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Extreme Exterior Makeover Contest Begins!
Extreme Exterior Makeover Contest!
To enter contest you must have a full write up of how you worked your magic and the products you used! Also lots of pictures (I’m sure that won’t be a problem for anyone here, we all like to show off our work!!)
The whole reason of this contest is to show some of the newer member what can be done with the right products and the right knowledge!
When all the entries are in we will get it down to a few finalists and then turn it back to all of the forum members to vote for which one they think is the best! There will be one grand prize and prizes for second and third place.
Grand prize will be a Cyclo Polisher! Second prize will be valued at approximately $100 value and third will be approximately $75 value.
Main Points to Cover
- Exterior only on this contest
- Must take before and after shots
- List products and methods used, as full of a write up as you can provide please
- If possible post picture of before then one of after right after to show the change
- Contest will run until May 28th this will give a fair advantage to those members experiencing their second winter right now.
- No comments will be posted in this thread; I will have a second thread for comments and questions.
- On May 16th a poll will be put up so the members can judge the winner
- If too many entries, staff will narrow down to top 10 to vote on
- No maximum of photos, but please resize so they are not too large.
- Please no duplicate pictures, try to pick out 15-30 of your best before and afters
- Majority of products used must consist of Autogeek products
- Use may only enter one detail for this contest
- Exterior does not include engine bay for this contest
- First place takes a Cyclo!
- Can use machines
- Open to professionals and amateurs.
Well what are you all waiting for go find that junker out in the field and get to work!
Please do not post in this thread unless you are entering. See the link below for "sound off" thread for you to post comments on.
Sound Off- for Extreme Makeover Contest
Last edited by Meghan; 04-17-2008 at 07:51 AM.
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I'm the first? Too much pressure....Sorry about the size of the photos. Im not very savvy with the computer.
Nice woman called me up, asking me to do a full detail on a 325I that she was putting up for sale. Sight unseen, I didnt quote her a price. When she arrived, I thought this thing got hit by a hurricane or two! Truly unbelievable, the condition this thing was in. I felt like calling the humane society but I dont think they deal in neglected 3-Series. The woman left, still without a quote from me. I continued with my orders, to make it look nice again. After it was washed (which took over an hour in itself) and I could actually see what bad condition the paint was in, I knew I was going to have a lot of time into it so I called the owner up and told her what I thought it would take to get it back to above average condition. This is when she told me to do all I could for $150. Ugghh...... Ok. I didnt have anything else planned that day so this is what $150 gets you with Dropkick Detail in Idaho.....rates have since been raised. Also, I my wife stole the camera after I snapped the befores so there are very few shots of the different phases I went through.
Process:
Pressure wash
Wash w/mf mitt and Production Wash & Wax
CB w/ Megs Mild CB
Re-wash
PB SSR 2.5 via PC & orange LC pad
Meg's 83 via PC & orange LC pad
106ff via PC & gray ccs
Menz FG via PC & white ccs
Natty's Blue by hand
I started out by degreasing the tires, wheels, and motor. I then pressure washed it to get rid of the top layer of filth.
While the customer was showing me around the car, she wanted to show me the scratches on the trunk her husband put in it with his softball bag so she started rubbing the dirt. It was like nails down a chalk board when I heard the dirt scratching on the paint.
Here's a couple of shots of the trunk after I washed it, clayed using Meg's Mild, then washed again using Productions Wash 'N Wax. You can see the wicked scratches. I did do some wetsanding on the back which you can see helped but didnt remove everything.
I started out by wetsanding with 2000g the stuff I thought would clear up then went over it with Menz PO 91E which took out the wetsanding scratches much better than I thought it would. Once that was complete I tried Meg's #83 with a flat orange PC pad and things started to clear up but I felt like I could get more out of it. I pulled out the SSR 2.5 (which I had just received from AG that day!) and I was getting the results I liked. After I did the entire car with SSR 2.5, I went around once more with Meg's #83 and another orange pad. Any paint correction that I was going to get done on this car was complete. (Oh, and I failed to mention that I busted my Makita backing plate the weekend before so all the correction done on this bimmer was done via PC). After the last pass with the #83, I went around the entire car once more with a 5.5" orange LC CCS pad and 106ff. Maybe it was overkill, but I had some more time so layed down some Menz finishing glaze with a white 5.5" LC CCS pad. Looked sharp, so I finished the paint off with a layer of Natty's blue by hand. Here is the final product. Again, sorry there were'nt more "during" pics.
I appreciate you letting me share. Thanks for looking.
Last edited by Dropkick Detail; 04-26-2008 at 02:33 PM.
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Rims/Tires/Wells:
Rims were rinsed off, then treated w/Meg's Wheel Brite and agitated with a sponge and rinsed off. They got a QD wipe down and to get in btwn the smaller spokes. And a final coat of AW.
Tires were cleaned w/Awesome APC, agitated w/black schmitt. They got a coat of DP Tire gel, after it cured for hours, I put on a 2nd coat of D2G dressing.
Wells cleaned w/Awesome APC and dressed w/Fade2Black
Wash Process:
Rinsed off and then foamed w/Vroom foam gun. In the bucket I had Wash and Gloss with sponge. After car was washed and rinsed it was foamed up again and clayed w/Riccardo clay. Rinsed, foamed and washed one more time. For drying the car was sprayed down w/QD and dried w/WW drying towels.
Paint Correction:
There were some scratches on the trunk the customer wanted to know if I could get out... so I wet-sanded w/2000 grit, didn't even budge the scratches. Oh well.
I did 1-2 passes of Menz. PG via Flex and LC purple foamed wool pad.
1-2 passes of Menz. SIP via Flex and 5.5-6.5" LC yellow CCS pad
1 pass of System 1 via flex and white 6.5" Cobra flex groove, all were done with speed 6, except last pass of S1 went from 4-6-4.
After all the polishing, I did what I didn't want to do, I drove the car back out of the garage and re-washed it!!!!
LSP:
Before I applied Fuzion I used Lusso Oro Creme via Flex and a black CCS pad to ensure I had a really clean surface to work with.
I ended up doing two coats of Fuzion... I was going to top Fuzion with Souveran but decided against it!!!
First night I did a coat using body line motions, buffed off. When I came out the next day I did a light QD wipe down to remove the dust. On the 2nd application of Fuzion I did the wax-on motion. Buffed off with a Tropi-care plush MF ( I LOVE THESE THINGS)
Others:
Polished out the pipes(No pics), grill and license plate frame w/Master Formula
All trim dressed w/VRP
Black honey comb grill got F2B
Windows SIG
3M green tape to tape off vehicle
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