Opti-Coating My DD

[mjlinane]

First post with pics. Hope this works. ;)

Finally time to use new products. Have been wanting to coat my DD for a while but the water restrictions (8-10AM Sundays only) put a serious hindrance in place. Turned out to be a 2 day effort. The car is a 2011 Hyundai Sonata in Harbor Metallic Grey. It was purchased in Jan and has a little over 6k miles. The paint is exceptionally hard and there was very little swirling and only a few RIDS. That, combined with the color, made Before pics futile. (Well that and rain.)

Valugard A&B
CG CWC
(Clay not necessary)
Optimum Polish II on orange LC CCS pad via GG6
Megs 105 on Optimum Polishing MF via PC for RIDS
Carpro Eraser (1:1)
Optimum Opti-Coat

Started off thinking I would just jewel with Optimum Finish Polish on black via Metabo but my paint laughed at that. Stepped up to Polish II on white with GG6 and same. Switched to orange and finally got the gloss enhancement I was looking for. The paint is hard enough that M105 on MF finished LSP-ready.

Made my own Opti-Coat applicator with sponge wrapped in Saran Wrap and a Carpro MicroSuede.

Now the pics:
Door
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/Door11.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Door21.JPG
Hood
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Hood16.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Hood25.JPG
Roof
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Roof4.JPG
Outside - sorry, not much sun. Will try again later.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Sun11.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Hood_out2.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Hood_out1.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Driver1.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/RearQ1.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Outside.JPG

[Twister]

I need to OC my mom's Sonata.

Nice job. The real fun starts when it's time to wash the car. It cleans up so much easier and doesn't seem to get nearly as dirty

[tw33k2514]

Very nice! Hyundai paint is ridiculously hard.

[mjlinane]

Thanks Twister and Ben.

Sun did not cooperate. Here are some flash pics:

Hood
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/HoodFlash.JPG
Door
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DoorFlash.JPG
Gas Cover
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/GasFlash.JPG

This was a little harder to do than I thought - lots of curves on this car!

[mjlinane]

For the sake of completeness, gratuitous sun shots. Not cloudless but probably as good as it will get.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Hood_Sun1.JPG
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Roof_Sun.JPG

[rfinkle2]

That looks excellent. Thanks for sharing the process and pics.