Rasky's work! :)

[RaskyR1]

Finished pics

Thanks for looking,

Rasky

 

[RaskyR1]

/\ I will be getting a hold of you in the spring/ early summer to book a time. Ill probably head down to do some shopping, and if i could drop the car off and get a good noce over from you, it would be amazing. your work is top notch, and probably worth the 9 hour drive. lol.

Don't wait too long. I already have appointments booked in March, April, and most of May.

 

[RaskyR1]

So not only is this truck my first job of 2012, but it’s also the first of many detail collaborations to come with my friend and fellow detailer, Justin (Phishy4). It’s been a long time since I’ve worked alongside another detailer and I must say it was nice banging out a car in half the time it normally takes, leaving more time to relax on the weekends.

The owner, a client of Justin’s, recently purchased this new Taco and almost went with one of those dealer applied interior and exterior protection packages until Justin informed him he be paying for an overpriced wax and fabric protectant. After explaining the differences between the dealer applied junk and Opti-Coat the owner was sold and we scheduled the vehicle shortly after he took delivery.

The truck had arrived fairly clean but it was apparent that there was some light wash induced marring and that it would need a good 1-step polish to get her looking the way she should. I did my best to capture the wash induced marring but you know how it goes with light colored metallic.


Process:

Wash – ONR
Wheels/tires – OPC and various brushes
Clay – Blackfire clay and ONR as lube
Paint correction – Optimum Polish II via GG6 and 5” Optimum MF polishing pads
Glass – Meguiar’s D120
Chrome – Mothers Chrome polish
Tire dressing – Meguiar’s Hyper Dressing
Opti-Coat applied to all paint & trim
Scotch Guard Fabric Protectant applied to carpets, matts, and seats


Before paint condition

Cropped section of the above helps see the defects a little better, they were a lot worse than the pics show

Justin working away on the roof

Doing the tight areas with a 3” MF pad

Applying Scotch Guard

Me applying the Opti-Coat…Justin followed behind to make sure all high spots were leveled out.

After pics

Thanks for looking,
Rasky

 

[RaskyR1]

Did this one a few weeks ago with some help from Justin. Client had contacted me inquiring about the cost of the Opti-Guard application so we scheduled a time to meet where I could evaluate the cars condition. Over all it wasn't too bad, but there were several deep RIDS and the PPF looked terrible for having just been installed. The car had been prepped by the dealer and then washed once by the PPF installer...other than that it had not been washed by the owner and hasn't seen rain or snow yet. For some reason the metal panels were a PITA to correct, products didn't want to wipe off and just acted weird...we tried man different combinations too. The bumper covers and lower rocker panels didn't have this issue, but the clear was much, much harder!

Process:

Wash - ONR
Wheels - Sonax FE
Tires - OPC
Clay - Blackfire clay with Final Inspection as lube
Initial Correction step - D300/MF on the GG6. M101 on the rockers via GG6 and Cyan LC pads
Refining step - 106fa via GG6 equipped with black LC pads.
Jewelling step - PO85RD via Flex PE14 and blue LC pads. (106fa on the DA looked really good and Justin and I agreed the owner would have been more then happy at that point. However, a test spot with PO85RD via rotary made a slight, yet noticeable difference on this paint. I had the car an extra day and some time to kill before Justin came back so me being OCD, I went ahead and did this step on the house)
Coating prep - ONR wash followed by a good wipe-down with Eraser
Opti-Guard - Applied using Carpro Micro Suede applicator (All paint, trim, lights, wheels)


Before pics

Some of the deeper RIDS

Swirls in the paint didn't translate too well in the pics...

The swirls in the (brand new) PPF showed up pretty good though...

50/50 on the PPF

Swirls on the rocker panels showed up well too (they were a little worse though)

Rocker corrected

Pulled the car out in the sun after an Eraser wipe-down to check my work and get sun pics while I had a chance. These are prior to Opti-Guard

Me applying the Opti-Guard

Justin followed me leveling off any high spots....the 2 person application is great IMO!

Look how focused he is! :lol:

 

[RaskyR1]

Finished pics

Brinkmann

PPF

Flash

Thanks for looking,
Rasky

 

[RaskyR1]

Paint Measured Healthy on all panels:

It's fine as long as the buffers don't touch.......right?

D300/MF doing its job effectively:

3" Mirka plate and MF pad for the tight spots

Trim pieces before and after:

Taillights before and after:

Rasky Opti-Guarding the wheel arch trim:

Wrapped up, sealed and ready to deliver:

Chad says "Thanks for looking!"

 

[RaskyR1]

I should add that we actually went over the black trim with 2 steps. I think the pics Justin posted were after D300. The ones below are after 106fa with tangerine LC pads.

Also, here is the after pic on that one white strip which was etched/stained and it even looked like the material itself was failing. Not 100% but a big improvement.

 

[RaskyR1]

Sorry....Mini was posted out of order.

This job was posted on another forum by Justin and I thought I'd share it here too.

Rasky and I teamed up again for this job, a Mini Cooper S that was in decent shape but definitely in need of some help. It was a basic 1 step/protect but we wound up doing some extra decon and polishing steps to make it really pop and send it out the door in a manner that was satisfactory to both of us. Once again, like with all light color metallics we had some issues getting the paint condition to translate to pictures well (we tried 2 different DSLRs, 3 different lenses, multiple exposure settings, etc). The silver/gray metallic paint was very hard, very contaminated and good at hiding defects, which made having 2 sets of eyes a very good thing. The process was:

- Wash w/ONR
- Tar-x and Iron-x on various body panels
- Clayed with Blackfire Poly Clay and Griots Speedshine as lube
- D300 on a MF Cutting disc via GGDA
- Blackfire to seal, Opti-Guard on plastic trim
- Wheels got everything under the sun (more later in write up)
- Stainless Trim cleaned w/Optimum Metal Polish
- Chrome Cleaned with Mothers Chrome Polish (love this stuff)
- Tires dressed w/Megs Hyper @ 4:1
- Interior vacuumed and wiped down with Megs QID

On to the pics. Like I said, we had a very hard time capturing the condition before, but the trim panels and stripes here give a pretty good indication what we were faced with.

Crop of paint attempting to show swirls.

Stainless trim before:

After Optimum Metal

Iron X Working away on the white roof:

Tar-X having it's way with the lower panels:

Thrashed tips before:

After a lot of elbow grease, Optimum Metal and 0000 steel wool:

All chrome polished with Mothers Chrome Polish

The wheels had the worst brake dust contamination/build up/etching I've ever seen. This is after a Round with Sonax Full Effect (barely touched it)

Meg's Wheel Brightener helped considerably:

Decided to see if straight Iron-X would even do anything after all that, and the answer was yes it would:

Decontamination complete (or as complete as it was going to get); now time to do some correction............

 

[RaskyR1]

Justin and I did this one last weekend. The owner was on a tight budget so we chose to go with a 1-step correction that yielded more defect remove vs. optimal gloss...though D300 did finish down very well on this hard clear.

Process:

Wash - Foam bath mixed with CGCW and OPC mixture followed by a wash with CGCW.
Wheels - Sonax FE and various brushes.
Tires - OPC, dressed with Megs Hyper Dressing
Decon - IronX and TarX
Clay - Blackfire Clay with M34 as lube
Paint correction - D300 on the GG6 with Megs MF cutting pads (2 passes in several areas)
Glass - Megs D120
LSP - Blackfire Wet-Diamond


IronX doing it's thing...

Following up with TarX

Agitating TarX between panels

Justin spent some time cleaning up all the jambs

After the decon was all done the paint really came back to life again...it's amazing how much contaminated paint can effect the look of the paint on a car.

Before paint condition

Justin has a way of taking pics without me know it....me taping up the trim. Free plug for Optimum!

50/50 shots

Cleaning out very deep scratch by hand to lessen the appearance

 

[RaskyR1]

Finished pics

Thanks for looking,

Rasky/Justin

 

[webby]

black vinyl roof, or painted,.. orrr?

paint looks real nice in this ^^

 

[jasonandre]

Very impressive

 

[KennyGS]

beautiful!

I really dread that I will have to polish the vette soon. It'll probably take a day or two of good detailing. Part of it will be to correct a bad nick in the hood.

 

[RaskyR1]

black vinyl roof, or painted,.. orrr?



paint looks real nice in this ^^

Carbon fiber vinyl wrap....me like.

 

[RaskyR1]

beautiful!

I really dread that I will have to polish the vette soon. It'll probably take a day or two of good detailing. Part of it will be to correct a bad nick in the hood.

Yeah, Vette's are a lot of work....rock hard clear!

 

[Dar-Dar]

That M3 looks stunning. Fantastic work as always.

 

[connorsaj]

Very nice work. Where are you located?

 

[webby]

he's close to Minneapolis Minnesota

 

[RaskyR1]

Justin and I teamed up again last weekend on this Proweler, which belongs to a good client of mine. The paint condition was actually in very good shape overall, but it did had several moderate scratches scattered thorough out the finish where were deeper than what could be removed with a 1-step polish. At first we were just going to try and spot hit the deeper ones, but after washing and inspecting the finish more closely, it was clear that there was just too many and it made more sense to just go with a full 2-step correction. Total correction achieved from our process was about 90-95%.


Process:

Wash - Foamed with CGCW and OPC, rinsed, then washed with CGCW.
Wheels - CG Diablo Gel and various brushes, polished with Mothers mini power ball and Megs chrome polish
Tires - OPC, dressed with Megs Hyper Dressing
Suspension comp - OPC and various brushes
Clay - Blackfire clay and M34 as lube
Paint correction - D300/MF on the GG6 followed by PO85RD/Crimson LC on the Flex PE14 rotary
Glass - Megs D120
Exhaust tips - Megs Chrome polish
Coating Prep - Foamed with CGCW and OPC, rewashed with CGCW followed by Eraser wipe-down
Coating - Optimum Opti-Guard, applied to paint, trim, and wheels.


Before pics

Owner had several areas with wax/polish splatter or excess in cracks....jokingly I told him I was taking his Porter Cable away from him.

Foaming car down

Justin doing work on the suspension arms

No more beading!

Metallic made capturing defect difficult...

We got rocking on the D300 to give Justin a head start to where I could followe behind with PO85RD on the rotary

 

[RaskyR1]

Carefully working the 3" and 4" in some tight areas

VERY carefully working the front grill with 3" Opt MF pads on the rotary at low rpm's

Justin going to town on the wheels

Two person application of OG is great!