This car is a 2006 Mercedez CLS 55 AMG. it has 18000 miles. the paint was in pretty good shape considering the car sits outside all day every day. This isn't a daily driver, but since it isn't garaged i wanted to go with a LSP that was going to last a while, so i went with 1Z Glanz wax.

The paint had a lot of RIDS, so i needed to do a 3-step polishing on this car. i spent a whole 3 DAYS on this car just to make it absolutely flawless.

thoughts on M95- i like it, it has a pretty good work time, but i found that it doesn't cut as much or finish down as fine as M105. Especially on this ceramic clear coat it was hard to correct the paint.


Exterior

-Wash
-P21s TAW pre-soak
-CG CWG
-white shMITT

-Wheels
-CG CWG
-P21s Wheel Cleaner Gel
-EZ detail brush
-Swissvax wheel brush
-OXO tire scrubber
-white shMITT
-ARO (tires)

-Wheel Wells
-Simple Green
-EZ detail Brush

Clay
-Special Yellow Clay (you know...)
-ONR lube

Engine
-P21s TAW
-Meguiar's Hyper Dressing

Polishing

-Exterior paint

-M95 via LC fast cut Wool @ 1500RPM
-M95 via Purple Foamed Wool @ 1500RPM
-Menzerna SIP via Orange CCS pad @ 1500RPM
-Menzerna PO85RD via Black CCS pad @ 1500RPM
-Makita 9227C
-3M backing plate
-1000w halogen lights
-ISA 50/50 wipedown

-Wheels
-1Z Chrome Polish

-Exhaust
-1Z chrome polish
-#0000 steel wool

LSP

-Exterior Paint
-1Z Glanz Wax
-FK1 # 425

-Wheels
-Swissvax Autobahn (2 coats)
-FK1 # 425
-Optimum opti-bond tire gel
-CG Barebones (wheel wells)

Extras
-Stoner's Invisible Glass
-1Z Glass Polish
-1Z Gummi Pflege

Interior

-CG Leather Cleaner
-1Z ****pit Premium
-Zaino Z10
-Stoner's Invisible Glass


Before pictures. notice the hedlights were fogged up before i got there.








the Brake calipers were full of grime and brake dust. P21s Wheel gel took care of this problem!





look at how dirty the clay was! (don't mind the black rubber marks)






After Claying the entire car

 

Getting close to the end of day 2 on the job. After polishing with SIP.

 

at the end of day 2 i had completed polishing the car and applied 1Z Glanz wax.


Day 3 i went back in the morning to give the car a wipedown with FK425 and do the interior.










Finished!!!

 

 

 

 

i hope you enjoyed seeing that! thanks for looking!

Dom

 

looks fantastic!

 

thanks!

 

looks clean.

 

Very nice work on a very nice car.

 

great job

 

thanks a lot everyone

 

looks great, do you just rub the grade 0000 steel wools on the rims as if you were wetsanding?


great work!

 

no, only the exhaust pipes.

thanks!