Spring PICS: Before and after detailing (Lots of pics!)
05-11-2007, 07:12 AM
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Spring PICS: Before and after detailing (Lots of pics!)
After having my car sitting in the garage for about 6 months (cold Sweden) it was time to take it out for the summer. As a few of you might know I had half a gallon of oil on the garagefloor when I checked on my baby a couple of weeks back 
. It has now gone through the regular oil change service and it turns out that the engine was leaking through the upper and lower camshaft gaskets. These were replaced and 2000$ later my Pcar is not dripping anymore..
Anyways, Before detailing I gave the car a thorough wash and I mounted the foglites that I bought from Steve Michaelson (CA993twin) a while back (see pic). These originally came off WALDO so I'm quite proud
. I also took the time to polish my tips to a better finish. They really looked horrible before. I started with a strong concentrated degreaser before moving on to Autosol (highly recommended). I polished using an old towel and applied the compound repeatedly until I reached a desired finish. Took 20mins per tip and no need to unmount them, piece of cake 
. I also did my dad's CL500 while I was at it, the finish on thisone was even better, doh.. Btw the torque in his Merc is really something else.. I have a hard time keeping up with the 993, at least on straight roads.. However, when the roads start turning, its bye bye Merc 
hehe
A friend of mine is in the respraying business, so I can get good deals through him. I had a few chips on my drivers door and on the handle. I also had tiny bits of rust in the rearmost part of the fenders (wheelwells) so I had these areas resprayed as well as the chipped mirrors.. For some reason the steel gray (P61W) did not turn out the way it should so after I took these pictures the mirrors and doorhandles were resprayed after mixing the color again and it was way better. I took a pic of the colors for reference
After washing I started the detailing using my newly bought 3M Clay bar. Worked like a charm. After rinsing off, I used 3M Ultrafine polish and on rough parts I started with fine compound. Finished of with seal wax. Didn't polish the resprayed parts, just wax (e.g drivers door etc.). After detailing I had to take the car to do the 2nd respray (mirrors etc) and the driveway was all gravel so a week after I had like a one inch dust cover on the car
. But oh well..
I'm getting the interior detailed by a specialist next week.. Won't do it myself.. Maybe I'll also dye the steeringwheel while I am at it since it has lost some of its colours on the upper parts of the wheel..
I catched a cold yesturday so with fever today I called in sick from work. I managed to snap a few pics this morning of my car seen from my balcony (Central Stockholm). It's a PITA to find a parking space here so I'm lucky I can have my car parked right below my window where I can keep an eye on it.. Its not parked in the street, its a closed area where you need a key to get in which is a must for me because I would never park my car in the street permanently. However its not an indoor parking but what the hell, you can't get it all
. So all though I am sick, I still managed to do this writeup I have intended to do for a long time.. Nothing bad that doesn't bring something good with it . Enjoy 
. It has now gone through the regular oil change service and it turns out that the engine was leaking through the upper and lower camshaft gaskets. These were replaced and 2000$ later my Pcar is not dripping anymore.. Anyways, Before detailing I gave the car a thorough wash and I mounted the foglites that I bought from Steve Michaelson (CA993twin) a while back (see pic). These originally came off WALDO so I'm quite proud
. I also took the time to polish my tips to a better finish. They really looked horrible before. I started with a strong concentrated degreaser before moving on to Autosol (highly recommended). I polished using an old towel and applied the compound repeatedly until I reached a desired finish. Took 20mins per tip and no need to unmount them, piece of cake . I also did my dad's CL500 while I was at it, the finish on thisone was even better, doh.. Btw the torque in his Merc is really something else.. I have a hard time keeping up with the 993, at least on straight roads.. However, when the roads start turning, its bye bye Merc heheA friend of mine is in the respraying business, so I can get good deals through him. I had a few chips on my drivers door and on the handle. I also had tiny bits of rust in the rearmost part of the fenders (wheelwells) so I had these areas resprayed as well as the chipped mirrors.. For some reason the steel gray (P61W) did not turn out the way it should so after I took these pictures the mirrors and doorhandles were resprayed after mixing the color again and it was way better. I took a pic of the colors for reference
After washing I started the detailing using my newly bought 3M Clay bar. Worked like a charm. After rinsing off, I used 3M Ultrafine polish and on rough parts I started with fine compound. Finished of with seal wax. Didn't polish the resprayed parts, just wax (e.g drivers door etc.). After detailing I had to take the car to do the 2nd respray (mirrors etc) and the driveway was all gravel so a week after I had like a one inch dust cover on the car
. But oh well..I'm getting the interior detailed by a specialist next week.. Won't do it myself.. Maybe I'll also dye the steeringwheel while I am at it since it has lost some of its colours on the upper parts of the wheel..
I catched a cold yesturday so with fever today I called in sick from work. I managed to snap a few pics this morning of my car seen from my balcony (Central Stockholm). It's a PITA to find a parking space here so I'm lucky I can have my car parked right below my window where I can keep an eye on it.. Its not parked in the street, its a closed area where you need a key to get in which is a must for me because I would never park my car in the street permanently. However its not an indoor parking but what the hell, you can't get it all
. So all though I am sick, I still managed to do this writeup I have intended to do for a long time.. Nothing bad that doesn't bring something good with it . Enjoy
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05-11-2007, 01:46 PM
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Viggo,
What A fabulous detail job on that car. I have always loved Vesuvio. I'm proud that you were able to keep Waldo's memory alive and reuse those foglights. Great job and good post. Feel better!
What A fabulous detail job on that car. I have always loved Vesuvio. I'm proud that you were able to keep Waldo's memory alive and reuse those foglights. Great job and good post. Feel better!