This was my first full mobile detail in 8months, packed up the car and got to it.
During the wash process, the car had almost no protection but a lot of old shampoo was rinsed out of the cracks.
*note that "GI" stands for Gloss-It
Washed w/ GI gloss shampoo. All emblems, cracks and crevices were agitated with APC 10:1. The ragtop was cleaned with, raggtop.
Wheels were cleaned with GI wheel gel at 4:1 as they were not very dirty and the tires were scrubbed with ARO and Tarminator
Pulled the car inside for claying, GI fine clay and Megs LT were used. After which the car was wiped down 2 times with IPA to prep for polishing.
While the engine was still a little wet from the wash I cleaned it up with APC 10:1 on a damp MF, later everything was dressed with P & S express interior cleaner which left a simple matte look on the plastic and trim pieces. All door jambs were cleaned with the APC as well.
After
Tips polished with Noxon using #0000 steel wool on the chrome and #00 steel wool on the inside, then polishing again with just an MF
Raised up the rear wing again after the wash to polish out the poles
Correction was nothing major at all, only a few stops needed several stages of polishing or wetsanding . The car is still fairly new so a 1 step correction was agreed on with the owner for most of the car, except the few problem areas
GI one step machine gloss
GI EVP pad prime
Flex 3403
I spread GI OSMG at 1100rpm, corrected at 1500rpm for several passes and backed down to 1100rpm again to finish and then jewel the paint.
Problem area #1, wetsanded with 2500 unigrit and corrected with GI extreme cut and a 4" tuf buf wool pad, followed by OSMG using orange and green pads.
Before
During
After
Short polishing video. I already spread the polish at 1100rpm so here im working at 1500rpm with the EVP. I start off with faster passes and as I reduce speed I slow down and refine the finish
One of the few things louder than the drone of a Flex 3403 pulled in the garage too
Problem area #2, this guy was a little deeper and needed 2000 grit followed with 3000 to fully remove
Few hairline scratches were underneath the Turbo emblem, corrected with an orange cutting pad and GI extreme cut
After correction started with some trim treatment. Front lower lip was a little dry and worn. I applied GI TRV dressing with a foam foam painters stick
50/50 with TRV dressing
Before I started on the rear seats I had to remove them and let them sit under the halogens for a bit to soften up, its thin leather backed by thick plastic so cleaning them properly was a little tricky before the leather softened up. (nice thing about porsche rear seats is that the are attached by velcro so they just pop right out)
Tidied up the cargo area. Seals and plastic dressed with TRV as well
After TRV
During the wash process, the car had almost no protection but a lot of old shampoo was rinsed out of the cracks.
*note that "GI" stands for Gloss-It
Washed w/ GI gloss shampoo. All emblems, cracks and crevices were agitated with APC 10:1. The ragtop was cleaned with, raggtop.
Wheels were cleaned with GI wheel gel at 4:1 as they were not very dirty and the tires were scrubbed with ARO and Tarminator
Pulled the car inside for claying, GI fine clay and Megs LT were used. After which the car was wiped down 2 times with IPA to prep for polishing.
While the engine was still a little wet from the wash I cleaned it up with APC 10:1 on a damp MF, later everything was dressed with P & S express interior cleaner which left a simple matte look on the plastic and trim pieces. All door jambs were cleaned with the APC as well.
After
Tips polished with Noxon using #0000 steel wool on the chrome and #00 steel wool on the inside, then polishing again with just an MF
Raised up the rear wing again after the wash to polish out the poles
Correction was nothing major at all, only a few stops needed several stages of polishing or wetsanding . The car is still fairly new so a 1 step correction was agreed on with the owner for most of the car, except the few problem areas
GI one step machine gloss
GI EVP pad prime
Flex 3403
I spread GI OSMG at 1100rpm, corrected at 1500rpm for several passes and backed down to 1100rpm again to finish and then jewel the paint.
Problem area #1, wetsanded with 2500 unigrit and corrected with GI extreme cut and a 4" tuf buf wool pad, followed by OSMG using orange and green pads.
Before
During
After
Short polishing video. I already spread the polish at 1100rpm so here im working at 1500rpm with the EVP. I start off with faster passes and as I reduce speed I slow down and refine the finish
One of the few things louder than the drone of a Flex 3403 pulled in the garage too
Problem area #2, this guy was a little deeper and needed 2000 grit followed with 3000 to fully remove
Few hairline scratches were underneath the Turbo emblem, corrected with an orange cutting pad and GI extreme cut
After correction started with some trim treatment. Front lower lip was a little dry and worn. I applied GI TRV dressing with a foam foam painters stick
50/50 with TRV dressing
Before I started on the rear seats I had to remove them and let them sit under the halogens for a bit to soften up, its thin leather backed by thick plastic so cleaning them properly was a little tricky before the leather softened up. (nice thing about porsche rear seats is that the are attached by velcro so they just pop right out)
Tidied up the cargo area. Seals and plastic dressed with TRV as well
After TRV
... finding stuff like this means brownie points from the owner! "Oh I have been looking everywhere for this" :lol:
