This one was in for a new car prep, inc the application of crystal ceramic
coating, the car on arrival, still as it came from the dealer, unwashed
(as requested) and after the owner had played with his new toy for a
few 100 miles :driver: it lands at our place looking like this:
So first stage is the wash, and top of the list the wheels
Then on to the body work, foamed to remove all the
grime etc, rinsed, gaps & shuts brushed, re foamed and washed:
Dried off and brought in doors we set about contamination removal
After close inspection of the paintwork it was apparent it needed some
machine work, swirling like this was on each and every panel:
The polishing combo was decided on after a few tests, 3M finishing pad
and PGR-2 compound:
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
The bonnet was a bit worse and need to step the pad up to a polishing pad
rather than just the finishing:
Before:
After polishing:
After finishing:
The boot lid had some quite deep RDS, needing some quite heavy correction
Gloss pillars before:
After:
After correction the paint work was wiped down with a solvent based prep
solution to prepare it for the crystal ceramic coat (that needs perfectly
clean paint to bond) :
Mike followed round removing behind:
After the coating had cured the top coater was applied:
Interior detailed, glass coating applied, exhausts polished, tyers dressed,
glass cleaned:
So 26 man hours in to a brand new car, leaves it looking like this:
