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A Paint Correction Detail we performed on a lovely Rosso Red Ferrari in Wicklow last month.

At this stage we had just finished an hours Wash/Prep on this Ferrari 360. The car is 13 years old and was in pretty good condition. It turns out that we actually gave this car its first clean in 2000 and it’s nice to be back working on bringing it back to its original pristine condition.

One or two panels, the front bumper and a couple of the sills have had a re-spray and still had a little orange peel on them which we wet sanded and then refined to a deep gloss.

The current owner had done a bit of work himself but and we took over where he finished off. The bonnet in particular had a few issues which unfortunately didn’t come out on our video but we had to do a three stage correction on the bonnet to bring the finish back out. All in we spent 10 hours on the paint.

It’s a pleasure vehicle, and what you want with this car is for the paint to jump right out at you, to really give a nice level of gloss and what we’ve done here is to essentially gloss the paint to its maximum potential using a combination of pads and polishes. Afterwards we applied a ceramic sealant to the paint, to really lock the finish in.

With the weekend use that this car is going to have, the ceramic sealant is going to last about a year and a half. On a daily driver you can expect this to last 6 to 9 months.

In this video we were about 1.5 hours into corrective work on the bonnet and 1.5 hours into a few of the other panels. We had come across some very heavy scratches from bird lime, poor washing technique with brushes and a few random deep scratches, one going across the entire bonnet. We had to remove about 20 microns from the lacquer, which is quite substantial in terms of corrective work, especially on a supercar.

Now I’m going to finish off the bonnet, compound the arches and the rest of the car is going to get a single stage corrective polish and then a ceramic gloss enhancement.

There were a few surprises thrown in. We weren’t expecting the depth of the scratch in the bonnet for instance. Sometimes you just don’t know what you’re going to be confronted with and that’s why you should always call a professional to work on the paintwork on your car.

The owner wanted the scratch out and it was in our ability to do just that. It was safe and within the limits of the available lacquer. Using wool on the deeper scratches and quite a heavy cutting compound was unusual for a car of this calibre. But taking our time and being extremely precise, both the owner and us are very pleased with the results of the detail.

Video Transcript:

“Hi there. Carl here again from Cleanmycar.ie. Just finished up a car detail on this beautiful GT Maserati. Black, with nice gold fleck in the paint. She’s just gotten about eight, nine hours work on her, most of which concentrated on the paintwork. A lot of random, deep scratches following kind of wash appraisal.

We needed to do some heavy-duty compounding on one or two of the panels, which is quite difficult given that some of them are actually plastic composites. So, you can’t measure the paint at depth accurately. So, you need to be extremely careful to make sure you don’t get any strike-through. But we got there in the end and she looks absolutely fantastic for a car that’s just four years old now and looks absolutely brand new. About 95 percent correction achieved. Maybe about 96 or 97.

Interior then had good, deep clean of the leather. Cleaned and fed with proper leather oils, proper leather cleaners. All sorts of different utility brushes out for the interior for a good clean and scrub down. Needed a good bit of TLC just to bring her back to as new as possible.

Carpets as well got a microsplitter on them, following debris and dirt removal.

So all in about 9, 10 hours work on the car. Just about to deliver it to the owner and expecting him to be delighted about the finish. We certainly are.

Thanks for watching the video. Cleanmycar.ie is the site. info@cleanmycar.ie is the email. And my number is 086-1965471 if you’d like any more information or call 01-6877727 to make an appointment.

Thanks for watching.”

Video Transcript – Before The Detail:

“Hello. Carl here from Cleanmycar.ie, just about to start a mid-level detail on this gunmetal grey, BMW 1-series, 2006 – The car is eight years old, and it’s not really been valeted that much. The owner says this car might’ve seen a wash about twice a year. So, we’ve got lots of things, like moss to deal with on the door rubbers, that kind of thing.

If you come around the back of the car, you can see that the seals and the door shuts are full of gunge, and crap, and stuff, so we’re going to sort all that out. Car’s it’s a basically a pre-sale detail. The owner was initially going to go for a valet, but we had a bit of a chat about the car, and a couple of scratches and stuff, and what a machine ran over it, and we’re going to take out an awful lot of scratches from the paintwork.

Interior then, as I said in other videos we have massively powerful vac, hot-water extraction machine, steam cleaner, three three-stage vacs in the machine. So, it’s about 10 times more powerful than your average kind of small machine that you’d use for car valeting. So, this is going to leave the interior of the car dry in about 15 minutes, 20 minutes with the fans on.

And so, in actual fact, to do the complete interior of the car is going to take about 20 minutes – shampoo the seats and carpets – just because the machine is so efficient.

So, I’m going to do another video when we’re finished basically, to showcase what we’ve done. And, as I say, the car’s only really seen maybe a valet maybe once in a year. So, the seats are quite dirty and stuff, but that’s not a problem. She’s going to get a single stage polish, the machine rUn over the paintwork, and then a sealant as well.

So, she’s going to look extremely nice when done. It’s a couple a scuffs, not too deep in the lacquer around it, so we’re going to remove those and leave it with a really, really nice finish; ready for sale. It’ll probably increase the value of the car by about five to ten percent when it goes for sale. So, it’s well worth the investment. Especially as a car valet’s not going to leave the paintwork in tip-top condition, and it’s not going to get the detail on the interior that you would want.

So, that’s it. Cleanmycar.ie. There’s another video to follow up when we’re finished this. We’re going to be about- there’s two of us working on the car. It’s going to be about two and a half, three hours on it. So, six hours work, in total, on the car. Great. Thanks for watching.”

Video Transcript – After the Detail:

“Now I just finished the detail, here, on this 2006 BMW. It was a fairly simple, light stage correction on the outsides, but a few little scuffs, and dents, and stuff that I wanted to take out. So there achieved – this detail isn’t really about full-correction. It’s a good cleanse for basically, pre-sale, and a polish, and then we put a ceramic seal on it, which is our usual process.

More focused in on the interior – A few areas inside the car, like the driver’s mats, and stuff like that, that I wanted to get nice and clean. So, we got all of that. The car is looking really, really nice now. And hopefully, should increase the sale price substantially, for the owner, which is exactly what he wanted.

A little bit above and beyond a standard car valet in terms of what we do with the machines, and machine polishing, and that. So, as you can see, the car looks great. It’s a lovely depth and gloss to the finish. It’s one or two small, kind of re-spray areas on the car that we couldn’t really do much with. But other than that, the car looks fantastic.

So, that’s it. Mid Level Detail on BMW Dublin. I think a special offer on the price at the moment on the website – if you want to go on and have a look at the price list on the detailing page on cleanmycar.ie. Cheers. Thanks for watching.”