16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

[never gone]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

Very nice job! Hats off to you.

What machine polisher/speed settings/pads did you use?

Thank you! Believe it or not I was able to achieve that level of correction with a UDM. I used LC orange 5.5" pads on speed 5 for a couple passes and then 4. Several areas I had to hit a couple times because the swirling was seriously unlike anything I had worked on before.

[Marc08EX]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

Wow that's a great turnaround!!!! The paint does indeed look slick and wet!!! GREAT JOB!!!

[ClearlyCoated]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

Very nice job! Hats off to you.

What machine polisher/speed settings/pads did you use?

[never gone]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

Great work! Did you do anything on the inside?

Just basic clean up. Vacuum, dash etc. Nothing picture worthy.

[Mary S]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

Nice work! Thanks for the pictures!

[SSMUFF]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

Great work! Did you do anything on the inside?

[DgenerationX]

Re: 16 hours on a TRASHED black 350z (MEGA PICS!)

absolutly unbeleivable :-|

that was a lot! of swirls and some deep scratches!
amazing job on a superb black car!

[never gone]

So a guy from our local car club has been asking me for a while now if I'd detail car. He didn't want to take it to anyone else which is obviously appreciated, but little did I know what I was in for. I've detailed some pretty swirled up cars but I believe this one tales the cake! He had it detailed a while ago by some hack shop who only cared about speed and NOT quality. As a result he had lots of buffer trails and just swirls on top of swirls. His passenger side door had also been side swiped so I had a LOT of scuffs and scratches to contend with.

Here's the condensed version of the process....

wash with Meguiars Gold Class
Meguiars Smooth Surface Clay Kit
polish with Monzerna SIP/106FF
wash again
Danase Wet Glaze (One of the very few glazes you can put a sealant on since it's acrylic based)
Sealed with Ultima Paint Guard Plus
Waxed with P21S
Wiped down with Zaino Z-8

Tires cleaned with Eagle One A-Z tire cleaner
Wheel Wax on Rims
Zaino Z-16 on tires

Mothers Alum Polish on Exhaust

Nano One Protectant on interior (I forgot interior shot).

CD2 Engine Detailer on engine but no engine shots.


There's going to be a ton of pics as I'm going to take you all around the car so here we go....


Here's the car before



Here's some close up's of the carnage....

Hood






Rear hatch area







Here's the passenger door that was hit




Close up of a spot on the hood (crazy swirls!!!!)



So even though these pics don't do justice as to just how bad the car was, you get the idea. Now into the garage for 16 hours of polishing. I'll now show you before and afters....this is gonna be good!


Hood before



Half hood polished





Polished!



Looking down at hood before



Looking down after



Cool pic looking into hood after polishing. Looks like a mirror.



Front driver side fender before






Half polished



Polished



Half the driver door polished



Rear hatch with half polished



Here is the passenger door that had been hit.





Half polished







All polished! There were some small scratches that were too deep for me to correct but overall, it's about 98% corrected!



This is where the bulk of the scratches where when he was hit.



Passenger fender before



Passenger after



Hood outside before



Hood outside after polishing (this wasn't sealed or waxed yet!)



Crazy swirled spot before



Crazy spot polished




Exhaust before



After



Rear wheel before



After




Ok, 16 hours later we have full car shots! I'm NO photographer but hopefully I was able to kind of capture just how slick, deep and wet the paint looked.






















So there you have a it. A TON of pics but it was a HUGE job so hopefully you enjoyed see the progress as much as I did. I'm now going to ice my hands for the next 2 days.