2010 Lamborghini Gallardo saved from Guido's wrath...

[Apollo_Auto]

Well I guess Ferrari isn't the only place Guido Bandito and his Cowboy Amico's have infiltrated... they've got a branch at Lamborghini, as well!! Glad to see they're expanding . Anyway, this one looked just as bad as some of the stuff from Maranello... scratches, swirls, holograms, etc. It also had some other surprises... Krisz, my wrapping/clear bra guy, called me about this car and told me to come down and have a look at the paint because even the customer spotted the swirls on an overcast day. He also wanted to show me the world's worst clear bra installation. I showed up with my flashlight in hand and started snapping pictures and here's what I found >>

Holy shnikies!!!I thought he was joking! What did they wrap this thing with, a Tesco bag?? They charged my customer 1,000 Euros for this atrocity and the wacko that did it told him, "Don't worry, it'll clear up in a week." And monkeys are gonna fly outta my butt...

And the "installer" scratched the bajeebus out of it when he put it on... I sure hope this moron didn't quit his day job as a street sweeper.

I had to go there

Ahhhh!! As if the matte finish weren't enough to make me puke... there's some serious scratches on this thing to top it off... he must have applied this with a credit card.

Krisz taking off the old layer of snot.

Some more random shots of the Banditos' handy work.

 

[Apollo_Auto]

Oh I KNOW he just di'int go dere agaiiiiin! Actually, yes, I did .

Polish residue...

Mucus membrane halfway removed... quite a difference between the 2 sides.

In the door jambs

Handlin' my binnis on the jambs, before they get wrapped.

Door jambs cleared up

A new product I've been testing lately. It's another "No rinse" wash solution that you put a couple of caps full of solution into a bucket and viola! I don't think it uses polymer technology like ONR, but I have to be honest, I like ONR (especially the smell... yummy!!) but I think the whole "encapsulates dirt particles" is a false icon. Sure it may do a great job of encapsulating those smaller particles of dirt and dust (that really aren't going to harm your car anyway when flushed with a large amount of water) but it's not going to protect squat if there's sand on your car. I know there's probably going to be a huge debate about that, but...

All finished up for day 1. I only had to polish out the damage on the front of the car and the jambs on day 1, then I left Krisz to install the wrapping correctly.

Here was another surprise that I discovered on the car. The front, passenger-side wheel had been repainted and very poorly . I spent about an hour on the phone with Lamborghini Austria trying to coordinate things to have it replaced then the next day on his way to a car show in Austria, my customer took his car back and they replaced it immediately.

Missing clear here too, and lines from the tape... :wall:

 

[Apollo_Auto]

Some more damage that I found after polishing on day 1.

Krisz loves his job, too

The crap that was removed from the car. I stuck a hex key right through it!

Day 2 would prove a bit more challenging because of the battle with the cold...

Here's my best friend Misi using my name in vain and saying nasty things about my mommy as he plunges his hands into the icy no-rinse solution... it was -5 today.

Misi claying the Merc while I prepared this

I sorta look like Aunt Jemima in this pic

Most of the damage was removed with a finishing pad and Insta Cut #30 (finishing polish) and some of the deeper scratches were removed with IC #15 and my new, swanky cutting pad. I'm going to do some more testing on these pads before I reveal them publicly, but so far it's the best and most durable heavy cutting foam pad I've ever used. Less a couple of deeper scratches that I left alone, everything came out perfectly.



I ran into a problem a while back when I was doing a nero California and the same thing happened again on a pozzi blu Scaglietti, red Merak, etc. Even with the finest combination that I used (finishing pad and Insta Cut #30), I was still getting holograms on these paints and I was going bonkers trying to figure out why. I was getting the same thing on this Gallardo, too. The paint was surprisingly soft on this car and extremely thin to boot (80-110), but when I was on the jeweling stage I was leaving holograms and I figured out when I did the first California that I had this problem on is that I was jeweling to slowly! And this was @ 900! So what I did was bumped it up to about 1,500 RPM, finished the polish down and presto! No holograms! So if you ever get to that point when you ask yourself, "Am I cutting it more or not cutting it at all???" Try to finish up @ 1,500 or so and see what it does for you (I've tested this on ceramic clears only!).



Here's a shot after the first layer of wax, Collinite 845 (a little streaky still because it didn't want to cure properly in the -5 weather). The second coat of Zymöl Vintage was applied by hand 1 hour later.

The front of the car has a hydraulic system for safer parking ! And when the car's lifted I can fit my feet under it to polish the sides.

 

[imported_d00t]

Great work, Jesse! How was the change of pace on these cars with the sharp lines, instead of the fluid lines of Ferrari?



Amazing job, again! SICK color, too!

 

[Apollo_Auto]

Great work, Jesse! How was the change of pace on these cars with the sharp lines, instead of the fluid lines of Ferrari?



Amazing job, again! SICK color, too!

Thanks Aaron! It was actually quite nice working on a flat surface and paint that isn't as hard as diamonds . But there's also a lot of sharp lines you have to be careful with, like on the edges... this paint was pretty thin to begin with so...

 

[imported_Detailing Technology]

Nice save!





Tyler Norwood......fkn awesome!

 

[Pats300zx]

Awesome job Jesse...I didn't know Tyler was international

 

[D Tailor]

Very cool. Nice post! Where exactly is the Pu$$-e Magnet installed? Should we start calling you Borat?:grinno:

 

[DaGonz]

Another outstanding recovery! :bigups

 

[Barry Theal]

Dude I love to read your write ups. The whole Tyler norwood thing almost made me fall of my chair I laughed so hard! In all seriousnous that thing was hammered. Great job Jesse! Outstanding turnaround on that. OK i need to go eat some cheesecake now.

 

[MirrorDetailing]

man this makes me so sad to see hacls get these cars when they have no idea what they are doing, yet I have been trying for awhile to get a high end car, and I know what I am going!



Also great write up! But whats the point of the Tyler Norwood joke?

 

[imported_TimG]

Another good read from your writeup. I even learn a thing a two from them. LOL



You just had to go there with the burnt edges and residue - LMAO



Guido hates you messing with his pièce de résistance!





Thanks for the share man!

 

[imported_Jakerooni]

Knocked another one out of the park there Jesse... Makin it look easy now. LOL.

 

[MarcHarris]

Another day, another Killer post by Jesse. You keep this up and I won't be able to call you the Ferrari King anymore

 

[SoCalB6]

Sick car and work!

 

[TSC17]

Nice recovery Jesse! And the, umm, "cat" and magnet photos had me rollin'!



Remember to send Guido a Christmas card this year for sending you all of this business!

 

[RaskyR1]

NIce work Jesse! :wow:





LOL...it's Monday morning and I must be a little slow today because I didn't get the PussEmagnet joke at first! :har:

 

[jimmie jam]

Jesse, as usual a most outstanding result on this modern masterpiece. very difficult color to make right. the articles and joke pages are getting better - did you hire a new editor? oh, and can you see of Krisz can get that left quarter closer to the door opening for me next time. i'm suprised that you had problems with 845 curing. i've used it now for 37 years and have not had that issue. :2thumbs:

 

[MDetail]

This thread was quite entertaining, good work.

 

[Mikeyc]

Nice work! I can't believe you're using QEW. That was the original "no rinse" wash soap that everyone on Autopia used before there ever was an ONR. I haven't seen anyone use that on Autopia in quite a while.