Correction detail
This car came to us as a new addition to a current clients line up, in need of a bit of attention to the
paintwork, and after a recent track day we had a fair bit of rubber to remove also.
On arrival :
Outside for the wash stages and we can see the condition of the paint a bit clearer with a bit of natural light:
First job was to clean up the wheels using “Imperial” wheel cleaner and a array of brushes:
The shuts and jambs where next, using our Zest cleaner at 15:1 :
Then on to the wash stage, front end was treated again with Zest, this time at 25:1 to remove the bugs, the
whole vehicle then treated with a gentle cleaning agent that also removes and waxes and coatings. The lowers,
inner arches, and wheels where treated with liberal amounts of tar and glue remover, pressure washed, then
contact wash using Lather and the two bucket method:
Once clean and dried, we move on to claying the paintwork to remove any further bonded contaminates:
Once clean you we get a better idea of what we are dealing with:
So inside the unit and we crack on with tapping up and trim etc and taking PTG readings across the entire vehicle:
Testing the polish and pad combos till a suitable one was found:
As we imagined the paint was pretty tough, but with our chosen combo of Scholl Concepts S17+ on a
polishing pad we got decent results:
So we carried on around the car in this fashion, to follow up (latter on) with a finishing combo:
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The finishing stages proved tricky, with the solid black finish and a slight “sticky paint” issue we chose a
DA for this stage, with a finishing pad and Menz ff.
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Some of the tricky areas where polished by hand:
So once the paintwork correction was complete, the paintwork was treated with our test sealant and topped off
with our Spirit wax:
Wheels polished with Tripple:
And then gloss tyre dressing applied:
The interior was next on the list, a good vac and dust was in order, as well as a detail of all the interior carbon:
Glass cleaned with Crystal :
Tail pipes polished with our soon to be released metal polishes:
Leaving the finished results:
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