Car is less than 5 months old. Detailed by the dealer on 2 accounts left with swirls, RIDS and holograms.
Aim was about 90% correction with 2 days to work.
Washed with CG citrus wash, the orange one. Clayed with ricky riccardo and all the other trimmings to go with the prep work.
Onto correction...
50/50 on hood
Worst area by far was the rear deck, swirls, scratches and some funky new defects I have yet to name, possibly a Mc-Squiggles ? We can have a poll on that later :shakehead:
The entire deck section was corrected with wool on the rotary, then foam compounded, then polished. I avoided wool on most of the car only hitting spot areas with big RIDS due to time but the rear deck was getting nowhere with foam and generating lots of heat because its composite.
50/50
Couple McSquiggles here,
50/50 on passenger door
After all the compounding work I brought the car outside and foamed it to remove the dusting. Rinsed it down and dried it with a blower. Then proceeded to do the finishing work. I find its sometimes easier to do a quick rinsedown rather than manually attempting to remove dust from crevices etc.
Interior came after correction, no picnic either as the owner has 2 young children who think convertibles are "cooooool" :duh:
Carpets before
I vacuumed and dry brushed them, then pressure wash out as much grime as possible and treated them with traffic lane cleaner, pressure washed and agitated again.
Left out in the sun to dry a little before using the LGM to extract the rest of the water.. final pics in the interior afters
Leather was in bad shape. Despite the time constraints I used leatherique and it worked very well.
Massage in the Rejuv. Oil by hand
Heat up the leather using a heat gun, most people do the seat warmer thing or pull it outside but I find this works great as well, especially when time is limited.
Aim was about 90% correction with 2 days to work.
Washed with CG citrus wash, the orange one. Clayed with ricky riccardo and all the other trimmings to go with the prep work.
Onto correction...
50/50 on hood
Worst area by far was the rear deck, swirls, scratches and some funky new defects I have yet to name, possibly a Mc-Squiggles ? We can have a poll on that later :shakehead:
The entire deck section was corrected with wool on the rotary, then foam compounded, then polished. I avoided wool on most of the car only hitting spot areas with big RIDS due to time but the rear deck was getting nowhere with foam and generating lots of heat because its composite.
50/50
Couple McSquiggles here,
50/50 on passenger door
After all the compounding work I brought the car outside and foamed it to remove the dusting. Rinsed it down and dried it with a blower. Then proceeded to do the finishing work. I find its sometimes easier to do a quick rinsedown rather than manually attempting to remove dust from crevices etc.
Interior came after correction, no picnic either as the owner has 2 young children who think convertibles are "cooooool" :duh:
Carpets before
I vacuumed and dry brushed them, then pressure wash out as much grime as possible and treated them with traffic lane cleaner, pressure washed and agitated again.
Left out in the sun to dry a little before using the LGM to extract the rest of the water.. final pics in the interior afters
Leather was in bad shape. Despite the time constraints I used leatherique and it worked very well.
Massage in the Rejuv. Oil by hand
Heat up the leather using a heat gun, most people do the seat warmer thing or pull it outside but I find this works great as well, especially when time is limited.
