Humbling experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rusty bumper]

Thanks for sharing the tip about #80 Joe........Great little nugget there!

[Elite M.D.]

You da man Joe

[Superior Shine]

Originally posted by Tanat198
[BSuperior Shine, I was wondering whether glass cleaner is ok to use on the paint? Is it just regular glass cleaner with ammonia or without ammonia? I always think that regular glass cleaner contains harmful chemical substances and will do the damage. Enlight me with your technique, please.
[/B]

We use Meguiars Detailers line of glass cleaner. It has no ammonia.

[Superior Shine]

OK we finally did the cayenne. It was one tough nut to crack!!!

It had allot of scratches in the paint that covered the finish evenly all over the vehicle.

Here is a shot under the xenon light --



Here is a direct sun shot --

[Superior Shine]

Two hours of trying everything in my arsenal told me that I had a vehicle with SUPER HARD PAINT!

A wool pad with diamond cut hardly touched it even after 4 -5 applications. I have always thought that Meguiars needed a more abrasive product than diamond cut (maybe a #49 type product for modern clear coats??)

I decided to go a brand I am very familiar with, 3M. 3M has some very aggressive products. I choose perfect it 3000 rubbing compound.

The rubbing compound did "grind" down the scratches but at a price. It left the finish scoured and very hazy and SUPER dusty.



Here you can see the scoured finish --



DUSTY, DUSTY, DUSTY --




Now I had the finish in a "controlled scratching or abrading". At least now the finish was consistent and to a point where I could jump back to Meguiars.

[Superior Shine]

We chased the compound with DACP using an 7006 maroon pad. This took out the haze and polished up the finish to a brilliant shine.




The results were stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are reflection shots under the car port --

[Superior Shine]

Now for some outside and direct sun shots --

[Superior Shine]

This Cayenne almost kicked are bottoms! I charged the client for 4-5 hours of labor. We were there over 8 hours!!

If I had to do this again I would have had the vehicle delivered to a shop and I would completely have sanded the finish with 2000 grit sand paper followed 4000.

The finish is very hard. All the Porsches that I have done in the past have always had soft finishes. What a change.

Anybody have any offical info about the finish on this Cayenne??

[Elite M.D.]

Damn Joe. That is a lot of work. I have yet to do one of those and have been wanting to but I dont know if I want to now. LOL

Anyways, that things looks amazing

BTW, whats this. You know hes got a rotary? JK

[Mike Phillips]

Joe, your results look impressive and you've again shared some tips and techniques with our forum members, I'm not sure what everyone else is seeing according to their monitor and resolution settings but for me the pictures are so large I can't see the entire picture at once as I'm having to horizontal scroll...

Any chance of resizing them to a max of 600 to 700 pixels?

How to resize your photos using Easy Thumbnails - Free software!

[Superior Shine]

Yep he buffs now and does a great job. He has a passion for the "shine" what more can you ask of an assistant!!

[Superior Shine]

Sorry Mike.

I picked this size because I see it just right in my screen. Let me see what I can do.

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by Superior Shine
Sorry Mike.

I picked this size because I see it just right in my screen. Let me see what I can do.

Hmmm....

I have a 22" ViewSonic screen set at 1024 x 768 and your images roll off the screen?

Maybe I should try some different setting?

Any suggestions?

[Mike Phillips]

I switched to 1600 by 1200 and now they fit but everything is so tiny?

[Superior Shine]

Hey I just learned how to buff properly, computers are going to take me longer to learn!!!

Pics are now re-sized!! ENJOY

**(edit. about 3 hours later-I made them big again )**

I hope I don't get banned from MOL for using a non-Meguiars product -

I wonder if the new PPG/Meguiar product would have helped me.