My attempt at a spoiledman Silver 06c350 69 pics

imported_Grouse

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So this is how my weekend went. 2006 c350 with a few amg bits. 20k on the clock. Before and after pics.

Exterior and interior shots before wash.

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After wash shots. 2 actually washes, the whole car was covered in a sticky layer of dust, and grime. I washed the first time with the foam gun set on 1:64 with sonus car shampoo. It did an okay job, but I felt this needed more attention as It did not fully remove the spotting around the window, hood, lights, and rear bumper areas. So I doubled the dose and set the foam gun to 1:32 with Megs gold class (I was out of sonus). I proceeded to wash it again. These are the shots.

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These two shots are of a creased area in the front driver’s fender. They were completely hidden by the dirt and grime. Along with another little paint transfer area. Claying further removed much of the media that was hiding these marks. I spent just over 3 hours claying it. The car had a lot sapp, tar, and embedded dirt. It looked find from 2 feet away, but when you looked from 5 inches or so, you could see the super fine bits o gunk.

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Car taped up for compounding and polishing. Less tape as to not upset spoiledman (jK) There was a lot to tape, but for the most part it was pretty simple and easy.

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Clean/sealed tires and wheels.

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Here are a few shots of the Flake popping just after I had finished the compounding and polishing at midnight. IP with yellow pad, and fpII 1066 on blue pad. With the ceramiclear, I focused my compounding efforts on specific areas and issues. The car had very few swirls when examined under the halogens, incandescent and the few fluorescents I have.

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A bit of depth, even out of silver.

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A few shots of the car with Menzerna FMJ on it.

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Shot without the aid of flash to show the wetness of the car

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The roof after the menzerna FMJ.

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Here is the beginning of the interior cleaning. First a few shots of it after carpet cleaning.

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Bucket of foam cleaning solution for the head liner. This is a good safe way to clean the headliner without over wetting it and causing watermarking issues

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Shots after cleaning. Process Leather masters soft cleaner 2x on the seats, 1x on the dash, doors and other plastic areas. Waiting about 20 min in between each cleaning on the leather for the leather to dry out.

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I cleaned the engine bay as best I could, A little apc and adams detail spray. The seats were still tacky so I could not apply the leather conditioner yet.

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I got busy, no time to document the 2x leather conditioner and 1 x leather protectant, (from leather masters.) The dash was finished out with natural look dressing, the interior trim also. Exterior trim was dressed out with trim restorer.

indoor finished shot

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Out door goodness. Car was finished off with 2x fmj 1x CG concours 5050

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Landerholm said:
I live in Bellevue. Looks great!

LOL Yeah, I like the area.

steelwind101 Hi!!



Top job!! It turned our really nice, i really like the wheels.



Things look more then a little cramped in the back though!!

I move the seats all the way forward and all the way back a few dozen times. When normally riding they are not so far back.



topnotch Great work! Very good look at your step by step turnaround. I dont know why someone would let a car get that bad.

He is a beer and wine distributor. He puts abotu 100 miles or so a day on it. Some times carring up to 15-20 cases of beer/wine in it.
 
could you explain more of the foam bucket and sponge method for cleaning the interior? What is in the bucket? are you just wetting the sponge, wringing it out, and then rubbing it on the interior parts?



looks great!
 
The bucket of foam is for the headliner only. Not the rest.



I use prochem fine fabric shampoo. Because of the nature of headliners over wetting them will leave that brown water line. Called water marking. So by mixing the foam I use far less moisture. By using less moisture i lessen the chances of the headliner water marking and delaminating from it's padding.



2 oz of fin fabric shampoo in a gallon of warm water. Add the water in the bucket first, then the shampoo.



Add 1/4 - 1/2 gallon of water via pressure hose to make foam.



Take a grout sponge dip it in the bucket and wring it out. Massage the sponge (like an accordian) till it makes a shaving cream like lather.



Spread lather on 8x8 inch section of the headliner. Work it in with out actually agressively rubbing. You do not want the moisture of the sponge to transfer to the fabric.



Buff dry with a MF towel.



Set up air movers to speed drying.



Repeat on any trouble areas.



In this instance i forgot to take after shots, but I actually cleaned the spots in the two headliner shots 3 times before they were fully removed. I use the headliner cleaning as a fill in process for when i am waiting for something else to dry, or something else to haze. each time takes 20 min or less, but about 30-40 min to dry.



I will be seeing the car this week again, I will try and snap some shots of the headliner for reference.



As to the carpet



It was vacuumed, the trunk, mats, floor carpets and under rear seat carpet took about 1.5 hours to fully vacuum. Much of it was imbeded so i had to use the blower from the Hotwater extractor and my shop vac to full get things out of the fiber.



the trunk, mats, floor carpets and under rear seat carpet were then spotted with Bac-out spot and stain remover. I used this to get rid of soda spills, and coffee spills. Yes they are difficult to see on black carpet but they were there. I let this dwell while i prepped, cleaned and protected the matts.



The carpet was then sprayed down with Bio-kleens Traffic Lane cleaner. This product does a superior job on food and protien based soils. These are probably the most common types of soils in a car, behind just work truck dirt that is. I then agitated the fiber with a megs soft bristled brush letting it dwell for about 5 min.



The Hot water extractor had 1 oz of Dry slurry (a carpet rinse agent/final step detergent) in the solution tank. I then extracted each area, then dry stroked with the extraction tool, then final dry stroked with just the hose.



The fiber was then treated with Four Gaurd carpet protectant.



Blowers/air movers were set up in the bac seat floor area to speed up the drying process.



Excellent play by play! I felt like I was there. Great Job perfecting everything!



Greg

thanks greg
 
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