Drove down to Austin on Sunday night, after washing, polish and waxing 5 vehicles earlier that day (turbo Cayenne, LX470, 2 Accords and an F-250) for one of my regulars up here in the Arlington area. Posted pics of all of them after doing the same in May, so no pics of them this time.
We hit Austin around 11 PM but we ran into a hard contruction back-up 2 miles from our exit, so we didn't get to the hotel until almost 11:30 PM...and we were starting at 9 AM the next morning. Fun.
The cars and boats were in a warehouse owned by a friend of the owners of the cars/boats. The guy does repos, so that is why there are so many RVs in there. The first Cayenne Turbo and boat were waiting for us when we got there:
My son was already busy removing stuff from the boat so he could get started on it:
Boats can be tough to do, the gel coat is rock hard and the interiors see hard use. They get wet contantly and people tend to party a bit on boats, not to mention they sweat and leave suntan lotion and sunblock in the grain of the vinyl seats. The two we did this time weren't too bad, the main time killer is all the cushions and compartments boats have.
My son used Woolite/water to clean and Optimum Protectant Plus to dress:
I buffed out the exterior, luckily both boats are pretty new and weren't oxidized at all. However, gel coats are very hard so I used Optimum Hyper Compound using the orange Cyclo cutting pads and was able to go right to waxing with Meguiars #16 Paste. Absolutely no hazing at all with what would be a very aggressive combo on automotive paint. I was told not to worry about the very bottom section of the boats, both were going right back into the water anyway.
I only have a finished exterior shot of the other boat, I only had a single roll of film with me. I thought I had brought more. Oh well. Same process on this boat, in and out:
We hit Austin around 11 PM but we ran into a hard contruction back-up 2 miles from our exit, so we didn't get to the hotel until almost 11:30 PM...and we were starting at 9 AM the next morning. Fun.
The cars and boats were in a warehouse owned by a friend of the owners of the cars/boats. The guy does repos, so that is why there are so many RVs in there. The first Cayenne Turbo and boat were waiting for us when we got there:
My son was already busy removing stuff from the boat so he could get started on it:
Boats can be tough to do, the gel coat is rock hard and the interiors see hard use. They get wet contantly and people tend to party a bit on boats, not to mention they sweat and leave suntan lotion and sunblock in the grain of the vinyl seats. The two we did this time weren't too bad, the main time killer is all the cushions and compartments boats have.
My son used Woolite/water to clean and Optimum Protectant Plus to dress:
I buffed out the exterior, luckily both boats are pretty new and weren't oxidized at all. However, gel coats are very hard so I used Optimum Hyper Compound using the orange Cyclo cutting pads and was able to go right to waxing with Meguiars #16 Paste. Absolutely no hazing at all with what would be a very aggressive combo on automotive paint. I was told not to worry about the very bottom section of the boats, both were going right back into the water anyway.
I only have a finished exterior shot of the other boat, I only had a single roll of film with me. I thought I had brought more. Oh well. Same process on this boat, in and out:
That is alot of work. You guys always get it done!
