dsms detail - White Bentley GT correction

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2005 Bentley GT: Daily driver



Booked for 2 day full paint correction + winter protection

Started off with the wheels and tires. P21s gel, S&R on the inner barrels



Before

After

The car hadnt been washed in a few weeks and was fairly dirty, in this situation I much prefer to do a nice sudsy wash but with the freezing weather and snow in the forecast I opted to use ONR instead. I must say I am more impressed with ONR each time I use it, especially for situations such as this.



After a quick pass using ONR, I rinsed my mitt every panel

Dried the car off best I could outside but the rain came so I pulled it in the garage to finish drying and the rest of the prep work



Blow dried the grill, wheels and jambs

Cleaned up the doorjambs with APC 20:1 and then sealed them with Optiseal, havent used this product before and I figured this would be a good place to test it out.

Finished

While I was back there I finished the rest of the trunk area

And then the snow came, first snow this year :applause:

Moved to claying, used a medium aggressive bar for most of the car, lower panels needed meguiars red aggressive bar for some stubborn grime

 

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Bentley had a hard clear, defects werent too bad but I wanted to get as close to 100% as possible. 2 step process used, varied between the DA and rotary. Some areas needed 2 or 3 hits to get full correction.



Before I began I took some paint readings

During correction

Driver door 50/50

Trunk

Rear spoiler before

During

After

Taillight under LED

Finished

The paint being white I had some trouble capturing good 50/50 shots, I found a video with my old point and shoot did a little better job of showing the finish before and after



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After correction was complete I gave the car a thorough IPA wipedown to prep for LSP



Moved onto the trim work, been dreading the front grill since I started but what can ya do:shrug: Took a quick break outside, pardon the snow on my hair and shirt :doh:

Before

After

Finished, in total this took me around 45minutes of hand polishing and then sealing with optiseal. Very lucky the grille did not have any hard water etching!

 

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Applying LSP by machine speed 5 (notice all the black magic or whatever car care stuff in the background, not my gear... owners stuff... got him set up with some quality QD, wheel gel and drying waffle weaves before I left, I dont want the bentley going to sh!t within a month :sosad)

Tires treated with SV Pneu, at first I didnt think this was such a great product, or at leatse any better than what I have used before but now I see why it demands the price, it just works! Deep black look, minimal shine and easy application. New go to tire dressing.



Once the tires were dressed I went in and sealed them up using JetSeal

Exterior window trim dressed as well, one flat strip made for easy work

dressed up the wheel wells and de-tarred surrounding trim using an MF pad



before

Interior before, this car gets driven primarily as DD.

Conditioning the leather for a matte finish

Rosewood cleaned and sealed with BF spray sealant

Interior finished. Door seals treated and jambs sealed after.

Exhaust finished, fine grad steel wool, than just a MF towel

 

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Exterior finished

Despite me not wanting to pull the car out with some snow still on the ground, I felt I would get some flack for not posting sun pics when there was sun present so here you go...

(snow on the branches are the blobs you see in the reflection)

Thanks for looking

 

[gmblack3]

Great work David!

 

[hawkeyejw]

LOL @ the fiero license plate!



Nice work on a beautiful DD

 

[youngbro401]

Is that a pro motocross racer's house?

 

[imported_slicknickis3]

I feel your pain on the Bentley grille...I dread polishing that mesh EVERYTIME!

 

[seech]

Dave, beautiful job. Your work and attention to detail is an inspiration.

 

[vtec92civic]

man that is one heck of a car. Nice to see folks staying busy even with the snow and down fall in the economy.



Nice work!

 

[imported_artikxscout]

love the write ups. The action shots are actually actions shots. Great work on the Bentley!

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Stunning work once again!!!!! :bow

 

[craigdt]

Wow nice as usual. That grille makes me cringe!

 

[RaskyR1]

Nice work David! Very detailed job and write up!





Thanks for sharing! :thx

 

[DaGonz]

Stunning work once again!!!!! :bow

Ditto that! :hifive:

 

[longdx]

Beautiful job!! I also laughed out loud (much to the chagrin of my coworkers) at the "Fiero" sign.

 

[Make it shine!]

Great job as usual David! i would have dreaded the grille also.

 

[oN3fastSS]

Hell of a job man thats Awesome!! Quick question were did you purchase the tire dressing?

 

[Greg Gellas]

Awesome job!! That grill is scary...That snow really killed us up here the other day...Now we get wacked again tonight

 

[imported_boostwagon]

i'd do anything for the steady clients you have.