This was another pre-delivery detail for a dealer. A Carbon Black 2013 V12 Vantage. Though as you'll see from the pics below, the colour is actually closer to a deep metallic blue. It's a BMW colour I'm told.
It was a strange detail this one. Not your usual process. Mainly because I was needing to work with and around a guy installing paint protection film to the front of the car at the same time.
I had only one day with this car as it was being delivered the next day.
First up I needed to quickly correct the bonnet area so the PPF guy could start his job. Once he started though I had to be careful where I was correcting otherwise he'd get polish dust under his film while he was trying to apply it......no good at all.
So I effectively started at the back of the car, and gave it a full two stage polish before most of the rest of the car had had even a single stage polish. I had to do it this way otherwise I'd have been completely behind the eight ball.
So here's a pic of the completed rear. Seeing some nice reflections already
Taillight Before
After
Some sanding damage on the boot
Minimised
Some random "before" pics, while I was waiting for the PPF guy to finish
Once the PPF guy finished, I was a good hour and a half in arrears, so I had to push hard to make up for lost time. Very few pretty before and afters unfortunately. No time
Here's a post-first stage correction shot. Swirls are gone but still not as much clarity as I'd like
Before
After
The bonnet as presented.
It's worth noting that this car had been on the showroom floor for a long time. It then got put into carpark storage for a period, which I'm assuming is where it got all the water marking on the bonnet. The paint on this Aston was also quite soft. Something I wasn't expecting to be sure. To the point where I had to lend the PPF guy some microfibre towels because his cheap SuperCheap ones were marring up my beautifully corrected paint surface while he was dusting off the car. Again, not something I was expecting from Aston paint. I'm used to it being almost the perfect balance of hard vs soft. Not so with this one.
Front Guard before
Post first stage correction
Onto the second (finishing gloss) stage and we now start to see why Aston paint is some of the best there is
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