Detailing: Interior and Exterior

Thanks for the kind words and pics, Ryan!

I figure if my crappy cell phone pics get the point across, there's no need for high res pics. That and I see so many detailers put up obviously photoshopped high res pics. But I'm always happy to see user pics! Especially when they better represent the finish compared to my rushed shots! Pm incoming btw.

 

Thanks for the kind words and for the referral. The cf was kind of a pain, but it cleaned up very nicely.

Cool car. One of the nicer bugeyes I've worked on:

 

The vents were actually what made it tough to work with. Lots of weird lines. The part itself is high quality. At least compared to most of the cf stuff that comes my way. It had a few oxidation spots (see the silver bugeye with cf hood somewhere in this thread), a bunch of swirls in the clear coat, some delamination, some small spots where you could see some cracks in the plies, etc... there was a little bit of everything so it made it a fun challenge. I spent about 3 hours on the hood.

 

only if you ride it to my place

pm me some pics. I've done a couple dozen bikes, so I'm sure I could do a sled.

 

As usual, Sheen, you did an excellent job. The Z looks perfect. We will definitely be bringing the infiniti to you for work. And I think Dream wants his xterra done as well.

 

Here is a pic from Sheen before I picked it up...

Blame Sheen for the ****ty cellphone pic.

 

Pretty much what 3rik said, although it may not need wetsanding. Pm me if you're serious. Price will vary greatly depending on how bad it is.

Clearbra is great. Chris at flawlessfrontends does great work.

I would reccomend a detail before so you have an even surface. You can bring it back after for a free wax/seal of the front end since most of it will get stripped off in the clearbra process.

So...

1) I can polish and seal it
2) go get it clear bra'd
3) bring it back to have the front end (including clearbra) resealed
4)...
5) profit?

 

Thanks for the interest. 70 is the base rate. If it requires any correction (swirls, scratches, holograms, etc...) it's about $20 per panel depending on severity and size of the panel. I typically count the hood and fenders as 1 panel and the doors on each side as 1 panel. tbh, I prefer to see the car first if I haven't worked on it in the past or haven't seen the condition recently. PM if interested.

 

That is yours Felipe? I was there lastnight for a few minutes...poor TSX is an understatement! Never seen paint like that before. Looked like someone wetsanded the whole car and forgot to buff and wax it afterwards!

You will be happy when you get it back tho...it was looking real good(on the panels that he had done some work to)!

 

Thanks again for letting me work on it. It was a challenge especially given the time frame, but it's much more tolerable now.

Haven't done before/afters in a while so here we go. Forgot to take pics of the interior again, but here's the exterior:

Paint overall was really tough. Passenger side was maybe in the best shape:



after:



ps pillar:



after:



Driver's side was really rough:





Couldn't get everything out, but was able to make it less noticeable. The paint transfer on the fender did come out 100% though:



Hood was really really bad:



swirls, scratches, holograms, hard water etching... everything going on all over the hood:



turned out pretty good after 2 hours of polishing



The trunk was even worse:



Took almost as long as the hood to clean up. Still not perfect, but looks much better now.

 

Glad you're happy with it!

Black finishes can be a pain to work on but the finished product is so rewarding. Nice car!

 

Stellar job brotha! Now you can roll that beast with pride Felipe! I was in awe when i saw the paint 'before', the awe quadrupled when i saw the 'after'! I honestly thought that it wasn't even a possibility to reverse the damage...but Sheen pulled off another one.

 

Oh I completely forgot about this. I had talked to you last fall after picking up the Z that I wanted to get the Infiniti done as well. I should probably give Steph a 6 speed refresher course so she has something to drive before we go scheduling anything. But her car needs it. Desperately.

 

Thanks Drew. Very nice wagon.