Pearl Accura TL Single Pass..Pics

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

Well time for another write up that is long over due :)...we did this Accura TL about a month ago. The owner desperately needed the inside and outside done...I can't tell you which was worse so i'll just flip a coin...heads for interior....tales for exterior......so the answer is!


...damn coin landed on its side...go figure!

So this car was a very nice car....i liked it quite a bit and am a big fan of pearl colored paint...this poor thing was not only swirled though, but was just a freakin mess...like she went off roading with it or something.

I'll give you a quick run down on what we used for those of you who want to know :)

Exterior:

Dawn soap (coulda used AJAX on this thing!)
Megs APC for bugs
Tarminator for...well...tar:idea:
Griots DA
Hydro Tech Polishing pad 5.5"
LC Flat Low Profile Polishing Pad 5.5" and 4"
Megs D151 (my go to single pass product!)
Megs #20 Sealant
Megs Hyperdressing 1:1 on tires

Interior:
Megs #39 and #40 for cleaning and dressing
Megs APC+ for carpets
Oxyclean for carpets
APC for leather seats
Pinnacle Leather Conditioner

I think thats all :dblthumb2:


So for the fun part...the pictorials! I've uploaded 79 of these damn things onto AG's photo album..I don't know how many I'll use but...probably a lot lol:dblthumb2:

Heres a full frontal :laughing:

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yeahhh the bugs kinda had a field day right there as you can see.

Here it is from another angle...was kinda overcast that day but you can still tell the paint doesn't have the 'pop' that it should have.

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Scuff marks anyone?

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Now when i quoted the car..it was dirty yes (as you can see)...but after washing it i found something that i really wasn't expecting and cost me a good amount of time..

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This is the area around where the license plate is...and nooo...the car does not have freckles. I was paint overspray...I asked the lady when we were done if she had her house painted since she had been there...she said yes about TWO YEARS ago (yeah it had been on there for a while). Well I guess the genius painters didnt A: ask her to pull the car out before they painted the garage door...orrr B: Put some damn plastic over the car!

Funny thing is, just a week before...we repainted a garage door for a guy and asked him to pull out his van because guess what....a 2000+ psi airless sprayer...has enough power to push paint through the splits between the sections in a garage door!:bash:
You would THINK a professional..or should i say "professional" painter would know this...but what do i know? ....Well i'll tell you what i know...it took about 45 minutes alone to clay the area around the license plate and the tail lights that the paint stuck to...but it came off...and my arm almost came off too :)

Ok enough ranting on my part...lets take a closer look at this paint:

Here is a brinkmann shot of the front of the hood

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Dull and swirled as you can see...a nice slow section pass took care of that though:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1061/1_19_.JPG

See...pearl...pretty and bright again hehe.


The sun had popped its head out just for a second because it knew that i wanted a good sun pic of the swirls on the hood...yeah me and the sun...we've got it like that :xyxthumbs:

Heres what the sun showed me:

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ohhhh yeah thats the good stuff right there. THATS what i was lookin for.
Now by the time we finished...the sun of course...cause it likes me so much...had come back out because it knew i HAD to have sun shots to show off what awesome work me and Mr. Griots DA did. Tell me what you think:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1061/1_16_.JPG


Sweetness...heres another:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1061/1_17_.JPG

Some more brinkmann shots of the side:

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Those went bye bye also:
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Now probably the nastiest looking scratch on this thing was right here behind the drivers back door:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1061/1_20_.JPG

See that sort of 'squiggle' looking thing...yup...nasty lookin scratch. I don't know how it GOT there...but i know how it got OUT of there:buffing:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1061/1_21_.JPG

....I was a buffin, buffin, buffin machine! (instead of dancing machine..jackson 5 come on people!) Now..not only is that scratch gone..but you gotta admit that is a pretty sweet looking reflection shot now isn't itIm the MAN

Here is a nice sun shot of the roof when we were finished:

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And the trunk

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I gotta say..I'm gettin pretty good at those single passes...there is a deep scratch here n' there...but you'd have to really look to find em...i'd say 85% correction or so wouldn't you?

And here are a few beauty shots for you guys

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No more bugs up front:)

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Mmmmhmmm...doesn't it just look fast now? It had some 'oomph' to it trust me...i touched the gas a little to get it back in the garage...and that thing was ready to go for 60 mph lol.

Well that does it for the exterior pictures...but remember i said that coin landed on its damn side as far as which was worse..interior or exterior...well that was for a reason...take a looksie:


I'll start you out with the running boards...since thats the first thing that caught our eyes when we opened up the door...

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

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My sis being the interior detailing queen that she is knocked this on out:

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Passenger side runners were no better:

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They got all better too though :props:
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Now now, no peeking...only look at the runners...not the fact that the leather on the side of the seat transformed before your eyes...nope....don't look at that.

...because I've got a MUCH better picture of how insanely messed up that seat was!

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_72_.JPG

Ok class...all together now....'ewwwwwwww'

But after placing an order with our local dealer and installing a new seat this is how it looked (im kidding!)

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_73_.JPG

The back of the seat was equally as 'ewwwww'
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_70_.JPG

but turned out equally as 'ooooooo'

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The dash was dirty and dull looking...probably hadn't been dressed in forever
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there it is all clean with a nice 'natural sheen' ..notice the big grease spot that was on the carpet is now gone too :nomore:

Heres a shot from the drivers side before:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_78_.JPG

And after:

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_79_.JPG

Drivers seat was in rough shape too...which was to be expected...they usually are

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_49_.JPG

I think it had quite a nice turn around though!
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*in Daffy Ducks voice* The drivers door was desssssspicable !

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yeah yeah you know the routine by now...it turned out wonderful

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Center Console was a mess...lots of little things to clean around
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Here it is after the dust monsters were evicted
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The back seats were a hot mess too of course

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/../gallery/data/1061/1_34_.JPG

But they along with the back carpets turned out quite beauteous

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The drivers floor was...well...the drivers floor
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And we didn't really care haha

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Well guys I think i'll leave it at that...that must be a good 50+ pictures for ya ...Hope you enjoyed the write up and the photos...I still have MORE write ups to do...i'll get around to it eventually i promise...take care!

[VISITOR]

nice job cleaning her up, she sure needed it. how you liking the GG6?

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

nice job cleaning her up, she sure needed it. how you liking the GG6?

I love it...i can really tell it has much more power than my PC...which sometimes i need thats for sure! I do have to kick it down to 5 or 5.5 for some areas...especially curved/rounded area because it's easy to almost lose a pad...especially a 4"...but even at the lower setting it gives great correction...as you can see :)

[C. Charles Hahn]

Talk about a major improvement... nice work!

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

Talk about a major improvement... nice work!

Thank you...I didnt expect many replies tonight. I guess I'm not the only late night prowler on here:xyxthumbs:

[Marc08EX]

Great job Wills!!! The turnaround was dramatic! I'm sure the owner was pleased.

How's it going?

[jimmyjam]

Nice save!! Great job :xyxthumbs:

[SeaJay's]

Nice work!

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

Great job Wills!!! The turnaround was dramatic! I'm sure the owner was pleased.

How's it going?

Im good man how you been? Yeah she was happy...when she came out she said 'wow...i really didn't know it could look that good'...i like reactions like that :)


Nice save!! Great job :xyxthumbs:
Thanks Jimmy


Nice work!

Thank you to :)

[jlb85]

Wills, looking really good! One step or not, the difference is remarkable. The interior looks very clean!

Good job!!

[Southern Stang]

What did you use with the carpet wills? Awesome turn around!

[Wills.WindowsAndWheels]

Wills, looking really good! One step or not, the difference is remarkable. The interior looks very clean!

Good job!!

Thats kinda what i thought...1 step or not...that baby came out quite nice...thank you for your kind words :)


What did you use with the carpet wills? Awesome turn around!

We use the shop vac first...vacuum em clean. Then hit them with Megs APC+ 4:1 (pretty use a good amount on the bad spots)...the i will also use Folex on the bad grease spots. Then i take my hot water with Oxyclean and wet the carpets....after that i go over it with my PC with the white brush attachment...which i forgot to mention in my 'things used' list...it is a HUGE time saver and works very well...then i just extract...i get the 'rows' look by running the extractor 'up' for one row and 'down' for the other...note this is the LAST thing i do...first i pull 'north to south' since the head of our little extractor has better suction that way...then i'll go 'east to west'...so i make sure all the dirt is totally out before i put the rows in...that part is just for looks :)...the actually extracting ill go in every direction needed to pull out the dirt.

[gibbsj87]

How do you get those carpets so clean!!!???

[Urweak]

Car looks great, the only thing i cant stand is when people put the lines in the carpet. It looks like a circus tent.

To many dealerships do this with their extractor machines. It really annoys me. My thought is, you are detailing it to return it to the way it looked when it came off the factory line (or better in some cases). The car didnt have circus tent strips in the carpet then, dont put them in it now.