3LG Detailed 96 SL500

imported_Grouse

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Last weeks work.



1996 SL500

This car had recently been passed down to the daughter after being in storage for quite a few years. It was her father’s favorite car. Before he passed away he lent the car out to friends, who did not seem to take care of it the same way he would.

The car before we started work on it. Here you can see a bit of the swirling and marring along with the general amount of soiling.

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Here you can see the embedded dirt in the door panel

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The soiling in the seats, floors and vinyl backing of the seats.

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Soiling in the drivers door, and door panel.

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Drivers front seat and carpets.

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Exterior of the car.

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Engine bay, well it speaks for it’s self.

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This photo is of the main scratch in the center, but behind it you can see some of the other scratching we were dealing with.

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Here is a 50/50 of the rear vinyl. This was cleaned 4 times. Finally on the 4th time it stopped spewing mud when I steamed it with the Vapor Steamer.

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Divers Front seat, I had cleaned the upper right hand corner of it with the vapor steamer and Leather masters Strong Cleaner.

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After the carpets were cleaned, drivers and passengers seats fully cleaned, dash, vinyl etc.

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Shot of the drivers Door.

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After Leather revitalizer.

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Dash after Cleaning, Conditioning, and protection.

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Rear Carpet area and roll bar.

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Rear vinyl Valance.

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Another step in the leather process, basically it was 7 steps for this cars leather.

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On to taping of the exterior after it was washed and clayed.

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Headlight before restoration

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Other Headlight After

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Wheels before

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A shot after polishing.

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A few final shots

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Four more

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Beautiful car and absolutely great work. actually this brings back memories, when i was a kid, my older neighbor was like a grandpa to me. he had a die cast red sl500 just like this one, i always loved to play with it, when he passed away i ended up inheriting the die cast model.
 
Mark77 said:
Looks like it should now :) Did you get the drivers side carpet cleaned?



Yes.



It took a bit of gel solvent and good traffic lane cleaner but the shoe polish came out 90% or better. What remained was abrasion to the fiber.
 
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