Paint Correction/New car protection on Ferrari FF.

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mikec32

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Hello everyone
Following my little thread today is a recent detail taking upon an mbclub.co.uk member’s new car. The car in question is the Ferrari FF. The owner had pick it up in November time of 2011 and had been drove quite a bit before I got my hands on it January. In December I did see the car, and noticed that it was covered from head to foot in light swirls. The owner was told about them and was turned into paint correction detail. To be fair this would not really of been a new car protection detail as it wasn’t completed before pick up and had been drove quite a bit prior to the detail.
On arrival, I was presented with this:
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As you can see the car was looking quite dirty, with no protection what so ever, so was going to be a fun decontamination process.
The first process was the wheels tyres and arches and got my usual process:
Tyres and arches treated with citrus degreaser, scrubbed with a stiff brush and jet washed.
Wheels treated with bilberry wheel cleaner, agitated with wheel woollies, swissvax wheel brush and then rinsed on the jet washed.
They were then treated in the same manor with iron x, as shown in the below pictures, to remove heavier contaminants.
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Then the tar was removed with tardis and the wheels were nice and clean. All door shuts and gaps were then cleaned with surfex HD, agitated with a swissvax brush and open hose rinsed. It was then time for the snow foam, for which I use bilthammer auto foam through the karcher. This was left for approx 8 minutes and then rinsed off.
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The car was then washed using the zaino twins and dodo juice supernatural. A dodo juice wookie for the top half and a swissvax waschpudel for the lower half. Once washed the car was rinsed and then given a chemical bath with iron x to remove those hidden contaminants.
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The car was then re washed, rinsed and taken inside. Once inside the car was dried with a 70/30 drying towel and a warm air blower to remove all water. The car was then clayed with dodo juice gentle grey clay and meguiars last touch. This included the glass, paintwork, and wheels and then was given a thorough IPA wipe down. This removed any silicone fillers from the paint as well as removing the entire clay sling from the claying process. Once the halogens were set up, I could see what I had to work with. As well has light swirl marks, the car had some very interesting marks indeed but nothing I hadn’t seen on new Ferrari’s. There were oxidations in the paint from caustic cleaning chemicals, overspray, deep scratches, bush runs and some nasty nicks towards the back of the roof. After taking some paint readings the car was reading well over healthy at nearly 400 microns. 3 times more than any Ferrari I had worked on, but this was a paint upgrade to triple layer Rosso maranello. The car was corrected with a Scholl concepts orange/blue pad and school concepts s17. The deeper marks were removed with Scholl concepts blue pad and s3 gold edition. The whole car could have been compounded as it had some reasonably aggressive defects but s17 has long working periods. Due to this if you hang on in there with longer working times, while keeping the heat down you will permanently remove heavy defects with just this one product safely. To many people including professional detailers will use way too many compounds and polishes to not defect out quickly. But really you should be taking your time with your sets. Remember you want to remove as much defect with removing as little lacquer as possible and keeping it all at an even level. Anyway here are the pictures of the process as I worked my way around the car.

The bonnet after paint correction. (Sorry I didn’t take any of before as this was the end of day one and I needed to be out of the unit)
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Nose with light swirls and oxidations.
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Nose after.
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Passenger with before.
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Passenger wing after.

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Drivers front wing before:
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Drivers wing after.

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Central roof after.

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Nasty scratches at the edge of the roof. These were deep and a little more technical to remove as the role right to the edge. Only a ghosting of one was left as it was much safer to leave then to have a strike through.

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After.

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Rail before. (Note very deep scratch)

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Rail after.
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Over spray on passenger rail.
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Passenger door with light swirls and oxidations.
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Passenger door after.
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Light swirls on passenger rear wing.
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Passenger rear wing after.
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Large scratches on top of passenger rear wing.
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Top of passenger rear wing after.

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Passenger side of rear bumper after.

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I stopped taking photos after as I was running out of precious time to get the exterior completed, so here are some afters of the rest.
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The car was given a thorough IPA wipe down to ensure true finish. This was then refined with Scholl concepts S40 on a 3M blue waffle weave pad to give the car its nice liquid wet look.

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Just a quick photo to show extensive orange peel on the rear quarter.

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Then 2 coats of swissvax crystal rock were applied over 2 days to protect the paint.
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Wheels were protected with swissvax autobahn.
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Tyres were dressed with swissvax pneu, exhausts polished with lime prime on the d.a and exterior glass was polished with G-techniq glass polish. The rear diffuser on this is plastic so this was degreased by hand, dried with the warm air blower and protected with aerospace.
Once the exterior was completed it was time to give the interior an overhaul. All plastic trim was degreased, dried and protected with swissvax matte finish. Rubber seals had the same process and then protected with swissvax rubber seal. Leather was clean with zaino z9 and then protected with G-techniq L1. The interior glass was cleaned with meguiars glass cleaner and the car was given a thorough vacuum.
 
This was the complete, final outcome.

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Note wireless Ferrari headphones for the rear TV’s. Sweet!!

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Wonderful,well done!
 
The local pigeons are feeding up at this very moment :D Nice job
 
As usual a very good job well done. Thanks for the write up. (need to persuade him to go fo the wet sand next to sort that orange peel:D)
 
I'll be honest, I don't really like it - does nothing for me! :eek:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say :)
 
Thanks for the comments guys. This is marmite car most definitely, for which i wasnt sold on it when I started work. By the end I loved it! But for those who like a very beautiful classic a 275 GTB/4 is coming up soon for which im sure not one of you can dislike;)

Thanks for the comments again guys!
 

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