Day Five, January 18th, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Process and Product Outline
Wipe car with Zaino Z6 to clean off any dust and dirt from the body
Wash undercarriage with a combination of alkaline soap and various brushes, rinse and repeat x 3
Clean aluminum parts with 0000 steel wool and alkaline soap.
303 Areospace Protectant on all plastic and rubber.
Zaino Fusion Z-PC via PC and LC Blue Pad on a couple ligh spots on the B pillars
Zaino Z5 pro x 2 (zfx'd) to paint.
Zaino Z2 pro x 1 (zfx'd) to paint
Zaino Z8 final wipedown.
Deep Finish Deep Swax to rims (outside and in).
Meguiars #16 to wheel well lips, door jambs, hood and trunk jambs.
Meguiars Pro Line Window Cleaner on glass.
Zaino Z12 Glass Polish by hand on waterspots on window
Q-tipped entire car, inside and outside, upside and underneath.
I started at 7:30 by wiping the car down lightly with Zaino Z6 to remove the light dust that had settled on the exterior and wiping the interior down with Meguiars' Quik Interior Detailier. The carpets where revaccumed.
The paint received an additional 3 coats of Zaino. In the interm, since the last show, the owner of this Ferrari had some pretty cool pictures hung in the garage, so I decieded to capture some reflections of the vintage Ferrari's that adorn his walls.
The original plan was to drive the car to a lift to clean the undercarriage. Because of the weather (and impending rain) I choose to drive the car on to ramps and squeeze underneath. About 4 hours where spent, contourting my arms and hands to ways that I didn't know possible.
Here is the transaxle cover and transmission case before...
After...
Here is 50/50 (the far area hasn't been done) of the pan after a LOT of scrubbing with 0000 steel wool and degreaser.
Different view...
Finished up...
The rest of the undercarriage was mostly black plastic belly pans that where scrubbed and treated to 303. Because of the tight fit under the car, I couldn't document with photo's how I had planned to. Sorry.
So now it was time to find any surface that wasn't perfect and spend as much time to make it perfect.
The inside lips of the exhaust tips had some light carbon staining that 0000 steel wool removed (in combination with Meguiars NXT All Metal Polysh). The left side has been down, the right still has the light staining on the inner lip. The difference is small, but perfection is the goal.
In my search for any dust or dirt, I found some hiding behind the mirrors!
A q-tip and some Meguiars APC (10/1)...
Perfect (minus the dried APC which, of course, was removed)
Other mirror...
All connections, crevices, and any spot where dust or grim might have worked its way into was q-tipped with APC, then treated with 303.
Wheel well lips and all jambs recieved a coat of M16 on top of the Zaino.
Almost done... Looks great right...
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