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Mobile-Image : Something Special (70+ pics)
29-06-2009, 10:30 PM
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Mobile-Image : Something Special (70+ pics)
This weekend saw my return to detailing having spent the past 2 months or so taking it easy while Grant was ill and after he left us. With a string of bookings to attend to I decided it was time to get underway again and braved the icy morning chills. This weekends booking was one I have been looking forward to ever since I was asked to pamper it....The reason for all the excitement you ask? Nothing other than a Porsche 993 Turbo S in guards red Drool

With the intro out of the way lets get onto the pics...


Initial Preperation

No befores and very little of the wash/clay stage as I wanted to get stuck in and my hands were frozen. Regardless to say the wheels were attended to by our usual goto rim cleaner, Sonax Extreme with various brushes,etc but it was hardly needed as the rims were pretty clean to start off with.

Very little purple run-off indicating the wheels were almost void of any brake dust.
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Having attended to the wheels we set about washing the car with the usual 2BM, Sonax Gloss shampoo and a new wool wash mitt I am trying out. All the odds and ends were washed with a 5:1 APC solution agitated with a Megs Slide-Lock brush. This aided in removing various forms of caked on polish residue and other muck from around the emblems, door handles, etc.

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Having been washed and rinsed the car was clayed with Meg's Fine clay and QD. The clay came up pretty clean apart from a few bonded contaminants, hence no photies of this step. After a final rinse the car was dried in preparation for taping prior to the correction phase.


Inspection

With the car properly cleaned the full condition of the paintwork could be accurately assessed. Generally the car was in an astoundingly good condition considering its age but the paintwork was showing clear signs of it's age as well as previous polishing work. Almost the entire car was covered by varying degrees of swirling and hologramming but thankfully very little in the way of serious RIDS and deeper defects.

Swirling
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With the initial inspection out in the sun completed I moved the car into the garage to begin taping and to take a closer look at the paint under the halogens.

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Some swirling under the lights
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Paint Correction

Having been around the entire car I proceeded to test various polishing combo's to see what would work best. First stop was Menzerna FA on a yellow 3M polishing pad. Considering the FA is a finishing polish it was little surprise that whilst it cleaned up the paint nicely, it didn't remove a sufficient amount of the swirling. Next up was a sample of Menz P203S which worked better but still wasn't up to the standard I was wanting to achieve. Finally I settled on a mix of FA and SIP worked via the rotary which achieved the desired result.

Having found a combo that was working I proceeded to complete the bonnet before moving back outside to check the work in the sunlight.

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Close up
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Being happy with the results I moved back inside and got stuck into completing the paint correction stage. Again I was pressed for time and wanted to get a move on so not many pics from the correction stage

Before and after
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Another one, again before and after
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Various reflection shots from along the polishing stage
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With it getting dark and cold I decided to call it a night and returned on sunday to finish up. Sunday began with picking up where I left off on Sat evening and getting the paint correction phase completed. Along the way I fiddled with another polish sample I had which delivered some incredible results...More on that at a later stage Wink


Finishing off

With the correction work completed the vehicle was pulled back outside for a final inspection followed by a final wash and rinse, before being pulled back inside to be dried and for the final touched to be applied.

Tires were treated to Endurance Tyre Gel, exhausts got seen to with Sonax chrome and alu paste. Plastic and trim were treated to 303 Aerospace as usual.

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LSP of choice today was a base layer of Chemical Guys Extreme Top Coat topped with Pete's 53 paste wax. Overall the Chemical Guys products delivered as usual but I'll let the pictures do the talking Bluebiggrin

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Having maybe gone a bit overboard with the pics inside the garage I snapped a few outside just in case Bluebiggrin

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Having spent the better part of nearly 2 complete days working on the Turbo S, I can honestly say I was sad to leave it behind. It is truly one of these most beautiful cars I have had the pleasure of working on.

Thanks for looking Wink

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30-06-2009, 06:42 AM
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Excellent work as usual. So tell us more about this polish.
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30-06-2009, 06:59 AM
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RE: Mobile-Image : Something Special (70+ pics)
A truly special car treated in a truly special way.

Dave - you are the master. Worshippy

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30-06-2009, 07:03 AM
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An absolute stunner! Well done Mobile Image! Wow...

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30-06-2009, 07:26 AM
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Beautiful! I love the glossiness of the red paint and just the shape of that car... Well done!
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30-06-2009, 07:50 AM
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What a truely awesome motor car! One day when I'm big I will pay Dave to detail my cars Wink

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30-06-2009, 09:16 AM
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Excellent results on a beautiful car - Well done Dave.

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30-06-2009, 12:50 PM
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I will rate this as one of your best details todate Carn. Top shelf effort and excellent results. Still trying to find the words to capture the depth and wetness of the red paint.

I am sure Rustie is chuffed with the outcome. Guess this job debunks my theory that Rustie had the skills while you were more at home behind the camera.
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30-06-2009, 01:23 PM
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Glad to see you're getting back into it Carn!

Top notch work..... Super impressed as usual. Bluebiggrin

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30-06-2009, 02:45 PM
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wow, eish wow, eish wow
and another wow
great work
im lost for words with the results
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30-06-2009, 07:48 PM
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RE: Mobile-Image : Something Special (70+ pics)
Thanks for all the comments guys, appreciate it Wink


Sean thanks dude, it means alot coming from you Wink

PS, I still haven't had a chance to collect that sample from your moms place. Can't wait to try it having seen your results on the R32 with it!


Don you boknaai Rofl Thanks dude Wink


Siya thanks alot, again coming from someone with your experience (especially so with red motor cars) means a helluva lot to me Wink

RE your theory....I guess I can understand where you came up with that as previously it was almost always myself who wound up taking all the photies. You can imagine my relief this past weekend to see that I had actually picked up some buffer skills from Rusty along the way Bluebiggrin


Everyone else, thanks again. It was nice to pick up a buffer again and get back to detailing. Prior to starting this one I was apprehensive about tackling this project on my own, especially having been out of the groove for over 2 months and considering the fact that 99% of the time I worked together with Grant. Strangely enough as well (and unplanned actually) this client was the very same one, at the very same location that myself and Grant last detailed a car. It was on the way home from this clients place on the Sat evening when Grant 1st fell ill and was admitted to hospital Bawling

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01-07-2009, 07:29 AM
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Shame dude, must have been hard going back there.

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01-07-2009, 07:32 AM
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Dave, not only are you an excellent detailer, but I love your write ups as you have a way with words and the pics to go with it.

Rusty would have been proud mate!
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01-07-2009, 06:24 PM
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(01-07-2009 07:29 AM)freerider Wrote:  Shame dude, must have been hard going back there.

Yea, was quite a sombre moment when it all dawned on me on the way there...

(01-07-2009 07:32 AM)springbok Wrote:  Dave, not only are you an excellent detailer, but I love your write ups as you have a way with words and the pics to go with it.

Rusty would have been proud mate!

Thank you Alistair, I sure hope he is Thumb

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02-07-2009, 10:02 PM
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WOW Dave !!! Awesome work mate !!!

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07-07-2009, 02:25 PM
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Beautiful, well done
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07-07-2009, 06:27 PM
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Thanks again guys Wink

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08-07-2009, 12:18 PM
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un be lievable carn...

As usual i am blown away. ;0~~~

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26-08-2009, 09:36 AM
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I have no wordsIcon_jaw

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