Ty Detailed 2008 Legacy GT Spec B

[Ty]

I had the opputunity to go down to Seattle and detail a buddies new car, and meet a guy from a detailing forum. He needed a bit of direction on how to properly polish and detail -- so I hijacked some of Elite Auto Detailing' equipment, and some of the Tom's (The guy from the detailing forum) equipment and went to town!

Products used:
Wash
Poor Boy's slick in the foam gun
Two buckets with Grit Guard
Uber Sponge
SwissVax Detail Brush
Wheels and exhaust washed with APC 1:1
Swissvax wheel Brush
Clay
BiltHamber Medium clay
Optimum Instant Detail as lube
Polish
Menzerna PO203
Menzerna SIP on trunklid/roof deeper RIDs
Menzerna 85rd to finish/jewel trunklid and roof
Flex Random Orbital (force driven and awesome)
Tires
Optimum Tire Gel
Interior
Einzett Cockpit Premium
APC 3:1 for pedals
Sealant and Wax
2 coats of JetSeal 109
Rubbish Boys Original Edition Carnuba


After a wash:
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The paint wasn't in terrible shape, it had a few scratches here and there:
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Swirls and some Water Etching:
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Wax Residue from the Dealership, thanks guys!
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Now I taped the car off with two helpers tagging along:
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Me Claying:
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I put the owner to work and showed him how to claybar:
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After Clay shots:
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This is about where we got pressed for time, pictures had to stop as we only had about 4 hours to fully polish and finish up the car.

Polishing:
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and.... All done!

Here's the porn:
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Happy owner!
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All in all it was about 6 hours of work, with me working on it 100%, and them jumping in and out as I let them/had time to instruct. Tom did help a ton with polishing. It would have been an 8 hour job if he wasn't there to learn about polishing then help. With a little instruction, he was a natural!

[erik]

Nice work :)

[SPR]

spec B's are soooo sick. nothing like an sti and luxury ride at the same time :) oooo gotta love em.

[Ty]

It's not the same engine as the STi. Just the same transmission minus the DCCD. No Brembos either. Different turbo. :(

It's missing quite a few things the STi has, but is still an amazing car and I'm very glad he picked one up. We looked around for over a month!