Mercedes E500, pair of G35s, wait until you see the befores on the black one!!!

Scottwax

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2003 Mercedes E500. Unbelievable condition to begin with, looks like he had just washed and vacuumed it! He said he has it washed regularly but it had only been waxed once. Amazingly, even in the sun, the paint was remarkably swirl free. I washed it with Optimum No Rinse and clayed the horizontal panels and pulled very little gunk off the car, really excellent condition!



I polished with Werkstatt's Prime using a blue Propel finishing pad and topped with Acrylic Jett by hand.



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2004 Infiniti G35. Regular customer, deep polished it in June 2005 and I see it every couple of months, hit it with a light polish and wax each time, and each time the finish looks even better.



We've had a lot of on and off storms for about a week now and the G35 was pretty dirty with road grime, water spots, etc, just what you'd expect after all the rain we've had. I had last polished and waxed it on February 26th with Clearkote's Vanilla Moose and Carnauba Moose, and yesterday, May 7th, I gave it an Optimum No Rinse wash and it looked like this....the horror! ;)



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BTW, I wash and dress the tires and fenderwells before washing the body of the car...no dressing overspray problems anymore, even on windy days!
 
I went over the car with Werkstatt's Prime Carnauba using a white LC polishing pad and topped with Optimum Car Wax. The sun was peaking in and out while I was taking pics, so some have sun, some don't.



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Best 'sun on fender to show lack of swirls' shot I could get, the sun hit was a bit diffused by clouds.



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2003 Infiniti G35. This is the 3rd time the owner of the black G35 has been nice enough to bring along a friend with a G35 coupe. First time I've done this car, overall it was in excellent shape, save for some rock chips on the front bumper.



Werkstatt's Prime using a blue Propel pad and Acrylic Jett Trigger by hand.



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A few shots of their cars together:



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The gentleman with the black G35 just sent me these pics he took with his older digital camera (not sure the megapixels).





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That's a great comparison between silver and black on the same car. Both look fantastic, which is why I always look at your work as soon as it appears. It is often my lunchtime entertainment.



Though both are superb, I would vote for black. It just blows me away. And, to think that I traded black in on a gray car.



You continue to do a fantastic job of showing what the Werkstatt line can do. I've noticed that they have run out of some product. No wonder!



Again, thanks for treating us to another episode of "The Scottwax Chronicles." : )
 
The black one is crazy! It looks like the car has a black mirror on it. Black may be hard to keep looking good, but when it looks good…. It looks CRAZY good! Nice work as usual :bigups
 
What can I say? I never get sick of looking at em, especially after you've gotten your mitts on 'em. great work, nice to see that some finessing can really bring back that black G paint.
 
Picus said:
What can I say? I never get sick of looking at em, especially after you've gotten your mitts on 'em. great work, nice to see that some finessing can really bring back that black G paint.



Actually, what really made me happy was how well VM/CMW had held up for about 2 1/2 months, especially with all the rain we've had on and off the last 6 weeks or so. I really didn't even want to polish it at first but there were a couple really light scratches he wanted removed.
 
Excellant work Scott :0



Yea the rain sure does put a damper on the detailing jobs. Ron is pretty busy with hail jobs right now so that's a good thing! LOL



Anthony
 
Anthony Orosco said:
Excellant work Scott :0



Yea the rain sure does put a damper on the detailing jobs. Ron is pretty busy with hail jobs right now so that's a good thing! LOL



Anthony



I've actually been busier than I usually am during a rainy stretch. Most of the storms are hit and miss, so while a few of my regular wash customers may hold off due to the threat of rain, the details aren't. :)



We haven't got much in the way of hail up here so far... :thx
 
Scott,



All three of those details looks great! The silver MBZ is my favorite! Dripping wet silver is so hard to do. :bow :bow :bow



Keep up the great work!



Cheers,
 
Nice work as usual. I was wondering, how do you work around the trunk with all that lettering? I find when I do it, some spots get hazy, some spots are okay. I do mask the lettering off, but it is sure rough going between the lettering and the symbol and also between the brake light and the lettering, because you can't make nice smooth passes there.

Thanks
 
awesome work as always. I'm gonna have to have to start washing fender wells first as well :-)



benz is dripping !!!



and I see you've found a preference in the werkstatt system :D
 
bcgreen said:
Nice work as usual. I was wondering, how do you work around the trunk with all that lettering? I find when I do it, some spots get hazy, some spots are okay. I do mask the lettering off, but it is sure rough going between the lettering and the symbol and also between the brake light and the lettering, because you can't make nice smooth passes there.

Thanks



If I can't get it all with the PC, I do it by hand.
 
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