eclipsisNA Detailed | Restoring Jerez Black - Part II

[eclipsisNA]

My favorite client to work with is someone that is genuinely excited about seeing their car after I've completed a paint correction. This client in particular had very high hopes for a car he recently purchased that was severely neglected by its previous owner. The entire car had intense swirling and holograms created by another detailer.

This detail let me try out a tool I hobbled together to help facilitate multiple fixed measurement points for my paint depth gauge. Prior to this, I had always measured paint by locations marked with a single laser point. The inherit problem in this practice is that I wouldn't know whether the amount of paint I was removing was uniform across the entire panel measured by the single point. The solution was to somehow split the laser's beam into multiple paths to create a grid. A grid would allow me track the amount of paint removed across an entire panel. The grid was created by gluing a piece of diffraction grating to a laser pointer with a toggle switch.

This is after 56 hours of work spread out over 6 days.


Camera: Canon 5D Mark III
Lenses: Tamron 24-70 VC, Canon 70-200 f2.8L IS II
Trigger system: Odin Phottix

Dull, faded paint at delivery



Thick brake dust on wheel's barrel



Clay bar after wheel was decontaminated



After decontamination





Heavy swirling on reverse light



Reverse light after polishing



Side vent removed for polishing



Side vent after polishing



Passenger side pillar before polishing



Passenger side pillar after polishing



Available in 720p & 1080p



Holograms and swirls on hood



Hood after polishing



Swirled and faded front-end



Front-end after paint correction and application of Chemical Guys J97





Tripod-mounted diffraction laser



Multiple measuring points are created on driver side door by diffraction grating



Measuring grid points w/ paint depth gauge (available in 720p & 1080p)



Buffer trails and swirls on driver side door



Driver side door after polishing





Left side of driver side door before polishing, right side after polishing

[anthony @ eas]

Wow, it looks better than new. Awesome work!

[bmwtech13]

props good sir

[GOLFFRR]

Nice Eric!! once again you killed it

[xiliy]

Eric, you are amazing!

[///Mperative]

Nice work! Jerez Black is a pain in the ass, but you did a really great job with it. My car is Jerez and it came with the usual dealer installed swirls on the hood and holograms on the trunk lid (even though I bought it new). Removing the defects from the hood and trunk lid was a huge chore when I got a paint correction at ~1,000 miles.

[ebada]

great job!

[eclipsisNA]

Originally Posted by anthony @ eas

Wow, it looks better than new. Awesome work!

Originally Posted by GOLFFRR

Nice Eric!! once again you killed it

Thank you gents! This one took a ton of work, but it came out beautifully in the end.

Originally Posted by xiliy

Eric, you are amazing!

Many thanks, yours still looks great in your avatar

Originally Posted by ///Mperative

Nice work! Jerez Black is a pain in the ass, but you did a really great job with it. My car is Jerez and it came with the usual dealer installed swirls on the hood and holograms on the trunk lid (even though I bought it new). Removing the defects from the hood and trunk lid was a huge chore when I got a paint correction at ~1,000 miles.

Black is, IMO, the best looking color when it's clean, but that usually doesn't last too long.

[positiveions]

Eric, this is an amazing job.
BTW, are you done with construction on the new studio?

[batddubbongv8]

not bad

[And1M3]

A job well done. It really show how much time you put into detailing it.