Porsche 996 Turbo

[OCDetails]

I did kind of a fun little car today. It wasn't really much work, but it was cold outside and that made it a bit of a pain. The only real problem were some fairly heavy swirls. They were removed with XMT2 and then finished off with Wolfgang pre cleaner and sealant. All in all it only took about 2 1/2 hours for the job. This guy is going to be a nice customer. He has a couple other vehicles that I'll be coming back to detail in a couple weeks when it warms up. I get to do his brothers vehicles too. It was a good day in a nice neighborhood that filled in the holes of my March schedule.

I'm trying something new this year. I created an album that I'm going to put different vehicles in with before and after pictures. Click Here for pictures of the Porsche with before and afters. His house was facing east and the sun started to set on me, so I couldn't get all the sun pictures that I wanted to get. Photobucket doesn't resize the pictures for you as small as they used to when you upload them, so to avoid posting wallpaper sized pictures in the thread I figure you can take a peek in the album. I'll get them resized and post them seperately sometime.

[sparkie]

Anthony, awesome job. Nice car and house too. You wrote that you used XMT2, what pad did you used? How many times did you go over the paint with your PC and XMT2? When I see swirls, I've always start with XMT3, maybe I need to start out with XMT2 instead.

[OCDetails]

I used the blue Edge2000 pad. I really only had to go over it once. I applied it to the pad and just worked it in one panel at a time. I tested it out on the fender first to see if XMT2 would be strong enough for the job before I went any further. I brought XMT3 and XMT1 as backups just in case. Sometimes the higher level abrasives will leave a haze behind that you need XMT1 to clear up. The Wolfgang prewax did a fine job of clearing up any hazing left over. I probably could have used XMT3 and then polished out the haze with XMT1 and been left with an even more perfect surface, but this was pretty dang close to perfect. It was really just a little bit too cold to spend that much time on it and the owner understood that. He said to just get them the best that I could with the temperature that I had to work with.

[sparkie]

I used the blue Edge2000 pad. I really only had to go over it once. I applied it to the pad and just worked it in one panel at a time. I tested it out on the fender first to see if XMT2 would be strong enough for the job before I went any further. I brought XMT3 and XMT1 as backups just in case. Sometimes the higher level abrasives will leave a haze behind that you need XMT1 to clear up. The Wolfgang prewax did a fine job of clearing up any hazing left over. I probably could have used XMT3 and then polished out the haze with XMT1 and been left with an even more perfect surface, but this was pretty dang close to perfect. It was really just a little bit too cold to spend that much time on it and the owner understood that. He said to just get them the best that I could with the temperature that I had to work with.

Thanks bro, you got me looking at my process in a whole new light.

[Nuke33]

Looks great nice house in the back ground!