Park Avenue Detailing: Brilliant Black Mazda MX-5 (Raildust issue as per threads)

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gtpaul

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Some of you may remember this car from this thread: http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-detailing/113652-rail-dust-problem.html Anyways, finally got approval from the service manager and owner of the dealership where this car was purchased to perform the work. After many headache's we getting approval and so on, I began Tuesday at 5pm until 9pm removing the rail-dust and other surface contaminants.

Wednesday I started at 8am, after driving through a snow-storm. I compounded, medium polished with IPA in between each. Certain scratches were wetsanded. At 6pm, Wednesday evening I began final polishing and went home around 8:30pm. (Girlfriend called:laugh:). Returned to the dealer Thursday to finish the polishing, proceeded to jewel the paint, and seal. Total time spent: 17 hours.



Process:



Contaminant removal:



CarBrite Fall out remover

Clay during acid

Wash and rinse

Clay again (soap solution as lube)



Paint correction:



Compounding: M105/OrangeCCS/Flex

Heavy Polishing: SIP/WhiteCCS/Flex

Final Polishing: PO203 Power Finish/GreenCCS/Flex

Jewelling:PO85rd Final Finish/RedCCS/Flex



LSP:



Pinnacle Souveran....



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Sludge said:
Terrific work. I'm sure the dealership people had never seen anything like the job you did. :2thumbs:



Did they fetch your coffee?
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The Service Manager said exactly that, "This is the best condition any vehicle has ever come from this dealership" :woot2:



Thanks Sludge for helping me hook-up with gtpaul. Thanks everyone for all the suggestions and help provided. And a big thanks to gtpaul for taking on such a challenging issue at this time of the season. What he can do with those hands is miraculous :bow
 
Wow, glad this all worked out so well, I can't believe they paid for 17 hours since the most they usually spend is 17 minutes. What are those tires, Hakkas?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Wow, glad this all worked out so well, I can't believe they paid for 17 hours since the most they usually spend is 17 minutes. What are those tires, Hakkas?
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Mulling over which tire to choose, I went with the advice at the following link and chose Michelin X-ice:



Michelin X-Ice Xi2 Introductory Drive



The dealership at first didn't believe it. But when one of their own referrals estimated 20 hours, it finally sunk in. The car was really in bad shape. We had three quotes and gtpaul's was the best. I'm really glad gtpaul won out. The other detailers were talking about wet-sanding the whole car :soscared: One guy was trying to convince me that with 28 years experience, he could tell the depth of the paint by just looking at it. Like he had x-ray vision or something :hm



The other detailer was saying the paint was doomed and I'd have to live with the swirls and spider-webbing :bolt



It was truly a bizarre and creepy experiencing. After some consultations, I knew I couldn't trust anybody with the car other than gtpaul. I doubt there would have been any clear coat left. gtpaul followed a perfect balance of paint correction and clear coat preservation :goodjob
 
Sludge said:
Terrific work. I'm sure the dealership people had never seen anything like the job you did. :2thumbs:



Did they fetch your coffee?
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No lol, but the detailer came to me and asked "How do you buff?"
 
gtpaul said:
No lol, but the detailer came to me and asked "How do you buff?"
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That must have been their top guy, the one who has been working there for 3 months, right out of high school...or the guy who has been there for 20 years, still doing it the same way he was when he'd been there for 3 months...



(sorry for the dealer sarcasm, but in another lifetime I worked with some of those guys, and I have a car that I *still* haven't got all of the dealer-installed swirls out of)
 
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