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El Guapo said:
It's hard to believe that McLaren would aim for the highest possible paint quality and then hand the car over to some gorilla with a Makita and a gritty polishing pad.
As someone who isn't familiar with the world of "detailing", can you point out where you can see this travesty in the photos posted?Frik said:
El Guapo said:
It's hard to believe that McLaren would aim for the highest possible paint quality and then hand the car over to some gorilla with a Makita and a gritty polishing pad.
As someone who isn't familiar with the world of "detailing", can you point out where you can see this travesty in the photos posted?http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...
Edited by Digger on Friday 16th September 10:01
Frik said:
As someone who isn't familiar with the world of "detailing", can you point out where you can see this travesty in the photos posted?
Gladly. There are lots of photos on the Detailing Thread referred to on the previous page.One example:
Edited to add that Digger beat me to it.
Edited by El Guapo on Friday 16th September 10:16
Rollcage said:
When I had a small garage, and we did a full respray, cars went out with better finished paintwork than that. Pretty poor, IMO.
I have to agree. I have sprayed my own cars for a great number of years and the finish out of the gun has always looked a great deal better than that. Normally you are left with an orange peel effect out of the gun that then needs to be flatted and then polished. I hate to think what was done to that paint for it to end up looking like.Digger said:
Not here. There is a linked-to thread on Detailing World where there are plenty of images pre-detail.
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...
Gotcha, thanks. It doesn't look great does it.http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...
Flemke,
If you can find any time - some peeps are asking questions about 959's here. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... Knowing you have one I just wondered if you would be able to provide any input in relation to servicing costs.
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If you can find any time - some peeps are asking questions about 959's here. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... Knowing you have one I just wondered if you would be able to provide any input in relation to servicing costs.
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Shmee said:
Glad to see the car is back together, although as usual black wheels on a road car look very wrong and mess up the whole colour coordination everywhere, which contributes to the car looking very piecemeal and bitty.Frankly the wheel nut colour looks terrible, very chavvy and have no place on an F1, and the interior looks too dark - and then there are those weird blue stripy bits on the seats. The side stripe on the car - I just have no idea why that's there - if you think the car needs bling then why not got the whole hog and add a bunch of chrome?
I think the hub of the problem is the application of colours and style from here and there through history, so the resulting hodgepodge is like a car crash between a chavved up Halfords special Nova and a D type Jag. The reason fabrics and colours from old cars match those cars is because the whole thing is contemporary, seamless and has been put together by an artistic designer.
The good news however is that the basic body colour is very nice, nothing wrong with that at all. A simple remedy of black anodised wheel nuts, getting rid of the ridiculous stripe on the door and some rework on the interior and it could look a very fine car indeed.
BTW: The easy bit on the F1 should be the exterior, the interior is more challenging because of the unusual layout and shapes. You basically have three colour zones to play with - perhaps four, carpets, seats, door cards and dash. Choose 2 or 3 colours that complement each other and the outer paintwork and it will look nice.
P.S. sorry if this comes across as a bit harsh F, I'm aiming for honesty and helpfulness and I can see you are not sold on it either.
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