magic qcs
New Member
Hi detailing lovers!!
I'll start from the top. The owner of this car first contacted me with a view of tidying up the paintwork on his mother-in-law's Merc C180. When he arrived I quickly realised this was going to be no ordinary detail! I inspected the car throughout when my client got here, and we decided on a course of action. As of late I've had alot of "can you just" jobs added onto the original, which I don't mind, and put that down to people seeing more and more of what I can do (despite me avoiding DW like the plague)
So it changed from an enhancement / minor correction detail which you've seen me post quite often, to a full fat 2 stage polish with paintwork, dent removal, replacement badges, new stereo, new wing mirror and wheel refurb!!
Started out like this;
So I got it prewashed with ph-neutral snow, mixed with a little APC to give it some bite around the small work - the gunk oozing out of the window rubbers and around the roof guttering.. proper manky stuff. Didn't take a picture, hands were too dirty. It was washed using the two bucket method - why? even though the paintwork was goosed, I didn't want to create even more work for myself!! Then de-ironised and clayed when indoors;
Cleaned all these panel gaps out around the lights and got rid of the green slime that had gathered on the inner edge of the light. Then I clayed the car.
Taped the car up and started to take some paint readings - some panels had seen paint over the years, could see that without the gauge :lol: thanks to some lacquer runs and the usual kind of poor worksmanship that is too common these days
Once it was taped up and ready to go, I took shots as I was going along.. starting with the damage;
After polishing, colour looks totally different - it was flat in the above shots, now look at the gloss, and no scratches;
Moving around the car now..
After the first stage;
Final refinement;
I'll start from the top. The owner of this car first contacted me with a view of tidying up the paintwork on his mother-in-law's Merc C180. When he arrived I quickly realised this was going to be no ordinary detail! I inspected the car throughout when my client got here, and we decided on a course of action. As of late I've had alot of "can you just" jobs added onto the original, which I don't mind, and put that down to people seeing more and more of what I can do (despite me avoiding DW like the plague)
So it changed from an enhancement / minor correction detail which you've seen me post quite often, to a full fat 2 stage polish with paintwork, dent removal, replacement badges, new stereo, new wing mirror and wheel refurb!!
Started out like this;
So I got it prewashed with ph-neutral snow, mixed with a little APC to give it some bite around the small work - the gunk oozing out of the window rubbers and around the roof guttering.. proper manky stuff. Didn't take a picture, hands were too dirty. It was washed using the two bucket method - why? even though the paintwork was goosed, I didn't want to create even more work for myself!! Then de-ironised and clayed when indoors;
Cleaned all these panel gaps out around the lights and got rid of the green slime that had gathered on the inner edge of the light. Then I clayed the car.
Taped the car up and started to take some paint readings - some panels had seen paint over the years, could see that without the gauge :lol: thanks to some lacquer runs and the usual kind of poor worksmanship that is too common these days
Once it was taped up and ready to go, I took shots as I was going along.. starting with the damage;
After polishing, colour looks totally different - it was flat in the above shots, now look at the gloss, and no scratches;
Moving around the car now..
After the first stage;
Final refinement;
