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DetailersDomain Apr 23, 2011 11:48 AM

Detailer's Domain: Maserati Quattroporte S
 
This car that was bought pre owned in great shape! Interior, engine bay prepped well, however the customer wanted to clean up the paint not too bad, your typical light swirls and scratches. The customer also requested to debadge the 4.7 off the trunk lid. All in all the customer was pleased with the end results.

What was done -
Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Pre Washed with W99
- Iron X Car Wash was used to remove any iron deposits (not much on this one)
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Clayed
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- 2 Step - Menzerna Super Intensive Polish with Uber Green Pad followed by Menzerna PO85RD with Uber Blue Pad
- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
- Last Step – Autoglym HD Wax
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed
- Jambs steam cleaned

Engine -
- Cleaned and Dressed

Interior
- Leather Cleaned
- Leather Conditioned
-Dash and plastics steamed and dressed
-Carpets Vacuumed and Steamed

Links to products used -

Exterior
1Z einszett W99
Iron X
Uber Blue Clay Bar Kit
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
Menzerna Super Intensive Polish
Menzerna PO85RD
Autoglym HD Wax
Adam's Glass Cleaner
Car Pro Perls

Interior
Leather Master Foam Cleaner on the Alcantara
Leather Master NuBuck Protectant on the Alcantara

Leather Master Strong Cleaner
Leather Master Vital Conditioner
1Z einszett Cockpit

Engine - Sorry no pics
Adam's In and Out
Adam's All Purpose Cleaner

Tools:
Flex PE 14 2 150
Porter Cable 7424XP
Uber Blue, Green, Black Pads
Metro Vac
Brushes
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann LED
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name Towels
Kranzle K1120T
Cam Spray Foam Attachment
Defelsko 6000

Before interior (not much to see some just some light house keeping and routine work)
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0435.jpg

After Interior
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0492.jpg

Before shots
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0449.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0448.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0444.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0443.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0438.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0432.jpg
Prep - Wheels, Wheel Well, Tiress Cleaned, Pre Wash, IronX, Rinse, Clay
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0446.jpg

Wheels were not bad at all no brushes were used, just the wheel cleaner
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0450.jpg

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner on the wheels
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0453.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0454.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0455.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0456.jpg

Iron X Soap Gel used prior to claying
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0458.jpg

Drying the car down after the final rinse with the NEW Uber No Name Super Drying Towel....
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0459.jpg

We clayed the windows and the paint
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0460.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0461.jpg

Before debadge - dental floss and 3m adhesive remover were used to remove the emblem. Any hazing/marring was removed with polish
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0440.jpg

Debadged
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0485.jpg

Tires with Perls.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0474.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0483.jpg

Paint Measurement
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0463.jpg

50/50
Here are a couple examples of what was all over the car, nothing crazy, but enough to annoy most customers that care about their cars.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0469.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0465.jpg

After Polishing before Wax
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0472.jpg

Autoglym HD Wax
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0473.jpg

After Autoglym HD Wax - WOW
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0482.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0480.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0481.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0477.jpg

After shots:

Sun wasn't out till about the time the customer picked up.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0500.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0496.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0494.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0490.jpg
Got a few sun shots in
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0501.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0502.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/IMG_0504.jpg

Enjoy

(Permission for this write up granted by the owner)

djfarhan Apr 25, 2011 07:35 PM

that interior is sick!

350zspl Apr 27, 2011 02:19 PM

is a chamois cloth accepatble for drying a car ?

You did a wonderful job, looks amazing , I hope you get at least $500 for all that work. Looks like about 6-10 hours of work.

DetailersDomain Apr 27, 2011 03:16 PM


Originally Posted by 350zspl (Post 5838612)
is a chamois cloth accepatble for drying a car ?

You did a wonderful job, looks amazing , I hope you get at least $500 for all that work. Looks like about 6-10 hours of work.

thanks a chamois is okay but I prefer to use our uber super drying towel.

LakeShore_Slate Apr 27, 2011 04:52 PM

Thank for sharing, WOW looks great, that wax is some serious stuff. I'm googling it right now. Great job on detail!:biggthumpup:


Originally Posted by 350zspl (Post 5838612)
is a chamois cloth accepatble for drying a car ?

You did a wonderful job, looks amazing , I hope you get at least $500 for all that work. Looks like about 6-10 hours of work.

Chamois scare me because they get so hard when they are dry, check out a waffle weave as well.

Condition May 8, 2011 05:16 PM

One word, wow!

infinitig35 May 9, 2011 12:51 PM

Great job. So how many cars you detailed in a month?

sdonabo Jun 3, 2011 01:24 AM

wowwww flawless


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