MarcHarris
New member
This 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo came to me from a local regional forum member (from xceedspeed.com , a Michigan-based car site). The owner is currently in college and wanted to clean up his vehicle, which was repainted last fall. He's a car-guy and the vehicle is in very good shape for its age. The vehicle has front air dam and rear spoiler off the 850R, and the front bumper painted. As he was to attend a major car meet in Pennsylvania, he hoped to remove some small defects from the paint and have it looking as good as possible for the time-target he wanted to spend on it. Because the vehicle wasn't an over-night job, I didn't take as many pic's as usual (but I'm sure you'll get the idea)
As a first for me, the owner gave me a hand where he could in order to spend less time detailing, and to learn some tips while we went in order to keep his vehicle looking as good as possible in the future. Even so, we ended up putting 7-8 hours of work in: all worth it when the vehicle was finished
As he stopped by just a week earlier to meet up to discuss what I might try to do to the vehicle, I already had a good idea of what I was in store for. Upon arrival:
just dusty and light water etching, light swirls, and few random isolated deep scratches.
Started with the wheels of course, and gave them a healthy spraying of P21S wheel cleaner gel before agitating. Of course with the owner taking care of these beauties (he tells me they are the Pegasus 18's that come stock on the v60R), there wasn't much to worry about.
before:
after (inside the wheels was the biggest difference)
The exhaust tip was cleaned with #0000 steel wool and P21S finish restorer
before:
after:
Next the vehicle was foamed with a dish soap / citrus degreaser / car wash soap mixed via the Gilmore, then washed. Following, the vehicle was clayed with Meg's aggressive clay and yielded light contamination, and showed me this aftermarket clear-coat was ultra soft. No problem: with the goal of a single-step correction, it made it that much easier.
pulled in after clay:
As a first for me, the owner gave me a hand where he could in order to spend less time detailing, and to learn some tips while we went in order to keep his vehicle looking as good as possible in the future. Even so, we ended up putting 7-8 hours of work in: all worth it when the vehicle was finished
As he stopped by just a week earlier to meet up to discuss what I might try to do to the vehicle, I already had a good idea of what I was in store for. Upon arrival:
just dusty and light water etching, light swirls, and few random isolated deep scratches.
Started with the wheels of course, and gave them a healthy spraying of P21S wheel cleaner gel before agitating. Of course with the owner taking care of these beauties (he tells me they are the Pegasus 18's that come stock on the v60R), there wasn't much to worry about.
before:
after (inside the wheels was the biggest difference)
The exhaust tip was cleaned with #0000 steel wool and P21S finish restorer
before:
after:
Next the vehicle was foamed with a dish soap / citrus degreaser / car wash soap mixed via the Gilmore, then washed. Following, the vehicle was clayed with Meg's aggressive clay and yielded light contamination, and showed me this aftermarket clear-coat was ultra soft. No problem: with the goal of a single-step correction, it made it that much easier.
pulled in after clay:
