Ferrari 360

[AndyC_1]

One of yesterday's details.



Paint in pretty good shape apart from some stone chips to the front and light swirling. The dealer washes all his cars (using Meguiars products :2thumbs: ) so I didn't have to do this.



Process;



Clayed using Polyclay from www.erazer.co.uk (review coming) using Sonus Glyde as lube.

Polished using SSR2/2.5 with Meguiars yellow & Sonus SF blue then Speed Glaze

Sealed by hand using Carlack 68 x 2

Klasse SG to finish

Wheels Carlack 68

Tyres 4* gel

Wheelwells Neilsen Flair

Glass NXT glass cleaner



I learned a lot from this detail - 1) I need either a Cyclo or rotary as the PC ran out of oomph on the 2nd car I did 2) Ferrari paint is NOT soft - the car pictured below had paint equally as hard IMHO as the Merc ML I did on Monday 3) "you've got what it takes" - quote from the dealer whose cars these were. He's already agreed to pass my contact details to customers and friends and I've got 4 more dealers to call Monday morning who sell similar cars.

I need to remove the licence plate on the 2nd car (at dealer's request as it's sold) - can anyone tell me how I do this?

 

[Brazo]

Wow! GReat detail!



Andy do you have photoshop or a similer package?

 

[AndyC_1]

Thanks Brazo - don't have Photoshop. Guess I should have covered the no plate or something?

 

[Nick M]

Excellent , I love the first photo :2thumbs:



I would be quite nervous about working on a car like that, no matter how many times I had detailed, did you feel the same ?



Did you use anything on the fabric roof ?



Great weekend for detailing in the UK at the moment, if you can find some shade that is!



BTW, you can obscure a number plate in MS Paint on Windows, assuming you are not using a MAC. Use the colour picker and select the colour of the number plate then use the brush to take out the text.

 

[Brazo]

Andy send me the pic and I will remove the plate and mail it back to you! [email protected]

 

[imported_Terry]

Gorgeous car.....Nice work too!

 

[AndyC_1]

Thanks Nick - I'll try that.



As for the roof, I simply vac'd it to remove lint and dust etc.



I was a bit nervous but kept saying to myself "this is just a silver car, like the Mondeo you did on Monday" - even if it is worth like 7 times more!

 

[imported_pugoman]

Nice work Andy.



If you ever need a second pair of hands to help you with these Ferrari's, just let me know! :chuckle:

 

[1 Clean WS6]

Beautiful car and detail man!!!! :xyxthumbs

 

[515colfelt]

As the dealer had washed it you didn't have to "run it round the block" to get the water off the discs?

 

[Lowejackson]

As the dealer had washed it you didn't have to "run it round the block" to get the water off the discs?

I was thinking the same thing.



Nice work Andy

 

[imported_series1]

Very nice car and very nice detail.

 

[DSVWGLI]

Nice detail on my dream car :drool: :drool:

 

[pdbba]

excellent details there, Andy.



keep it up.

 

[stilez]

Awesome detail!





Must be a pleasure to detail such a machine .

 

[Scottwax]

Sweet! Not too many silver 360s around, too bad, they look great in that color!



BTW, is the version of Carlack you used the nano-technology version (aka Jeff's Werkstatt)?

 

[andrewcbho]

wow, beautiful car and beautiful work. that sg really gives a nice reflection.

 

[AndyC_1]

Thanks guys.



I didn't drive the cars as a) I'm not insured to - yet! and b) the dealer keeps around 12 at his house in 2 big garages. The barn is about a 15 minute drive into the countryside so I simply followed him down there - it took about an hour for the rear end of the 360 to cool down and the 355 he ran for about 10 minutes and that took nearly as long! Front end stayed warm the entire time I was working (this may have caused me the problems with the paint correction)



Scott - I'm using the Carlack 68 sealant and AFAIK it's not the new version - yellow bottle with a red cap?