1965 Mustang GT Convertible - Detailer's Paint Coating

[ihaveacamaro]

Sad I missed this. Was really looking forward to coming out too

[vet]

Shine on, gentlmen!

[Mike Phillips]

Tonight's Thursday Night Makeover featured 2 cool cars. On the mustang we used the new DP products, which I will add are very easy to use when applying and buffing off.

I agree with that as long as you're using good technique. For the Paint Coating Prep, you wipe it off immediately after working it over a panel. It does not need to dry and it should not be allowed to dry. It still wipes off pretty easy if it dries but the point is there's no "need" for this type of product to dry.


The paint coating flash dries fairly quickly and once it dries it's rock hard. For this reason you don't want to tackle a very large panel at one time and instead should break or divide larger panels into smaller sections.

For example, we divided the hood into two sections, applied the paint coating to one half the hood and then came back and either worked any excess residue into the paint or softly wiped it off with a clean microfiber towel.

Excess Residue is actually what people call "high spots", except the words excess residue are more accurate. (Use whatever words you like).

Best of all it last years not months. It made the mustang paint gloss right up, fantastic product in my opinion.

Even though we all know the key to a high gloss finish starts with good prep work you still have to have an LSP that creates glossy results and the new Detailer's Paint Coating does doe this very well.

On the Pontiac we did a one step correction followed with Max Wax.

I still have to go through the pictures for the Firebird and I'll make it a separate thread.

Thanks to Mike and everyone at Autogeek for hosting the Thursday night makeovers.

Thank you Chris for being part of the team. I know I can always count on you to do top notch work and I like having guys like you helping because every car always comes out so perfectly polished.

[Mike Phillips]

Sad I missed this. Was really looking forward to coming out too

No problemo...

I always have cool projects coming up and our forum members are always invited to join in the fun.

[Mike Phillips]

***Update***



Added the before and after walk-around video to the first post of this thead.