Swissvax'ed Georg's 1987 Mercedez-Benz SL560

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ScheerSpeed

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This is probably my most thorough detail ever. it took 4 days between two people, totaling about 86 hours of combined labor between the two of us.





This 1987 Mercedez 560SL belongs to Georg Weidmann, the CEO of Swissvax. It is his personal car here in Miami that he purchased a few months ago. The car had been in an accident about two months back, and needed a new hood, driver side fender, front bumper, etc. The car had holograms all over the newly painted area, and the original paint was full of RIDS, deep scratches, overspray, and oxidation. This car has a single stage lacquer paint, thus making it VERY soft and hard to polish it perfectly without holograms, even with Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Medium / Professional and a Black Swissvax pad.



The car needed some serious polishing, not only on the paint, but the metals and interior wood as well.



We used mostly Swissvax products from Georg's personal detailing bag which he gave to us to use on his car.



Anyways, onto the pics and process.



Here's the products we used:





Exterior:

-Swissvax Car Bath

-Swissvax Paint Rubber (Yellow) / Swissvax Quick Finish

-Swissvax Mechanical Paint Repair (Isolated spots, trunk, hood) / Swissvax Strong pad

-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Strong (2-5 passes depending on the severity of the scratches / Swissvax Orange pad

-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Professional / Black Swissvax pad

-Swissvax Mirage (As requested by Georg) applied by hand

-Swissvax Metal Polish

-Swissvax Nano Express (Rubber bumpers)

-Swissvax Protecton

-Swissvax Crystal



Engine:

-Swissvax Engine (diluted 1:1)

-Swissvax Protecton

-Swissvax Metal Polish

-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Regular



Interior:

-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Strong and followed by Professional on the wood trim

-Swissvax Wood Polish

-Swissvax Protecton Matt

-Swissvax Leather Cleaner

-Swissvax Leather Milk

-Swissvax Leather Healer

-Swissvax Metal Polish

-Swissvax Crystal

-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Regular

-Chemical Guy's Lightning Fast



Wheels:

-SONAX wheel cleaner

-1Z Industrial Cleaner

-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid Medium

-Swissvax Autobahn

-Swissvax Pneu





i may have left a few out but i believe that covers all the products



I would have applied Lotos Protectant to the convertible roof, however Georg asked that i left it alone.



Here's how she looked before...



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In this next picture you can see the compounding marks left behind from the body shop that repainted the hood and fender. the left side is untouched and the right side is after two passes with Cleaner Fluid Strong and an Orange pad.



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The pinstripe around the car is hand painted on, so i had to tape it up while doing the heavy polishing



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Some more before pics



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Beni spent countless hours polishing all the metal trim pieces on both the exterior and interior. In this pic he's polishing the 560SL badge using a Chop Stick to really get into the small spaces. i find these work really well to get in tight spaces with a microfiber towel.



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In order to polish the wood trim i had to tape up all the plastic pieces because i didn't want any polish getting into the cracks that would be nearly impossible to remove. I used the makita with a 3.5 inch Uber pad to apply the polishes.



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and after polishing, before Swissvax Wood Poliish...



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Here's a before pic of the metal supports to the convertible roof. these were very oxidized and cleaned up nicely.



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And after...



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Swissvax Mirage applied by hand



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And 4 days later.... Finished!



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Georg had put his personal things back in the car before i took these pictures of the interior.



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Thats all for that one. Thanks for looking!
 
A lot of attention to detail there man. Car look good. I'm curious If you masked that painted stripe with tape that looks like two inches because you wanted to obiously not mess the stripe up from polishing. How did you go back and fix the marring under the tape the second time around with out messing the stripe up. Next time look into fine line masking tape, It makes cover them stripes a lot nicer as uts usally the same size. I noticed you showed a lot of before shots under direct halogens and maybe what looks like the brinkman. I really didn't see any sun shots or after shots under the lights? I'm not trying to sound like a turd here, but a 4 day detail posted in the pro's section and no direct after shots? ouch. Im impressed with your very tidious attention to detail. Thanks for the Chopstick idea.
 
Barry Theal said:
A lot of attention to detail there man. Car look good. I'm curious If you masked that painted stripe with tape that looks like two inches because you wanted to obiously not mess the stripe up from polishing. How did you go back and fix the marring under the tape the second time around with out messing the stripe up. Next time look into fine line masking tape, It makes cover them stripes a lot nicer as uts usally the same size. I noticed you showed a lot of before shots under direct halogens and maybe what looks like the brinkman. I really didn't see any sun shots or after shots under the lights? I'm not trying to sound like a turd here, but a 4 day detail posted in the pro's section and no direct after shots? ouch. Im impressed with your very tidious attention to detail. Thanks for the Chopstick idea.
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In regards to taping the pinstripe, i used the large tape to tape up one side, for example to polish under the pinstripe, then i would wipe off the polish and remove the tape to move it lower so that i could get on top of the pinstripe. After i polished with Cleaner Fluid Strong I went over the entire car with Cleaner Fluid Professional including the pinstripe.



I didnt get any after Brinkmann lights because literally as i was finishing the car Georg pulled up to pick the car up and had to run to a service appointment that he was almost running late for, so i didn't have much time to take after pictures.
 
ScheerSpeed- Being a huge fan of those cars I really enjoyed this, thanks for posting it! I think it's just soooo cool that the ceo of Swissvax drives that particular vehicle.



Glad the repair was done with ss.



Yeah, I often do the stripes/etc. the same way...gotta get some thin tape some day and save myself some time.



Oh, and I never woulda thought to use the Makita for the interior wood! Just wouldn't have occurred to me, I bet it worked like magic. I take it the wood polish has some mild abrasives in it, right?



I can't quite tell from the pix, did it have the MB-Tex "kinder seat" in back?
 
Really nice! I still see quite a few of these cars rolling around today, but they're all trashed. Makes me sad to see it. My father had an '86 and it was quite the machine :)
 
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