One year on:- Car Detailed by Paul Dalton
Well i have had the car for a year now, in that time i have covered about 8.5k miles, including a long weekend trip to Leipzig in East Germany that knocked up 2k of the miles. I have loved the time with this car and enjoyed driving/looking after it.
Over that last year i have made a couple of visits to the OPC, first time to have a squeaking water pump replaced, and the second time to get the sports exhaust retro fitted. The only other trip to a Porsche partner that i had to make was to a Porsche bodyshop to have the back bumper repaired when it got lightly scuffed by someone in a car park.
Being a black car every mark and swirl shows up on it, for this reason i have always taken great care when i washed the car, to the point were i can honestly say there was not a swirl mark on it. I am afraid to say that this all changed when i got it back from the bodyshop. The repair work was ok, but it was the neglect and don't give a toss attitude shown during the polishing and final wash stage that messed up the perfect shine on my car. As the bodyshop were clearly not capable of washing and polishing a car to my standards, i decided the best path was to not let them touch it anymore and get a detailer to have ago.
After a little searching on the internet and i found that one name kept popping up 'Paul Dalton'. After a quick email exchange with Paul and a phone call i decided to book my car in with him. Given the delicate nature of the paint on modern Porsche i wanted to use a detailer who was not going to go to heavy on my car as stripping back layers of paintwork with a rotary polisher does not appeal to me.
When i arrived at Paul's workshop last Thursday morning i was instantly convinced i had made the correct choice in detailer. Paul lives and breaths cars, and more importantly i could tell straight away by his nature and the way he approached my car that, he was a guy who would treat it as if it was his own pride and joy. As soon as i put the car into his workshop, he set about looking over the car with a sun gun (very bright torch used by top bodyshops to find paint defects), and taking paint depth readings.
These are some of the worst shots of what Paul found on my car:-
After Paul went over the car with the depth gauge and the sun gun, i left him to it. Paul also impressed me with his constant communication, as over the next day and a half he kept sending me progress reports over email.
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