Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

[SVT Lightning]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

Amazing work on the car Todd! Honestly though, since your work is always great, I must say I was more impressed with the amount of time you spent in the write up. Clearly you have made it THE most informative and educational before and after write up to date.

Gotta second that! Best write-up and detail I have ever seen here or on Autopia......and that's almost 6 years worth of posts!

[Brook]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

Absolutely amazing. A fascinating write-up and stunning work.

[FRS]

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Awesome, congrats.

[InfiniteDetail]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

Wow - now that is a write-up! Very impressive work. What an excellent job of documenting the entire process and providing paint thickness measurements when complete. That simply inspires confidence in your customers. Fantastic!

[yalerd]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

Wow!!! WET! HOT! SHINY!!!


Todd amazing job and transformation! Not only you spent a lot of time detailing the beautiful car but you also did an amazing write up! Thanks for sharing.

[Mike Pennington]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

I'm speechless...

[TimG]

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That's just crazy. Top notch work on both the car and also the writeup, Todd.

[Superior Shine]

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I bet the write up took longer than the actual job. Both are top notch. Awsome work!

TODD YOU DA MAN!!

[davey g-force]

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OMG Todd, that is THE best write up and THE best workmanship on (IMO) THE most beautiful Ferrari ever!

We have a winner!

It was a refreshing change to see that no product names were mentioned - you kept it all about the technique/process/results and the gorgeous car.

Well done!

[TH0001]

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Total Perfection!!!

Awesome write up, very well done!

Thank you very much for the kind words.

What can I say.... This is just so amazing. I`m lost for words.
Todd Helme, detailing virtuoso!

Thanks Joe!

Words escape me. What tremendous work. Fantastic write up also. Magnificent.

I appreciate you taking your time to compliment me. Thank you!

Great Work , Sir can you list out that which product is usedfor which step.

Thanks

Notorious I hadn't planned on doing a list, but if you have any questions you can PM me or post them here and I would be glad to answer them.
I can tell you that I used a ginormous number of millions of SMAT abrasives (14 ounces of M105 was used) as well 10 3000 grit UniGrit Finishing Disks, 5 1500 Sanding Disks, and an uncountable number of sanding papers...

The Best write up I saw and amazing work WOW

Thank you very much!

That Ferrari looks so sexy, especially about the job is done. Exceptional job guys!

Thank you EPHIOS!

Wow! That is great work!

It was a pleasure to do, thank you John!

Thank you for you detail.

Thank you for reading!

Excellent work.

Thank you aris!

ma ma mia buddy

Ma ma mia

Amazing work on the car Todd! Honestly though, since your work is always great, I must say I was more impressed with the amount of time you spent in the write up. Clearly you have made it THE most informative and educational before and after write up to date.

I'm still a complete newb with Adobe Illustrator, but I can still imagine how long it took to get the amount of detail you have in some of those illustrations. I especially like the one showing the orange peel texture along with the subsequent steps.

My hats off to you bro!

Rasky

Thanks Chad in so many ways. I love doing the charts and graphics (or at least the challenge of it). If I could go back in time I think I would have studied graphic art instead.

[bmrfan]

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Awesome job on the Italia with an equally incredible write-up!

Thanks for sharing!

[macdude]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

Great job Todd and an even greater article written in style!

[Hemin8r]

Re: Ferrari 458 Italia: Full wet sand and detail in South Florida

Amazing, Amazing attention to detail in every way possible. Both on the car and in the illustrated write up which was a great joy to read. Great job.

[RDVT4ME]

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Amazing work Todd!

This should come with a note that says "do not try this at home".....cause you really need to know what you are doing. This is as good as it gets.

What's a bit of a shame is that a high end car like this comes with that poor of a paint job. Fortunately, there are pros like Todd around.

[wht4drfa5]

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Wow. This is an awesome job! I really need to take the Advanced class at Meguiar's to learn how to do this kind of job.