Vw touareg restored!

[Morgan_W1]

Hey guys,



This SUV was booked for the full treatment.

20 hours invested and it needed every last bit of it!

After 2 rounds of sonax wheel cleaner, ez-detail brush, + other various wheel brushes...

After washing the car via 2 bucket method with a mix of dawn/citrus wash & clear and a microfiber chenille mitt to strip any previous waxes etc. (which there probably wasn't any to start) I then began claying with ONR as clay lube and a medium grade clay bar. This process exceeded 2 hours! A lot of bonded contaminants and every edge/corner had to be clayed where normally a good bristle brush and all purpose cleaner would have done the job.

License plate removed..

Back hatch had some science experiments going on...

After some xenit citrus cleaner/apc/bristle brush & flushed with water...

Can't forget the door jambs:

I then did my test spots on the paint...We agreed on a 2 step paint correction in hopes for a near perfect outcome..



1st test spot with Orange/m105/pcxp

Paint was very hard and not correcting as well as hoped.

Stepped it up to surbuf pad w/ m105 again. (Also found a deep scuff in the middle of the 2nd test spot)

Still not 100% perfect but removed majority of the defects.

Here is the car all masked ready for some surgery.

I carried on with the surbuf/105 combo followed up by menzerna powerfinish on a white pad.

Before shot on the hood:

After:

Here is the hood polished and fender untouched.

The gloss difference in person was significant.

 

[Morgan_W1]

Here some more before/afters:

Tail lights needed some love too

before:

after:

Left corner polish right side untouched:

After all the polishing was finished it was time for another wash

The paint was then sealed with black fire wet diamond.

Then moved on to the interior. The carpets didn't look too bad to start, but extracted anyways with my Mytee Lite II. Good thing I did...

The leather was treated with Iz leather care and all other surfaces were cleaned with APC+ and protected with 303 Aero.



Here are the afters...

 

[Accumulator]

Morgan_W- Nice job! Good work at capturing the issues in the "before" pics, that can be hard to do with white.



Did you use M105 on the black plastic "B" and "C" pillars?

 

[sacdetailing]

very very nice job, i love the afters

 

[Labster]

Great turn around Morgan! My friend's dad has one in that seafoam green color and keeps nagging me to do it but won't agree on the price. haha

 

[Morgan_W1]

thanks guys!



Accumulator- Yes 105 was used w/ a 4" megs cutting pad and followed up with power finish on a 4" megs polishing pad.

 

[Accumulator]

Accumulator- Yes 105 was used w/ a 4" megs cutting pad and followed up with power finish on a 4" megs polishing pad.

Ah, OK, thanks. Kinda surprises me that the M105 wasn't too aggressive!



Good to know the M105 can be OK for that, gotta watch which products you use for such applications, for various reasons, not just the cut (hint: I don't recommend M205 on exterior black trim).

 

[tom p.]

Geez, it looks awesome! nice work.

 

[Morgan_W1]

I started with powerfinish as yes, usually the plastic trim peices on most cars are fairly soft but it didn't cut nearly enough. The scratches/swirls were very deep as well...And it just depends, every car is going to be different. You can't say what worked on one car will on another. Some plastic trim peices have a clear some don't..Main thing with plastic peices is to be carefull of not building up to much heat since obviously plastic heats up much quicker than metal..

Ah, OK, thanks. Kinda surprises me that the M105 wasn't too aggressive!



Good to know the M105 can be OK for that, gotta watch which products you use for such applications, for various reasons, not just the cut (hint: I don't recommend M205 on exterior black trim).

 

[Accumulator]

Morgan_W- Yeah, you do have to be careful...heh heh, that's why I've never used anything as harsh as M105 on those surfaces!