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Some of my detailing work.

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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 08:00 AM
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This is a Cartek A4 H/C + Nitrous car, wish the paint was as nice as the power adders, oh well, thats why I'm here.

http://community.webshots.com/user/cleancamarojoe

Detailing portfolio, the Black SS.

Sorry about the bum link.

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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 08:08 AM
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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 08:28 AM
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Works now! Good job man! Who let the car get all nasty?!?!
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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 08:32 AM
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He washed it to the best of his ability but he paid someone some big money to correct the swirls he created and they created worse, deeper swirls and burned the paint with a rotary.
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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 09:02 AM
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That person should be hung by his *****. At least it looks better now. What did you use on it?
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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 09:15 AM
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A 3 step product line from 3M (Perfect It-II) and I topped it off with one coat of P21S wax.
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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 11:28 PM
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Porter Cable I'm assuming?? or rotary??

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Old Jun 19, 2004 | 10:45 PM
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That "Before" photo was a real mess! You sure did a great job on something that looked unfixable. One of my friends has a '95 Grand Am that I used to think looked bad. Now I know what bad really is.
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Nice job as usual Joe!

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Old Jun 20, 2004 | 11:40 AM
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I used a random orbital (Cyclo polisher).
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Old Jun 20, 2004 | 11:46 AM
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I think the original job was done with an orbital sander. Good work, Joe.
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Old Jun 20, 2004 | 11:57 AM
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WOW! What kind of a hack messed that thing up?

Nice job.
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Old Jun 21, 2004 | 07:13 AM
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mhulslan - The shop that put the holograms into the paint used a rotary (which is what I think you mean by "orbital sander). The owner did everything by hand, the only time a random orbital polisher was used was the day I detailed the car.
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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 01:04 PM
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Good freaking job Joe! And to think, you didn't even use Zaino! You're a god among men!
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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 03:25 PM
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Very nice, what a miraculous recovery!

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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 05:26 PM
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Great job!
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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 06:00 PM
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hell of a job!!!
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 01:12 AM
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looking good!!!!!
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 02:34 AM
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holy S**T!!!!! that guy didint notice he was destroying the car and think to STOP?!?!??!

EXCELLENT work man, you really saved that one.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 08:06 AM
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Well the car looked just like it did after I detailed it but after just two washes the surface looked like before pictures. They must of used a filler type polish, then a glaze and a wax because it looked awesome, two washes later it's crap.

So much for those 'commercial' grade products.
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