New Car Protection
I was contacted by this client during the first few months of the year regarding maintaining his recent acquisition. After having just traded in his last 911 he wanted to maintain this one in the best possible way. I arranged an intial consultation to see the car and during the initial consultation it was agreed that as Porsche had managed to con the client into having their £600 swissvax protection I would maintain the car all the while the wax was holding up. I informed the client he will see about three months from the wax and bang on I was, by April the Wax was nearing the end of its life so the car was booked in and arrived on site in early June.
Despite being safely maintained unfortunately a fair amount of light swirls were inflicted by the dealer during their prep stages, the client even pointed this out to me during the initial inspection when I first saw the car. So first port of call was the decontamination and wash stages. The car was still very clean despite being nearly five months old by this point as the car had been maintained by me I kept on top of the door shuts, arches etc so the initial decontamination stages didn't take much and it wasn't long before the car was rolled inside, jacked up and wheels removed. In the first five months of ownership the client had managed to kerb two of the wheels on his wax into a car park so the wheels were sent off to my wheel guy for full refurbishment to be returned before collection.
Onto the paintwork assessment, sporting the odd deep scratch courtesy of his Children and a certain basketball and light swirling inflicted by the dealer the Jet black metallic received a single stage machine polish safely removing 100% of the light defects present. Approximately a day and half were spent completing the machine polishing before moving onto the two wheels that remained as unfortunately the incredibly soft gloss black had marred and required some attention.
Once the polishing stages were complete final wipe down and inspection took place to ensure complete defect removal before proceeding to the coating stages. As standard with my New Car Protection detail a two stage Ceramic coating system was applied along with the glass and wheels being Ceramic coated. With lots of fiddly details to contend with on these Targas I took another day and a half coating all exterior surfaces including the fabric convertible roof ensuring this Porsche has years of protection against the elements.
With all the plastics treated and protected, coatings applied, exhausts polished and tyres dresses I moved onto the interior. Seeing daily use this Targa 4S interior has a hard life so good protection was key from the start. Once deep cleaned the leather bolsters and dash were protected with leather guard and the alcantara centres protected with a fabric guard.
All in all this was an extremely enjoyable Detail bringing a car up to scratch that I've been looking after for several months now. To see it in the condition it should have been from the start was great and the owner was speechless on collection. Job satisfaction!
