tdekany

What the conditions were:



Before - click to see video

After - click to see video



Ok, so this car was bought used not that long ago. The new owners were interested in improving the condition of the paint after they visited Detailed Image online and a chit chat via e mails with Todd Cooperrider. Todd suggested that they contact me. Initially the owners thought that the car was going to need a full wet sand so I made an appointment to look over the car right away. We spent about an hour talking about why the paint was in such poor condition and what I should be able to accomplish and of course how to properly maintain it in the future. I reassured the clients that wet sanding was not necessary. I also measured the paint which revealed some very thin clear in several areas of the car. At the end of the meeting, we set up an appointment that worked for both of us. I had 3 days to do the car and my original estimation was about 20+ hours. All in all it took 34 hours in 4 days. The painton the lower plastic panels just didn't want to correct. In the end I went through 16 3" MF pads that I was using to level with my pcxp on speed 6.

The whole process was:

3D Medium clay - (the car was washed for me)
HD UNO for leveling
HD UNO polishing
HD UNO finishing
LIME PRIME LITE to clean the pait
HD POXY
3D ULTRA tire shine

Here are some more pictures and videos





And a before and after video of the same area





The trunk 50/50 video



And trunk all finished up - few deep imperfections stayed.



Trunk Before





Trunk after



Ok, so this car was bought used not that long ago. The new owners were interested in improving the condition of the paint after they visited Detailed Image online and a chit chat via e mails with Todd Cooperrider. Todd suggested that they contact me. Initially the owners thought that the car was going to need a full wet sand so I made an appointment to look over the car right away. We spent about an hour talking about why the paint was in such poor condition and what I should be able to accomplish and of course how to properly maintain it in the future. I reassured the clients that wet sanding was not necessary. I also measured the paint which revealed some very thin clear in several areas of the car. At the end of the meeting, we set up an appointment that worked for both of us. I had 3 days to do the car and my original estimation was about 20+ hours. All in all it took 34 hours in 4 days. The painton the lower plastic panels just didn't want to correct. In the end I went through 16 3" MF pads that I was using to level with my pcxp on speed 6.

The whole process was:

3D Medium clay - (the car was washed for me)
HD UNO for leveling
HD UNO polishing
HD UNO finishing
LIME PRIME LITE to clean the pait
HD POXY
3D ULTRA tire shine

tdekany

Here are some more pictures and videos
Roof Before videos


Roof After Video

Roof Before

Roof After










Couple of final pictures

tdekany

Thanks for reading!!!

AMG3.2

wow those were some horrible scratches... congrats, you really brought depth and clarity to that neglected paint.

TOGWT

[We spent about an hour talking about why the paint was in such poor condition and what I should be able to accomplish and of course how to properly maintain it in the future.]

Kudos - educate the client and he/she will return

Great job on the detail

C43AMG

Beautiful job....34 hours.....unreal !

WHTEVO

So i am sure others are wondering, what does something like this cost?

Aaron

tdekany

Sorry guys I have been pretty busy lately.

Thanks for the kind words.

I charge $50.00 an hour to paint correct. This was a mess, plus black. Always the longest details.