The car was then washed with the two bucket method and a lambs wool mitt, but I didn’t photograph this, I’m sure you’ve seen it all before and I didn’t fancy dropping my camera in a bucket!
Once the wash was out of the way, I started on bonded contaminants.
First up was tardis, which helped a lot.
Here we can see the tar spots dissolving.
Next up was localised usage of Iron cut, to remove iron filings etc.
Now, it was getting on for 9PM, and I had started work at 8AM so I was in need of one of these big time....
Now, fresh as a daisy, I set about claying. By the time I had washed, got rid of the tar and removed iron filings, there was a big reduction on the amount of contaminants still on the paint. But in my opinion, each of the stages used previously are not a substitute for claying.
All done in about an hour, which isn’t too bad on a white car!
Rare view of the other end of the Miglior Detailing bat cave!
Now it was time to dry.
It was towel dried then blow dried, then towelled off again.
Now it’s looking like it’s allowed in the uber clean section of the unit!
Once it was dry, it was time to assess which panels needed stone chips touching up. These were to be done on day one, and left to dry until day two.
They were wiped down with IPA then touched up.
I had told the owner, that with time constraints and his busy schedule, I wouldn’t be able to wait for the completely fill the chips and flat them down, then polish. He was fine with that and just wanted them "dabbing" to take your eye off them. I was very pleased with how they turned out, considering I had to touch them up, and enhance the paint within 24 hours.
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So, 11PM, the wet work and painting was complete! Another late finish @ Miglior.
The car was left around the corner so any other bits of water could drop off the car, away from my clean work area.
The next day...I managed to get to work on the car later than I wanted to due to a meeting in the morning...but I cracked on before 9.30! :)
Onto polishing. Remember this isn’t a full correction job, so there was still a few deeper marks left in, but I did my best, and the paint looked a lot wetter afterwards!
Side Vents in desperate need of attention
Its shots like this that makes my job so rewarding.
The only way a side vent on an R8 should look!
A little 50/50 on the driver’s side...
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Quick 50/50
Once I had finished all the polishing, I set about sealing the paint, for this I used Werkstatt Acrylic.
When that was curing, I did all four wheels/arches.
The wheels were first polished with Cleaner fluid pro by hand.
They were then sealed with Swissvax autobahn.
The tyres were dressed with Swissvax Pneu
The door shuts were sealed with Collinite 476s.
Exhaust outer rim polished with Swissvax metal polish. The inners were also wiped with degreaser and cleaned with a foam pad.
