mgm2003
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2003-04 Cadillac Deville.
This car used to belong to the CEO of MBNA (now retired). It was originally dressed in Champaign paint, but the CEO had it resprayed ‘MBNA’ green. The paint quite a few sanding marks, too many RIDS to count. Swirls were the least of our problems.
The current owner purchased this fully loaded Caddy dirt cheap. This car has custom cell phone units –one up front, and another in the back. The seller was after the 3-digit black license, which he sold for 40K. Delaware has 5 digit ceramic black tags. If you have a tag that is 1-3 digits (i.e. a lower number) it’s worth some bucks! The governor has ‘1’.
Back to the detail. The owner has been using a nylon boat washing brush for cleaning duties –which he stores in the trunk. We talked to him about a few adjustments to his washing process J
Before Shot: This is what my neighbor saw after the wash/dry. Yikes.
All pics were taken in partial light, mostly shade due to our location conditions.
My neighbor called ‘Crown Detailing’ and I was invited down to the DE shore to help with this detail.
Process/Products Used:
CG wash
Poorboys clay (mostly on the front end)
Blackfire on the rims, wheels, wells.
Tires & wells were dressed with a VRT mix.
Wheels & door jams were polished with VM.
The interior was dressed with VRT & Z10.
We polished the paint via PC’s. It really needed rotary work, but I didn’t pack the Metabo.
Power Gloss x 2 on the flats via Orange LC pads. I laid a down a line of PG, with some BF finishing polish beside it to give us longer working time. The PC was set between 5-6. The hood, roof, and trunk needed 3 full passes. The sides needed compound too, but we had time constraints. I lost count at how many times I had to wash out my pad, but it was A LOT! This step took a solid 2 hours, and we had to wash the car after because PG dust was EVERYWHERE, and tree debris was falling on the car. We must have blown off tree fallout 20 times.
Next, we polished the entire car using Blackfire ceramic clear finishing polish using LC Constant Pressure Hi-Gloss green pads. This took another hour.
After a quick Z6 wipe down, we sealed it with zfx’d Z5 x 1 on everything.
Z8 final wipe down.
Door to door this took 2 of us 5 hours. It made me shake my head to think Sean (G35Stilez) routinely knocks off 3 of these in a DAY!
Again here’s the hood before:
After Compounding/Polishing, with a few specs of tree fall out for (about 80% of the defects were leveled/removed).
Finals (the sun was fading fast… Sorry for the dark shots.)
Notice the odd placement of the pin strips (it goes around the bumper molding).
This car used to belong to the CEO of MBNA (now retired). It was originally dressed in Champaign paint, but the CEO had it resprayed ‘MBNA’ green. The paint quite a few sanding marks, too many RIDS to count. Swirls were the least of our problems.
The current owner purchased this fully loaded Caddy dirt cheap. This car has custom cell phone units –one up front, and another in the back. The seller was after the 3-digit black license, which he sold for 40K. Delaware has 5 digit ceramic black tags. If you have a tag that is 1-3 digits (i.e. a lower number) it’s worth some bucks! The governor has ‘1’.
Back to the detail. The owner has been using a nylon boat washing brush for cleaning duties –which he stores in the trunk. We talked to him about a few adjustments to his washing process J
Before Shot: This is what my neighbor saw after the wash/dry. Yikes.
All pics were taken in partial light, mostly shade due to our location conditions.
My neighbor called ‘Crown Detailing’ and I was invited down to the DE shore to help with this detail.
Process/Products Used:
CG wash
Poorboys clay (mostly on the front end)
Blackfire on the rims, wheels, wells.
Tires & wells were dressed with a VRT mix.
Wheels & door jams were polished with VM.
The interior was dressed with VRT & Z10.
We polished the paint via PC’s. It really needed rotary work, but I didn’t pack the Metabo.
Power Gloss x 2 on the flats via Orange LC pads. I laid a down a line of PG, with some BF finishing polish beside it to give us longer working time. The PC was set between 5-6. The hood, roof, and trunk needed 3 full passes. The sides needed compound too, but we had time constraints. I lost count at how many times I had to wash out my pad, but it was A LOT! This step took a solid 2 hours, and we had to wash the car after because PG dust was EVERYWHERE, and tree debris was falling on the car. We must have blown off tree fallout 20 times.
Next, we polished the entire car using Blackfire ceramic clear finishing polish using LC Constant Pressure Hi-Gloss green pads. This took another hour.
After a quick Z6 wipe down, we sealed it with zfx’d Z5 x 1 on everything.
Z8 final wipe down.
Door to door this took 2 of us 5 hours. It made me shake my head to think Sean (G35Stilez) routinely knocks off 3 of these in a DAY!
Again here’s the hood before:
After Compounding/Polishing, with a few specs of tree fall out for (about 80% of the defects were leveled/removed).
Finals (the sun was fading fast… Sorry for the dark shots.)
Notice the odd placement of the pin strips (it goes around the bumper molding).
