Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale Quick Detail
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Must admit I’ve had worse Thursdays off, spent the best part of the day doing a minor paint correction and general clean up on a 360 CS, rare car and a rare opportunity. Was also like going to the gym for few hours in an oven, the Dubai Summers and manual work really are not an amusing combination.
Anyways on to the car, for an 11 year old vehicle the condition overall is very impressive however with this type of car and low use you would also hope to find them in such condition and this one is a cracking example.
Aim of the detail, a quick tidy up of the paintwork which had acquired the natural swirl marks over time albeit fortunately mild ones and also give the engine bay a quick going over, the carbon fibre has started to lose its shine.
Before starting the wash process is vital, considering the vehicle involved some time was taken over this process circa 2 hours, few of the car before:
Engine bay before (got to be one of the best sights in automotive history)
Paint swirls showing in the sun in the usual places door top edges and boot/engine cover lid:
Exhausts, naturally would expect a bit of carbon build up on these:
In keeping with the care needed for this type of car a snow foam pre wash was used to remove any loose surface particles, used CG's Honey Dew Snow Foam:
Metal de-contamination used on the exhausts, Car Pro's Iron X:
Engine bay cleaning in progress, still using non damaging (i.e acid) kind products and carefully brushed in:
Age of the car had started to show in certain joints, using specific swabs it was possible to remove a lot of the build up hiding, Dodo Juice's detailing sticks used:
Car all washed and carefully dried to head inside:
Being prepared for polishing, the mesh at the rear of the car is worthwhile being taped up, it would not be much fun trying to remove excess polish from each individual hole!
Stripes also taped over to be protected, in this picture id also sectioned off two areas to experiment with regarding compounds/pads to see what would work, the idea is to remove light marks not go heavy so ideally a 1 stage minor correction was decided on with a medium grade pad.
Tried a couple of compounds in this instance V36 from CG and also the newer VSS from them, was getting the same result using VSS on a Green HEX pad as V36 on an Orange pad so to be kind to the paint used the VSS and Green.
Wheels and exhausts after, used CG's vintage metal polish on these and in the engine bay on the silencer:
Engine bay:
Paint up close on two panels:
Final of the whole car:
Unfortunately it won’t show the usual night/day before and after pictures that I’m used to showing but it’s good that the car only needed very minor work being the age it is. Was finished off with a good sealant to help protect over the summer months.
All in all a rare opportunity and a good experience working with such a car.
Anyways on to the car, for an 11 year old vehicle the condition overall is very impressive however with this type of car and low use you would also hope to find them in such condition and this one is a cracking example.
Aim of the detail, a quick tidy up of the paintwork which had acquired the natural swirl marks over time albeit fortunately mild ones and also give the engine bay a quick going over, the carbon fibre has started to lose its shine.
Before starting the wash process is vital, considering the vehicle involved some time was taken over this process circa 2 hours, few of the car before:
Engine bay before (got to be one of the best sights in automotive history)
Paint swirls showing in the sun in the usual places door top edges and boot/engine cover lid:
Exhausts, naturally would expect a bit of carbon build up on these:
In keeping with the care needed for this type of car a snow foam pre wash was used to remove any loose surface particles, used CG's Honey Dew Snow Foam:
Metal de-contamination used on the exhausts, Car Pro's Iron X:
Engine bay cleaning in progress, still using non damaging (i.e acid) kind products and carefully brushed in:
Age of the car had started to show in certain joints, using specific swabs it was possible to remove a lot of the build up hiding, Dodo Juice's detailing sticks used:
Car all washed and carefully dried to head inside:
Being prepared for polishing, the mesh at the rear of the car is worthwhile being taped up, it would not be much fun trying to remove excess polish from each individual hole!
Stripes also taped over to be protected, in this picture id also sectioned off two areas to experiment with regarding compounds/pads to see what would work, the idea is to remove light marks not go heavy so ideally a 1 stage minor correction was decided on with a medium grade pad.
Tried a couple of compounds in this instance V36 from CG and also the newer VSS from them, was getting the same result using VSS on a Green HEX pad as V36 on an Orange pad so to be kind to the paint used the VSS and Green.
Wheels and exhausts after, used CG's vintage metal polish on these and in the engine bay on the silencer:
Engine bay:
Paint up close on two panels:
Final of the whole car:
Unfortunately it won’t show the usual night/day before and after pictures that I’m used to showing but it’s good that the car only needed very minor work being the age it is. Was finished off with a good sealant to help protect over the summer months.
All in all a rare opportunity and a good experience working with such a car.
Edited by After_Shock on Friday 5th June 16:14
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