt have a place to wash them in the shop. Spraying a ton of cleaner and letting it drip on the floor was not an option. I would have loved to do that last step, but it just wasnt possible this time. IT will snow tommarow, and any wheel well cleaning i would have done would be ruinied anyway haha.

The owner of the shop seemed pleased. The ownder of the limo service will pick it up tommarow and then I will see how things go from there. IF anything I got to experience a great detail, and meet a really nice shop owner that I will refer work to.

Greg
 
Great job Greg......I was going to say something about the wells but with what you had to work with and in I can understand.....I love working with the rotary and then more that you use it the more that you will like it
 
I hear it, nice work..looks good.

GregCavi said:
On the issure of wheel wells, they were very dirty, and I didnt have a place to wash them in the shop. Spraying a ton of cleaner and letting it drip on the floor was not an option. I would have loved to do that last step, but it just wasnt possible this time. IT will snow tommarow, and any wheel well cleaning i would have done would be ruinied anyway haha.
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well good thing i didnt dress those wells haha. We have alot of sloppy slush on the roads right now. As of 330 the limo was still in the shop which is odd, becuase I think it needed to be used tonight for valentines day?

Greg
 
love the job, im sure the next person to be picked up in that limo will be more then happy. (next time try to bargin in a free limo ride lol jk) Very nice work as always :drool
 
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