Nikku Detailed: Is your car as Smart as this one?
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Nikku Detailed: Is your car as Smart as this one?
Hi everyone,
I had an interesting detail request. This was my first smart car. Smart not because it's a "Smart Car", smart because it came to me. I know korny anyways.... The car although an interesting car was not as interesting as an owner. He's a local musician and the stories he's told me about what he's done over his career is pretty cool. By no means is he a huge superstar but very cool in his own right.
In any case he brought his car to me with the intention of a two step polish. The polish was the easy part the annoying part was to find that someone accidentally had sprayed white paint all over it. I have no idea where it's from or how it got on there. All i knew that it was there. They were large paint droplets but noticeable a few feet away. It could possibly have been the car for the smurfs with the white polka dots.
Anyways on to the car and thanks in advance for reading.
Process
Wash
Meguiars Gold Class
3 Buckets
2 Sheep Skin Mitts
1 Chenille Mitte
EZ Brush
Wheel Brush
P21S Wheel Cleaner
P21S TAW
Clay
Riccardo Yellow Clay
Riccardo Blue Clay
Water and Soap as lubricant
Paint Correction
Sonus White Pad
Sonue Blue Pad
Lake Country White Pad
Lake Country Blue Pad
Metabo x 2
3M bp
Rubbish Boy bp
Menzerna Power Finish
Menzerna Micro Polish
LSP
Zaino Z2Pro
Zaino Grande Finale
Equipment
3M Sun Gun
2 x Halogens
Steamer
Extractor
Wet/Dry Vacuum
Interior
Folex
P21S TAW
303 Fabric Cleaner
303 Fabric Guard
303 Aerospace Protectant
Einzsett Cockpit Premium
Convertible Top
Lint Tape
Brush
Fabric Cleaner
Fabric Guard
BEFORE
I know the interior is quite the mess. Do you notice the gas canister? Can you say Ka... boom? lol It's empty but when I saw it I was like ummm...
Old newspapers anyone? I think I found a deal or two in the ads.
The carpets were a little soiled but nothing a good steam and extract couldn't solve.
Now on to the exterior paint condition.
Remember those white dots I was talking about? Check it out it's all over the car. I was using yellow riccardo's on the paint and it just took a really long time so I decided to pull out the heavy hitter blue riccardos.
This was a poor attempt at a 50/50 for some reason I couldn't get the imperfections to show up as nicely as usual. Regardless of that you'll notice the hazing and swirls on the right side while the left is nice and clean. I had to hit the left side with 2 passes of Power Finish and White Sonus and in some areas I had to hit with 3-4 passes. I burnished the paint with blue and micro polish.
Rocker Panel Corrected
Passenger side door 50/50.
AFTERS
Application of Sealant
Completed Product
Thanks for looking and thank the pretty smart car for coming to me in the first place
Cheers,
Nick
I had an interesting detail request. This was my first smart car. Smart not because it's a "Smart Car", smart because it came to me. I know korny anyways.... The car although an interesting car was not as interesting as an owner. He's a local musician and the stories he's told me about what he's done over his career is pretty cool. By no means is he a huge superstar but very cool in his own right.
In any case he brought his car to me with the intention of a two step polish. The polish was the easy part the annoying part was to find that someone accidentally had sprayed white paint all over it. I have no idea where it's from or how it got on there. All i knew that it was there. They were large paint droplets but noticeable a few feet away. It could possibly have been the car for the smurfs with the white polka dots.
Anyways on to the car and thanks in advance for reading.
Process
Wash
Meguiars Gold Class
3 Buckets
2 Sheep Skin Mitts
1 Chenille Mitte
EZ Brush
Wheel Brush
P21S Wheel Cleaner
P21S TAW
Clay
Riccardo Yellow Clay
Riccardo Blue Clay
Water and Soap as lubricant
Paint Correction
Sonus White Pad
Sonue Blue Pad
Lake Country White Pad
Lake Country Blue Pad
Metabo x 2
3M bp
Rubbish Boy bp
Menzerna Power Finish
Menzerna Micro Polish
LSP
Zaino Z2Pro
Zaino Grande Finale
Equipment
3M Sun Gun
2 x Halogens
Steamer
Extractor
Wet/Dry Vacuum
Interior
Folex
P21S TAW
303 Fabric Cleaner
303 Fabric Guard
303 Aerospace Protectant
Einzsett Cockpit Premium
Convertible Top
Lint Tape
Brush
Fabric Cleaner
Fabric Guard
BEFORE
I know the interior is quite the mess. Do you notice the gas canister? Can you say Ka... boom? lol It's empty but when I saw it I was like ummm...
Old newspapers anyone? I think I found a deal or two in the ads.
The carpets were a little soiled but nothing a good steam and extract couldn't solve.
Now on to the exterior paint condition.
Remember those white dots I was talking about? Check it out it's all over the car. I was using yellow riccardo's on the paint and it just took a really long time so I decided to pull out the heavy hitter blue riccardos.
This was a poor attempt at a 50/50 for some reason I couldn't get the imperfections to show up as nicely as usual. Regardless of that you'll notice the hazing and swirls on the right side while the left is nice and clean. I had to hit the left side with 2 passes of Power Finish and White Sonus and in some areas I had to hit with 3-4 passes. I burnished the paint with blue and micro polish.
Rocker Panel Corrected
Passenger side door 50/50.
AFTERS
Application of Sealant
Completed Product
Thanks for looking and thank the pretty smart car for coming to me in the first place
Cheers,
Nick
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lol I didn't drive it. I moved it from the drive way into the garage and it definitely doesn't feel that secure.
xjonmo, it was a small car and little to polish but it had such weird curves that I had to hand polish certain spots. The little paint spots were not fun at all. Claying took a long time.
xjonmo, it was a small car and little to polish but it had such weird curves that I had to hand polish certain spots. The little paint spots were not fun at all. Claying took a long time.
Nikku - I still can't believe your work, you do a fantastic job. You better believe if I am ever around your area i'm taking a pit stop to have the G cleaned up by you. I need someone with those skills in Mass.
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