Presidential Detailed: 2004 Mazda RX-8

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PresdntialDtail

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This customer had spoken to me about 4 or 5 months ago when he just picked up the car. I met up with him to look at the car and it was in bad shape from the start, and I mean BAD. Haha! The customer gave me a call last week and told me he wanted me to work my magic on the car before he moved to Ohio, so we scheduled the car. We were unable to get a 100% correction due to time and budget, if it was even possible to bring this thing back to 100%. It looked like it had sat underneath a hard water sprinkler all its life, no joke! While we couldnt get it perfect, Id say the results were outstanding for what we did do to it! Ill let you guys be the judge! Enjoy! ;)



Products:



Exterior:

Dawn Soap Pre-Wash

Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash

COBRA UMF Wash Mitt

COBRA Deluxe "Jr" MF's

Dual Buckets with Grit Guards

3m Masking Tape

Adams Professional Clay Bar

P21S TAW

Meguairs APC+

Meguairs Hyperdressing

Menzerna SIP/Orange FLAT

Menzerna 106FA/White FLAT

Menzerna Top Inspection

Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)

Swissvax Pneu





LSP:

Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator



Tools:

Dual Work Lamps

Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary

World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush

Foam Pad Cleaning Brush

DD Detail Sponge

The Wheel Well/Fender Brush

The Spoke Brush

Canon Rebel XTi

Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow

E-Z Detail Wheel Brush

Swissvax Wheel Brush



A few shots before I got started..

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No reflection at all, just hard water etching!

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Some spot touch up paint, some car lots will do this sort of thing!

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50/50 on the hood after 2 passes with SIP/Orange at 1800rpm

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This same spot painting up close..

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Now fixed..

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Before..

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After 2 passes with SIP/Orange at 1800rpm

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50/50 of trunk..

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Final Rinse..

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Some sun shots I managed to get before sundown..

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Rear 1/4 panel..

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Trunk..

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Roof..

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Some reflections.. ;)

Now some afters..

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And a couple overal after shots..

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Yeah, he didnt have those painted when I first saw the car, I must agree they look awesome! Hes going to lower it a bit next and it will be perfect!
 
TSC17 said:
Nice save Billy...looks like you've been keeping yourself busy lately!
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Thanks! Man I have been non-stop everyday for the last 2 weeks! haha! I am currently working on a 08 civic SI and I have to finish the black s2k once my UK 3M UF comes in! Then I got two more scheduled in the next week and a half!
 
Scottwax said:
Nice job, looks really deep and wet. :)



Bet it was fun buffing out a car with that many curves and flares. ;)
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Yeah tell me about it! I had to turn one fender that should be two sections into like 4-5! And tape off every adjacent panel as I went so not to touch the other one with the backing plate/pad edge...
 
Mighty HD said:
Great job.



So who did the car belong to that has "Equip 2 Conceal" on it? ...Another fine member of this wonderful free state I presume?
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Thats my roommate, he owns the business. Check out their website if your interested! ;)
 
Very nice! I must say that I'm liking the powercoated stock rims. I had a Mazda 3s with the RX8 rims on it and it looked great but the stock powercoat was awful and started to flake near the center hub right before I sold it.
 
toyotaguy said:
get some 105...I think it would have really helped you out on this one
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I have 105, but was running kind of low and I didnt have a good clean pad to use it with..i actually did do one spot on the hood and it really made no difference so i stuck with what i had. I agree with more time and money I could have M105'd the whole thing and it would have came out even better!
 
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