My CS is now in concourse shape. Special Thanks to Aaron of 3lgautodetail.com. He spent 2 full days detailing in his *** off in 30* weather to get my toy exactly the way I wanted. ENJOY!!!

From Aaron:
"Where to start. Well I guess wash. 38* to start the day off. I dropped down to 28 by the time i left at 7 pm. It was snowing on the way home.

Overall the car had almost no swirling. the exceptions were around the hood emblem, roof, and verticals on the passenger rear. It did not have much depth, clarity, or color definition. The wheels had a fair amount of asphalt in them. The air boxes needed to be polished and sealed. Muffler can polished, titanium tips polished, etc.

Pre-wash pictures.



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Wash photos. The car had been clayed with swisswax paint rubber. Using ONR QD strength as a lube.

 

Taped off. As you can see the Claying brought out a lot of gloss, I did not however do much for depth or for color definition.







This is after polishing. As i had mentioned there were few swirls, mostly it was wipe, rub, or scratching. I started out with 3m ultrafina on a blue pad. It did not have enough cut to remove the marring on the front. It also gave me a fair bit of chirping on the paint. I switched to 106 at 1000-1500-1000 and it improved greatly. The main areas with scratching and marring still remained. I stepped up to SIP green pad 1000-1500-1000 for those areas. That removed 98% of what could be removed. The rest i deemed needed 4k paper.

 

The car was then polished out with 106 white pad.




I only took two-3 pics of it polished out. Why, well by that point it was 5 pm, I did not have a whole bunch of time left.
I then applied swiss wax cleaner fluid to the rear 2/3rds of the car. Flex speed 2 to apply 4 to work in, black pad. The front was to receive venture shield the following week. I did not want cleaner fluid to interfere with the venture shield application. So i left that area bare.





I removed the cleaner fluid. By this time it is fully dark out. I started on the hand application of Concourso. Again only one picture, time was running out. I still had a fair amount to do that day.

 

Photo's of the car after concourso removal.






Okay here it is a week later, venture shield has been installed. I have returned to finish up the front apply the remaining concourso, and 2nd layer of concourso. Today's temp was hovering around 36*.

First the car received an ONR Wash. You can see the venture shield slip solution drippings and drops all over the car. to my surprise this was fairly sticky and tacky. ONR made quick work of it though.

 

I'll use this picture to illustrate a point. From this angle the car looks near flawless. I bumped up the shadow contrast 4 points.



Here it is at another angle, I lowered high light detail fully. (i shoot raw and convert to jpg.)


That is the remaining slip solution, ONR cleaned it up very easily.

Look just under the passenger mirror.


One of the requests by the customer was to polish out both air boxes, and the muffler can.
before engine bay wipe down. Note the can, and air boxes.

 

Engine bay is wiped down. I did my first test polish of the driver side air box. I went back over it with lc green 106ff speed 6, then lc white 106 speed six after this photo.


Both air boxes fully polished.



Notice the matte finish on the fire wall carbon fiber versus the air box.



On to the can. First step was to wipe it down with mothers billet by hand. and then wip it off.

 

Next step was to Green LC mothers billet at speed 6 times 3. Yeah there was that much goo on there. Then Adams number 2 on white LC speed 6 times 2. Notice the glossy air boxes. I did not get all of the scratching out of the can. I wish i could have used my rotary in that space. I simply was unwilling to put the edge of the pads so close to the lip of the carbon air boxes. I stuck with my PC. I think it is a huge improvement. Not as great as i would have liked, but better safe than sorry. I finished out the rest of the carbon, aluminum with Klasse AIO



Onto the interior carbon. the customer had expressed a wish to have the interior carbon lightly polished and sealed. I used Klasse aio by hand.

 

After interior wipe down






I used swiss wax cleaner fluid on the front, then started concourso on the un waxed portion of the car.

 

After the car's second layer of concourso






on to the under carriage. It was a bit of a mess, not bad by any means. Just dusty for the most part.



After steam cleaning, dressing. the photo's were taken as the dressing was drying. So it will appear a little blotchy.





Fin.



Thanks to the owner for the opportunity to do this.

~Aaron

 

Vincent,

The car looks dynamite!

What was used on the Challenge grille?

Nice carpets! Who did those?

 

Awesome CS! Is it Rosso Corsa ??

 

1. Car looks great, V. Thanks for posting it all up.
2. Let me know if you need any help getting it dirty again.
3. Is that at your place? What water are we looking at? Or is that a valley?
4. If that is your SRT-8, I might say you have the ultimate pair of wheels.
5. I still hate you in a love-hate kind of way.
6. Wow, the car looks extremely immaculate. How many miles are on it?
7. I never realized how much I like the black calipers. I think with the red paint and CF mirrors, Challenge grills, etc (black accents), I wouldn't have done it any other way.
8. The company's tag is "Clean, condition, protect" - Tell me your main goal was to protect because this beaut will NOT be a garage queen!!

Cheers, bud.

 

Do you have any pics showing the work you did.


It looks great ! It's nice to see an owner (like myself) take the time to detail the car themselves it takes time but it is very rewarding.

 

9. Now that the muffler and CF air boxes are polished, do you have the BMC filters and Tubi ordered???

Bill - I think a hired company did the work . . .

 

Your rite I missed the first line. Great work non the less.