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I received this Toyota Solara to detail, and I have to say this car looked good from far far away, but up close it looked like a disaster. He had the car detailed 6 months ago from a guy on craigslist with a rotary buffer and the results were not good.
His goal was to sell the car quick so he was not interested in a full detail, only to make the car look acceptable.
I advised him to do a 3 step polish:
Wash
Clay
M105
M205
M21 or Zaino Z2
However, since he wanted to be cost effective he wanted:
Wash
ZPC
Z2
Since the goal was to re-sell the car with as little cost to him, I told him I would do it his way.
Saturday morning, I thought it was going to rain.
The car had some serious scratches as you can see.
I used the 2 bucket system for the start of the job.
The car looked good after the wash, but up close you could really see the problems:
The rear of the car made me think that this car had been repainted on possibly the front and rear bumpers. It looked like a really bad paint job up close.
A nice scratch here:
Car was in bad shape:
I did a test spot with the ZPC. It did an okay job.
The scratch after some Meguiars ScratchX:
The paint was removed so this was as good as it was going to get without applying new some paint.
My suspicion was confirmed on the bumper after 1 pass. This looked like a single stage job on the bumper.
I also decided to clean up his headlights since they were really bad. Here is after the sanding and some polish.
On to the after pictures: I was a little disappointed because I knew the car needed a better polish in the pre-work, however, he was happy with the correction and it's ready to put a For Sale sign on it.
Note the level of correction:
I almost didn't want to post this because I wasn't proud of this work, but I figured it might help someone get an idea of what this combo can do.
His goal was to sell the car quick so he was not interested in a full detail, only to make the car look acceptable.
I advised him to do a 3 step polish:
Wash
Clay
M105
M205
M21 or Zaino Z2
However, since he wanted to be cost effective he wanted:
Wash
ZPC
Z2
Since the goal was to re-sell the car with as little cost to him, I told him I would do it his way.
Saturday morning, I thought it was going to rain.
The car had some serious scratches as you can see.
I used the 2 bucket system for the start of the job.
The car looked good after the wash, but up close you could really see the problems:
The rear of the car made me think that this car had been repainted on possibly the front and rear bumpers. It looked like a really bad paint job up close.
A nice scratch here:
Car was in bad shape:
I did a test spot with the ZPC. It did an okay job.
The scratch after some Meguiars ScratchX:
The paint was removed so this was as good as it was going to get without applying new some paint.
My suspicion was confirmed on the bumper after 1 pass. This looked like a single stage job on the bumper.
I also decided to clean up his headlights since they were really bad. Here is after the sanding and some polish.
On to the after pictures: I was a little disappointed because I knew the car needed a better polish in the pre-work, however, he was happy with the correction and it's ready to put a For Sale sign on it.
Note the level of correction:
I almost didn't want to post this because I wasn't proud of this work, but I figured it might help someone get an idea of what this combo can do.
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