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We had an opportunity to offer some training to the young man who is charged with maintaining the collection of vehicles at the Marconi Automotive Museum just a short drive up the road from our offices. This particular vehicle was chosen because it had just come from a major service that required it to be in the shop for almost a month, during which time a fender protector had been laid over the passenger side front fender. Maybe "protector" isn't really the right word for this device! The folks at the museum were worried that the paint had been damaged beyond repair and, knowing that the paint on this car is quite soft, they were very concerned about putting a buffer to it.
So, we headed over to the museum to look the car over and decided it really wasn't all that bad - well, at least not in the sense of it being irreparable damage. But it sure did look nasty! We arranged to have Miguel, the young man who'll be maintaining the vehicles, come on down and we'd show him how to do some test spots and formulate a plan of attack.
Now, as it turns out, I happen to have a model of the exact car at home, so I brought it in for a little (no pun intended) detailing of its own.
This is how the paint looked on the fender that had been, um, "protected". And yes, this is on the full sized car.
See. A real, full sized car.
We were told that the previous person who worked on this car felt it had very soft paint, so we did a couple of test spots using a very mild approach. This is a W9207 Soft Buff 2.0 finishing pad working M205 on speed 4 with only moderate pressure. And the results weren't too darn bad. We did the middle section after switching to a W8207 Soft Buff 2.0 polishing pad - that was the only change - and the result was even better. What was really interesting was that not only did the W8207 pad remove even the RIDS (no big surprise there), but it left a clearer finish as well (a bit of a surprise, honestly).
This is the front fender after M205/W8207/G110v2 on speed 4 with moderate pressure. A single application. If every car was this easy to buff out my mother would be a pro detailer!
The rest of the car ranged from not too terrible to not really great. This is the hood before buffing.
M205/W8207/G110v2 at speed 4 on the same spot as shown above.
A single application of the above - beautiful. Just drop dead PPG Rosso Corso paint beautiful.
Unfortunately for this Ferrari, someone in the past had buffed it with a rotary and didn't pay much attention to misaligned body panels. This is the passenger door, cracked open a bit, to show burn through on the edge. The paint here is very thin and even when closed, this door doesn't line up perfectly with the rear quarter panel. It didn't take much to cause this, and a simple strip of masking tape would have prevented it. We have no idea how long ago this happened or who did it, but other cars at the museum exhibit this same sort of edge burn through.
The M205 worked so well we gave it a shot on the model too!
We taped off all the trim and got to work correcting the rest of the car.
This is the completed car, three hours after we started (in reality only about 5 man hours of work, which isn't bad at all). Molto bella!!
And just a couple of fun shots before we close.
The classic gated Ferrari shifter.
And the amazing Ferrari V12 engine.
So, we headed over to the museum to look the car over and decided it really wasn't all that bad - well, at least not in the sense of it being irreparable damage. But it sure did look nasty! We arranged to have Miguel, the young man who'll be maintaining the vehicles, come on down and we'd show him how to do some test spots and formulate a plan of attack.
Now, as it turns out, I happen to have a model of the exact car at home, so I brought it in for a little (no pun intended) detailing of its own.
This is how the paint looked on the fender that had been, um, "protected". And yes, this is on the full sized car.
See. A real, full sized car.
We were told that the previous person who worked on this car felt it had very soft paint, so we did a couple of test spots using a very mild approach. This is a W9207 Soft Buff 2.0 finishing pad working M205 on speed 4 with only moderate pressure. And the results weren't too darn bad. We did the middle section after switching to a W8207 Soft Buff 2.0 polishing pad - that was the only change - and the result was even better. What was really interesting was that not only did the W8207 pad remove even the RIDS (no big surprise there), but it left a clearer finish as well (a bit of a surprise, honestly).
This is the front fender after M205/W8207/G110v2 on speed 4 with moderate pressure. A single application. If every car was this easy to buff out my mother would be a pro detailer!
The rest of the car ranged from not too terrible to not really great. This is the hood before buffing.
M205/W8207/G110v2 at speed 4 on the same spot as shown above.
A single application of the above - beautiful. Just drop dead PPG Rosso Corso paint beautiful.
Unfortunately for this Ferrari, someone in the past had buffed it with a rotary and didn't pay much attention to misaligned body panels. This is the passenger door, cracked open a bit, to show burn through on the edge. The paint here is very thin and even when closed, this door doesn't line up perfectly with the rear quarter panel. It didn't take much to cause this, and a simple strip of masking tape would have prevented it. We have no idea how long ago this happened or who did it, but other cars at the museum exhibit this same sort of edge burn through.
The M205 worked so well we gave it a shot on the model too!
We taped off all the trim and got to work correcting the rest of the car.
This is the completed car, three hours after we started (in reality only about 5 man hours of work, which isn't bad at all). Molto bella!!
And just a couple of fun shots before we close.
The classic gated Ferrari shifter.
And the amazing Ferrari V12 engine.
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