Grey Ferrari 458 Italia by Tru Shine and Unique Mobile Detailing

[Tru_Shine]

This is one of the other cars David and I was able to take care of while we were out in Huntsville AL. The owner had just got back from his trip to Texas and the front of the car was covered with bugs. This car had never been washed and only wiped down with MF towels and detail spray, So I knew I was going to have some surface marring. Lets begin!


This is the car when I arrived.











Notice in this picture, you can clearly see the surface scratches from "just wiping with detail spray"







For the first step of the decontamination stage I used Megs Body solvent to help release the bugs from the bumper (this product OK, I wont be buying any again, I would rather buy Tardis, or Tarminator next time)



While that is working on the bugs, David and I use Sonax Full Effect to clean the wheels
(I love this wheel cleaner because it completely pH balanced and safe for all wheels and does an amazing job actually "cleaning" the brake dust)





This is the Sonax reacting with the iron particles of the brake dust



On these wheels I used the Wheels Woolie and other various brushes to help agitate the wheels













Notice even after thoroughly cleaning the wheels, there are still a few clumps of tar left behind. to remove these these, I used the Megs solvent and wheel woolie to clean it off.

[Tru_Shine]

applying the solvent to the WW



agitating the tar







Next we pre rinse the paint, dislodging and loose/heavy debris.



Next we give the car a foam bath to help give suspension to the dirt on the surface







After washing the paint we moved onto the motor which was pretty dirty









First the pre-rinse



Then some APC was applied and agitated





then rinsed and treated with 303 protectant


Next we move to the claying step, this is a very important step, you always want to make sure you get the paint surface as pure and clean as possible. We used Clay Magic blue fine clay and Dodo juice Born Slippy



then we used the Metro Vac N Blow and MF towels to dry off the car







Next we taped up all trim and plastic using Meguiars masking tape

[Tru_Shine]

For this car we used the Meguiars MF DA system on the Griots 6in DA and Megs G110 polishing with Tang pad and m205 (any deeper marks were removed with surbuff and M105)







to clean up the tail pipes we used bushes aluminum plolish







glass cleaned using Megs Class cleaner Concentrate



quick clean up on the interior





applying Black Fire wet diamond



and here are some of the Glossy Final pictures

[Tru_Shine]

Thanks for looking, I hope you enjoyed, I know I sure did!

-Eric Witt and David Purser

[jpegs13]

Outstanding work! The 458 is my 2nd favorite Italian car

[09Vapor]

Thanks for the write up I it informative and very helpful on some of the product I was wondering about.

[SeaJay's]

Great work! Love that car!

[bw72]

Great job. The after shots are amazing. I always look forward to your posts.

[Chris's FX4]

Excellent job and absolutely beautiful.

Thanks for all the excellent pictures too.

The 458 is probably my favorite car and up high on my dream list, next to the Ford GT.

[Tru_Shine]

Thanks Everyone!

Excellent job and absolutely beautiful.

Thanks for all the excellent pictures too.

The 458 is probably my favorite car and up high on my dream list, next to the Ford GT.

did you get to see the write up on that white/blue Ford GT i done?