ferrari 348, c6,z4 paint correction
 

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1st post on this forum so ill make it big :D

A little about myself:
-21 years old
-3 years of detailing experience
-worked in 2 different dealerships
-working now for a luxury car dealership + self employed
-going to school at bcit for collision repair and have taken polishing classes.
-80% of all my customers have mercedes and mainly black hard as fck:mad1: and i have detailed everything from a nissan maxima to ferraris and range rovers
-i confess i made many mistakes in adding to my experience such as burning the paint on a plastic antenna and and polished over a paint bubbles.
-tend not to take pictures since i never have time or lighting equipment except for the worst of the worst to show before and after to my customers :lol


A little about the ferrari 348
-corsa rossa
-never been polished since bought and paint is all hazy scratches the whole 9 yards
-made in 1990
-single stage paint (had to soak it in glaze to soften the paint)
-currently available for purchase $56,000 :)
- paint bubbles in small areas

Owner Expectations
-get rid of scratches under florescent lights
-get rid of haziness
-detail interior

Results
-90% scratches were removed except deep ones( inspected using florescent lights and halogen lights)
- haziness removed and full gloss restored
- interior (leather cleaned and treated with rejuvenating oil, all marks and carpet stain removed)

Tools and products used
-makita rotary (for compounding, polishing, glaze) (after a few years experience i can produce a swirl free result)
-polish/lt cut pad (used for compounding, polishing) (only pad available at dealership)
-old used polish pad (used for glaze) (only pad available at dealership)
-meg 105
-autoglym
-meg no.7
-mothers seal
-mother carb wax
-meg detail spray
-mothers chrome polish for exhaust and wheels



-also i know my camera sucks. used a old digital camera and saving up for a slr camera

the car was already washed before i started so i went straight to clay. its very bad. ended up using the whole clay bar.
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Fist things first here are the BEFORE

front bumper (nasty)
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passenger rear fender

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front headlight
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trunk
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windshield
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tape it up :)
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look at the swirls :(
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During after meg105 and autoglym
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After with glaze seal and 3 coats of wax
sneaking up :)
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looks glossy
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fenders look good
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mirrors look good
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remember the rear fender?
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driver fender
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lights were broken but the light in the corner makes the car stand out more
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engine
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interior
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total time spent on car 16hrs

scratch removal
red vette had some deep scratches like sand was rubbed on the paint.
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faint since camera sucks at picking up scratches
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bit better. see the 2 lines? well there are many smaller ones just cant pick it up on the camera
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clayed and sanded with 3k
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finnished
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...41085524_n.jpg

bmw z4 rock hit the hood and bounced off and damaged the windshield while leaving a big gouge
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you see it? if the crap camera picked up the scratches then its 10x worse in person
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finnished :)
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hope you enjoyed my first post :lol

awesome work! also a sweet collection of cars:drool

definitely need a better camera though!:lol

thanks

only before and after picture i could find. night and day difference :)

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nice work, but i suggest you put before and after photos one after another, as i cant really remember what the fender looked like. lol

you do it in the shop only? or do you do it privately as well?

ill remember to do that for my next paint correction.

i detail for the dealership and privately also. some of my clients dont want me posting pictures of their car on the web but at the dealership they dont mind.