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Old 04-23-2011, 09:51 AM
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This car that was bought pre owned in great shape! Interior, engine bay prepped well, however the customer wanted to clean up the paint not too bad, your typical light swirls and scratches. The customer also requested to debadge the 4.7 off the trunk lid. All in all the customer was pleased with the end results.



What was done -

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

- Pre Washed with W99

- Iron X Car Wash was used to remove any iron deposits (not much on this one)

- Wash down and rinsed

- Door jambs were cleaned up

- Clayed

- Dried

- Tires dressed

- Masking

- Paint Measurement

- 2 Step - Menzerna Super Intensive Polish with Uber Green Pad followed by Menzerna PO85RD with Uber Blue Pad

- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight

- Last Step – Autoglym HD Wax

- Rubber and Plastics Treated

- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed

- Exhaust tips cleaned

- Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed

- Jambs steam cleaned



Engine -

- Cleaned and Dressed



Interior

- Leather Cleaned

- Leather Conditioned

-Dash and plastics steamed and dressed

-Carpets Vacuumed and Steamed



Links to products used -



Exterior

1Z einszett W99

Iron X

Uber Blue Clay Bar Kit

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

Menzerna Super Intensive Polish

Menzerna PO85RD

Autoglym HD Wax

Adam's Glass Cleaner

Car Pro Perls



Interior

Leather Master Foam Cleaner on the Alcantara

Leather Master NuBuck Protectant on the Alcantara


Leather Master Strong Cleaner

Leather Master Vital Conditioner

1Z einszett Cockpit



Engine - Sorry no pics

Adam's In and Out

Adam's All Purpose Cleaner



Tools:

Flex PE 14 2 150

Porter Cable 7424XP

Uber Blue, Green, Black Pads

Metro Vac

Brushes

Fenix TK35

Brinkmann LED

Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Uber No Name Towels

Kranzle K1120T

Cam Spray Foam Attachment

Defelsko 6000



Before interior (not much to see some just some light house keeping and routine work)





After Interior





Before shots













Prep - Wheels, Wheel Well, Tiress Cleaned, Pre Wash, IronX, Rinse, Clay





Wheels were not bad at all no brushes were used, just the wheel cleaner





Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner on the wheels











Iron X Soap Gel used prior to claying





Drying the car down after the final rinse with the NEW Uber No Name Super Drying Towel....





We clayed the windows and the paint







Before debadge - dental floss and 3m adhesive remover were used to remove the emblem. Any hazing/marring was removed with polish





Debadged





Tires with Perls.







Paint Measurement





50/50

Here are a couple examples of what was all over the car, nothing crazy, but enough to annoy most customers that care about their cars.







After Polishing before Wax





Autoglym HD Wax





After Autoglym HD Wax - WOW











After shots:



Sun wasn't out till about the time the customer picked up.









Got a few sun shots in









Enjoy



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Old 04-23-2011, 11:44 AM
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So, how much did this treatment cost the customer? I'm just wondering how much that kind of work/quality costs. It looks like you know your stuff and did a great job.
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^ get used to seeing impressive "after" shots, this apparently happens all the time at DetailersDomain.



BTW, this pic just got saved to my personal collection:





Verrr nice.

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thanks guys!




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