Ok starting with the first time. After being recommended to use another company, and being very very disappointed with the end results, James the owner contacted me to take a look at his car, to both remove the poorly applied paint protection film, and to correct the paint as the previous companies idea of a paint correction detail was just laughable.
While it was in for the first time one of the rear wheels was also refurbed – and a cracking job was done as well!
So after the usual wash procedure the car was inspected.
First up the film!.
Nice big air bubble in the middle of the bonnet (see distorted reflection of shutter)
Dirt under the film!
A full kit had been applied so basically any front facing area had been covered, a slow and laborious job as I didn’t fancy having any paint pulling off with it!
I also removed all the front and rear honeycomb grills to get as much access with the machine polisher as possible
Once the film was removed the full horror of the paintwork could be assessed – this wasn’t going to be an easy one!
2 things became apparent very quickly, 1 the paint was rock hard 2 just looking at it in the wrong way would cause it to marr – Great!
I started the correction with 3M FCP+ which dealt with the RDS, but left its own marring which was even more difficult to remove than the RDS, so a completely different approach was needed. Several passes per panel with IP 3.02 on a polishing pad with 106FA being added to each set until the final pass was with nothing but 106FA did the trick, although it was hardly the most time efficient way!! A door alone took 5 hours, and that is one of the easier panels to work on!
Some progress shots!
Once all the correction was completed, the whole car was refined with 85RD on a 3M finishing pad.
Followed with an IPA wipedown.
LSP chosen was Nanolex Premium Sealant, mainly to help with reducing the risk of further marring in the future.
This was applied to the wheels as well.
And some finished shots
Refurbed wheel
Some in the sun
It was arranged to be collected by the dealer on Wednesday due to a throttle body problem that showed up on the way over to the unit, sadly this wouldn’t be the last time I would see it, as on Friday evening I get a call from the owner – “its back, and they have ruined it!” or words to that effect! So Monday morning its back, complete with marring from a wash they had been instructed NOT to carry out, 2 kerbed wheels, couple of dozen stonechips scratches all over the top of the doors and rear wings from their ‘Lamborghini’ approved wing covers – oh and a speeding ticket from their test drive.
So first job was to get the wheels sorted, then await the head honcho’s from a well know prestige chain of dealerships, to approve further work.
So after the second detail (thankfully nowhere near as testing!) the car ended up looking like this.
Side vent reflection
Probably my most testing detail to date, which was a real mixed bag of both enjoyment & frustration followed by disappointment when the dealers messed it all up It will seem weird not seeing it the unit when I go to work in the morning after having it there for nearly 5 weeks, and I dread to think how many man hours in total went into it!