Black Escalade One Step

[Cman8]

Hello all. I just finished up this black Escalade and wanted to show it off. It was pretty beat down. The client did not want a full correction so we settled in with a one step. I did do a two step with WGTSR on the trunk lid since it was very bad and wanted to show how much nicer it would look with even just a two step. Wheels where pretty bad and had some oxidation. Only did the faces as they did not want me to take the wheels off for a more thorough cleaning. Although I did just an all in one, I liked the results very much and so did the owners.

Here is a list of products used:
- CG honeydew Snow Foam
- Meguiars Clay bars
- CG Diablo Wheel Gel 4:1
- CG Grime Reaper
- PCXP
- CG ALL in One Polish with a green hexlogic pad
- WGTSR with an orange CCS pad (Trunk Lid)
- CG Metal Polish
- DG Aquawax
- DG tire dressing
- CG G6 hypercoat
- Meguiars APC 10:1
- Meguiars APC 4:1 for the tough spots
- CG Innerclean
- Stoners Invisible Glass
- CG Lether cleaner and Conditioner

Here are some before pics

Before the wash

Here we go

After washing this is what I found

Clean?

Nope
Water Spots

Paint Transfers

pine resin all over

This came off the wheels

and a very (more than the rest) scratched up rear trunk lid

and THIS CAME OFF THE FIRST PANEL I CLAYED

And the inside

Ok enough before. These are the afters. Considering it was just a one step, I was very happy with the results.

 

[Gretsch308]

Wow that thing was dirty. Job well done sir! What did you use on the door cards?

 

[Cman8]

what do you mean by door cards?

 

[Gretsch308]

The doors on the interior.

 

[Cman8]

Like the panels? Most of it I used Meguiars APC+ diluted 10:1. On the leather parts of it I used the CG leather cleaner. I think it works really good.

 

[RhetoricMixes]

Very interesting results with the CG AIO polish. I think this is the first write up ive seen that someone has used it. Great job on that Caddie!

 

[Cman8]

Yeah I liked it. I have had it for a while now but hadnt used it. I tried the XMT 360 first but I was unable to remove the water spots on the hood. so I started trying the All in 1 and found that it worked great with the green pad. Here is a nice shot of the reflection of the hood after polishing.

And although you see some of the dusting resulting from the polishing I still love when people take shots like this.

 

[primo spaghetti]

how durable will the DG aquawax be as an LSP? i have some, but use it to enhance gloss on a nuba topped WGDGPS...

 

[vet]

Looks good!

 

[Cman8]

I didn't really put the aquawax as an lsp. I did the all in one which technically should have a little paint protection. I talked to the client about putting on a real paint sealant and it seemed like they were very interested. I do know from my own cars though that aquawax does last a bit for being a spray wax, like a month or two Is what I have experienced

 

[primo spaghetti]

I didn't really put the aquawax as an lsp. I did the all in one which technically should have a little paint protection. I talked to the client about putting on a real paint sealant and it seemed like they were very interested. I do know from my own cars though that aquawax does last a bit for being a spray wax, like a month or two Is what I have experienced

wow...thats good results from a spray wax. colour me impressed. :dblthumb2: