I know I am wasting cyberspace this time with these pix.

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Thomas Dekany

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Last monday I worked on this 1988 Saab 900. Second owner (since 1989)



The car has been garaged for the last 8 years. Parked outside before that. The inside took very little work since the owner tries to take good care of the car.



the paint was very dirty, washing the car did nothing to it, but look at the before - after pictures! You can't tell the difference.



However the paint turned out to be very gloosy and wet. Too bad the weather was not cooperating to show it off.



Wash

clay

Amino UV pre cleanser on yellow pad @6

FP - white pad on the roof

DACP - yellow @6 on the hatch - had some deep scretches

AIO - white pad @5 Whole car

SG - white pad @3.5

Removed with a damp MFT

TOL grape tire dressing



Inside

woolite mix on floor mats

vacuum

lexol on leather/vinyl



before - look how clean and shiny it looks. My camera is playing games with me.:angry
 

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A Snaab!



:lol . Nice work... You went quite extensive on that. Must have made someone happy.



What's with the parkin garage :)?
 
GSRstilez said:
A Snaab!



:lol . Nice work... You went quite extensive on that. Must have made someone happy.



What's with the parkin garage :)?
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Thanks Sean - yes this lady (herself is a very nice person - I charged her $200 and gave me an extra $30.00) lives in a new snooty highrise. You can't let the backdoor stay open for 5 seconds without getting an approval from the office.



Anyways, that area is not a garage - it is actually an area specifically to wash/detail your car.



I could have skipped the Amino UV, but found out too late. AIO would have taken all that dirt off the same.



I was going to do

Amino UV

FpII

SG, but some of the rubber trim I didn't tape off, and the FPII stained it ( I guess a 16 year old rubber is pretty fragile), so I decided to switch to AIO.



I know people don't care for the company, (I think they are gone, at least their site is) but I really like their 2 products that I have tried. Pre cleaner and their Wax. The cleaner gave the white paint a deeper wet look which I liked, but FPII

made the paint very milky white and I liked that too!



Thanks!



PS: 3 more weeks and I am getting my rotary!!!
 
Under the "What's your favorite car" thread--that was it for me.



Add some Yakimas to hold my toys, and I'm sold. Nice work!
 
Looks like there is a difference to me between the first and second pic. White is a hard color for real good before and after shots though. Not much you can do about that.



You really cleaned up that old Snaab pretty nicely! Did you get any interior shots?
 
Nice job tdekany. I can see the difference but I know what you mean with the pictures.



I've recently done a 1995 Red Corolla that had very heavy oxidation, swirls and all that stuff.

When I was done I was amazed - the car came out awesome.

However when I wanted to post the pics here I got really mad. There was almost no difference and I decided it wasn't worth it.
 
04BlackAV - thanks man



kartoon - sorry about that. It is interesting that the dirt is not showing up in the before picture. The color was nearly gray it was so bad. O well. Thanks



hirosh - thanks very much.



Scottwax - thanks for the kind words.

I didn't take any pictures of the interior. It has a dark burgundy looking leather interior in good shape.



thanks everyone for your replies.
 
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