Problems with Black Porsche 968

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AudiOn19s

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A client of mine purchased a Black Porsche 968 off of e-bay and the car looks like it was driven through a war. My best guess is that the owner never waxed it and it sat outside all of the time (clear is dry and cracking), used sense of touch when parking and occasionally drove it through the forrest offroading it's that bad. There's paint transfer and deep scratches on all four corners, these weird markings down the side of the car that look almost as though someone had thrown a hand full of gravel at the car a to make things worse the drivers rear fender literally looks like he backed up against a thorny bush and there's hundreds of scratches all over.



I advised that there's only soo much that can be done...but these scratches on the drivers rear fender are really buggiing me. I thought for sure that I could remove them as there's a couple that I can feel with my finger but the rest I cannot feel or I'm not trying hard enough to feel. I polished this pannel twice with SSR2.5 and an orange LC pad, then moved up to a Yellow pad and SSR2.5. I did manage to haze the crap out of the pannel but not remove any of the scratches. My digital is dead so I don't have any shots but from the description is there any help at all for these bad boys or do I cut my losses and quit wasting time on it.



The thing that really ticks me off is that I really can't feel the scratches yet the only thing that I'm doing is hazing the paint and not removing any of the scratches.



Oh yeah...we won't even get into the interior in this thread...dog hair everywhere and yuck...this one should qualify for the extreme detailing competition if I only had my darn camera

Andy
 
BTW I'm using a PC on speeds 5 and 6 for this. I do have access to a rotary but I'm still learning and don't think that a black Porsche is the best place to start with a rotoary on clients cars.
 
I wouldn't push it.



You could try wetsanding and that will be the most aggressive attack but it does remove quite a bit of paint and if the car is a bit older you don't know how many times it's been polished already. You run a higher the average risk of damaging the paint.



So what I would do is exactly what you have done and polish it and get it back to looking very nice and then add a couple coats of wax and let it be.
 
Thanks for the input guys...I actually went back over the car with a few more passes with a cutting pad and SSR2.5 and it got about as good as it was going to get. Then I finished the car in SSR1, UPP and OCW to top everything off. I was there when the owner showed up and they were estacit (sp?) about the results. While I wish I could have made the car perfect he was very aware that most of his defects were not correctable through a detail and required body work.



Andy
 
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