Something a little bit different for us but something we're now actively doing, is detailing bikes. We'd always declined in the past as we hadn't had enough hands on experience to take money from customers for a job; but we've now got a bit more experience and this is the first write up of a bike we've done.
Enjoy!
The owner of this R6 regularly has his other car done by us and wanted his bike to look equally as good so he left it with us for a few weeks so I could work on it at my leisure.
The detail took approx 2 full days when I totalled up the man hours.
So here it is on arrival:
The badges on the tank were to be replaced with new ones so I carefully removed them:
This left a bit of residue which Autosmart Tardis easily removed:
Using an open ended hose I then gave the bike a thorough rinse off to get rid of as much dust and grit as possible...
...Then applied APC to the front end to help the removal of the dead bugs:
Again using APC, the wheels/brakes/suspension/engine etc were cleaned with the various sized brushes:
After a good rinse off the bike was then washed with the 2BM...
...followed by another thorough rinse and then dried off with the Black Baron:
The paint gauge revealed that the paint was quite thin on this bike with the average readings being about 80/85 microns, however it was pretty hard so I needed Menzerna 3.02 and a light cut pad with the rotary to achieve the desired level of correction.
Here's a before and after of where there was a small area suffering from sanding marks which were previously hidden by the badges:
If you look closely on the right hand picture you'll see a slightly blurred reflection where the finish had been ridged during the sanding process. The new badges would hide this so it would be daft to go any further to try and improve this.
The general swirling wasn't too bad but I was still a bit surprised I needed the cut of 3.02 to remove everything:
Afters:
The finish from the 3.02 was LSP ready as you can see so after a wee bit of dusting down I cleansed the paint with Swissvax Cleaner Fluid and then waxed with Crystal Rock:
The wheels were done with Swissvax Autobahn and all the matt finishes were protected with Swissvax Opaque after being cleaned with the Opaque cleaner.
Opaque Cleaner being applied:
The finish left from the Opaque Wax:
New badges applied :thumb:
And here's the end result
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