Detailed: 05 GTO (56k tread carefully)

**quantim0** · 02-09-2007, 01:59 PM

This is my friends car. I have a GTO also and he wanted his to look like mine. So we traded cars on Tuesday night and I went to work. The car was in horrible shape. There were water etchings covering every square inch on the horizontal surfaces. Swirls everywhere. These cars have a pretty soft clear so where there were no waterspots, swirl removal wasn't that big of a deal.

Process:
Exterior
- Washed with NXT/foam gun: to strip off the existing protection (don't think there was any)
- DP Exterior Cleaner 1:1 in fender wells and on painted surfaces that faced the road
- DP Wheel Gel for wheels and tires
- PB Bug Squash 2:1 on bumper and mirrors
- DP Krystal Vision glass cleaner on Cobra glass towel

- Clayed with Clay Magic clay kit. (I use Pinn Poly Clay, but that wouldn't work here, lol)

- PC with OC/LC Yellow on all water spotted panels, still only took out about 90% of water marks. But I didn't want to remove too much clear in one shot.
- PC OP/LC Orange on other panels that were just swirled
- PC OP/LC White on areas that were compounded to remove hazing

- Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealent: this stuff is beyond awesome on metallics
- P21S carnauba wax
- Topped of DG Aquawax a few hours later: This stuff is amazing. The slickness is mindblowing and durability is pretty good too.
- Tires done with Pinnacle Black Onyx tire gel

Interior
- All interior surfaces cleaned with DP Interior Cleaner, leather needs some Leatherique to bring it back fully
- Leather dressed with Connolly Conditioner
- Other interior sufaces dressed with DP Interior Protectant

Photos
Interior before/after:

Exterior before:

Clay from the roof:

Quick swirl removal test:

After compounding and final polish on one side (bad hazing present)

After WGDGPS:

Finished Pics after wax:

**Meghan** · 02-09-2007, 02:23 PM

Did I turn you on to a new sealant?

**quantim0** · 02-09-2007, 02:26 PM

Yeah, just a little. Both our cars are metallics, so the Wolfgang will be going on mine when the DP needs to be stripped off.

**Nuke33** · 02-09-2007, 03:00 PM

Looks great

**justin_murphy** · 02-09-2007, 03:09 PM

Very good job! I would call this a restore rather than detail!

Nice choice of products too. Glad to see they are working for you.

Thanks for posting bro.

**AL417** · 02-09-2007, 03:23 PM

The "before" pics were kinda scarey. Your friend obviously never took care of his car. Really nice job on the turn around.

**quantim0** · 02-09-2007, 03:26 PM

Yeah, his idea detailing products were what comes from Walmart.

However, I already got him to put in a $100+ order from AG. He's getting the PC/Edge kit from AG soon also. I told him that I wasn't doing this again for him.

Thanks for the compliments