Swssvax'ed: Restoring the Better-Than-Showroom Shine into a '07 Black Lexus GS350

Discussion in 'Show and Shine' started by scheerspeed, Dec 21, 2011.

  1. scheerspeed

    scheerspeed DB Forum Supporter

    2007 Lexus GS350

    This car had been purchased secondhand from CarMax, where it had been extensively touched up and given a nice coating of Glaze before leaving the dealership. A few months after purchasing the car, the owner started to notice a lot of things which he didn't initially see when he bought the car, such as the excessive amount of touch up paint that had been applied, which had begun to oxidize, resulting in noticing the difference between the two paints.

    The owner wanted to get the car looking new again, and I made him rest assured that we would exceed his expectations... and we did just that!

    This was an exterior-only detail, therefore the interior or engine bay was not touched, however we will be doing the interior of this car in a couple months.

    The exterior received a Swissvax Initial Exterior Treatment, along with a Single Stage polish using Cleaner Fluid Pro with a Swioss. And we finished the job with Swissvax Wax (Can't tell you which one! Sorry!)


    Total time taken: 20 Hours of labor!

    Here's how this Lexus GS350 looked upon our arrival on location.

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    the paint was completely failing here... I applied touch-up paint to the area to make it less noticeable.

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    When We wash, We get in there, and everywhere else that everyone else doesn't!

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    Here's how the paint was looking after the clay treatment, and before polishing.

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    10 hours later! (with two people working =20 hours of total labor!)

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    A happy customer taking a picture of his freshly swissvax'ed car!

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    Although we weren't able to achieve 100% correction with the single stage polish, we were able to get the paint about 80% perfect!

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    That's all for that one! Thanks for looking!


    Products:

    -P21s TAW

    -1Z Blitz

    -1Z W99

    -1Z Windscreen

    -Sonax Full Effect

    -#0000 Steel Wool

    Swissvax:

    -Car Bath

    -Protecton

    -Seal Feed

    -Paint Rubber (yellow)

    -Quick Finish

    -Cleaner Fluid Professional via FESTOOL with a white Swissvax FINE pad

    -Swissvax Wax

    -Nano Express

    -Cleaner Fluid Regular

    -Autobahn PTFE Wax (Wheels)

    -Pneu Glossy

    -Waschpudel

    -Black Puck Applicator

    -Black wax applicator

    -Micro-Absorb (Red)

    -Micro-Polish (Blue)

    -Micro-Fluffy

    -Pneu Brush

    -Detail Brush

    -Wheel Brush

    -Metal Polish

    -Rain-X

    -Swissvax Crystal


    That's all for that one! Thanks For Looking!

    Dom @ SSD
     
  2. Kaban

    Kaban Welcome to Detailing

    Looks nice!
     
  3. kakeuter

    kakeuter DB Forum Supporter

    Nice work!

    -Kody-
     
  4. nyrep1

    nyrep1 Obsessive Detailer

    is cleaner fluid that good? wow im impressed
     
  5. scheerspeed

    scheerspeed DB Forum Supporter

    I haven't used anything else in about a year!
     
  6. 911Fanatic

    911Fanatic DB Pro Supporter

    Very nice Dom.
     
  7. Danny

    Danny Nuba Guru

    Awesome work Dom:thumb:
     
  8. P1et

    P1et Official DB Moderator

    This was Drake's car???

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  9. scheerspeed

    scheerspeed DB Forum Supporter

    lol no it wasn't drake's!

    Thanks for the comments!
     
  10. cnut

    cnut DB Forum Supporter

    Very nice work!
     

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