Tesla Roadster Correctional

[premiershine9]

Small car, lots of problems.


Hey all,

Up here is a Tesla roadster receiving a correctional and a coating application- aim was as close to 100% as safely possible- lots of defects found on this one. Opti 2.0 was applied and a majority of the panels received a 3-5 step process due to some deep RIDS- especially near the rear quarters and rear deck lid.

Film installed by Tesla was applied to the front bumper, mirrors, rockers, rear quarters, front fenders, and the front hood. The front hood portion was removed to attend to some nasty rotary burn- more pics on that later. The remaining pieces were left applied and corrected appropriately as the area where this Roadster lives is quite mountainous.

The interior was blown out, dusted down with various brushes, leatherique applied and left to dwell over 5 hours. Auto Finesse Hyde was used to follow up and a highly diluted bottle of OPT APC used to hit all the various plastic items.

After removal of the film on both the front fenders and hood portion, the roadster received a decon wash.

Correctional process was a mixture of Rupes Zephir, M105, and Sonax PF. Although the roadster had paint on the softer side, the defects were very deep- requiring some heavy cutting.

Onto the pics










After the first pass:








Removal of the spoiler

The damage underneath





The rear decklid had numerous RIDS, among other defect including two areas where D/A hooks were present and a slight area of whool burn.....the after shot







Another heavily damaged area- the plug in cap area- thank you to whomever decided to damage this area!





The hood- removal of the film on this portion and the associated upper areas was necessary- one, the film had yellows slightly, two because there was an apparent sworm of rotary burn underneath the film- not only did this portion of the hood show rough edges that were scuffed away due to a misaligned panel (evidence of it once being in repair) but the work done with the rotary after it being freshly painted seemed to affect the state of the paint itself. Heavy sanding scratches found under intense LED light + D/A hooks made this panel of highest concern.






All of the work was of course wiped with a 90% IPA solution inbetween each step- Opti 2.0 being applied via a CarPro application block/ mf suede patch


All the electrical and battery items located in the front and rear bonnet werre degreased with APC and dressed with 303/ Black Wow, glass cleaned inside and out and the rear diffuser was hand cleaned again and dressed.

Afters:


































Thanks for looking!
Dan

[WRXtranceformed]

Great work as always Dan! Who the heck was working on that thing before?? Those were some bad scratches / swirls!

[PDenbigh]

Looks amazing! Great work.

It's wrong of me for posting this as my only question but... did you get to drive it?

[BLINGMW]

It's wrong of me for posting this as my only question but... did you get to drive it?

Yours isn't too bad, I was going to ask why he didn't steal it and give it to me. :dunno:

[JPolen01]

Beautiful work! Dan told me that he didn't drive it as the client was out of town and had a camera recording his every move.

[BLINGMW]

hm. good excuse I guess.

[premiershine9]

^^^ What Jon said.....that was a first for sure. But, I can understand is concern! Sitting in it feels exactly like what it is.....a Lotus. Turning they key to the On position and pushing a billet button for R, N, D etc. was a bit strange....even stranger is the fact that you're moving and it's completely silent.......really strange at first.