Big "A" Detailing FTMFW SL500 another happy customer

[AndrewBigA]

Gmbh B7 posted this thread the other day on another car forum:

 

Just wanted to let everyone know what an awesome job Andrew did on my dads car.

My dad just picked up a 2005 SL500 that needed some serious TLC. I don't think the car was waxed for the last 4 years, everything was filthy & needed some serious work to get it to look right. Paint was full of swirls and imperfections. The rims looked black and the interior was just filthy.

 

I've never seen a detailer put as much effort into a car as Andrew did. He spent almost 8 hours working on the car & the attention to detail is far beyond my wildest expectation.

 

Im seriously blown away by the caliber of his work & the amount of pride he takes in his work.

 

I cant wait till I have some time to get my RS4 to his shop.

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Just like you thank me for my work, I thank you for your nice positive feedback. I'm looking foward to taking care of your Audi, as well as other cars you have for me to detail in the near future. I didn't mind you hanging out in the shop & watching me work.

Here are the pictures, enjoy.

 

front

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/triangle05/sl5007.jpg

rear

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/triangle05/sl5003.jpg

hood

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/triangle05/sl5006.jpg

trunk

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/triangle05/sl5002.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/triangle05/sl5005.jpg

roof

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c17/triangle05/sl5004.jpg

 

After giving the SL500 a nice hand wash, I inspected each pannel one at a time under my bright natural sunlight shop fixtures. I found light over spray on every single pannel, including all of the glass as well. I spent a good 45 minutes alone with the clay bar. Afterwords, denatured alcohol was used to scrub the rocker pannels & wheel lips to remove road grime. I found two black paint dots that had to be wetsanded with 1500 grit. One of the rocker pannels had some crap on it, almost underneath the car. It bothered me so much, I layed on the ground & had to scrub it off with a fine 3m scuff pad =( Each window was scraped with a double sided razor blade, then spray waxed. The all glass roof was polished with my porter cable as well. Should we mention the crappy chrome accents that Dad refuses to remove lol. Fender chrome vent covers, hood chrome vent pieces, chrome inserts behind the door handles all had over spray as well as the chrome wheels ALL OF THEM! I polished everything with a fine SOS pad BY HAND, got out the overspray 100%. All 4 rims were also polished BY HAND! It was a pain in the ass & took alot of time but that's what the car needed. I spent about 2 hours prepping the car for polish.

 

Products used:

Optimum Polish

Liquid Glass applied by hand

3M Perfect-It Show Car Paste Wax applied by hand

 

The interior was shampooed with a mild citrus cleaner.

All chrome & wood grain were checked for streaks.

Lexol leather conditioner was used for the seats.

 

The car was completed with absolutely no over spray, zero swirl marks & all of the fine scratches that covered the entire car are 100% gone.

The sun was hiding behind the clouds so the pictures were the best that I could get.

No before pictures, I had no time for that, sorry.

 

-Andrew