Deep Gloss Auto Salon: Cadillac CTS-V in Infra-Red

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Deep Gloss Auto Salon
Cadillac CTS-V in Infrared

This is what greeted me on my arrival

Exterior Cleanse:

Pressure Wash
Surf City Grime Destroyer
Foamed with Meguiars Gold Class / Surf City Pacific Blue Mixture
Two bucket wash with Surf City Pacific Blue
Surf City Beyond Steel via foaming sprayer
5 Gal bucket with water and Meg’s gold class for tires and to dip wheel brushes in
Riccardo Clay
Optimum No Rinse Clay Lube
Surf City Clearly Better Glass Cleaner

Surf City Grime Destroyer being applied and working it’s magic

Lovely Foam:

2 Bucket Wash

Rims before; in process and after

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Interior (no before pictures)

Interior Vacuum
Trim treated with Surf City Dash Away

Klima Cleaner

Tips cleaner with Blue Magic cream (before; during and after)

Chrome Trim:

Badge and Chrome trim treated with Duragloss 501

After stripping the paint the true condition of the paint was more visible. Obviously the swirls were apparent prior to stripping the paint but it became obvious that the previous detailer used fillers as much more inclusions came to the surface.
Swirls; marring; holograms, scratches - this paint work had it all!

Paint Correction Tools:

Flex
Makita
Lake Country CCS Green/White/Blue Pads in 4”/5”/6.5”
3M Wool
Schlegel 3” wool pad
3M UK backing plate
Paint Correction Products:
Menzerna Power Gloss
Menzerna Super Intensive Polish
Menzerna 85rd
Prep Sol wipe down to ensure true defect removal

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In Process 50/50’s and before and afters:

Before:

After

Before

After

Before:

After:

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This vehicle had pigment in the clear coat as is displayed by the color transfer on my wool pad

Towels:
Excel Detail waffle weave drying towel (blue)
Eshine Dehydrator
Eshine Glass Thief
Detailers Domain Uber micro fiber towel
Exterior Protection/Dressing:
All trim protected with 303 Aerospace Protectant
Tires Dressed with Surf City Tire Pro
Wheel wells dressed with Adams Undercarriage spray
Rims sprayed with Duragloss Aqua Wax
LSP:
Dodo Juice Supernatural
Z8 Wipedown

Final Product (after) Glamour Shots:
*it was raining for the last few hours of this job.. It really pained me to only be able to take indoor afters.. I really wanted to see the lovely Supernatural glow in full sunlight!.. oh well, on with the show*

[carguy]

Really nice detail there, the supernatual is it made for dark colors? The pics show alot of glow, boy those shots that you were unable to get the sun, wonder how those would look.

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Originally Posted by carguy

Really nice detail there, the supernatual is it made for dark colors? The pics show alot of glow, boy those shots that you were unable to get the sun, wonder how those would look.

Thanks... Supernatural has looked great on every color I have used it on!

[ASPHALT ROCKET]

Awesome job Jason, I trust your sun shots so I know this detail was done correctly, nothing hidden.

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Originally Posted by ASPHALT ROCKET

Awesome job Jason, I trust your sun shots so I know this detail was done correctly, nothing hidden.

Thanks Asphalt!!

I was glad I was able to get the sun shots I did or there would have been no point in even posting... at least not to me

[killrwheels@autogeek]

my wife and I had a CTS in the same color, its a pearlized clearcoat at a premium price offering. It looked delicious as does this when cleaned and prepped properly.

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Originally Posted by killrwheels@autogeek

my wife and I had a CTS in the same color, its a pearlized clearcoat at a premium price offering. It looked delicious as does this when cleaned and prepped properly.

Thanks Scott,

Yeah, I noticed that right away when I looked at my pad and knew the clear had a tint in it... The owner told me the last guy to detail his car kind of freaked when he saw color on his pad.

It is quite a nice color!