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2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
This brand new Hellcat widebody came to me with just 44 miles on the odometer. The dealer washed it and "detailed" it for the owner. Unfortunately they made a mess of the car. Swirl marks, buffer trails, holograms, scratches, compound splatter, greasy tire dressing flung everywhere. Start to finish this vehicle was about 70 hours in cleaning, paint correction, and ceramic coating and curing. Thankfully after all that work the car looked amazing and all the paintwork is protected for the next few years with CQuartz Finest Reserve ceramic coating. The wheels and calipers were also coated in multiple coats of CQuartz Finest Reserve. And all exterior plastics were coated in CQuartz Dlux coating to give a great look and protection for a very long time.
Getting started with putting the Hellcat up in the air and pulling off the wheels
Compound splatter from really sloppy polishing work at the dealership
The result of the sloppy polishing work.....horrific buffer trails and swirls all over the car
Haze from some DA sanding that also left its mark and was never correctly polished out
Fast forward a couple days and the wheels are done, calipers are done, wheel wells are no longer dripping in greasy tire dressing, and the paint correction process is nearing completion
How black paint should look
Engine bay tidied up and all compound splatter from dealership removed
All done! Final photos before owner takes it home
Thanks for checking it out!
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Looks great now. But if that was my car I’d remove that hideous yellow stripe on the front lip.
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Originally Posted by BSoares
Looks great now. But if that was my car I’d remove that hideous yellow stripe on the front lip.
That’s the protector for the transporter. Dealer typically removes them only are not supposed to remove them on demons
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Originally Posted by BSoares
Looks great now. But if that was my car I’d remove that hideous yellow stripe on the front lip.
Excellent work, it looks amazing.
But I was thinking the same thing about that out of place yellow stripe, hideous is a good description.
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Originally Posted by MattPersman
That’s the protector for the transporter. Dealer typically removes them only are not supposed to remove them on demons
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Good, so it must go as it’s now been delivered
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Wow...thats over the top work there!
How did you find the paint to be? Soft, hard or in between? And what products did you use during the correction steps?
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Those reflection pics are unbelievable, did you use any filters on those? I am always bummed out when the paint only reflects like that at the perfect angle, distance, and light on my car
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Awesome reflection and finish you got on it! Great work!
I be sad for the people who buy them a new car and then the dealership screw it up that bad.And I don't understand how the dealerships can go on with this behavior. I mean that you can sue for almost anything in the US. There is just a thin clearcoat this days you have on a car. And with that bad polishing you have to compound pretty much to get the damage gone after them. But do they get away with it they wont change their procedure.
Great that you pros is out there to help out the new car owners. And you do a very good job. It has been better if you only bad to do a finishing polish and protection on them and a small correction here and there.
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Beautiful work my friend.
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Re: 2018 Hellcat Widebody paint correction & CQuartz Finest Reserve detail
Needs to go back to the dealership and shown how the BRAND NEW car is supposed to look like
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