Hammered black 350Z, by Rasky's Auto Detailing
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CJ from Granite Bay CA
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I noticed that when my tires had been detailed and I take a considerable drive on the freeway and return, the tires turn a brownish color. I think that the tire dressing and the heat of the tire change the color.
imported_RaskyR1
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2003 Nissan 350Z, paint correction only.
Now I tend to think there are three basic types of car owners out there. You have the freaks like us who spend hours after hours making sure are vehicles are flawless in everyway. Then there are the basic car owners who like to keep there cars pretty clean for the most part. You may see them washing their vehicle in the driveway on a warm summer day, using Dawn for soap, or maybe even taking it through the local gas station car wash. Lastly you have the types of owners like my roommate, who just happens to own this lovely 350Z! These are the owners who have NEVER washed or waxed a car in their life! Cars are nothing more than a mode of transportation to them.
In my roommate?s defense, it?s not like he doesn?t want the car to look nice. He simply didn?t understand how to care for it, nor has he ever really wanted to spend the time doing it. He literally has never hand washed a car in his life! He always ran it through the auto washes and never understood how bad they were for the cars finish.
Having lived with me for over 2 years now, and seeing all of the transformations that have come out of my shop, I think he has finally become a ?car guy?. He recently asked me if I could show him how to correct the paint on his car, and how to keep it looking nice, to which I gladly accepted!
As you can see the car was covered in dirt/mud to start with, having gone through a muddy field the week prior at some Halloween haunted trail. I chose to pre-soak the car in P21S TAW to loosen all the dirt. I then pressure washed the car really well and washed using the 2BM and some Meguiars Gold Class soap. A round detail brush was used around the emblems and all cracks to remove the dirt which had accumulated over the years.
The wheels on the car were toast! My roommate drives this car hard with LOTS of gas and LOTS of break! There were some signs of curb rash, and the paint was flaking off and bubbling all over. I simply cleaned them with some Wheel Brightener and various brushes, but really didn?t spend too much time on them.
After washing you can clearly see the car is covered in heavy cob-webbing, lots of RIDS, bird bomb etching, door dings, tree sap etching?
The paint on the car felt like 80 grit sand paper after washing! This thing was definitely going to need some serious claying! We used 3M clay on the car, which was the most aggressive I had on hand and Last Touch as lube.
This was the clay after doing just the front fender!
Though it did not show real well in the pics, the headlights were cloudy and pitted. I sanded them down with some 2000 grit and polished with M105 and an orange LC pad via the rotary, followed by some M205 on a black LC pad.
Process for the paint correction was M105 using orange LC Classic pads on the PC followed by M205 using black LC Classic pads on the PC.
We started out with my roommate doing on side of the car and me working on the other side, but he wasn?t getting quite the level of correction that I was. I decided to change things up and have him follow me with the M205 while I worked the M105. Since I finished before him I helped out with the M205 and touched up a few areas that needed a little more work. It took 2 good passes with M105 to get the level of correction we achieved.
LSP was Blackfire Wet-Diamond (x2)
Now I tend to think there are three basic types of car owners out there. You have the freaks like us who spend hours after hours making sure are vehicles are flawless in everyway. Then there are the basic car owners who like to keep there cars pretty clean for the most part. You may see them washing their vehicle in the driveway on a warm summer day, using Dawn for soap, or maybe even taking it through the local gas station car wash. Lastly you have the types of owners like my roommate, who just happens to own this lovely 350Z! These are the owners who have NEVER washed or waxed a car in their life! Cars are nothing more than a mode of transportation to them.
In my roommate?s defense, it?s not like he doesn?t want the car to look nice. He simply didn?t understand how to care for it, nor has he ever really wanted to spend the time doing it. He literally has never hand washed a car in his life! He always ran it through the auto washes and never understood how bad they were for the cars finish.
Having lived with me for over 2 years now, and seeing all of the transformations that have come out of my shop, I think he has finally become a ?car guy?. He recently asked me if I could show him how to correct the paint on his car, and how to keep it looking nice, to which I gladly accepted!
As you can see the car was covered in dirt/mud to start with, having gone through a muddy field the week prior at some Halloween haunted trail. I chose to pre-soak the car in P21S TAW to loosen all the dirt. I then pressure washed the car really well and washed using the 2BM and some Meguiars Gold Class soap. A round detail brush was used around the emblems and all cracks to remove the dirt which had accumulated over the years.
The wheels on the car were toast! My roommate drives this car hard with LOTS of gas and LOTS of break! There were some signs of curb rash, and the paint was flaking off and bubbling all over. I simply cleaned them with some Wheel Brightener and various brushes, but really didn?t spend too much time on them.
After washing you can clearly see the car is covered in heavy cob-webbing, lots of RIDS, bird bomb etching, door dings, tree sap etching?
The paint on the car felt like 80 grit sand paper after washing! This thing was definitely going to need some serious claying! We used 3M clay on the car, which was the most aggressive I had on hand and Last Touch as lube.
This was the clay after doing just the front fender!
Though it did not show real well in the pics, the headlights were cloudy and pitted. I sanded them down with some 2000 grit and polished with M105 and an orange LC pad via the rotary, followed by some M205 on a black LC pad.
Process for the paint correction was M105 using orange LC Classic pads on the PC followed by M205 using black LC Classic pads on the PC.
We started out with my roommate doing on side of the car and me working on the other side, but he wasn?t getting quite the level of correction that I was. I decided to change things up and have him follow me with the M205 while I worked the M105. Since I finished before him I helped out with the M205 and touched up a few areas that needed a little more work. It took 2 good passes with M105 to get the level of correction we achieved.
LSP was Blackfire Wet-Diamond (x2)
imported_RaskyR1
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On with the after pics! Sorry guys, no sun shots...MN weather FTL! 
If I get a chance I will try and get some before the car goes into storage.
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Brinkmann
Halogen
Tires were cleaned with Amazing Roll Off and later dressed with Meguiars Hyper Dressing.
Tips were cleaned with M105 and #0000 steel wool, followed by some mothers polish and ZAIO.
My roommate was very happy with the way it turned out! We spent a total of about 10 hours on the car and he definitely plans to keep it looking nice now. I?d say we got about 90% correction as there were several deep RDIS which will not come out, and there was some bird bomb etching beyond repair too. Car still looks 100x better though.
Thanks for looking, :wavey:
Rasky
If I get a chance I will try and get some before the car goes into storage.
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Brinkmann
Halogen
Tires were cleaned with Amazing Roll Off and later dressed with Meguiars Hyper Dressing.
Tips were cleaned with M105 and #0000 steel wool, followed by some mothers polish and ZAIO.
My roommate was very happy with the way it turned out! We spent a total of about 10 hours on the car and he definitely plans to keep it looking nice now. I?d say we got about 90% correction as there were several deep RDIS which will not come out, and there was some bird bomb etching beyond repair too. Car still looks 100x better though.
Thanks for looking, :wavey:
Rasky
imported_Flash Gordon
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Holy Moly...Wow, great job Rasky. Looks like you got to that one just in the nick of time
imported_Stokdgs
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A beautiful turn around, Rasky !!
That black really looks great now - your roomie will be grateful forever!
Hard to beat the great Meguiars 105/205 compounds in the right hands.
Thanks for saving one more black vehicle from certain death-dead-paint-syndrome !
And thanks for taking the time to share this with us !
DanF
That black really looks great now - your roomie will be grateful forever!
Hard to beat the great Meguiars 105/205 compounds in the right hands.
Thanks for saving one more black vehicle from certain death-dead-paint-syndrome !
And thanks for taking the time to share this with us !
DanF
Old Pirate
AMG Classic Car Detailing
Awesome correction work Chad, Now it looks like a Z! Thank you for sharing it here with us:thumbup:
imported_RaskyR1
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Thanks Flash!
Thanks! Lets just hope he lives up to his word come spring time. He was really excited this morning to show all his friends at work. The sun actually came out just a little bit ago too so I'll try and get some sun shots after work if it stays out and he didn't get it all dirty this morning.
A beautiful turn around, Rasky !!
That black really looks great now - your roomie will be grateful forever!
Hard to beat the great Meguiars 105/205 compounds in the right hands.
Thanks for saving one more black vehicle from certain death-dead-paint-syndrome !
And thanks for taking the time to share this with us !
DanF
Thanks Dan! I was very impressed with M105/M205 on this car.
I hope so! I will go over proper washing again with him come spring time just as a refresher. I think he's putting it away this weekend and I will help him wash it if it's not raining/snowing.
Thanks Angelo! :smile:
bmw5541
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Rasky,
Awesome turnaround. What a difference. It's nice to see that you converted someone over to our side. Next is to get him logged on to TID
Awesome turnaround. What a difference. It's nice to see that you converted someone over to our side. Next is to get him logged on to TID
imported_broker99
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Nice turn around. That is the only way to get a black car. Dirty and swirly.
Dave1
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Your roomate has a good friend indeed......
Good job Rasky.......:thumbup:
Good job Rasky.......:thumbup:
imported_Asphalt Rocket
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Great turn around Chad.
imported_Luster
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Hey Rasky..... that thing was TRASHED!!!
Nice work! If a car is a daily driver, they tend to get like that..... Excellent job.
Nice work! If a car is a daily driver, they tend to get like that..... Excellent job.
imported_User Name
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Chad,
I don't know what it is, but your work (which has always been top notch) is even better lately. That car looks smokin hot dude. You killed it!!!
I wanted to ask you about the headlights... were you able to make a dent in the pitting by sanding them or were they too deep?
I don't know what it is, but your work (which has always been top notch) is even better lately. That car looks smokin hot dude. You killed it!!!
I wanted to ask you about the headlights... were you able to make a dent in the pitting by sanding them or were they too deep?
Tuck91
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Nice work Rasky, :clap:
imported_RaskyR1
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Rasky,
Awesome turnaround. What a difference. It's nice to see that you converted someone over to our side. Next is to get him logged on to TID
Now that would be something! I have to get him off WOW before that will ever happen! :toetap05:
Thanks!
Thanks broker!
Thanks Dave!
Thanks Dana!
Hey Rasky..... that thing was TRASHED!!!
Nice work! If a car is a daily driver, they tend to get like that..... Excellent job.
Thanks Bill!
Yeah, it's a daily driver in the summer, but he has a truck for the winter time.
Thanks UN!
There was definitely a noticeable improvement in the pitting, but my main objective was really just trying to remove the cloudy faded look. Had I used a more aggressive sand paper than 2000 it would have likely taken all the pitting out.
Thanks Nick!
Tucson buffer
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Rasky, great job on the Z!!:clap: What I'm most impressed by is all that correction with M105/205 and with a PC!! I've got to get my black 06 Escape pics on the forum so I can get some feed back from the pros. All I need is some help getting through Photobucket....again, great job...