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Not too happy with Walgreen's film processing right now. The first CD they gave me had about half the pictures framed wrong, whole chunks of the vehicles completely gone. I took it back and the person who runs the negatives through had already left. The girl who was working assured me she could scan the photos and the quality would be the same. WRONG! The scanned images are terrible. Looks like I took them with a disposible camera or even worse, a camera phone. :mad: I can't do anything about it until tomorrow now.
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Here are the usable pics.



2001 BMW 750iL. I detail it twice a year. Obviously, it has been sitting under trees regularly. I pulled a ton of leaves from under the base of the windshield and the trunk jams. I also noticed lightly etched spotting and some spider swirling too.



As you can see, the hood needs work! Those white spots are sap, which luckily was still reasonably soft.



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This is after polishing with DACP and the yellow (medium cut) Propel pad.



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And this is after the previous step and #80 with a green (light cut) Propel pad. You can see in this pic how it is not properly centered because of the black band and part of the other picture on the far left. Others were much worse. I'll replace this one when I get a properly centered version scanned from the negative.



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I finished off the car with Poorboy's EX w/carnauba by hand. The other two pics weren't centered and like I said, the CD with scanned prints (instead of the negatives) were horrible quality.



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Here are a couple shots with the hybrid paste I mixed up, using about 40% S100, 40% #16 and 20% Natty's. Leaves a pretty wet finish! Very slick too.



This is on a Mercedes S500. I just quickly waxed the hood, the car is fixin' to go into the body shop to replace the chin spoiler and a fender that are a bit banged up.



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This is on my car:



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I got some outside shots of the CL500 I used the Shokar twins on last week. He hadn't driven the car at all so it was still real clean. The slickness is decent but not quite as good as UPP.



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The LS430 with Glanz Wax (after about 6 weeks) and the '05 Range Rover with EX-P will have to wait until I have quality images.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
How do you like those Propel pads, Scott? I was under the impression you used mostly Meg's pads.
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I really like them. The backing goes almost to the edge of the pad and the pad itself is slightly indented so the backing plate fits inside. The overall performance is similar to the Meguiars pads but the Propel pads are about 25% less.



Jay-I have no idea what you are talking about.



Paul-Based on some minor sidewall rotting, I am sure those are the original tires. The car is nearly 4 years old but only has 31,000 miles on it. That is the V12 version, maybe they came with slightly taller tires. :nixweiss



Yes, that is snattys #1600 on my car too. :xyxthumbs
 
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The V. is what i was talking about.
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Geek wire humor. V as in version, like Autopia is running on a vBulletin Version 2.3.5 or AOL is now v10.2 or whatever they are up to now.
 
My afternoon customer failed to inform me he was out of town this week so I have some time to finish this before I start on my neighbor's car. No hurry, she is out of town until next Saturday so I am just working on it when I have time. :)



Okay, I got another CD from the negatives-still the same problem. I then looked at the negatives and saw why. Whoever cut them, first off did so prior to running them though the CD machine and second, cut them wrong. Several pics were chopped between frames. The manager figures they cut the negatives then realized they hadn't made the CD. He gave me another roll of film and free processing. Luckily, all the problems are on vehicles I see regularly but it is still a PITA to deal with. The manager said he would talk to the two people doing the processing last night. Meh. He offered to rescan the actual pics but I explained they'd done that already and the quality isn't any good.



Anyway, here are a couple more pics.



2005 Range Rover. Brand spanking new. The dealer must have clayed or done an ABC wash because the paint was glass smooth. I usually have to clay brand new vehicles so this was a nice suprise. No spider swirls, scratches, etc that needed polishing, so I simply applied a coat of Poorboy's EX-P by hand.



I must admit, the new Range Rovers are a huge improvement over the last generation. These new ones are beautiful!



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2003 Lexus LS430. Regular customer, I wash her vehicle twice a month. I waxed it with 1Z Glanz Wax on December 7th, washed it and took these pics on January 7th, so this is how it looked 1 full month after initial application. In addition, the paint beaded well and was noticably slick.



Hard to get real good pics here because of the covered parking and afternoon sun. No time to move the cars around either, it was almost 5PM and they leave their office promptly at 5PM!



Mostly shade shot:



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Direct sun:



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Beautiful work as always.

Maybe it's time to go digital....No film processing errors to deal with, just you and the computer!
 
mav63 said:
Beautiful work as always.

Maybe it's time to go digital....No film processing errors to deal with, just you and the computer!
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Quality just isn't there yet. Maybe when it is 50 million Megapixels.... ;)



This is the first problem I've had in years. The best things about a quality 35mm SLR is for $300, you can get a high quality camera, Kodak's new High Definition film is astounding, and for $11, I get prints, negatives and a CD. Considering even somewhat comparible digital SLRs are $1000+ and high quality laser printers are $300 plus, not to mention the cost of paper, I am still coming out way ahead.
 
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