richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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I am a huge fan of this car! It looks amazing and its colour is very understated if you ask me. The performance mods also make it sound incredible. Anyway, I first had the pleasure of coating this car 2 years ago in this thread here:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/68425-2013-challenger-car-show.html
The coating was still there, but it had some light scratches and some chips and it was time to get her done again. Like last time, this was going to be a wheels-off job and again, with CQF, and the new version as well. I actually modified how I applied it after talking with Corey and was DELIGHTED at the results!! Here it is as it arrived:





First up was to wash the wheels. I wanted to do as good a job as possible so I didn't have to re-do the barrels once I had them off. The barrels were cleaned with my Wheel Woolie brush and Megs HW soap. The faces were cleaned with a mitt and the same soap. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505. The wells with LATA.
The car was then washed with Megs HW soap. A second decontamination wash of IronX paste was done. Lastly it was brought inside and clayed with a CarPro prep towel.
First step was removing the wheels. The barrels were wiped down with ONR. They were then polished with my Megs DA and a 4" yellow B/S pad with HD Adapt. It was then chemically cleaned with DG Squeaky Clean and then double coated with V5 of Finest (last bottle-bummer). Here is a barrel after being coated:

The face was done the same way although the shot turned out blurry so I deleted it. After reinstalling the wheels, they were torqued to spec (110 ft/lbs using my torque wrench). The wells were treated to DG beta trim coating:


I tried the HD adapt again for most of the car. I used a Megs mf cutting disc and my Rupes 21. That did a great job of cleaning up the paint and giving it a nice glow. In the case of the scratches however, it lacked the bite to remove them with that pad. I switched to my TB black wool + M205 for them and it did the trick. That was followed by DG Squeaky Clean to chemically clean the paint and also to check the veracity of the correction. I had finished polishing the car in the mid afternoon and knew I wouldn't be done till the night coating it, so I took some outside shots of the car with no coating whatsoever, just bare, corrected paint. Here are those shots:


Gotta love the flake in this paint!

Here's the wheel all done but without tire dressing yet:





Got flake??




The car was then brought inside and given an Eraser wipe down just to ensure no dust from the outside had settled on the paint. I had been having an issue with the carrier flashing rate of the new V6 version of CQF and after talking with Corey, decided to try what was so successful for me with V5: fast flashing it with compressed air. Boy, oh, boy did that work like a champ! Never, ever hurts to think outside the box!! The car was given a double coat of CQF. The glass (all of it) was double coated with Fly-by-30. The tires were shot via air gun with Opti Bond at 100%. The trim was coated with DLux. Unfortunately they're only inside shots (it was 10 pm) but here it is all finished:












Thanks for looking. Comments always appreciated.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/68425-2013-challenger-car-show.html
The coating was still there, but it had some light scratches and some chips and it was time to get her done again. Like last time, this was going to be a wheels-off job and again, with CQF, and the new version as well. I actually modified how I applied it after talking with Corey and was DELIGHTED at the results!! Here it is as it arrived:





First up was to wash the wheels. I wanted to do as good a job as possible so I didn't have to re-do the barrels once I had them off. The barrels were cleaned with my Wheel Woolie brush and Megs HW soap. The faces were cleaned with a mitt and the same soap. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505. The wells with LATA.
The car was then washed with Megs HW soap. A second decontamination wash of IronX paste was done. Lastly it was brought inside and clayed with a CarPro prep towel.
First step was removing the wheels. The barrels were wiped down with ONR. They were then polished with my Megs DA and a 4" yellow B/S pad with HD Adapt. It was then chemically cleaned with DG Squeaky Clean and then double coated with V5 of Finest (last bottle-bummer). Here is a barrel after being coated:

The face was done the same way although the shot turned out blurry so I deleted it. After reinstalling the wheels, they were torqued to spec (110 ft/lbs using my torque wrench). The wells were treated to DG beta trim coating:


I tried the HD adapt again for most of the car. I used a Megs mf cutting disc and my Rupes 21. That did a great job of cleaning up the paint and giving it a nice glow. In the case of the scratches however, it lacked the bite to remove them with that pad. I switched to my TB black wool + M205 for them and it did the trick. That was followed by DG Squeaky Clean to chemically clean the paint and also to check the veracity of the correction. I had finished polishing the car in the mid afternoon and knew I wouldn't be done till the night coating it, so I took some outside shots of the car with no coating whatsoever, just bare, corrected paint. Here are those shots:


Gotta love the flake in this paint!

Here's the wheel all done but without tire dressing yet:





Got flake??




The car was then brought inside and given an Eraser wipe down just to ensure no dust from the outside had settled on the paint. I had been having an issue with the carrier flashing rate of the new V6 version of CQF and after talking with Corey, decided to try what was so successful for me with V5: fast flashing it with compressed air. Boy, oh, boy did that work like a champ! Never, ever hurts to think outside the box!! The car was given a double coat of CQF. The glass (all of it) was double coated with Fly-by-30. The tires were shot via air gun with Opti Bond at 100%. The trim was coated with DLux. Unfortunately they're only inside shots (it was 10 pm) but here it is all finished:












Thanks for looking. Comments always appreciated.