Flat Black Swedish Beauty vs CarPro's Finest - Correction Detail

[Gally]

Evening chaps and chapesses! A cracking Monday night read for you, I hope.

First up, thanks to Craig and Stuart (Spoony) for coming through and helping me out with this rather large Swedish bus! Both guys certainly know how to polish a car and the LSP, well I have Craig to thank for that. I wouldn't have got half the car done without help, certainly not to this standard.

Befores...

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On to some hard work.. Craig nor Spoony were here at this point as they don't like the cold nor early mornings....

The dream team of, Tardis, G101 and Smart Wheels (for some reason I thought it was Brite Gel) and Iron X paste used to clean up that ridiculous ingrained brake dust. Selection of brushes as always.

Entire car heavily PW'd to remove some loose sap and dirt for attacking the wheels followed by washing, de tarring and claying...

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Zero Protection but looking massively better under zero direct light... ready for some heavy drying...

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Inside for drying, not fun on flat black! Air drying and the immense fluffy towel!

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Time for inspection? :hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed::hushed:

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[Gally]

At this point we had no idea what we were going to do anyway, we decided to test a couple of combos. Spoony settling on M205 and a white hex pad via Flex rotary (what a machine). I settle on the Festool Rotex, Lake country pad and a mixture of Fixer and 106fa, I tried 203s but was no good for a one step on this for some reason and wasn't responding well via the rotex.

Not looking for 100% correction we left any deeper marks, it was truly a day for no PDG, no masking up just some mates detailing and plenty of laughs! The car was indeed a mess...

Spoony's polishing was immense today, thanks mate. Craig turned up with his festool eventually and watched.. :wink:

Now bare with me here, so many mixed images and a hundred 50/50s of multiple different panels but I was trying to do my fair share of polishing... :blush: I'm sure you'll understand most.

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Some trialling of a new poly sheeting/masking tape, for release soon hopefully. Great stuff! Spoony's stunning handy work here... I think the splatter if from Craig being a maniac with the ceriglass glass polish!!!

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Partial Roof area...

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Finishing off, Tyres done with Megs, exhaust polished and lower rear bumper trim heat treated.
CarPro Dlux on the trims, Windscreen polished with a Rayon pad and ceriglass glass polish. Followed by the brand new CarPro Forte windscreen sealant (has some cool features over the likes of G1 (which i'm a massive fan of.)

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Rest of the glass done with a new waterless wash style product, has some light carnauba in it aswell as all the other tricks that make it a great cleaner. It's super slick (Hi @Daniel !) and the smell is immense!

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And the LSP? Finest of course! This was a late choice, very late, conditions weren't ideal but this version of finest is simply superb. Will update with a video soon... Excuse the lack of application pictures, taking chances with this on flat black paint wasn't exactly exactly worth a picture or 2 of a clear liquid on some paint!

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Spoony commented how the gloss was really amped up after Finest, I tried to grab an image of a bootlid 50/50 but I didn't have the balls to leave it long, it gives a decent darkening effect like CQUK can. It's still sterile so no doubt it will be topped with some dripping wet summer wax, never thought i'd own a Black car again so must take advantage!

Enjoy the afters guys...

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Rolled outside to just miss any sun, bloody Winter hours! Will grab more daylight pictures soon....

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Thanks for taking the time to read through, plenty of pictures! Comments, critique et al, always welcome!

A massive thanks again to Craig and Spoony, both went massively out their way to help me out and hopefully I can return the favour. Detailing with a few mates is always good fun, something I think detailing should be, especially for the hobbyist! Now all I get to do is wash it...

 

[JD]

Yep!

More info on the sheets?!

 

[Dan...]

Genuinely can't believe how good that looks now - Good work!!

 

[Detail Chris]

Meh average at best!

This your new ride Kev? Looks great mate, certainly turned it around in a day!

 

[Daniel]

Yeah yeah you cleaned the car...
Car is ace though! Wheels (not seen those before??) really really suit it. You pleased with it?

 

[Gally]

Yep!

More info on the sheets?!

All will be revealed soon! Meh!

Genuinely can't believe how good that looks now - Good work!!

Thanks Dan.

Yeah yeah you cleaned the car...
Car is ace though! Wheels (not seen those before??) really really suit it. You pleased with it?

Very. It's just a really good car. Can't really think of any downsides barring those horrific front tyres! There should be some sort of legality against s**t tyres, totally dangerous. Winter tyres to go on the front now.

The car pulls like a train through the gears. Can also waft along in silence. Came with great spec which I wanted.

 

[Gally]

Meh average at best!

This your new ride Kev? Looks great mate, certainly turned it around in a day!

Thanks dude, hope you're well. Yeah bought for the winter mate. Was too cheap to turn down! Been really enjoying having a big car!

Craig and Stuart really made the differnce. 2 very talented guys, shame Craig can't indulge in it more!

 

[imprezaworks]

That looks stunning mate, really, really nice.

 

[Detail Chris]

Thanks dude, hope you're well. Yeah bought for the winter mate. Was too cheap to turn down! Been really enjoying having a big car!

Craig and Stuart really made the differnce. 2 very talented guys, shame Craig can't indulge in it more!

Nice mate! underrated cars is dem Saabs, cheap motoring for what you get. I am good friends with a couple of ex- Saab master techs if you need a shout with it. Who's Craig btw?

 

[Jack-C]

Great write up. Having a black car ain't all bad and you've certainly got the best out of it.

Lovely looking car, enjoy it!

 

[finch wxm]

Great job

 

[Mr Plums]

Thats a great turn around, i love a good detailed black car.

Lol, at trying to avoid getting your mug on the inspection shots :laughing:

 

[Welsh.Dan]

Wow. Those 50 50 shots are ridiculous! Top job. Transformed the car.

 

[JD]

It's yours Kev?! Lol! Where is Craigus when you need him.

 

[Gally]

Haha! I bought it for the winter JD. Craigus would love it!

 

[AndyStew]

Coming from someone who's not into detailing, I always like reading through your detailing threads. Cracking turnaround!

Am I right in saying you got this for 800 notes?

 

[Djw John]

Aye it's alright I guess...

 

[Gally]

From a fellow saaaber aswell!

I fancied facelift back lights?

 

[Ian_182]

Great job and what a turn around.

 

[aucky]

Damn. Those bonnet 50/50s!
Is this your car then? Black in time for winter, LOL.

Is this the same version of Finest that Jaff had problems with or has it had some development?

Needs some very special wax on top after all that! What's on the cards?

Great work guys!

 

[jonno_c]

What does a clean/detail like this cost? ! My BG needs some love ; )

 

[_Tom]

Nice work. My A3 currently looks like the first pics.

 

[Gally]

Damn. Those bonnet 50/50s!
Is this your car then? Black in time for winter, LOL.

Is this the same version of Finest that Jaff had problems with or has it had some development?

Needs some very special wax on top after all that! What's on the cards?

Great work guys!

Jaff's was a long time ago now. The ""applicator" of the product didn't help! Not sure on the exact version but it's upwards of V4 now. All companies constantly tweak products without it being a genuinely new version.

In regards the wa... i'll need to try and find a kind gentleman with some Royale or Vintage! If not.. i've no idea. BOS maybe, topped every week!

Thanks for the kind comments guys!

 

[Gally]

What does a clean/detail like this cost? ! My BG needs some love ; )

We were laughing about the cost of a detail like that. If you include finest professionally applied and proper 2/3 stage correction including wheels off et al. You won't get change out 1k. The finest alone for application is crazy money at some detailers.

 

[Hixle]

Read like a foreign language but it looks superb afterwards.

 

[cat171]

Fantastic turnaround Scottish!! It looks like a different car now. :up:

I did lol @ blanking the reg plates on it.

 

[Gally]

I just think it looks tidier, not for any other reason barring that. I actually hate doing it, it's a ball ache unless straight on.

 

[Rob]

Lovely write up gallister, it looks bloody brilliant, especially for what you paid ffs.

 

[Gally]

Cheers Robbo!

 

[banther]

I've no idea what you're doing but the result is incredible. I'm a tad biased but I still think they're f**king cool cars. It looks brand new now!!

Highly jealous and off to the classifieds for me. I know this isnt a project thread but what plans do you have other than tyres?

 

[Gally]

No idea! Genuinely. Just OEM s**t replaced probably. New fancy mats on the inside and a proper deep clean of the seats etc.

 

[Martin.]

What an amazing transformation, looks like a brand new car!

 

[Daz_RT_04]

Cracking turnaround! Wouldn't own one personally, but like many, I do have a soft spot for these barges!

 

[rctempire]

Gally this looks excellent.

 

[Coby.]

Great turnaround there.... It looks great now.

 

[Jay.S]

That's awesome!

Some profit in that for you.

 

[fez]

superb work , really amazing

 

[Knuckles]

Thoroughly enjoyed reading that*.

*looking at the pictures.

Great effort.

 

[C.J]

It's come up well. Great job.