Porsche Panamera New Car Protection Package - Zaino Z2/Z8!!

[RussZS]

This Panamera was recently purchased for the Wife of the Brother of one of my best customers. He urged them not to take the paint protection offered by Porsche and instead to get the car over to me to ensure its applied correctly after the paint is thoroughly cleansed.


My wash kit was all topped up and prepared as always - I use a bucket with a light Smart Wheels solution when working on wheels to ensure the brushes in use remain are constantly being cleaned:

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Some before pictures of the car:

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As always we started with the wheel areas.


Smart Wheels mixed 10:1 was used along with various brushes:

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Britemax Grime Out was used on the tyres and arches:

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The largest wheel woolie was used on the arches which combines good cleaning ability whilst being soft enough to not mark the painted areas near the arches:

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and rinsed:

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From a distance the wheels now appeared to be clean, but they were still suffering from significant brake dust pitting from the big Porsche brakes:

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IronX was used to safely remove this build up:

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Grime Out was used on the more intricate areas to cleanse them thoroughly ahead of hand washing:

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Applied via Pressure Sprayer:

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Next the car was hand washed with Zaino Z7, CarPro Mitt and Zaino Bucket System:

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After washing and pressure rinsing, the Panamera was treated to IronX to remove any fallout present on the paintwork…

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The car was also littered with tar deposits - these were safely dissolved using Auto Finesse's excellent Oblitarate Tar Remover:

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After pressure rinsing once again to remove any traces of Oblitarate, the Panamera was moved inside to begin the claying process to remove any remaining contamination present on the paintwork:

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The car was generally defect free but there were some severe defects present on the bonnet. These were tackled with Megs 101 via Rotary, then the whole car was machined with Rotary and Megs 205 to ensure the paintwork was as sharp as possible ahead of applying any protection.


Defect before and after:

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After machine polishing, Zaino ZAIO was applied via DA to ensure the surface of the paintwork was correctly prepared for Z2 Sealant:

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I was also instructed to remove the Diesel badge from the two sides:

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Exterior wise I finished with the Zaino Z2/6/8 combo:

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Nanolex Ultra was used on both glass and wheels:

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Z16 was used on the tyres:

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Before:

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After:

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Swissvax Nano Express was used on the engine's plastics:

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Interior wise Auto Finesse Spritz was used on the plastics:

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The new Festool Spotlight (available from Waxamomo) was used on the interior to good effect:

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All finished:

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We finished with a final Z8 Wipedown…

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Some finished shots:

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Britemax Final Shine was used on the Satin Exhausts:

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Thanks for reading.


Russ.

 

[aucky]

Just lovely

 

[KFRRS94]

Didn't know they made diesel Panamera's. Lovely cars I think but an acquired taste among many.

Good job on cleaning to :approve:

 

[Matt W]

Top work as always.

 

[Lawro]

That's stunning, great work as ever! Good choice from the customer removing those badges, awful lol!

 

[Chapppers11]

Lovely finish on that, some top products used as well!

 

[mjogreen]

Looks amazing! Great work!