2008 Lexus IS-F Full Detail

[hondamtrco4life]

A friend of mine just purchased this '08 Lexus IS-F (11k miles) about a month ago and had me do a full interior/exterior detail on it. Overall the car is in great shape. The previous owner was careless though and took the car through drive-thru car washes which caused quite a few scratches. I was able to correct the hood, roof and trunk lid about 90% but the sides are only about 70% corrected due to do the severity of the scratches. I only did a 1-step polish so I was very pleased with the results. The color is called "Obsidian" which is a gorgeous color!!

For exterior I used:
~ 5 Gallon bucket w/ Grit Guard
~ Gold Class Car Wash
~ Microfiber wash mitt
~ Wheel Brightener 4:1 (wheels & wheel wells)
~ Wheel brush
~ APC+ (engine)
~ Waffle weave microfiber towels (to dry)
~ Glass cleaner w/ glass microfiber towels
~ G110
~ M205 (1-step w/ polishing pad)
~ M21 (w/ finishing pad)
~ Megs Supreme Shine microfiber towels
~ Hyper Dressing (tires)

For interior I used:
~ Shop Vac (along with mutiple fine brushes)
~ APC (seats, panels, dash, etc)
~ APC+ (floor mats)
~ Carpet brush
~ Glass cleaner w/ glass microfiber towels
~ Megs Leather cleaner/conditioner
~ Microfiber towels

Before Pictures:




















50/50 shots after M205 on polishing pad (I'm still trying to learn how to angle the Dual Xenon light)






After Pictures:























Now some reflection shots...






Home Sweet Home

[Carfire]

Re: 2008 Lexus IS-F Full Detail

Looks Great!!
Nice Job!!
Sweet Reflections!!
Keep Up the Great Work!!

[ColonelCash]

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Those are some amazing cars. Looks great, especially with those wheels that come on the F series.

[OhioCarBuff]

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wow, the correction was done by only 205 alone, thats awesome!

[Markus Kleis]

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Pretty sweet ride... and nice detail.

But is it just me, or does the interior look a little cheap... like it has lots of plastic? Just didn't expect that on a car of that price/class.

[CieraSL]

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The Lexus looks fabulous! What did you use to dress the interior leather and plastic?

[Sal329]

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Sweet car, great job on it

[J. A. Michaels]

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Great work. The Lexus looks fantastic. Way to go.

[TimG]

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Hot car with a hot shine. Great work man!

LOL I might be biased as that's one of the cars I dream of owning.

[hondamtrco4life]

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wow, the correction was done by only 205 alone, thats awesome!

I love M205!! My first test spot was done with D151 but that left some nasty marring so my second choice was M205 and it worked amazing!!

[hondamtrco4life]

Re: 2008 Lexus IS-F Full Detail

The Lexus looks fabulous! What did you use to dress the interior leather and plastic?

On the leather I used Megs Leather cleaner/conditioner and on the plastics I didn't apply anything. All I did was clean them with APC and a microfiber towel. The finish was so natural and smooth I just left it alone.

[hondamtrco4life]

Re: 2008 Lexus IS-F Full Detail

Pretty sweet ride... and nice detail.

But is it just me, or does the interior look a little cheap... like it has lots of plastic? Just didn't expect that on a car of that price/class.

Quite the opposite… the interior is all high quality and high class (which is what Lexus is known for). The soft leather seats are plush yet firm, perforated, and finished off with blue stitching. The door panels are mostly leather (very soft and smooth) combined silver trim and high quality plastics. The center console is carbon fiber with chrome trim and finished off with a very sporty chrome/perforated leather shift knob. This car inside/out is anything but cheap. Lexus didn’t spare one penny when producing this car. If you ask me there isn’t another car out there like it that can combine reputation, quality, speed, reliability, and luxury for less then $60k (which is what this car goes for new). I could only wish to own one… until then I’ll drive his car. fficeffice" />

[MrCLRider]

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awesome car for the money, they had a piece on Top Gear about it, too bad they had to bring the BMW M5 I think, maybe M3, and ruin the parade on it. I would rock it over the BMW though!!! Looks amazing.

Do you think it was the pad selection with the 151 that caused the marring?? Was your polishing done with a rotary or PC??

[RaskyR1]

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Looks great Andrew!!!


Very sharp car, and I love those wheels!!!

[cardriver]

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Awesome job! Did you do the engine bay as well? Would love to see that in the future . I'm impressed with the results after m205 as the only polishing step used. And I love the wheel design and color. Anything that resembles those, and the GT-R's (similar design if you catch my drift) are good in my book. It's good to see they went the European route and added carpet-lined wheel wells! Kidding...they are the same wheel wells as my 2009 Civic . But the interior does look a bit better; hopefully the Japanese can catch up a little in that regard to certain details seen in the luxury segment. I bet the owner was happy to see his car after you were through with it!