The Little Yeller Feller - 2000 Lotus Esprit V8

[Jamie42]

This is the perfect colour for the old Esprit. Love their new design too.

[Mike Phillips]

Just to document, here's how the paint looked on this Lotus before we started...


The paint looks like someone washed it with steel wool...

















The above pictures were taken after we thorougly washed the car including using Iron X on the paint to remove iron particles.


Tip for Iron X users - Rinse well to avoid molding drip

My friend Jim Goguen of Jim's Auto Installations & Detailing Center, shared a tip to help people avoid having moldings, trim, even cracks and crevices from dripping purple throughout the day and that's to always rinse your project really well after using Iron X with concentrated focus on these areas.

One thing I would add when using Iron-X be sure to rinse moldings really well as they tend to hold the product and keep dripping purple all day

While a simple tip, I thought it was a great tip, so I turned his tip into a dedicated article to help others into the future while giving him due credit.


Here's some pictures to show you an example of the type of areas to make sure you rinse thoroughly.

Iron X is a great product for chemically removing embedded iron particles out of your car's or your customer's car's paint.

If this garage kept 2000 Lotus Esprit has iron contamination, how much more so the average daily driver parked outside most of the time?









All panted panels were thoroughly covered with Iron X early in the morning while it was still cool out so the Iron X could work its magic without drying to quickly.




Iron X is a thin liquid and will seep into cracks and crevices as well as behind exterior trim, moldings and even emblems and badges.

Be sure to rinse these areas really well to avoid having them continue to drip purple after washing and drying.





Thanks for the tip Jim!


Personal comment....
I really like Iron X and use it for almost all of my car detailing projects as well as show how to use it in my detailing boot camp classes.

I also feature it in all my automotive detailing how-to books as I think its' one of the most important first step a person can do to ensure show car results when detailing anything important. See my signature line for the various options for my how-to book.


As you can see by these pictures, this 2000 Lotus Esprit, even being garage kept and with only 9000 miles on it had iron contamination throughout all the body panel. The safest way to remove iron particles is to chemically dissolve them.

Mechanically removing them via detailing clay or some other mechanical is not only not as effective since the particles can be embedded in the paint, not on it, and if you do remove them mechanically you will then be rubbing them over the paint potentially inflicting swirls and scratches.

















The best way to ensure your car's paint is not contaminated with any type of iron particles is to use a product like Iron X to chemically remove these types of contaminants.

Then after removing the iron contaminants, finish washing and drying the car and re-inspect the paint using the Baggie Test. If you still feel little bumps on the paint this indicates some other form of contaminant and for this you would then use a mechanical means to remove them such as detailing clay or a product from Nanoskin such as their Nanoskin Autoscrub Wash Mitts, Towels or Pads.

Iron X will not remove contaminants like overspray paint, tree sap mist, etc. These will need to be removed after chemically decontaminating the paint to remove iron particles.

In most cases, if a paint has iron contamination it's highly likely it also has other forms of contaminants.

If you really want to create the nicest finish possible you must remove all forms of above surface and embedded contaminants as gloss comes from a smooth surface plus removing all contaminants makes all other correction and polishing steps safer and more effective.



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[Mike Phillips]

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