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Old Jul 24, 2009 | 08:07 PM
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Default 2007 Corvette vert detail - full correction

This customer came from nearly 2hrs away to drop her car off to me for a thorough correction. She has a lot of pride of ownership of this car and maintains it quite well. Another detailer had failed to remove the swirls as promised, so I got the call to make it right

After a solid 2 days on her car, it came out about 98% perfect.



Process:

Exterior
-Foamed with Dawn
-Rinsed and Dawn wash
-Megs APC 4:1 on wheels/tires
-Daytona EZ detail brush
-Swissvax Wheel brush
-Clayed with Z18 and Megs LT as lube
-Engine with Megs APC 3:1 and various brushes
-Tires and black trim with Zaino Z16



Interior

-Vacuumed
-Leather with Megs APC 10:1
-Zaino Z10 conditioner
-Stoner's Invisible Glass on windows
-vents and console cleaned with various brushes/qtips
-forgot pics *whoops*



Correction

-Megs 105 on orange LC 5.5
-Megs 205 on white LC 5.5
-using KBM method


LSP

-Zaino ZAIO
-Zaino Z5pro
-Zaino Z6








Before pics:
















The sky had a slight haze and hid some of the direct light, covering some swirls, but they were worse than pictured.

















Bath time!











Onto the swirls and correction...



test spot


















Right side corrected, left side not corrected yet









Both sides finished






Finished pics






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Old Jul 24, 2009 | 08:10 PM
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Looks great, nice work.
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Old Jul 24, 2009 | 09:33 PM
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Great job!!!
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Old Jul 24, 2009 | 09:37 PM
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wow, nice looking corvette!!!
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Old Jul 24, 2009 | 09:45 PM
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God, I wish you were here in Savannah so you could do my car
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 01:24 AM
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Hi Jeff - wanted to register here, so that I could publicly thank you for the awesome job that you did with our car. It was most definitely worth driving the two hours it took to get to your place. I know you said that the car was 98% corrected, but damn if I can find the 2% that you said wasn't. The job looks 100% perfect to me.

Nancy
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Originally Posted by Nalykh
Hi Jeff - wanted to register here, so that I could publicly thank you for the awesome job that you did with our car. It was most definitely worth driving the two hours it took to get to your place. I know you said that the car was 98% corrected, but damn if I can find the 2% that you said wasn't. The job looks 100% perfect to me.

Nancy
Thank you for the kind words Nancy I enjoyed working on your car. That paint sure glows in the sun!
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 09:27 AM
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That's a great looking vette!
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 10:06 AM
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Yea, thats a damn nice job!....
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 11:17 PM
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Very nice work... and refreshing to see the owner take the time to show her appreciation.
Have you ever used, or have an impression of the Z8 grand finale... I see you used Z6

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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Scira
That's a great looking vette!
Thanks

Originally Posted by Blu Beast
Yea, thats a damn nice job!....
Thank you!

Originally Posted by DriftR
Very nice work... and refreshing to see the owner take the time to show her appreciation.
Have you ever used, or have an impression of the Z8 grand finale... I see you used Z6
Thanks. I love the Z8, its great before shows and meets and such.
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WoW!!!!
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Gotta love zaino! Hey jeff what are your experiences with ZPC? Just spent 15 hours doing some light correction on my 99 TA and I think it could've gone a lot better with the meguires combo

Great work looks amazing, as always!
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looks good
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Originally Posted by Fire-formula 93
Gotta love zaino! Hey jeff what are your experiences with ZPC? Just spent 15 hours doing some light correction on my 99 TA and I think it could've gone a lot better with the meguires combo

Great work looks amazing, as always!
ZPC works pretty good and finishes down beautifully, however it dusts like M105 on steroids, cocain, and exstacy.... I liked it but after one bottle I was done. WAY too much dust. For F-body or Vette clear coat, Menz SIP owns all.
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WoW!!!!
Originally Posted by 9WhiteCamaro9
looks good

Thank you
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Originally Posted by GoFast908Z
ZPC works pretty good and finishes down beautifully, however it dusts like M105 on steroids, cocain, and exstacy.... I liked it but after one bottle I was done. WAY too much dust. For F-body or Vette clear coat, Menz SIP owns all.
Thanks ill have to try that, you do beautiful work man

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You do great work!
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