2019 Blazer RS AWD

[The Guz]

This belongs to the wife of my uncle. She has owned it for 6 months. It is a 2019 Blazer RS in nightfall gray metallic. There was a break in the rain the day after thanksgiving and I took advantage of it.

It received the typical chemical decontamination, wash, mechanical decontamination along with chemically decontaminating the wheels and cleaning the tires.

After claying and visually inspecting the paint there was some water spots that were on the hood, front roof and a couple minor ones on the mirrors. These water spots are etched to the point where chemically and mechanically polishing/compounding was not removing them. At this point I left them as is. One has to make the call on when enough is enough without making things worse while maintaining the integrity of the clear coat.

Other than that the paint was defect free.

Even the pillars looked good.

The process was polishing with Essence on Rupes yellow foam pad. Essence sat overnight after the initial wipe off and lightly prep wiped the following day with Eraser. The paint was then coated with two coats of Cquartz Lite. Topped off with Drexler Ceramic #3 Top Coat Care silica spray sealant the following day.

I chose to use Drexler as I am not a fan of Reload's overall performance.

Wheels were prep wiped with Eraser, coated with Cquartz Lite and topped off the following day with Drexler Ceramic #3 Top Coat Care silica spray sealant the following day. A wheels off is a job for another day as they could use a good polishing.

The glass was also polished and coated. The glass was decontaminated during the prep process. The front was polished with McKee’s 37 Glass Restorer Polish, prep wiped with Eraser and followed up with a double coat of Drexler Ceramic Glass Coat.

The side and rear glass was polished with Essence during the polishing phase, prep wiped with Eraser during the paint prep wipe and coated with one coat of Drexler Ceramic Glass Coat. This is an experiment to see if Essence plays well on glass topped with a glass coating.

The interior was cleaned up as well. All leather was cleaned and coated with Cquartz Leather. The plastic was cleaned with CarPro Inside at 1:1 and dressed with Gyeon Preserve.

The piano trim on the center console was polished with Essence on a Rupes yellow foam pad using the iBrid nano. It was prep wiped with Eraser and coated with Cquartz UK.

The finishing touch

Final images

Products used.

Meguiar’s D1801
McKee’s Coating Prep Wash
Mckee’s glass restorer polish
Drexler Ceramic Glass Coat
CarPro Perl 1:1
CarPro DLUX
Essence
Cquartz Lite
Drexler Ceramic #3 Top Coat Care
Cquartz Leather
Blackfire AIO Tire & Trim

 

[JDGolden]

Sure is glossy! Great work. I like the color a lot.

 

[vobro]

Looks great Guz!

 

[The Guz]

Sure is glossy! Great work. I like the color a lot.

Looks great Guz!

Thank you to the both of you.

 

[Coatingsarecrack]

Yeah that dark grey looks unreal! Chevy’s coming out with some amazing looking vehicles just wish they’d tone down on the black trim


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[bfielder32087]

Yeah that dark grey looks unreal! Chevy’s coming out with some amazing looking vehicles just wish they’d tone down on the black trim


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Black trim won't be going away anytime soon. Especially on these lifted hatchbacks. Gotta ha e the black trim to make them look "tough and rugged."

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[Aaryn NZ]

Yeah buddy!! rops:

Nice work as always my friend. Man that’s a sweet looking ride for an SUV .... being a family man, not everything can be a Porsche or Lamborghini. Dig that colour too, tell me guys - are these American made GM machines???

This looks a lot better than a couple of the Asian GM variants we get down here.

Good post The Guz, thank you for sharing. rops:


Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:

 

[Sizzle Chest]

Looks great my man! Nice to hear you take the conservative approach to correction/defect removal. I like that!

Great looking SUV!

 

[LEDetailing]

Wow, great write-up on a very nice looking Blazer. I think Chevy got this design right.

I do not like how Chevy does the LED DRL and headlamps in separate locations. The Jeep Cherokee had this weird design too until they refreshed the front end. It confuses me at night when I see the headlamps so low. Always think these people have just their fog lights on. From a design standpoint they look stylish having thin DRL’s.

I saw your video come up on my youtube feed. I’ll have to watch it.

 

[The Guz]

Yeah that dark grey looks unreal! Chevy’s coming out with some amazing looking vehicles just wish they’d tone down on the black trim


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Thanks. They did a good job on this Blazer in the RS trim. It's pretty quick as well when I drove it for the day. Selectable sport modes paired with the 3.6L V6 that puts out 308 HP.

The piano trim will be a headache for sure. Same material as the pillars. One thing is it does look better than the textured trim.

Yeah buddy!! rops:

Nice work as always my friend. Man that’s a sweet looking ride for an SUV .... being a family man, not everything can be a Porsche or Lamborghini. Dig that colour too, tell me guys - are these American made GM machines???

This looks a lot better than a couple of the Asian GM variants we get down here.

Good post The Guz, thank you for sharing. rops:


Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:

Thanks Aaryn. GM took inspiration from the Camaro on this one. The interior also has touches of the Camaro along with the seats out of 2015-2020 Impala.

Looks great my man! Nice to hear you take the conservative approach to correction/defect removal. I like that!

Great looking SUV!

Thanks. It is disappointing and I wanted to get them out but it's better to have more clear than none on a brand new car.

Wow, great write-up on a very nice looking Blazer. I think Chevy got this design right.

I do not like how Chevy does the LED DRL and headlamps in separate locations. The Jeep Cherokee had this weird design too until they refreshed the front end. It confuses me at night when I see the headlamps so low. Always think these people have just their fog lights on. From a design standpoint they look stylish having thin DRL’s.

I saw your video come up on my youtube feed. I’ll have to watch it.

Thanks. I agree about the headlight design being a bit awkward.

 

[PaulMys]

Damn. That thing pops now.

Love that color! Awesome job, Mike.

 

[FUNX650]

tell me guys -
are these American made GM machines???

Hi Aaryn,

Per the below image of the Monroney sticker,
that came affixed to our 2019 Blazer, (aw...who
am I kidding...it’s The Good Wife’s) you’ll find
the pertinent parts/final assembly information
regarding this particular GM vehicle.

Still...”The big money” winds up back in Detroit. :xyxthumbs:

*************************************

For a mid-size vehicle:
She absolutely loves “ours”!

Bob

 

[The Guz]

Damn. That thing pops now.

Love that color! Awesome job, Mike.

Thanks. It does have a great color to it.

 

[SWETM]

Awesome looking SUV!

Looking amazing when you have worked on it Guz! Great write up and pictures. Can only imagine the frustration when you notice that the etching is too deep. As you have mentioned better to save the clearcoat in the longrun.

The benefit with DRL lights being placed by them self. Is later on if they breaks and if it's of the kind where you have to replace the whole DRL light. With some vehicals that has them in the headlights and you can not replace on the LED bulbs or how to describe it. You need to be changing the whole headlight just cause of the broken DRL. And no surprise that this is very expensive to do. Then maybe a better placement of them would be looking better. But I'm very noticeble of the vehicals that has the DRL lights in the headlights if I'm interested or not to be buying the vehical in the future. With the laws here in Sweden the DRL must work if they have them.

/ Tony

 

[Bobby B.]

Great job Guz! The new Blazer RS looks awesome.

 

[The Guz]

Awesome looking SUV!

Looking amazing when you have worked on it Guz! Great write up and pictures. Can only imagine the frustration when you notice that the etching is too deep. As you have mentioned better to save the clearcoat in the longrun.

The benefit with DRL lights being placed by them self. Is later on if they breaks and if it's of the kind where you have to replace the whole DRL light. With some vehicals that has them in the headlights and you can not replace on the LED bulbs or how to describe it. You need to be changing the whole headlight just cause of the broken DRL. And no surprise that this is very expensive to do. Then maybe a better placement of them would be looking better. But I'm very noticeble of the vehicals that has the DRL lights in the headlights if I'm interested or not to be buying the vehical in the future. With the laws here in Sweden the DRL must work if they have them.

/ Tony

Thanks Tony.

Great job Guz! The new Blazer RS looks awesome.

Thanks Bobby.

 

[57Rambler]

Hi Aaryn,

Per the below image of the Monroney sticker,
that came affixed to our 2019 Blazer, (aw...who
am I kidding...it’s The Good Wife’s) you’ll find
the pertinent parts/final assembly information
regarding this particular GM vehicle.

Still...”The big money” winds up back in Detroit. :xyxthumbs:

*************************************

Bob

Funny story about "outrage" over the Blazer being built in Mexico. The UAW raised a huge stink over this and essentially forced GM to pull down a Blazer that they had on display at the ballpark in Detroit (GM's been displaying cars there for several years).

In reality, we have been building cars, trucks, and SUV's at Ramos Arizpe for nearly 40 years and was one of the first GMAD's I ever set foot in. The UAW has a very selective memory.

 

[FUNX650]

Funny story about "outrage" over
the Blazer being built in Mexico.

The UAW raised a huge stink over this
and essentially forced GM to pull down
a Blazer that they had on display at the
ballpark in Detroit (GM's been displaying
cars there for several years).

In reality, we have been building cars, trucks,
and SUV's at Ramos Arizpe for nearly 40 years
and was one of the first GMAD's I ever set foot in.



The UAW has a very selective memory.

Bob

 

[JDGolden]

While we are off topic, I wish they'd add the 3.0 twin turbo from the Cadillac. Would be out of my price range, though.