Ultimate Shine: RB320 Turnaround

[Ultimate Shine]

Time for another write up i think. Been a while since my last so i thought a good before and after job was ob the cards,

Customer came to me with this car 2007 Subaru RB320, the car had covered 14,000 miles and had been looked after by the local valet centre. They found that using brushes and squeedgy blades were the most productive way of washing cars:doublesho

I do have a soft spot for the Subaru's and these are awesome.

A few before's,

Notice the kerb marks on the wheels. I have now added paint and wheel and leather refurb's to the list of services carried out at Ultimate Shine. Now i have done some wheels for customers that are just slightly different from the norm and usually look awesome, but this time being a ltd edition RB320 we decided to keep the colour the same and add some more heavy flake to the wheels to make them more blingy:p

Paint was so flat and dry,

Engine bay was really bad,

Well i was doing this project over the space of 10 days as the customer was going on his holidays.

Car was washed in the usual manor and heavlily de-tarred using lots of tardis.

Car was clayed with Meg's Mild and water/shampoo mix,

Now anyone that has machined Subaru paint knows that you either get sticky or non sticky paint. Thankfully this one wasn't too bad so the refining was a lot easier to manage and could be done on a rotary.

Using either a Green Lake country pad or a 3m yellow polishing pad with Menz 3.02, 203s, 106FA and some 3m ultra fina and a blue 3m finishing pad the results were quite good:buffer:, even though i do say so myself:p

50/50

before

after

The tailgate boot section to achieve the correct results i removed the spoiler and the upper spoiler from the top of the window

the tail gate,

50/50

bonnet before,

bonnet compounded,

side doors,

during,

Well the customer was planing on selling this car once he picked it up. Once he seen the car he decided to keep it as the car was glowing again,

Products used for finish,

Raceglaze Black Label x 2 coats 10 hours inbetween

G-Techniq G3 on side and back windows

G-Techniq G1 on windscreen

G-Techniq C5 Wheel armour applied after the refurb.

Swissvax Pneu on tires

303 Aerospace on engine bay and the plastics inside the car and wheel arches.

303 fabric guard on the seats

Blackfire All Finish Paint Protection on door checks

Blackfire All Metal Sealant on Tailpipe after being polished with my new fancy Makita metal polisher

Lets see what you think?

[Ultimate Shine]

Something i have never posted before a picture of the Ultimate Shine Subaru wearing 19" OZ superlegerras,

[Rab89]

Looks great mate, reminds me of mine once you had your hands on it.

Good to see your car is spot on too!

Will be in touch in the spring about my car

[mk1cos]

well done paul

top job again

[Alastair]

brilliant work, the car from before to after is a great transformation. goes to show what can be done.

[Baz man]

Top work mate

No wonder he kept it. Looks stunning

[sinny]

WOW! that is totally amazing what you can do to cars, my sti definately needs some tlc like that

[Dugbawz]

Car looks real good, what would a full detail like that set me back circa? My RB defo needs some tlc in the early spring.

Craig

[oobster]

That's braw.

[braveheart]

Exellent job Paul well done ;-) stunning Rb

[Hightower]

how much roughly would that be as would not mind getting my rb done in the spring time

[mystery machine]

[rig-pig]

good job m8

[Spooky]

That looks awesome! I really need to get my P1 done soon, its in a very bad way (