Roy
Newbie
Hello all,
Well on Saturday I had the pleasure to carry out a full detail on David's stunning Shelby GT-500 Evolution.
It was an early start as it certainly isn't a small car and there was plenty of paint to get to work on.
If the neighbours weren't already awake then they would have been as soon as I turned the key to move it out of the garage. God what a sound!
First job was as usual to wash the car. A citrus degreaser was sprayed over all the bodywork and then washed using the normal two bucket method (one bucket of clean water and one with shampoo and water). Shampoo of choice on this occasion was Zymol Clear Auto-Bathe, although not the most foaming shampoo it still has a great cleaning ability.
The wheels were washed with P21S Wheel Gel and also P21S Auto Wash. The car was then dried using Aquatouch green drying towels.
Any large tar deposits on the paintwork were removed using Autosmart Tardis, then it was on with the next job, which was to fully clay the car. On this occasion the clay of choice was Sonus Green clay, which I use when the car is already pretty clean and not looking as if the bonded contaminants are too heavy.
Once fully clayed the car was then dried off again and it was time to put the car back in the garage, so a chance to experience "the noise"!
Once carefully positioned back in the garage it was out with the blue 3M tape, all trim was masked up and also lights, vents and badges. This is done so as to protect the trim when machine polishing and also to keep polish residue and dust out of the trim and vents.
Now silver cars are normally a little more complicated when it comes to showing up defects, however this silver took the prize for the car that hides it swirls best. It was incredibly difficult to get a good idea of how bad the swirls were, a number of different lighting options were used and it took a lot of moving the halogens and other light sources around to get any idea of what was being faced.
Measurements were taken across all paintwork prior to machine polishing using a paint thickness guage.
On this occasion the weapons of choice for the correction were a Menzerna FA finishing polish using either a black 3M high gloss finishing pad or a blue 3M ultrafina polishing pad.
Sadly I didn't get any dramatic 50/50 shots of a corrected area compared with a non correction area, as to be honest on this colour it was impossible to show on camera.
Once the correction was completed the next job was to get to work on the metalwork, this included a pair of very grimey exhausts, see below for the before and after.
The wax being applied to the car was Swissvax Mystery which retails at roughly £300 per pot. Zymol HD-Cleanse was applied to all paintwork to prepare the surface for the wax.
The Mystery was left to cure on the paintwork for 20 minutes and then buffed off to reveal the true shine.
Whilst the wax was curing I worked on the dressing the exterior trim, tyres and also applying a coat of the same wax to the wheels.
The interior was then hoovered and all trim was dressed with Zymol Vinyl. I favour the Zymol Vinyl because it gives a discreet shine without giving a sticky, tacky looking shine. All the rubber seals were fed with with Zymol Seal, this helps to keep them supple and finally the leather was treated with Swissvax Leather Milk.
So after all that, the car was rolled back out of the garage to be finally checked over, as always happens the heavens opened for the first time for the whole day, so it was then swiftly put back in the garage!
The car was then given a final wipe down with Zaino Z-8 Grande Finale Spray Seal, which not only adds to the shine but gives a little more protection to the finish.
These were the results......
Thanks again for the booking Dave and thank you to everyone else for looking.
As usual if anyone has any questions or would like their car to be pampered then just let me know.
Cheers,
Roy
Well on Saturday I had the pleasure to carry out a full detail on David's stunning Shelby GT-500 Evolution.
It was an early start as it certainly isn't a small car and there was plenty of paint to get to work on.
If the neighbours weren't already awake then they would have been as soon as I turned the key to move it out of the garage. God what a sound!
First job was as usual to wash the car. A citrus degreaser was sprayed over all the bodywork and then washed using the normal two bucket method (one bucket of clean water and one with shampoo and water). Shampoo of choice on this occasion was Zymol Clear Auto-Bathe, although not the most foaming shampoo it still has a great cleaning ability.
The wheels were washed with P21S Wheel Gel and also P21S Auto Wash. The car was then dried using Aquatouch green drying towels.
Any large tar deposits on the paintwork were removed using Autosmart Tardis, then it was on with the next job, which was to fully clay the car. On this occasion the clay of choice was Sonus Green clay, which I use when the car is already pretty clean and not looking as if the bonded contaminants are too heavy.
Once fully clayed the car was then dried off again and it was time to put the car back in the garage, so a chance to experience "the noise"!
Once carefully positioned back in the garage it was out with the blue 3M tape, all trim was masked up and also lights, vents and badges. This is done so as to protect the trim when machine polishing and also to keep polish residue and dust out of the trim and vents.
Now silver cars are normally a little more complicated when it comes to showing up defects, however this silver took the prize for the car that hides it swirls best. It was incredibly difficult to get a good idea of how bad the swirls were, a number of different lighting options were used and it took a lot of moving the halogens and other light sources around to get any idea of what was being faced.
Measurements were taken across all paintwork prior to machine polishing using a paint thickness guage.
On this occasion the weapons of choice for the correction were a Menzerna FA finishing polish using either a black 3M high gloss finishing pad or a blue 3M ultrafina polishing pad.
Sadly I didn't get any dramatic 50/50 shots of a corrected area compared with a non correction area, as to be honest on this colour it was impossible to show on camera.
Once the correction was completed the next job was to get to work on the metalwork, this included a pair of very grimey exhausts, see below for the before and after.
The wax being applied to the car was Swissvax Mystery which retails at roughly £300 per pot. Zymol HD-Cleanse was applied to all paintwork to prepare the surface for the wax.
The Mystery was left to cure on the paintwork for 20 minutes and then buffed off to reveal the true shine.
Whilst the wax was curing I worked on the dressing the exterior trim, tyres and also applying a coat of the same wax to the wheels.
The interior was then hoovered and all trim was dressed with Zymol Vinyl. I favour the Zymol Vinyl because it gives a discreet shine without giving a sticky, tacky looking shine. All the rubber seals were fed with with Zymol Seal, this helps to keep them supple and finally the leather was treated with Swissvax Leather Milk.
So after all that, the car was rolled back out of the garage to be finally checked over, as always happens the heavens opened for the first time for the whole day, so it was then swiftly put back in the garage!
The car was then given a final wipe down with Zaino Z-8 Grande Finale Spray Seal, which not only adds to the shine but gives a little more protection to the finish.
These were the results......
Thanks again for the booking Dave and thank you to everyone else for looking.
As usual if anyone has any questions or would like their car to be pampered then just let me know.
Cheers,
Roy
