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Background story:
The son of the owner of this Corvette recently passed away. This was emotinal to the owner for obvious reasons as well as the fact that he (the son) had designed and built the car shortly before passing away. Before I was contacted, the Corvette was run over at dealership by a Semi Truck and the had to be repainted and repaired. The bodyshop who did this left the in semi horrible condition, with swirls, spiderwebbing, thin paint, and runs through out the car. Also the car was coated in horrible overspray (the paint felt like sandpaper and required over 3 hours of claying).
I orginally posted this write up (well a different version of it) on the Meguiars website as well as Corvetteforum.com. The bodyshop owner saw the vehicle online and threatened to sue the owner so I had the threads removed (even though the bodyshop, which was not and will not be named did the bad work).
This job took a total of 3 days (not including the orginal visit out there to inspect the car and quote a price). In the end over 20 hours where spent detailing the car and I will break this write up into the days and the order in which I did it.
Products used:
Intial wash
Meguiars NXT Wash
Meguiars lambs wool wash mitts x2
Meguiars Blue Mild detailer clay, 2 full bars lubed with Meguairs Last Touch cut 1:1
Dried with the Absorber
Eagle One All Tire and Rim spray on the the tires and rims
Meguiars APC, cut 4:1 in the wheel wells
Polishing/Compounding
Hitachi SP rotary buffer
Meguiars (porter cable 7274) G100 ROB
Meguiars #84 Powercompound Cleaner
Meguiars #83 DAC/P
Meguiars #82 Swirl Free Polish
Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze
Meguiars #7 Showcar Glaze
Meguiars 7006 Cutting pads
Meguiars 8000/8006 Polishing pads
Meguiars 9006 Finishing pads
Paint sealent/protection
Meguiars #21 Synthetic Sealent
Meguiars #16 Carnuba Wax
Interior
Meguiars APC 10:1
Meguiars Quik Interior Detailer spray
Meguiars Natural Shine protectent
Meguiars Detailer Line Leather Conditioner and Cleaner
Meguiars NXT Window Cleaner
Misc.
Meguiars NXT All Metal Polysh
Meguiars Exterior Detailer Protectent
Meguiars HotTires Tire Shine
Meguiars Hyperdressing, cut 3:1
tons and tons of various towels and microfibers
Okay lets get started
Day one: Intial Inspection
I had taken my son to a nearby waterpark so I stopped by and checked out the Corvette
What I discovered was horrible overspray on all surfaces of the body as well as the blemishes I mentioned earlier in the post....
I taped of a section and made on pass of #83 on the rotary and found that 80 percent of the blemishes came out @1500 RPM
Different view of the same thing. You can see some specs in the two pictures. These are tiny bits of yellow overspray in the paint from the bodyshop. Again the entire Corvette felt like sandpaper.
The son of the owner of this Corvette recently passed away. This was emotinal to the owner for obvious reasons as well as the fact that he (the son) had designed and built the car shortly before passing away. Before I was contacted, the Corvette was run over at dealership by a Semi Truck and the had to be repainted and repaired. The bodyshop who did this left the in semi horrible condition, with swirls, spiderwebbing, thin paint, and runs through out the car. Also the car was coated in horrible overspray (the paint felt like sandpaper and required over 3 hours of claying).
I orginally posted this write up (well a different version of it) on the Meguiars website as well as Corvetteforum.com. The bodyshop owner saw the vehicle online and threatened to sue the owner so I had the threads removed (even though the bodyshop, which was not and will not be named did the bad work).
This job took a total of 3 days (not including the orginal visit out there to inspect the car and quote a price). In the end over 20 hours where spent detailing the car and I will break this write up into the days and the order in which I did it.
Products used:
Intial wash
Meguiars NXT Wash
Meguiars lambs wool wash mitts x2
Meguiars Blue Mild detailer clay, 2 full bars lubed with Meguairs Last Touch cut 1:1
Dried with the Absorber
Eagle One All Tire and Rim spray on the the tires and rims
Meguiars APC, cut 4:1 in the wheel wells
Polishing/Compounding
Hitachi SP rotary buffer
Meguiars (porter cable 7274) G100 ROB
Meguiars #84 Powercompound Cleaner
Meguiars #83 DAC/P
Meguiars #82 Swirl Free Polish
Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze
Meguiars #7 Showcar Glaze
Meguiars 7006 Cutting pads
Meguiars 8000/8006 Polishing pads
Meguiars 9006 Finishing pads
Paint sealent/protection
Meguiars #21 Synthetic Sealent
Meguiars #16 Carnuba Wax
Interior
Meguiars APC 10:1
Meguiars Quik Interior Detailer spray
Meguiars Natural Shine protectent
Meguiars Detailer Line Leather Conditioner and Cleaner
Meguiars NXT Window Cleaner
Misc.
Meguiars NXT All Metal Polysh
Meguiars Exterior Detailer Protectent
Meguiars HotTires Tire Shine
Meguiars Hyperdressing, cut 3:1
tons and tons of various towels and microfibers
Okay lets get started
Day one: Intial Inspection
I had taken my son to a nearby waterpark so I stopped by and checked out the Corvette
What I discovered was horrible overspray on all surfaces of the body as well as the blemishes I mentioned earlier in the post....
I taped of a section and made on pass of #83 on the rotary and found that 80 percent of the blemishes came out @1500 RPM
Different view of the same thing. You can see some specs in the two pictures. These are tiny bits of yellow overspray in the paint from the bodyshop. Again the entire Corvette felt like sandpaper.
engine, tranny, cosmetics etc. . . 
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