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littlemissGTO
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The owner of this car wanted to know if it was possible to get his car looking better without doing a respray. I told him sure get in touch with a detailer and let them work some magic for ya. Three days later I was working on his car.
I must say this paint was fairly easy to deal with, but his parents had it in for the car. While I was polishing the driver's side door his dad came into the garage carrying a jar of jam and promptly dropped it. Jam splattered all over the rear quarter (which had been polished). Then he goes into the house and grabs a paper towel and reaches for the quarter panel. I said no that's okay I'll take care of it. He says to me "wow you really are particular about this stuff." :fs:
So a little while later I'm working on the drivers side fender and him mom closes the garage door on the hood by accident.
oke: Luckily there wasn't much damage done and I hadn't started working on the hood yet. The owner parked his car in the garage at an angle and the front end of the car was just past where the garage door would come to rest when it's closed. No they didn't have one of those nifty beams that stops the garage door from coming down if something's in the way.
I ran out of sunlight and the owner needed to drop his car off to get some new 4.10 gears installed. I'm going to follow up with Natty's Blue.
This is what the clay looked like. I flipped it over about 1/2 way through the car.
These wheels were VERY difficult to clean. The owner lives off of a dirt road and this is his DD. I swear there was a combination of brake dust and cement built up on the insides of his wheels.
Can you tell which is the wash bucket and which is the rinse bucket?
The jam incident:
Trunk before any polishing:
After one pass of CG's Scratch and Swirl B Gone on a white pad I decided from this point on to switch to the orange pad:
After both Scratch and Swirl and LP and before another wash:
A reflection shot:
The paint was showing signs of age and neglect. You can see the white specks in the pictures. I felt a little bad for the hood.
I'll get more pictures after I meet up with the owner Sunday.
I must say this paint was fairly easy to deal with, but his parents had it in for the car. While I was polishing the driver's side door his dad came into the garage carrying a jar of jam and promptly dropped it. Jam splattered all over the rear quarter (which had been polished). Then he goes into the house and grabs a paper towel and reaches for the quarter panel. I said no that's okay I'll take care of it. He says to me "wow you really are particular about this stuff." :fs:
So a little while later I'm working on the drivers side fender and him mom closes the garage door on the hood by accident.
oke: Luckily there wasn't much damage done and I hadn't started working on the hood yet. The owner parked his car in the garage at an angle and the front end of the car was just past where the garage door would come to rest when it's closed. No they didn't have one of those nifty beams that stops the garage door from coming down if something's in the way.I ran out of sunlight and the owner needed to drop his car off to get some new 4.10 gears installed. I'm going to follow up with Natty's Blue.
This is what the clay looked like. I flipped it over about 1/2 way through the car.
These wheels were VERY difficult to clean. The owner lives off of a dirt road and this is his DD. I swear there was a combination of brake dust and cement built up on the insides of his wheels.
Can you tell which is the wash bucket and which is the rinse bucket?
The jam incident:
Trunk before any polishing:
After one pass of CG's Scratch and Swirl B Gone on a white pad I decided from this point on to switch to the orange pad:
After both Scratch and Swirl and LP and before another wash:
A reflection shot:
The paint was showing signs of age and neglect. You can see the white specks in the pictures. I felt a little bad for the hood.
I'll get more pictures after I meet up with the owner Sunday.
