imported_JoshVette
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The owner of this 97 Carrera contacted me about show car prepping his newly delivered Porsche for the next big RUF get together.
So he dropped it off with me late Sunday and I got started the next day and finished it up Friday.
The car only had 17,000 miles on it to begin with but whoever detailed it before he bought it did an outstanding job. Every part of the engine bay and front bay were absolulely clean and the interior was well groomed also so this saved me a lot of time.
I'll fill you in on the process as I post up pics.
First up is the interior. It was in good shape, but was still 11 years old so I dusted, vacuumed, 303 wipe down and then started applying the leatherique. I've never used leatherique before so this was a learning experience for me....
Here are some before pics of the leather.
This is Porsche's idea of back seats....:spit:
I applied the leatherique by hand and let sit in the sun for 2 hours, then threw on another coat and another hour in the sun, then the sun went down so I pulled it in and let it soak overnight.
The next day I applied the cleaner by hand and wiped it all off. For a moment I thought I was wiping off the dye, but it was just dirt. The seats were darker but not softer. I was a little disapointed. Could be they were just well cared for all these years and so there wasn't a dramatic improvement.
I know the lighting in these next pics are different from the befores, so just know that they did seem darker to my eyes afterwards.
To basically finish off the interior was the painted back of the front seats, this was the coolest part of the car IMO.
I hand polished them with Zaino ZPC two times, then waxes them with ZAIO and ZCS. They absolutely glowed like the rest of the car when I was done.
You can see the seat backs are also SS paint like the exterior.
Everything you see hear was leatherique'd, dash, steering wheel, door panels, center console, all of it. You can see how nice and dark the black turned out.
So now that the interior is basically complete, I moved on to washing and claying the car. I start with a 3 bucket process, 1 bucket dedicated solely to the rims, tires, wells and such....then two bucket and clay while wet process.
I was surprised for how nicely the cars been kept to see how badly it was needing to be clayed.
Okay, so most of you know how to wash and clay a car well enough, I won't go into great detail about that part..:grinno:
Next up will be engine bays, polishing and glamour shots.:woot:
So he dropped it off with me late Sunday and I got started the next day and finished it up Friday.
The car only had 17,000 miles on it to begin with but whoever detailed it before he bought it did an outstanding job. Every part of the engine bay and front bay were absolulely clean and the interior was well groomed also so this saved me a lot of time.
I'll fill you in on the process as I post up pics.
First up is the interior. It was in good shape, but was still 11 years old so I dusted, vacuumed, 303 wipe down and then started applying the leatherique. I've never used leatherique before so this was a learning experience for me....
Here are some before pics of the leather.
This is Porsche's idea of back seats....:spit:
I applied the leatherique by hand and let sit in the sun for 2 hours, then threw on another coat and another hour in the sun, then the sun went down so I pulled it in and let it soak overnight.
The next day I applied the cleaner by hand and wiped it all off. For a moment I thought I was wiping off the dye, but it was just dirt. The seats were darker but not softer. I was a little disapointed. Could be they were just well cared for all these years and so there wasn't a dramatic improvement.
I know the lighting in these next pics are different from the befores, so just know that they did seem darker to my eyes afterwards.
To basically finish off the interior was the painted back of the front seats, this was the coolest part of the car IMO.
I hand polished them with Zaino ZPC two times, then waxes them with ZAIO and ZCS. They absolutely glowed like the rest of the car when I was done.
You can see the seat backs are also SS paint like the exterior.
Everything you see hear was leatherique'd, dash, steering wheel, door panels, center console, all of it. You can see how nice and dark the black turned out.
So now that the interior is basically complete, I moved on to washing and claying the car. I start with a 3 bucket process, 1 bucket dedicated solely to the rims, tires, wells and such....then two bucket and clay while wet process.
I was surprised for how nicely the cars been kept to see how badly it was needing to be clayed.
Okay, so most of you know how to wash and clay a car well enough, I won't go into great detail about that part..:grinno:
Next up will be engine bays, polishing and glamour shots.:woot:
