Klasse Act
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- Feb 21, 2012
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So yesterday was the day...ADS Quartz Coating Day!
I started at home actually with the prep work as far as cleaning, let's get started
First up was chemical decon and for this I finished off my bottle of Bilt-Hamber Karrosol, liberally applied to the whole car and let dwell
While dwelling I prepared the pre-wash, which was 6 oz of Bilt-Hamber Touchless in my Griot's Garage foam gun (usually use 3 oz), let dwell and rinsed down
Next up, while still wet, I used some mixed up clay lube and my red, Griot's Garage clay mit and moved around the EN. To my surprise I could feel grit as I moved along the car but this clay towel made quick work of the grit
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Moving along to the 2BM wash and again, a stronger wash was called for. I finished off my bottle of Adam's graphene carwash (1.5 oz) and then added 2 oz of CarPro Descale for good measure. As I began to wash I couldn't believe how much glide my wash mit had at this point...VERY noticeable
The tires and wheels were last, usually first but not this time around. The wheels were treated to Nv Purge iron remover, along with Brake Buster to hold it in place better and Griot's Garage 3 in 1 Tire, wheel and mat cleaner for the tires, the Quattro of brushes did their job very well
Once done I sprayed the EN down with more water and applied Gyeon Q2 Wet Wax to the EN's rims as well as black lower trim pieces, the grill, rear, lower bumper panel and the exhaust tips
I pulled the car into the street and dried it off, weird drying the car off w/o any protection on it, although it dried off very easily. At this point I was done, 2+ hrs here and wait for my noon appointment at The Bays of Wheeling
I arrived at the Bays early, as suggested and got directed inside, so I did, unloaded the trunk of my tools and got crackin'...IN THE ZONE
I had a plan well before I started, use a cotton applicator for small areas (door handles and cups, under the spoiler, inner part of the side mirrors, narrow painted strip of the front bumper and window surrounds)
The polish of choice was an older product but one that made sense considering the EN's paint condition (minor RIDS, if that even). I also chose it after reading about its "propitory ingredients", love that phrase because of how much I heard it from "that guy up north" using it SO MUCH
The polish of choice here was Optimum Hyper Polish and I couldn't have been happier using it! I paired it with Griot's Garage thin orange pads (3" and 5")
I started with smaller, narrow areas using the mini Griot's Garage RO using the 3" backing plate and then the larger Griot's Garage RO using the 5" backing plate to knock out the rest of the EN️
I inspected each panel using my cellphones LED light and a simple 4 section pass was all that was needed to make the paint look it's best. The small machine I used speed setting #6 and the larger one speed setting 5-5.5, no problem for my 14 year old machine at all
I had some time left over before they closed so I applied 3x's ADS Ghost tire coating to the EN's Michilen Sport 4S', leaving 10 minutes inbetween coats
I posted alot of similar pics and used my "ass"istants to break things up but the 1st three pics are the front...bare paint, polished and then coated, my "help" breaks into bare, polished and coated too, hopefully they post in order
Conclusions
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This coating right here was SUPER easy to use, I couldn't believe it! I applied it per the directions, flashed in about 2 minutes or so and used the 2 towel method to remove, 1 to knock it down, a second to level. I should also mention again how well Optimum Hyper Polish did here..no dust and finished down VERY nicely
I go to pick it up in about an hour and once home I'll be treating the Alcantera and leather bits using Gyeon Leather Shield and DIY Detail Interior ceramic
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I started at home actually with the prep work as far as cleaning, let's get started
First up was chemical decon and for this I finished off my bottle of Bilt-Hamber Karrosol, liberally applied to the whole car and let dwell
While dwelling I prepared the pre-wash, which was 6 oz of Bilt-Hamber Touchless in my Griot's Garage foam gun (usually use 3 oz), let dwell and rinsed down
Next up, while still wet, I used some mixed up clay lube and my red, Griot's Garage clay mit and moved around the EN. To my surprise I could feel grit as I moved along the car but this clay towel made quick work of the grit
️Moving along to the 2BM wash and again, a stronger wash was called for. I finished off my bottle of Adam's graphene carwash (1.5 oz) and then added 2 oz of CarPro Descale for good measure. As I began to wash I couldn't believe how much glide my wash mit had at this point...VERY noticeable
The tires and wheels were last, usually first but not this time around. The wheels were treated to Nv Purge iron remover, along with Brake Buster to hold it in place better and Griot's Garage 3 in 1 Tire, wheel and mat cleaner for the tires, the Quattro of brushes did their job very well
Once done I sprayed the EN down with more water and applied Gyeon Q2 Wet Wax to the EN's rims as well as black lower trim pieces, the grill, rear, lower bumper panel and the exhaust tips
I pulled the car into the street and dried it off, weird drying the car off w/o any protection on it, although it dried off very easily. At this point I was done, 2+ hrs here and wait for my noon appointment at The Bays of Wheeling
I arrived at the Bays early, as suggested and got directed inside, so I did, unloaded the trunk of my tools and got crackin'...IN THE ZONE
I had a plan well before I started, use a cotton applicator for small areas (door handles and cups, under the spoiler, inner part of the side mirrors, narrow painted strip of the front bumper and window surrounds)
The polish of choice was an older product but one that made sense considering the EN's paint condition (minor RIDS, if that even). I also chose it after reading about its "propitory ingredients", love that phrase because of how much I heard it from "that guy up north" using it SO MUCH
The polish of choice here was Optimum Hyper Polish and I couldn't have been happier using it! I paired it with Griot's Garage thin orange pads (3" and 5")I started with smaller, narrow areas using the mini Griot's Garage RO using the 3" backing plate and then the larger Griot's Garage RO using the 5" backing plate to knock out the rest of the EN
️I inspected each panel using my cellphones LED light and a simple 4 section pass was all that was needed to make the paint look it's best. The small machine I used speed setting #6 and the larger one speed setting 5-5.5, no problem for my 14 year old machine at all
I had some time left over before they closed so I applied 3x's ADS Ghost tire coating to the EN's Michilen Sport 4S', leaving 10 minutes inbetween coats
I posted alot of similar pics and used my "ass"istants to break things up but the 1st three pics are the front...bare paint, polished and then coated, my "help" breaks into bare, polished and coated too, hopefully they post in order
Conclusions
----------
This coating right here was SUPER easy to use, I couldn't believe it! I applied it per the directions, flashed in about 2 minutes or so and used the 2 towel method to remove, 1 to knock it down, a second to level. I should also mention again how well Optimum Hyper Polish did here..no dust and finished down VERY nicely
I go to pick it up in about an hour and once home I'll be treating the Alcantera and leather bits using Gyeon Leather Shield and DIY Detail Interior ceramic
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