Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Testarossa repairs

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

Rick,

 

The car is beautiful. Like you, I am not a polisher, but that said I do like the "good cars" looking at their best when I'm out, if possible. I see some spiderwebbing in the final shot, and I wonder if you might consider getting the car a good paint correction detail. The problem with that of course is that it will just get scratched up again.

 

On our Tesla, with 10k miles on it it was already spiderwebbed up (sadly they often come new like that after new car prep "washes" the cars). I ended up getting ours a multi-stage paint correction, but then I had it "protected" with a coating called Modesta. Other popular coatings are OptiCoat and CQuartz. The good part of these coatings are that they do protect the paint against those types of scratches, but they also negate the need to wax for years. In other words, put a little $$ in, protect the car, and then be lazier because you don't have to wax.  One still must be careful with washing, and I think doing a "two bucket technique" is critical if you want to protect the paint.

 

I sure don't want to sound like a polisher here, because I'm not. In fact what I'm saying is that there is a way to keep the car looking great, keeping the paint safe, and spending less time in the future.

 

YMMV.

 

-Matt

'85 308

'13 P85

'39 P-III

'57 BA

etc

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Friends,

Following on this thread...

I got the Testarossa home yesterday, as intended. The fast idle trick negated the idle problems, if sounding like a sticky throttle problem. In the driveway at home it got a bath. Sorry northerners. It was about 75 degrees and sunny here yesterday. Then again, we pay for this weather with 9 months of sweltering summer.

The car is really clean now. The paint is awesome. Here are a couple of glamour shots.

http://aubard.us/TR/DSC_0146.JPG

http://aubard.us/TR/DSC_0147.JPG

Yes, the evening sun makes the blood red paint look too orange. I could have photo-shopped the color temperature higher but didn't think of that until after uploading the images. Okay, one more.

http://aubard.us/TR/DSC_0150.JPG

After work this morning I'll start the repairs and FI update. The car is safely in the garage now and since its clean, I can work on and around it without rubbing gritty dirt into the paint. Pictures of the mechanical work are to follow since a few of you have shown interest. Besides, F1 season is still about 6 weeks away!

After the mechanical work is completed, hopefully successfully, I plan to freshen the interior. It is nicely clean but its been months since the leather has seen Leatherique. A nice leather treatment is in order followed by carpet vacuuming and window cleaning. Then a few highway miles are in order.

Those of you who know me know that I am a geophysicist, now retired from the oil and gas exploration industry. I still work a little, part-time, mentoring new scientists in the dark and dangerous ways of geoscience. We also know that oil price is in the toilet and small oil companies are going out of business. (Thank you Saudi Arabia. It will be nice to be back dependent upon foreign oil.) Anyway, I tried to resign Monday, to leave a few more coins in the coffer for the folks that still need to work. My employer countered with a request for 3 more weeks of work then switching to on-call status; to teach, consult, and work special projects. I agreed. Therefore, I'm soon to have a little more garage time and that's good. I still have 5 more cars with regular maintenance overdue.

And that's how this Wednesday is starting. 

-rick

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