This is the only picture I can really post of it because it wasn't in that bad of shape to begin with. The guy keeps it pretty clean, but the chrome was all water spotted, there was definitely a lot of IFO on the entire bike, and most of the work I did on it wasn't stuff that would have shown up well in before pictures. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, but the owner's office is across the hall from mine at work and he wanted to come over and have me teach him while I detailed it, so that probably accounts for it.
The funny thing was that I was telling him about some other cars I've detailed recently that are going to be in a car show today. He does the bike shows with his Gold Wing and I figured he would be interested in checking this one out. I guess I wasn't aware you could register for a car show the day of, because as Erik and I were walking around we ran into the bike. lol I'm kind of glad we did because I didn't get any 'after' pictures last night because it was dark.
The process was a QD wash, Clay, light polish with Danase Final Finish, and then Four Star UPP with polycharger. A lot of the chrome was plastic chrome, so I took care of the waterspots with Invisible Glass. The wheels had to be polished with Never Dull wadding. I used Detailer's Pride glass restorer on the windscreens because there was some paint overspray on them from somewhere that remains a mystery to him. There were also a few things that needed to be polished out on the windscreen where his handle bars rubbed. There was a 'HONDA' badge on the front of the chrome above the headlight, but I removed that and the glue with Four Star citrus degreaser and then polished out the chrome with XMT2. The rest of the plastic and vinyl was cleaned with Meguiar's Quick Interior Detailer and then protected with Four Star Vinyl & Rubber protectant. That is what I used to dress any of the plastic trim around the side car and bike too. I think it turned out really good and I was pleased to see it in a show the day after it was detailed. I didn't even know he was planning on entering it.
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