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Thread: Well worth a look, Porsche Boxter S

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    Well worth a look, Porsche Boxter S

    I spent the day detailing this lovely Boxter-S today, owned by an SXOC member

    The car is in great condition with just a few light stone chips on the front as expected and a couple of light scratches, but lots of swirls and as the car is often parked under a tree lots of bonded contaminants and also a lot of tar on the lower panels, especially behind the wheels and on the rear bumper.

    Here's the car when I got there. On the whole it doesn't look too bad:


    But looking closer you can see the paint has lost its luster:


    And closer still, lots of bonded contaminants and swirls:


    Wheels were not too bad other than brake dust:


    Likewise the calipers:


    I wasn't able to get any decent shots of the swirls but they were quite bad:


    So the car was washed, de-tared, clayed and dried, then the hood was cleaned and protected:




    And then masked up ready for paint correction:


    The paint was hard as expected, the swirls were removed with Menzerna Fast Gloss S500 and a 3M Polishing pad, then refined with Menzerna Menzerna Super Finish PO106FA on a 3M finishing pad. Then the paint was glazed with Poorboys Blackhole applied by rotary and lastly waxed with Dodo Juice Supernatural. The end result was this:















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    BLOODY HELL, you do know what your doing dont you jem, great job again

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    you sir... are a genius

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    Awesome job there dude

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    my word that is stunning!!!

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    Amazing work there dude

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    Cheers guys

    The combination of Menzerna polish and 3M pads works really well

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    Massive thanks to Jem for detailing my better half's car - she's really chuffed with how it came out

    He really worked like mad on it for 8-9 hours pretty much non stop in the blazing sunshine!

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    You're more than welcome Jonny

    Just uploaded this video, 133Mb via my phones internet connection

    Last edited by Jem; 02-08-2011 at 19:51.

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    Yet again wow!

    Jon: What colour is the car, looks black in some pics but in others it has a purple look?

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    It's a very dark charcoal, nearly black.

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    Nice

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    I think Porsche list it as 'Basalt Black Metallic'

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    Holy crap! That looks better than new!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by unknown source View Post
    Holy crap! That looks better than new!!
    Cheers, I am a perfectionist at heart.

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    Just realised the video was the size of a house Should play a bit better now

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    That ridiculously shiny lol good work

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    My god ,can't wait till you do mine .
    Awsome .

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    Quote Originally Posted by sx boy View Post
    My god ,can't wait till you do mine .
    Awsome .
    I'll do what I can

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    going to be the best £99 I spend me thinks

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