Porsche 911 Carrera S 4-Day Full Correction Detail Hi guys, and welcome along to what will probably be my longest ever write up. There's a good reason for this, I booked in an extensive 4-day
correction detail for this Porsche, and boy did it need it!! The car had been purchased recently by the current owner from a specialist car dealership. It looks as if the front end has been painted to blow over some stone chips etc. The body shop that did it should be strung up in my opinion! Its a sad day when workmanship such as seen on this Porsche can be let out of the body shop doors and signed off as complete. The sanding marks were horrendous, a really course grade used then straight to a glazing product by the looks of things! Anyhow, you'll see what I mean soon! The owner complained of dull paintwork and
swirl marks robbing the finish of any shine!
Another issue with the car are the wheels! One of my HUGE pet peeves is how smart repairers spend what looks like 3 minutes sorting our a kerbed wheel. The net result of this is a shoddy colour match, poor adhesion, and clear coat over dirt on the inside of the wheel, which cannot be cleaned off. This Porsche had these problems on 3.5 of the wheels!! The owner is having the wheels refurbished by myself in a few weeks time btw, so in this write up we cleaned and hand polished and sealed them. They are in a bit of state though inside the rims.
On with the write up! The car was picked up by Miglior
detailing in Cheshire and taken back to the unit for the
full correction.
Here is the car on arrival.
It's not often from that far back on a wet and dirty car you can spot defects in the paint, but this one, it was clear to see from any distance! The paint was dull and full of
swirling and sanding marks!!
Those marks close up
NICE!!
The car was taken outside to be washed and chemically decontaminated. Then it was returned inside to clay.
Lots of contaminants.
Here is what we are dealing with on the car!
So straight into it, the car was measured with the paint thickness gauge and all readings were recorded. There were plenty of areas with unusual readings but nothing I was particularly worried about.
Having been using the Megs MF system for a few months I wanted to see how it coped with deep defects like this. It had a good go and left a nice finish, but it didn't quite have the grunt in a given time that the rotary has.
50/50 after 2x passes with Megs MF system. Now, most would look at thinking it looks brilliant, and yes it's a lot better! BUT….. look closely around the light source, there are very deep marks that are still present. The edges of each fine scratch have been rounded reducing the appearance, but that's not good enough for us @ Miglior. If someone is paying for a
correction detail, it needs to be right if the owner will see the difference or not!
So, out with the big guns!
After checking the paint depth again, I was happy I had plenty of clear coat to correct the paint even further removing the pigtails left by the body shop's sanding process.
Just look at the paint under where I am polishing! It looks positively grey!
Much better!
After an IPA wipe down
Working around the rest of the front of the car.
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