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Audionut Mike and I pulled off the Hat-Trick with this beautiful AWD SE Fusion. This is Steve's 3rd car in as many weeks that he's had us detail.
This Fusion belongs to Steve's better half, Joni. It's a daily driver that has seen many automatic swirl installers (car washes). Our challenge was to remove the defects so that the beautiful Merlot Metallic paint could sparkle in the sun.
After washing and claying we found moderate swirling and some hologramming:
Nasty scratches on the rear bumper:
Interior was pretty clean (no kids) but needed freshening up. You can see the typical "gas pedal foot" stain along the transmission hump:
Had an ink stain on the driver's side door panel:
Wheels needed a good scrubbing and shining:
Mike carefully cleaned the cached on brake dust behind the wheel face and between the spokes:
After extensive testing, we found that the horizontal surfaces needed the Rotary + M105 on a maroon solo wool pad. This paint was very hard and some of the RIDS were deep and plentiful!
Further testing revealed that D151 on the PC/Green pad and Flex/Blue pad finshed up amazingly clear.
Here's the after pics:
Gas pedal shoe stain gone:
Mats powerwashed and extracted with LGM:
can you see the metal flake now?
And of course our hard-working helper
I like this pic because of the rays of light bursting off of the paint
This was our process:
-Wash w/ Gold Class car wash
-Treat wheels w/ All Wheel Cleaner
-Clay w/ mild blue clay
-M105 via Rotary on Solo Maroon Wool Pad @ 1500 RPM
-D151 via PC on Green Pad @ speed 6
-D151 via Flex on Blue pad @ speed 5
-Wheels waxed w/ Meg's Cleaner Wax
-Mats treated with APC+ 10:1 and extracted w/ LGM (hot water)
-Interior cleaned with APC+ 10:1, treated w/ Gold Class Leather Conditioner and Natural Shine Vinyl and Rubber dressing
-Stains treated with Folex
-Tires dressed with "grape juice" LOL Meg's high gloss endurance tire gel
Thanks to Steve and Joni for trusting us with their babies
Thanks for looking
This Fusion belongs to Steve's better half, Joni. It's a daily driver that has seen many automatic swirl installers (car washes). Our challenge was to remove the defects so that the beautiful Merlot Metallic paint could sparkle in the sun.
After washing and claying we found moderate swirling and some hologramming:
Nasty scratches on the rear bumper:
Interior was pretty clean (no kids) but needed freshening up. You can see the typical "gas pedal foot" stain along the transmission hump:
Had an ink stain on the driver's side door panel:
Wheels needed a good scrubbing and shining:
Mike carefully cleaned the cached on brake dust behind the wheel face and between the spokes:
After extensive testing, we found that the horizontal surfaces needed the Rotary + M105 on a maroon solo wool pad. This paint was very hard and some of the RIDS were deep and plentiful!
Further testing revealed that D151 on the PC/Green pad and Flex/Blue pad finshed up amazingly clear.
Here's the after pics:
Gas pedal shoe stain gone:
Mats powerwashed and extracted with LGM:
can you see the metal flake now?
And of course our hard-working helper
I like this pic because of the rays of light bursting off of the paint This was our process:
-Wash w/ Gold Class car wash
-Treat wheels w/ All Wheel Cleaner
-Clay w/ mild blue clay
-M105 via Rotary on Solo Maroon Wool Pad @ 1500 RPM
-D151 via PC on Green Pad @ speed 6
-D151 via Flex on Blue pad @ speed 5
-Wheels waxed w/ Meg's Cleaner Wax
-Mats treated with APC+ 10:1 and extracted w/ LGM (hot water)
-Interior cleaned with APC+ 10:1, treated w/ Gold Class Leather Conditioner and Natural Shine Vinyl and Rubber dressing
-Stains treated with Folex
-Tires dressed with "grape juice" LOL Meg's high gloss endurance tire gel
Thanks to Steve and Joni for trusting us with their babies
Thanks for looking
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