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2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
Going to be using some brand new products for this project tonight. Can't share the names yet but we will be introducing them at SEMA and they will be in stock starting in November.
So stay tuned to this thread to see the results.
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Re: 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
First things first... wash the car...
In my how-to book and in real life, I always start by washing the wheels and tires first and the reason why is explained in the book.
My personal choice for a tire dressing is the TUFF SHINE Tire Clearcoat because it leaves a natural, non-shiny, non-glossy finish which is dry to the touch. As long as you don't curb your tires or wash the tires with either a strong wheel and tire cleaner or any type of APC you also won't remove the clearcoat finish. In fact just normal car soap will clean your tires and the BIG plus is your wash mitt won't turn all black with an oily slime like most tire dressing will cause to your wash mitts.
Some kind of slimy tire dressing already on the tires...
Machine Clean Tires
The key is to get the tires surgically clean. The previous owner used some type of greasy, slimy dressing so to REALLY get the tires clean then in my opinion the best, easiest and fastest way to remove all the slimy tire dressing is by MACHINE!
Cyclo Brush on a Griot's DA Polisher = Best Machine Tire Scrubber
These tires have a lot of very thin or fine lines raised lines in the sidewall so to get into these areas and agitate the tire dressing I'm use a Gray, Ultra Soft Upholstery Brush made for Cyclo Polishers on a Griot's Garage DA Polisher on about the 5.0 Speed Setting with the TUFF SHINE Tire Cleaner.
Decontaminate Wheels
Since I've only owned this car for 5 days I have know idea what's been done for maintenance in the past so after machine scrubbing the tires the next thing I'm going to do is decontaminate the wheels using Iron X and a Daytona Speedmaster Wheel Brush, to get behind the spokes, the back of the wheel barrels and around the brake calipers. I used an 8" Montana Boar's Hair Wheel Brush to clean the face of the wheels.
Removing Iron Particles out of Mercedes-Benz Ceramiclear Paints
Following the steps outlined in my how-to book, the next thing to do is decontaminate the paint. For this I'm using Auto Finesse Iron Out Iron Remover.
Bleeding-Effect in Mercedes-Benz Ceramiclear Paint
Light Iron Contamination
These pictures show the paint was in fact lightly contaminated with some type of iron particles...
The BIG PICTURE
Yeah yeah yeah... I know, everyone loves seeing the bleeding-effect when using an Iron Remover because it looks cool. Kind of like how everyone loves seeing water bead-up after it rains on a freshly waxed car.
But here's the deal... while you do want to remove iron particles out of your car's clear coat finish for a number of reasons, in the big picture, this is a process you want to do, (to make sure any iron particles are removed), but in reality... you really don't want to see the bleeding-effect as this means your car's paint was in fact contaminated.
Iron contaminated paint indicates corrosion and deterioration of the clear coat has been taking place and because clear coat paints are THIN this is a bad thing. This is especially true for Ceramiclear paints because the very top layer or shell of a Ceramiclear paint is only around .2 mils for the nano particles of Fumed Silica which provide the scratch resistant characteristics that everyone loves about this type of paint.
Ceramiclear Paints - Be Careful
Here's an excerpt from the above article.
Originally Posted by Mike Phillips
From Dr. Ghodoussi...
After the "cerami"clear top coat is sprayed, the nano particles of Fumed Silica (SiO2), which are synthetically engineered, migrate to the top 0.2 mils of the clear coat as it is curing.
If you remove this potion of the clear layer of paint, the paint under it will be much softer and will not polish out or react the same way the nano particle portion did or would.
You will at some level have compromised the the finish on the car.
For the same reason you don't want to find iron contamination in a Ceramiclear paint job you also don't want to use aggressive compounds or polishes as they can remove too much of this top shell of fumed silica and expose the underlying softer paint resin.
The fact is...
It would be much better for the health and longevity of your car's paint to NOT see the bleeding-effect as this means your car's paint was not contaminated.
Make sense?
But yeah.... it looks cool even if like the paint on my MB the paint is only lightly contaminated with iron particles.
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Re: 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
Beautiful work Mike. That Merc was pretty contaminated. Especially the wheels.
I'm sure Stacy was thrilled with the way it turned out. Now the car matches her good looks and and the two of them will surely turn heads. Be careful buddy.
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Re: 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
ok found it.... what you say?? new products?? hmmmmm. i'll stay tuned
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Re: 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
Need to clay...
My co-worker and car buddy Jeff was checking out the Mercedes-Benz after I washed and dried the paint and he said,
"Looks good"
I said the paint is shiny and it does look good but feel it with your hand.
The Baggie Test
He said it felt smooth. So then I asked him to do the "Baggie Test", which he did...
Then he said,
"Wow! Feels rough!"
Headlights need some polishing...
Here's some before shots of the headlights. We're going to use the new All-in-One Headlight Restoration Polish to restore a clear finish.
Thursday Night Classes start at 5:00pm
At 5:00pm when we started this project everyone chipped in to help clay the paint, glass and any smooth plastic.
Here's a shot of Louie's clay after claying a portion of the hood, the clay doesn't show a lot of contaminants by way of color but as rough as the paint felt it could be clear overspray paint for all we know.
Tape-off and Cover-up
Next we used 3M Green Painter's Tape and 1/4" Blue Vinyl Tape to tape-off the car...
Test Spot
I asked Robert to do the Test Spot using Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover with a Tangerine Hydro-Tech Polishing pad on the Flex PE14.
Inspecting with a Swirl Finder Light
The results looked phenomenal but the pant looked good to start with.
Second Test Spot
I did the second Test Spot, which we should have done the first time, (my fault), only this time I used the same type of pad but went less aggressive with my product and tool. For this test spot I used a 5.5" Tangerine Hydro-Tech Flat pad on the Porter Cable 7424XP and Wolfgang Finishing Glaze.
This comb removed whatever light swirls, scratches, oxidation there was on the paint so this is the combo we used over the rest of the car. It's kind of nice to have a car where the paint isn't completely filled with deep swirls and scratches for once.
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Re: 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK 350 Show Car Makeover Pictures
Wow looks great now Mike!
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