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| 04-23-2014, 08:22 AM | #1 |
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Brand New 15 Subaru STI - a much needed new car prep.
A very good customer of ours picked up his new Subaru STI, at delivery he already noticed that it was in pretty bad shape, but he knew he was coming in for a new car prep and Opti Coat so all was well.
That being said I'm still surprised at how dealers just don't understand how to deliver a car. Why not train your crew to do it right? Exterior - Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes - Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down - Wheel wells were cleaned up - Washed with Adam's Car Wash - Decon with Auto Finesse Iron Out - Wash down and rinsed - Door jambs were cleaned up - Nano Scrub AutoScrub - Dried - Tires dressed - Masking - Paint Measurement - Compound - Adam's Paint Correcting Polish and Meguiar's M100 - Final Polish - Sonax Perfect Finish 4/6 - Last step - Opticoat - Inspection with Fenix, Brinkmann, and natural sunlight - Wheel wells were cleaned - polished - Opti Coat - Rubber and Plastics Treated - Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed - Exhaust tips cleaned - Windows were auto scrubed, cleaned, and sealed Products used: Adam's Car Wash Auto Finesse Iron Out Stoner's Tarminator Auto Finesse Oblitarate Sonax Multi Star Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner NanoSkin AutoScrub System Adam's Paint Correcting Polish Meguiar's M100 Sonax Perfect Finish Opti Coat Optimum Bond Tire Gel Auto Finesse Crystal Glass Cleaner Tools used Uber Wool Wash Mitt Uber Quick Detail MF Towels Uber All Purpose MF Towels Rupes LHR75E Rupes BigFoot LHR 21ES Random Orbital Polisher Rupes BigFoot LHR 15ES Random Orbital Polisher Flex XC3401VR Uber Buffing Pads Meg's MF Cutting Pad Defelsko Paint Meter Fenix TK35 Kranzle Pressure Washer Uber Foam Canon 2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies Adam's Firehose Nozzle Metro Air Force Blaster Before     Prep - wheels, tires, wheel wells cleaned up - car washed, decon'd, and clayed.           Using the Uber Wool Wash Mitt for the tops and the Uber Yellow Wash Sponge for the bottom of the car. We do this to prevent dirt getting into the mitts and potentially scratching the paint.    Paint correction                    Using the Flex XC3401 to get linear scratches off the wing and rear deck lid. Using an Adam's Orange Pad and Adam's Paint Correcting Polish.   50/50 shots - left side before - right side after.  Surprising how dull the paint was on a brand new car.  Customer requested to debadge, since the car was new it was quite easy to remove. We used dental floss and remove the emblems. We removed the leftover adhesive with Auto Finesse Obiltarate. Ghosting was remove with the Rupes LHR12 and Sonax Perfect Finish.    Results after compound and polishing            After prepping the paint we applied Opti Coat Pro   After              Hope you enjoyed this one. If you have any questions please post below or feel free to email me at phil@detailersdomain.com Last edited by Detailers Domain; 04-27-2014 at 07:29 AM.. |
| 04-23-2014, 06:10 PM | #2 |
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Im amazed at how dull that paint was.
Dealer installed scratches are a different story though.. Great work as always guys!
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| 04-23-2014, 07:24 PM | #3 |
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Wow. You buy a $50,000 brand new car, and the dealer goes ahead and "washes" it for you prior to pickup.
In that case, washes=marring And btw, that is amazing work you do! I had a question, how do you polish in those tough to reach areas like in the front bumper air dams and mirrors etc etc. Do you do it by hand or with a 3" pad and DA polisher?
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| 04-23-2014, 08:02 PM | #4 |
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Yep, I just picked up a new car and I told the dealer to not touch the outside at all. They actually listened! They literally took off the delivery plastic and that's it. Next day it was shiny and covered in opticoat
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| 04-28-2014, 03:44 PM | #6 |
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beautiful work.
disgusts me that they would deliver a product in such condition. my CPO 135i was in better shape than that when I drove it home. out of curiosity, how long did it take you to go through all those stages/steps?
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| 04-29-2014, 02:05 PM | #8 |
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Really nice detailing, but man, that has to be one of the ugliest car's I've ever seen! lol
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