PorscheG96

Among the many fun and interesting things during my trip to Hershey this year, Steve Z kindly showed me how to do some detailing work. He gave me a shopping list which included some different polishes, polishing pads, and a Porter Cable polisher - but the stuff isn't cheap. I began with a full wash and clay bar, another car wash, and then went to work with the polisher and I can't believe how nice the paint looks after 6 hours with the polisher except I can see why someone might spend 12 hours polishing!! I only had 3 nights to prep my car for the Paso event so I ran out of time but here are some before and after pictures from the worst parts of my paint and please excuse the specs of dust, my garage is full of it...









Post-detailing shots:

turboguy934

very cool, looks awsome. aint it fun? just you and your car for 3 hours, no one to talk to , put on a little music and make her pretty? car looks sweet

wi54545

Looking 150 percent better! Have any experience with the Porter Cable before tackling this job?

Lemming

Good job, I need to make the time to do mine

Stephenwz968

Trevor, glad the advice was put to good use, the car looks awesome!!!!

RajDatta

Nice work there bud. I am sure it looks gorgeous.
Raj

AllenM

Trevor/Steve,
Either one of yall want to share that shopping list? I've got a Porter Cable random orbit and some pads, but everyone has different preferences for polishes, pads, PC speed, clay bars etc.
I'm not sure I've seen such impressive results from a PC. Usually results like that come from a rotary polisher and aggressive pads.

I didn't make it that far on saturday. I washed, washed again (really dirty), did the interior, and then ran out of time and had to move on to other projects. I need to break out the polisher soon and keep my car shiny. Black cars are too hard to keep clean.

Luis de Prat

So, you're not using Zaino presently?

PorscheG96

I've only used glazes and waxes prior to this, never any abrasive polishes or mechanical polishers. I think the Porter Cable is great for beginners because it takes a bit more time and effort to polish the paint effectively but that prevents sudden mistakes from happening as well. Steve recommended the Menzerna intensive polish and finishing polish but I still used a lot of Zaino products during the process as well such as clay bar, Z1, Z2, Z5, Z6, and the car wash shampoo.

Rich Sandor

118degF!!!!!! YOWZA!

That right there just makes me wanna go refill my a/c rightaway.

Damian in NJ

Great job Trev.

notthd

Great job- looks very nice. It seems we all were washing and polishing cars this weekend. I did 3 of the herd. BIG + 1 on zaino products. I use it and on my 930 which is black also the results speak for themselves.

Cheers Mike

MichelleJD

FRporscheman

I LOVE that little sparkle above your right fog light! It just perfects the shot.

I know how hard you worked on that car, good job.

H2

What model Porter Cable polisher did you use? About what size bolt for pad backer? Nice looking change on detail job!

H2