2001 WS6 63k miles
First one of the season and a good warm-up, my cars been put on the back burner for a while.

I’ve always taken good care of the paint and cleanliness, but the car has never seen any correction. Condition was already way better than normal, but I wanted to see if my partner and I could make it even better.

The car has years of wax on it, mostly Zaino and NXT. Looking at the car to start you would think it needs nothing, but we need to strip the old wax off. As you know Pewter is a tough color to show correction.

PS I really love zaino, great stuff and it shows!

Total time: 2 5-6hr sessions

Wash
CG Citrus Wash + Gloss
P21S TAW
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
Swissvax Wheel Brush
MF Wash Towel
Wheel barrels were scrubbed, scotchbrite, and some compounding.

Prep, Compounding, Finishing
Porter cable XP
Flex
Menzerna PO203
Menzerna 106FA
Prima Amigo
Menzerna PowerLock
AutoGlym HD
Prima Slick
Mother's Chrome Polish
ONR clay bar dilution
CG Extreme Shine
Uber Clay Var
Uber Orange 5.5" pad
Uber Green 5.5" pad
White lake country 6” pad
Orange Lake country 6” pad
Uber Black 5.5" pad
Uber Orange 3" pad
More MF towels
3m Painter's tape



Process
Wash, light clay, tape.
1-2 pass’s 203 w/ orange, 1 pass 106FA with white/green, 1 pass Amigo w/blue, Powerlock, AutoGlym HD, Slick

Tips & Wheels - Chrome polish, Powerlock, CG Extreme Shine

Under hood given a quick treatment and interior fully done + weather strip treatment.

Wheels removed and given a full treatment

Before Pics

Condition is not too bad…





A little marring of the top layer from storage (car cover)


Very light RIDS, plus some older wax may have started to break down and yellow a bit



Some light scratches like this here and their



Couple deeper scratches


Plastic is scratched and a little hazed





Gotta get all the nooks and cranny’s


Water etching and glass stains, yeah we gotta fix that. (Especially those t-tops, which I already did last season, they were horrible)


Here We Go this is what I’m talking about


Lots of old rubber (But to be honest I gave up on some of it, might get at it later)




Progress

Lets get started, start taping.


Remember those 2 scratches, Almost gone after the 1st pass, you really got to catch it in the light to see.


Attacking the plastic


Getting shiny





Bumper correction before and after. We know how those F-body bumpers feel like sandpaper








Over 10 yrs of filth.




Power Locking



RESULTS

 

OUTSIDE (sun was going down so more of that silver is showing)













The LSP was AutoGlym HD, but I might actually throw some Z2 on it for the hell of it too.

 

looks really good man nice work.

 

Thanks its tough to appreciate results on pewter, almost gotta be their to see the slight changes.

You do a dark color car, its like damn! with the same amount of work.

 

Looks great; it actually looks more silver now than gold like it did before (the bumper pics are crazy) - but that car really needs an inch or so drop Dan

 

Looks awesome! My bird needs this so bad!

 

Yeah that could be from some of the yellowing of the old wax. It looks silver at dusk, mid day its gonna pop, I'll try to get a pick in the sun later this week.

It has more gold in it then the pewter vettes do.

Dropping it...yeah it would look much better. I'm gonna be working on that soon enough, but I'm gonna go with some strange shocks and some low rate springs, then tweak the back. I want it to hook. Plus I'm afraid I'll catch the y-pipe I currently have.

Here is one more bumper for yeah

 

Looks good. Hard to believe it's that nice since it's an 01. Wish you drove it more.

 

There is something to be said about smoking transmissions and breaking rears...always a bright side.

I'll get a few thousand on it this summer.

 

where are you in MA? I might be looking to get my car buffed in the next few weeks

 

Winchendon, we are booked till the end of May right now.
If interested you can PM me.

It's a side hobby for me and my buddy we only do a few cars a month.

 

how did the wheel barrels come out?

 

Awesome work ! My car needs this. Just light swirls I need to get rid of.

 

fair enough. Let me know if you need any help. Im not looking for money I just love detailing cars

 

can you walk me thru how you did the plastic? Turned out beautiful.

 

That's alot of work for me. My lazy *** just walks next door and give the keys.
Yes, detail shop opened next to us......

 

Looks great Dan!

 

wish someone would do my car w the porter cable before slowhawk dyno day

 

same here with mine

 

Looks great dan!

Just had my dirty bird out the other day... it needs some tlc soon