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2008 Corvette, heavy rail dust removal
The owner recently bought this ’08 model Vette new, which had been on the dealers lot for over a year. Over all the car was in great condition with only light marring and a few RIDS, but the rail dust was bothering the owner. He had tried removing it himself using clay, but was unsuccessful. After spending some time on the web researching he was referred to me by another member of a Corvette forum.
After speaking with the owner we set up a time to look at the car so I could evaluate it’s condition. After inspection I felt confident I could remove most, if not all of the contaminates and we scheduled a time to do the car
I will say that I definitely underestimated the time needed to remove the contaminates on this car. Originally I had only factored in an extra 2hrs claying time, but I actually spent just under 6 hours doing it! While some of the specs came off rather easily, most were very difficult to remove and required many passes with the clay. One thing that definitely seemed to help was to change direction of the actual claying after a few strokes.
I’d say 99% of the rail dust was removed with only a few specs remaining that could not be reached with the clay (gap between rear glass and rear hatch).
The owner also wanted the engine bay and door shuts cleaned up.
Process:
Wash – ONR
Wheels – P21S Wheel Gel, protected with ZAIO
Tires – Amazing Roll Off, dressed with Hyper Dressing
Engine – P21S TAW and ONR, dressed with Hyper Dressing
Door shuts – P21S TAW and ONR
Clay - 3M Perfect-it III clay and Last Touch as lube
Correction step 1 – M105 via Flex DA and orange LC pad
Correction step 2 – M205 via Flex DA and black LC pad
Head lamps/tail lights – ZAIO
LSP = Blackfire Wet Diamond
Before pics:
Rail dust was very hard to capture in pics...
The owner recently bought this ’08 model Vette new, which had been on the dealers lot for over a year. Over all the car was in great condition with only light marring and a few RIDS, but the rail dust was bothering the owner. He had tried removing it himself using clay, but was unsuccessful. After spending some time on the web researching he was referred to me by another member of a Corvette forum.
After speaking with the owner we set up a time to look at the car so I could evaluate it’s condition. After inspection I felt confident I could remove most, if not all of the contaminates and we scheduled a time to do the car
I will say that I definitely underestimated the time needed to remove the contaminates on this car. Originally I had only factored in an extra 2hrs claying time, but I actually spent just under 6 hours doing it! While some of the specs came off rather easily, most were very difficult to remove and required many passes with the clay. One thing that definitely seemed to help was to change direction of the actual claying after a few strokes.
I’d say 99% of the rail dust was removed with only a few specs remaining that could not be reached with the clay (gap between rear glass and rear hatch).
The owner also wanted the engine bay and door shuts cleaned up.
Process:
Wash – ONR
Wheels – P21S Wheel Gel, protected with ZAIO
Tires – Amazing Roll Off, dressed with Hyper Dressing
Engine – P21S TAW and ONR, dressed with Hyper Dressing
Door shuts – P21S TAW and ONR
Clay - 3M Perfect-it III clay and Last Touch as lube
Correction step 1 – M105 via Flex DA and orange LC pad
Correction step 2 – M205 via Flex DA and black LC pad
Head lamps/tail lights – ZAIO
LSP = Blackfire Wet Diamond
Before pics:
Rail dust was very hard to capture in pics...
keep an eye out for it at Barret-Jackson this January...as long as I get it done in time that is. 
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