Grifftech
06-25-2012, 10:04 AM
The other day I spent a good 8 hours on my car and got it looking pretty amazing, but I can still see some RIDs and couldn't seem to get them out.
I initially foamed the car with Honeydew with a bit of Glossworkz Gloss Booster in it and let it dwell (pressure washer + MTM Hydro is so awesome!!), rinsed it off, refoamed then 2 bucket hand washed and rinsed. Dried with Master Blaster then clay barred the surface and re-rinsed and dried again. Probably overkill but I wanted a nice pristine surface.
I initally started to polish with Chemical Guys V38 and a White LC CCS pad as I thought I just had some minor halos and swirls. After I did the whole car I still saw a few swirls but mostly RIDs. I switched to V36 and an Orange LC CCS pad and it got some but not all of them.
The paint is on a 2011 Mustang GT, Kona Blue. I am thinking I may have to get the V34 and try that with the Orange Pad and go to the V32 if that doesn't get it all out.
But since I had spent that much time already on the car and I don't have the V34 or V32 on hand, I decided to go ahead and continue on with the detail and will redo in a couple weeks.
So after I got the surface all polished I went with 2 coats of Blacklight with about 30 minutes between coats. While the first coat was curing I meticulously cleaned the rims (gloss black powder coat) and then hit them with JetSeal and let that sit and went back to put another coat of Blacklight on. After I was done with the BL, I buffed out the JetSeal and HOLY CRAP those rims are glossier than I ever thought they would be.
Once done with the BL, I hit the car with V7, man that stuff is awesome. I detailed the interior with CG InnerClean and CG Leather Conditioner.
I cleaned the engine bay up and used V7 on all the plastic and rubber and it looks great!!
All of the exterior trim and tires I used Meguiar's Tire and Gel, that stuff is AMAZING!!! No slinging and it lasts a LONG time.
Yesterday I went out to the garage and gave it a quick qipe down and decided I wanted to top it with the Dodo Juice limited edition Caranuba Egg wax stuff and man does that paint look incredible.
All I can say is I am a CG nut now, I can't wait to try more stuff.
My next project is to wet sand a small area on the front bumper that got scuffed and has some touch up paint on it that doens't look the best.
Will try to get some pics of the car up tonight.
I initially foamed the car with Honeydew with a bit of Glossworkz Gloss Booster in it and let it dwell (pressure washer + MTM Hydro is so awesome!!), rinsed it off, refoamed then 2 bucket hand washed and rinsed. Dried with Master Blaster then clay barred the surface and re-rinsed and dried again. Probably overkill but I wanted a nice pristine surface.
I initally started to polish with Chemical Guys V38 and a White LC CCS pad as I thought I just had some minor halos and swirls. After I did the whole car I still saw a few swirls but mostly RIDs. I switched to V36 and an Orange LC CCS pad and it got some but not all of them.
The paint is on a 2011 Mustang GT, Kona Blue. I am thinking I may have to get the V34 and try that with the Orange Pad and go to the V32 if that doesn't get it all out.
But since I had spent that much time already on the car and I don't have the V34 or V32 on hand, I decided to go ahead and continue on with the detail and will redo in a couple weeks.
So after I got the surface all polished I went with 2 coats of Blacklight with about 30 minutes between coats. While the first coat was curing I meticulously cleaned the rims (gloss black powder coat) and then hit them with JetSeal and let that sit and went back to put another coat of Blacklight on. After I was done with the BL, I buffed out the JetSeal and HOLY CRAP those rims are glossier than I ever thought they would be.
Once done with the BL, I hit the car with V7, man that stuff is awesome. I detailed the interior with CG InnerClean and CG Leather Conditioner.
I cleaned the engine bay up and used V7 on all the plastic and rubber and it looks great!!
All of the exterior trim and tires I used Meguiar's Tire and Gel, that stuff is AMAZING!!! No slinging and it lasts a LONG time.
Yesterday I went out to the garage and gave it a quick qipe down and decided I wanted to top it with the Dodo Juice limited edition Caranuba Egg wax stuff and man does that paint look incredible.
All I can say is I am a CG nut now, I can't wait to try more stuff.
My next project is to wet sand a small area on the front bumper that got scuffed and has some touch up paint on it that doens't look the best.
Will try to get some pics of the car up tonight.