The owner of this Viper lives in my hometown and drives by the shop often and sees the type of cars we work on, so he stopped in to make an appointment for an exterior detail. Since he drives the car pretty hard and isn’t very picky, he gave me an estimate of what he wanted to spend and left the car for a couple weeks to work on in-between other details. Overall, the car was in fairly decent shape, but there was plenty of room for improvement. Some of the chrome wheels were starting to peel, among some paint chipping off on the front bumper, but he told me just to pay attention to the paint and nothing else.
Here is what it looked like after a thorough wash and prep, prior to any polishing:
As you can see, there were some pretty good scratches scattered all over the car and some heavy swirling. I was hoping for a quick 2-stage polishing treatment, since the owner told me not to go crazy, but as soon as I started polishing, I quickly remembered how hard Viper paint was. Since a 2-stage wasn’t producing the results I was hoping for, I ended up moving up to a 3-stage polishing treatment to get the car looking its best.
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