Presidential Detailed: Infiniti FX35

[PresdntialDtail]

This customer just bought the car recently and wanted to get it cleaned up a bit. The previous owner was a snowbird so it mostly sat, but the paint wasnt kept up too well, looked like multiple auto-washes,etc. So we set up the detail, and I spent a couple days to get it back in shape. It was moderately difficult to get the defects back out of the paint, but we got it to about 95% corrected. Anyways, on to the pics!



Exterior:

Dawn Soap Pre-Wash

Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash

DD "Uber" Red Drying Towel

DD "Uber" Wool Mitt

Dual Buckets with Grit Guards

3m "green" Masking Tape

Adams Professional Clay Bar

P21S TAW

Meguairs APC+

Meguairs Hyperdressing

Menzerna SIP/LC FLAT Orange 5.5" (x2 on some areas)

Menzerna PO85rd/LC FLAT Black 5.5"

Menzerna Top Inspection

Tons of Uber MF Towels

Black WOW

Griots Garage Wheel Cleaner Gel

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



BEFORE:

Wheels getting treated..

After pre-wash..

 

[PresdntialDtail]

I forgot to get some before shots in the halogens, but the sun shots showed what condition the vehicle was in overall..here are the few that I did happen to capture..

Here is a 50/50 after SIP/Orange pad..

Now finished in the halogens..I had to hit some areas twice to get the correction I wanted.

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Couple shots I got during the day..

I finished the vehicle after the sun was set, so I couldnt get any full pictures unfortunately..but here are some reflection shots for ya anyway!

 

[BigAl3]

what was the complete process?

 

[PresdntialDtail]

Oops, I forgot to post all of that. I used SIP/LC Orange, the follow it with PO85rd/Black. I was sort of on a time constraint, which is why I skipped the intermediate step, but the SIP finished very nicely on the Infiniti paint that it seemed OK to go straight to final polishing.

 

[BigAl3]

Oops, I forgot to post all of that. I used SIP/LC Orange, the follow it with PO85rd/Black. I was sort of on a time constraint, which is why I skipped the intermediate step, but the SIP finished very nicely on the Infiniti paint that it seemed OK to go straight to final polishing.

via Rotary, PC, Flex, etc?...

 

[PresdntialDtail]

For the SIP/Orange I start at 1800rpm, then work down from there.

Then I did PO85rd/Black at 1400rpms and worked down until finished.

 

[somebody]

Wow no intermediate step and it finished down that good. Nice job.



Brandon

 

[PresdntialDtail]

Thanks.

 

[David703]

FANTASTIC JOB!! I love SIP.

 

[Todd@RUPES]

SIP/Orange is an intermedite step IMO.



Looks awesome, nice work

 

[PresdntialDtail]

Thanks! I really like SIP, i had IP and doesnt do near as good of a job. SIP barely dusts too..

 

[Old Pirate]

SIP/Orange is an intermedite step IMO.

I agreed also with TH0001. It sure came out sweet Billy! Awesome work!:bigups

 

[imported_never gone]

Thanks! I really like SIP, i had IP and doesnt do near as good of a job. SIP barely dusts too..

Say what??? I think SIP dusts horribly.





The fx does look great.

 

[PresdntialDtail]

Say what??? I think SIP dusts horribly.





The fx does look great.

From my experience over the last couple days, the SIP hardly dusts at all on the orange pad(unless i bump it on something or go over an edge of course) and if I use SIP on a wool pad or PFW it definitely does dust pretty bad...just my experience! Thanks for the compliment!

 

[Garry Dean]

BigAl3, you can see a reflection of a Dewalt 849 rotary in one of the pics, look closely. I assume this is what all of the work was done with.

 

[PresdntialDtail]

Yes, all work was done with Dewalt Rotary.

 

[imported_shine]

Great job!

 

[MCWD]

For the SIP/Orange I start at 1800rpm, then work down from there.

Then I did PO85rd/Black at 1400rpms and worked down until finished.

You say you started at 1800 and worked down. How quickly were you moving the rotary at that speed? I typically spread the product at a low speed and then start at 1000 1200 1400 then work down. Do you feel that I might yield a better or similar result your way? the vehicle looked great!

 

[PresdntialDtail]

1800 is a bit high and not always necessary, but from what I understand you should start with a higher speed to work down the abrasives and then work down from there. If I am correct, most polishes have diminishing abrasives, meaning the break down from large to small..so you would want the most speed at the beginning for the best cut and then as the particles get smaller they polish more at lower speeds for a better finish...

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Very nice detail!