Project Carbon - Paint Correction Detail - Pic Heavy!

[jonjay]

Project Carbon Detail

Another detail that has been a very long time coming! The car itself is a great example to the LCR club as a lot of thought and attention has gone into it from the modifications to the engine bay bling. Looking around the car you can tell that no expense spared in its maintenance over the years and as Daz said to me a few times now, he cleans it twice on a weekend if it gets dirty on the Saturday!

The detail was very very last minute! It was decided on the Saturday morning that we would do it as BHP show was coming up. Couple of hours later….


11AM - I am presented with this:

Engine bay pic taken from DK’s readers ride thread.

Taking scope of the job at hand I chose the weapons and jobs we were both going to do for the day as time was against us. I wanted to try and do the best job possible so the car looked great for the BHP show and I was also very conscious that silver cars are so dam difficult to make gleam so I chose the Werkstat system to add some depth to the paint.

Products
Wash n Drying
Meguiar’s NXT Tech Shampoo (wheels)
Dodo Juice Supernatural Shampoo (body)
Chemical Guys STRONG WASH - Bug Tar & Grime remover
ValetPro Snow Foam
ValetPro Tar and Glue remover
CarPro Iron X
Bilberry Wheel Cleaner
Meguiar’s All Purpose Cleaner
Autobrite Polar Express drying towel
Chemical Guys and Meguiar’s microfibres

Body Work
Sonus Green clay
Menzerna Power Finish (203S)
Menzerna Final Finish (106FA)
Dodo Juice Lime Prime (hard to reach areas by hand)
Dodo Juice Need for Speed (door shuts)
Meguiars Last Touch

Glazes, Sealants and Waxes
Werkstat Prime Acrylic
Werkstat Acrylic Jett
Werkstat Acrylic Glos

Plastics, Rubbers, Metal and Glass
Meguiar’s Endurance Tyre gel
Meguiar’s NXT Metal Polish
Autoglym FastGlass Cleaner
Autoglym Vinyl and Rubber Care
IPA

Tools
Meguiar’s G220 DA
Dodo Juice Spin Doctor Rotary
Karcher Pressure washer
Sonus foam applicators
Sonus Green Polishing Pad
Sonus Orange Swirlbuster Pad
EliteCarCare Brushes
EZ Wheel Brush
Vikan Brushes
3M 3434 Masking Tape


The wheels were cleaned with a 4:1 mix of Bilberry Wheel Cleaner (changed to a weird colour recently). The arches were spray with a 5:1 mix of Chemical Guys Strong wash – bug and tar remover. This really helped soften up and breakdown the tar on the wheel arches ready for scrubbing later.

WHEELS

 

[jonjay]

At this point the process was not over yet with the wheels. I had some Iron X ready to give the wheels more of a deep clean as I noticed some Iron and heavy brake dust deposits that wasn’t moving. I didn’t have much Iron X so had to be a bit liberal in its application. It did the job though and I got 1 litre of Wolfs Chemicals Brake Duster coming soon which I am pretty excited about.

 

[jonjay]

The arches were then spray with Megs APC and given a good scrub, they needed it!

Disgraceful DK LOL!

CAR BODY CLEAN STAGE

Car was snow foamed with Valet Pro Snowfoam and left to soak for 6-7 minutes.

 

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Car was then rinsed and all crevasses, rubbers and plastics were cleaned with Megs APC

A lot of dirt came out of the window seals!

The car was then re-foamed and washed with Dodo Juice Supernatural.

 

[jonjay]

Claying gave some big surprises. We had a lot of red paint overspray all over the body of the car. DK quickly ascertained it must have been when he had refurbished his callipers. Quite shocking as he literally covered everything so a lesson to all to be very careful!

There were some big tar spots that needed extra attention. ValetPrp Tar and Glue remover used to good effect.

 

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CORRECTION STAGE

Car taped up.

I started off on the right rear quarter of the car so see what worked best. Pulled out the Rotary, Menz IP and elite car care heavy polishing pad. This combination worked (got good shine and correction level) however it was such hard work as the conditions were too hot. The polish was drying out quicker than I wanted and the panel was getting a little too hot for comfort. I decided to use the DA to reduce the heat on the panels and switch to 203S. This was a great combination and produced great results. I tried the rotary again but I just was not happy with the heat generated on such a hot day in the sun.

Rotary lifted quite a bit of dirt from the paint

Moved onto DA to keep heat down

 

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The bonnet needed two hits to get rid of heavier swirls and RDS.

I had a tad problem midway through the correction stage! SHOCK HORROR!

Only purchased this G220 four months ago and hardly used it as I have been using the rotary more and more. I tightened the screws up and normal operation resumed but a little concerned what damage this may have caused internally.

Whilst I was machine polishing DK got to work on all the door shuts. He spent a lot of time on shut and it really shows. He added Dodo Juice Need for Speed on his wish list already.

 

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The whole car was corrected with the 1 stage polish and I was pretty pleased with 203S performance thus far. On some panels I mixed some 106FA to get them more depth and a refined finished.

 

[jonjay]

I am a big fan of Werkstat products and thought it was a good idea to use these as Daz could then top up the protection at a later date as he has these also. Werkstat Prime Acrylic is a fantastic all in one polish and got great cleaning and protection agents in it. I applied this all over the car with a DA working it in at a low speed (2) and finishing off at a higher speed (4).

Nearly forgot the exhaust!

 

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The car was then protected with Werkstat Acrylic Jett and finished off with Werkstat Acrylic Glos.

I am over the moon with the results after 9 hours later of non-stop work to beat the sun. Here are the results.


RESULTS

 

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Big thanks to DK for providing the car for me to work on, hope you enjoyed the detail as much as I did!


Detailers Notes
- It is always good to detail a mate’s car because they like to help! Lol!
- Really need to watch the heat on the panels with a rotary especially when working in the elements.

 

[Oj 89]

Nice to see a car I know detailed. I'm astounded at the results from cleaning mostly. Find it hard to believe that DK would miss anything on his car! Makes an already good looking car even better.

Detailers Notes
- It is always good to detail a mate’s car because they like to help! Lol!

Know who I'll be getting to do my car when I get a decent one.

Mighty good job!

edit: ignore the post thumb down thing. No idea why that came up

 

[t0m]

Oh my god, that looks so so good! Fantastic work Maz! Amazing to see dirt coming off of DK's car haha

Would you fancy attacking my car the weekend before the Bromley Pageant? lol

 

[jonjay]

Oh my god, that looks so so good! Fantastic work Maz! Amazing to see dirt coming off of DK's car haha

Would you fancy attacking my car the weekend before the Bromley Pageant? lol

Cheers Tom!

When is the pageant? Give me a PM and we can sort something out.

 

[t0m]

I'll PM you now bud

 

[D.K]

Massive thanks to Maz for doing such a good job

It was dark by the time I got home Saturday night and under the street lighting there were no visble swrils

 

[D.K]

Disgraceful DK LOL!

I've also added a toilet brush onto my list of must have detailng equipment

 

[ArosaRacer]

Maz dk's car looked really good today well done

 

[Damoegan]

Damn Maz, thats some great results mate

Just wish you were closer to me to do my ED30