Rolls Royce at Meguiar's!

[Mike Phillips]

Another fine Rolls Royce Automobile at this event was this 1964 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud.





While in the above pictures, it would appear as thought this car is immaculate in every dimension, and it is compared to 95% of the cars on the road, however, closer inspection of the finish reveals that a little tlc is needed to take it to it's maximum potential.

Here's a shot of the finish on the driver’s side front fender under direct sunlight,



Here's a close-up of this same area,



In the photos above, the finish has swirls. In this case the finish has two kinds of swirls,

* Cobweb-Effect These are the type of swirls that build up over time by normal, everyday wear and tear.

* Buffer Swirl These are they type of swirls that are usually instilled by the incorrect use of a rotary buffer, (bad technique), or a number of rotary buffer related problems such as wrong buffing pad, or wrong finishing polish, chosen for the final buff and in some cases all the above.

Here's a couple more shots depicting the same thing. Here's the rear trunk lid,



And here's a close-up of the trunk lid,



The owner of this car will be showing it at the ATSC's 22nd Annual Concours d'Elegance on Sunday, October 17, 2004. Before this event, the owner has generously offered to bring his Rolls Royce back to Meguiar’s for Showcar Makeover. The purpose of the makeover will be to remove the swirls and restore a show car finish to this rolling piece of artwork. Of course we will document the products and procedures we use and post the write-up for this in the
Extreme Makeovers forum.

[Mike Phillips]

The Rolls Royce detailing clinic was a huge success with over 20 cars spanning very early models to modern late model examples and 36 people attending a majority of which were from San Diego. Meguiar’s classroom was full to capacity and the Training Garage was standing room only!



This particular event was scheduled in time to help the owners learn more about detailing and preparing their car for display, in time for the Rolls Royce International Centennial Celebration to be held in Monterey, CA August 17-21st.




Members had the opportunity to see products and techniques demonstrated and were then able to inspect the results for themselves,

http://www.meguiarsonline.com/gallery/data/500/2RRDemoScratchXDPP3.jpg

[Mike Phillips]

Here's a white Rolls Royce driven all the say from Victorville, CA that didn't get a lot of attention because it was tucked around the corner of the parking lot here at Meguiar's. A very beautiful and stately car.



The owner of this car also owns a very pristine 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL which he has generously offered for a Extreme Makeover before and after write-up.



While the car looks beautiful, the finish is in need of a little Meguiar's detailing to restore a flawless swirl-free finish,



1958 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Swirl Removal

[Mike Phillips]

Generally at the Saturday detailing classes held here at Meguiar's there will be a variety of cars besides the designated club cars. Such was the case when this 1973 Maserati Bora pulled into the parking lot.



The car has been repainted in the past and we showed the owner how a one-step product like ColorX could quickly and easily restore the clarity and gloss to his clear coat silver finish.



Our attention was turned to the inside of the car where the original leather seats were still intact and in good condition, all they need is a thorough cleaning and conditioning to restore them and preserve their value. This is an excellent example of when to use a 2-Step approach, using a dedicated leather cleaner and a dedicated leather conditioner.

Gold Class Rich Leather Aloe Cleaner

Gold Class Rich Leather Aloe Conditioner



While hard to tell in this picture, the four ribs just to the right of the bottle of Gold Class Rich Leather Aloe Cleaner were cleaned and conditioned and besides looking better, the leather is now dramatically softer and more supple.

We tested this 2-step approach to the arm rest also and could tell right away that these two product and a Saturday afternoon would result in a restored leather interior for the Maserati Bora.





This car may be back for and extreme makeover for the interior.

Mike

[Bill D]

Mike,


This is absolute eye candy!

Do you find all the RR finishes to be soft? Which one was most difficult to polish?

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by Bill D
Mike,


This is absolute eye candy!

Do you find all the RR finishes to be soft? Which one was most difficult to polish?

Hi Bill,

Sorry I never caught-up with this question, the thing about paint hardness or softness is you really don't know until you go out into your garage and work on your car and that's when you'll find out.

Recently we worked on a Chrysler 300 owned by forum member fatchance and we did some wet-sanding and polishing work on the hood of his car and the paint was very easy to work on, as in our sanding marks buffed out easily and quickly.

From this thread,
http://archive.meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12462


We removed the egg impact scratches from fatchance's Chrysler 300 here,
http://archive.meguiarsonline.com/fo...threadid=11898


John aka fatchance, let us do a little wet-sanding on his Chrysler 300 as the hood was hit with an egg and it left some deeper scratches on the hood.




This photo was actually taken after wet-sanding with a backing pad and then using a rotary buffer with a cutting pad and M84 Compound Power Cleaner to remove the sanding marks. We didn't get any pictures of how bad the scratches were before we started but you'll get the idea...




After removing all the lighter scratches from the process above, we then cut up some small pieces of Nikken #2500 grit Finishing Paper to zero in on just the scratches while sanding.






After sanding each of the individual scratches flat, we then removed the sanding marks using the W-7006 Foam Cutting pad with some more M84 Compound Power Cleaner at around 1500 rpm.




We then re-polished the area with a W-8006 Foam Polishing Pad and some M83 Dual Action Cleaner/Polish with the rotary buffer, the re-polished again using M80 Speed Glaze with the G100 and then applied some M21 Synthetic Sealant.

About the only sign of the scratches left was this tiny little residual scratch right here...




Then, last Wednesday we worked on the same model car only a year newer and found the factory paint to be very hard as compared to John's Chrysler,

From this thread,

http://archive.meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14861

Originally posted by fatchance
We had a great time, thanks to the Meg's crew, Mike, Jason and Sean. The hood on Ella C SRT looked amazing when it was finished.

Hi John,

First we would like to thank you for bringing Ella and her car to Meguiar's Garage and allowing us to work on it. As you can see Ella keeps her car in pristine condition!




There were however to very unsightly scratches in the shape of an arc, running from the back of the hood by the windshield all the way to the front of the hood on the passenger's side of the car.

Here's some close-ups of the scratches, while they don't look very deep, they stood out like a sore thumb on an other wise flawless finish.






The paint also had these almost perfect, circular indents throughout the hood as you can see in the below close-up which is actually a section cropped out of the above photo and actual size.




In order to remove these scratches we decided to use a technique called Feather Sanding, where you take a small piece of Meguiar's Nikken Finishing Paper, about the size of a postage stamp, and carefully sand directly over the defect you're trying to remove and feather the edge out until you can no longer see the scratch.

After sanding out the two long arc scratches, we took a photo of the entire hood so you can now see just how long these scratches extended over the passenger's side of the hood and we think most people would agree, that if they owned this car and the finish was otherwise flawless except for two distinct, long scratches in the hood... well you would want them out of the paint also!







The easy part is actually sanding out the scratches, the tricky part is removing the sanding marks!. This however is where Meguiar's excels! We've been creating products that use diminishing abrasives since 1901 and our product have the ability to actually remove defects without instilling defects at the same time and that's the secret to creating flawless, show car finishes!

We would like to note that we think Ella's eyes got a little bigger while watching us sand on the hood of her baby...




After wet-sanding out the defects, we carefully massaged out our sanding marks and then asked Ella to apply some M21 Synthetic Sealant. Here are the results...








In summary...

Paint Hardness - You don't how hard or soft the paint on your car is until you go out into your garage and work on your car.

[rusty bumper]

Thanks for resurrecting this thread....I had forgotten about it.

There used to be a Rolls parked at a pawn shop near here. It stayed there for a long time, but now it's gone.

I should have inquired about it just for heck of it.

[fishbonezken]

You're awesome!!

[Overtaker]

Thread from the dead. And those cars are HUGE!!!!

[Editor]

Re: Rolls Royce at Meguiar's!

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