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Detailer's Domain: Fixes dealer mistake - MB ML350 - Big Correction
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| 01-30-2012, 12:05 PM | #1 |
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Detailer's Domain: Fixes dealer mistake - MB ML350 - Big Correction
Subject: Mercedes ML350
Believe it or not this was truly a dealer hack job. This was sold as a CPO'd car from an authorized MB dealer. Wow is about all I can say, please take a look at how it was delivered. What was done - Exterior - Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes - Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down - Wheel wells were cleaned up - Pre Washed with W99 - Iron Cut - Wash down and rinsed - Door jambs were cleaned up - Clayed - Dried - Tires dressed - Masking - Paint Measurement - Meg's M105 with Surbuf Pad and Uber Yellow Pad with the Flex PE14-2-150 - Menzerna SF4000 with Uber Green Pad with the Flex 14-2-150 - Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight - Last Step – Menzerna Power Lock with an Uber Black Pad and the Porter Cable - Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed - Rubber and Plastics Treated - Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed - Exhaust tips cleaned - Windows were clayed, cleaned, and sealed Products used Links to products used - 1Z einszett W99 Adam's All Purpose Cleaner Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner Uber Clay Bar Kit Meguiar's M105 Menzerna Super Finish Menzerna Power Lock Sealant 1Z einszett Vinyl Rubber Care Optimum Metal Polish Glass Uber Glass Cleaner Kit Tools used Uber Wool Wash Mitt Uber No Name MF Towels Flex PE14.2.150 Porter Cable 7424XP Uber Buffing Pads Defelsko Paint Meter Fenix TK35 Brinkmann Kranzle Pressure Washer Cam Spray Foam Canon 2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies Uber Firehose Nozzle Metro Air Force Blaster Before shots       Prep - including pre soak, decon, clay, wheels cleaned, tires cleaned, wheel wells cleaned Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner in action  APC on the tires - dirt being lifted up from the tires  APC on the wheel wells  Pre Soak    Rinse  Sorry no shots of the Decon Super Drying Towel being used to dry the ML  Inspecting the paint after the prep - brings us to paint defects everything you can imagine its on this SUV    I'll let the next few pictures do the talking (this was on every panel)         Before front fender  After  Before shot of the Door  After  Various 50/50 shots       After all the paint correction was done we did a nice wash prior to applying Menzerna Power Lock as a last step   After shots        |
| 01-30-2012, 12:12 PM | #2 |
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wow huge difference! good job
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| 01-31-2012, 01:13 AM | #4 |
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It turned out beautiful, well done!
Morale of the story: NEVER let the dealer touch your car. I tape "DO NOT WASH" signs to my car's windows and windshield when I take it in for service.
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| 02-03-2012, 09:46 AM | #5 |
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Most people dont even know that there are defects, or if they see them they dont think they can be fixed. Sad.
Great work by your team though!
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