APAD: 04 Mazda 3 BLACK - full detail (pics=lots)

[m4gician]

Hi everyone,

Long time since my last S&S, but with my new P&S camera, I'll be posting a hell of a lot of pictures from every job I do from now on as a reference.

Background: This car was a referral from an online community board. This car was severely oxidized, contaminated, and had swirls galore. In fact form a far, you thought this car was attacked by spiderman with all the deep swirling and webbing. 2004 Mazda 3, just over 110,000km so definitely still great looking. But hey, black cars like this are my
- FAVOURITE (no joke, I love working on these cars), and hope to get more in the future.

I'll post the pictures in sections Before/After. Enjoy, and thanks for taking the time, sorry for my amateur camera skills.

Products Used:
Wash
- DP Xtreme Foam Shampooo
- Pinnacle Autobody Shampoo + ONR in wash water
- AG microfibre mitt
- grit guards w/ two bucket method
- Special Wheel Well/Tire Degrease foam
- Special Wheel/Rim gel liquid cleaner
- Ricardo Yellow Clay w/ ONR lube
Polish
- Menz SIP
- Blue Magic Metal Polish (exhaust tip only)
Wax
- DP Max Wax
Interior
- Megs APC 9:1
Tires/Trim
- 303 Aerospace
- Back to Black
- Aerosol Dressing

Before

[m4gician]

Looks fun eh? I started with the wheels and tires before wash and clay. I used my special formula and it seemed to work well









After the wheels and tires were taken care of somewhat, I gave the car a foam bath, rinse, wash and clay.



















Time to look at what we have here:



Swirls:

















....my plan of attack? Going to try this combo out, hopefully it works and finishes somewhat LSP ready because this looks like it's going to be a long and pronfanity filled war.



Long story short, did that the whole car, here's a 50/50:



Interior get's a vac as well



Exhaust Tip:













AFTER SHOTS

Exhaust Tip

[m4gician]

Interior

We didn't agree on a carpet shampoo, I would've gladly done it but I was running low on time to be able to do it, so please forgive the salt stain. I did get rid of all the debris and gave it athat new car smell. All surfaces were wiped down with Megs APC 9:1 and 303 Aerospace. I will always shampoo the carpets from now on.














Exterior (finally, thanks for waiting)

The car was coated in DP Max Wax, tires in 303, trim in Back to Black, Exhaust tip in Blue Magic Metal Cream, Windows with Stoners (afterwards)











































THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY TO LOOK

[ryandamartini]

Nice man. Its good to see someone have success against a bad car. I lost a battle today so this is heartening, hehe.

Tried to get done a late 90's ford taurus red metallic. Busted out the rotary, yellow pad and optimum hyper compound at 1500rpm. The paint just laughed at me. Time for wool I guess.

Again, great job on the black 8)

[m4gician]

Black is great to work on because it shows a really dramatic change so it's more "rewarding." Heh, with the way I talk about this I'm pretty much asking Toto to adopt me and let me work on his car.

[ryandamartini]

Black is great to work on because it shows a really dramatic change so it's more "rewarding." Heh, with the way I talk about this I'm pretty much asking Toto to adopt me and let me work on his car.

I miss Toto. I hope he is doing ok.