Thread: Oakes - Detailed: Honda S2000 - 505whp Detail

This light, overpowered roadster came to us in DESPERATE need for a correction. Weighing in at 2900 lbs with driver and 3/4 tank of gas, it's needless to say this car is a blast. With that said, it needed to look just as good as it's time slips will be, which are yet to be obtained. So hopefully my foot isn't in my mouth for this one!

This turbo monster was showing it's age and use in the paint, and definitely needed to be revived to show that deep pearl yellow paint. The Carbon fiber hood also needed to be brought back to life, for the time being until it is painted to match. I will let the pictures and process do the rest of the talking here!


Products used:

Meguiars M105
Meguiars M205
Menzerna SIP
IPA 30%
Sonus green clay
Ironx
CG wheel cleaner
CG citrus wash
Autoglym HD wax
Optibond(tire dressing)
Poorboys bold and bright (tire dressing)
303 convertible top cleaner
Poorboys natural look
Sprayway window cleaner

Process: Car was rinsed and washed, then clayed, rinsed again, sprayed with ironx and rinsed again couple minutes later. Ironx removed metal that was under surface that clay was not able to remove. Car was washed again and dried. Wheels were cleaned. After inspecting paint and seeing the damage that was there we got ok to do one-step polish on it. Hood was buffed before what looks like with rotary and wool pad which left a lot of buffer trails. Test panel was done with menz SIP and it removed all defects. Tried same combo on paint and there was a lot of scratches left. Did pass with M105 and it removed 80% of scratches. After finishing pass with M205 surface looked very wet and paint got its depth back being metallic yellow color. Since it was only supposed to be one step, car received quick pass with M105 and PFW pad which removed about 80% of scratches. Some areas were polished to about 95% scratch free (trunk especially). Fenders were damaged more and did extra pass with M105 (car was partially repainted). After quick compounding car was polished with M205, wiped down with IPA and waxed with Autoglym HD wax. After removing wax car had very deep wet look to it and was very sleek to touch. Tires were dressed, windows cleaned and interior vacuumed and wiped down with PB natural look. Car looks a lot better then it did before.

Onto the pics

Before


50/50






After

Finished pictures




















-Oakes