Anthony O.
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I started this detail some time ago but due to the owners schedule and mine it's taken us a long time to get back together to finish. It's an 96 blk on blk MB S420 and it's hammered.
It's never been polished or detailed, only taken through the local scratch tub. I took befores of the interior and exterior but lost them some place, most likely when I upgraded my comp. It had a ton of paint chips plus the local sratch tub used wheel acid one too many times on the wheels and bleached them out. I polished them back out as best as possible.
Paint needed some wool padding in a few areas and one area wetsanded. Most of the paint though was treated with an Optimum green pad and Optimum Compound and then Optimum Polish with the green pad again. From there I went Optimum Polish with a blue, blk and white pad.
I laid down one coat of OCW then later I applied some Trade Secret paste wax. It's been a looooooooong time since I used paste wax :grinno:
Here are a few exterior before shots that I took just recently. The original ones are lost.
Hood
This is the driver side rear panel. Some of the marring on the car was pretty deep.
I polished this side of the car while we had some heavy overcast skies, hence the use of the halogens. Here is an AFTER of this panel but with no wax on it as of yet.
Here is the passenger side rear door. This was pretty ugly as the rear panel was a repaint.
Now after:
I wasn't able to remove all of the marring but what was removed gave the paint a much nicer look. In this sun picture you can see some slight marring....which really upset me but I didn't want to continue polishing.
Rear panel AFTER:
It's never been polished or detailed, only taken through the local scratch tub. I took befores of the interior and exterior but lost them some place, most likely when I upgraded my comp. It had a ton of paint chips plus the local sratch tub used wheel acid one too many times on the wheels and bleached them out. I polished them back out as best as possible.
Paint needed some wool padding in a few areas and one area wetsanded. Most of the paint though was treated with an Optimum green pad and Optimum Compound and then Optimum Polish with the green pad again. From there I went Optimum Polish with a blue, blk and white pad.
I laid down one coat of OCW then later I applied some Trade Secret paste wax. It's been a looooooooong time since I used paste wax :grinno:
Here are a few exterior before shots that I took just recently. The original ones are lost.
Hood
This is the driver side rear panel. Some of the marring on the car was pretty deep.
I polished this side of the car while we had some heavy overcast skies, hence the use of the halogens. Here is an AFTER of this panel but with no wax on it as of yet.
Here is the passenger side rear door. This was pretty ugly as the rear panel was a repaint.
Now after:
I wasn't able to remove all of the marring but what was removed gave the paint a much nicer look. In this sun picture you can see some slight marring....which really upset me but I didn't want to continue polishing.
Rear panel AFTER:
