Chevy Cruze resurrection

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My girlfriend's daughter came in from Texas for a week last week, and her car was absolutely filthy. The car is a 2013 or 2014 Chevy Cruze in Black Metal Flake. I could only arrange access to the car for part of one day, so I had to pick my battles. The car finish had dog scratches under both rear windows, along with scratches on the trunk deck and roof. There were a couple of serious scratches from minor parking collisions I didn't fool with.

The car had not been washed in ages and was covered in dirt and road grime. Since I knew the car would be getting at least some correction on the whole surface and heavier correction where it was needed most, I decided to spray it down with Iron X prior to washing and letting it dwell for a while. after agitating the Iron X and letting it do its thing, I washed the car with Griot's Garage Brilliant Finish Car Wash, did a flood rinse and dried the car.

The car was brought into the garage for a quick blow off with a Master Blaster and to let it warm up a bit, as it was in the 40's when I washed it. I wasn't too concerned with achieving perfection, as I was doing this free and didn't have time to do a 2 step correction on the whole car.

Products used:
Iron X
Griot's Garage Brilliant Finish Car Wash and GG chenille mitt
Menzerna FG400 compound
Griot's Garage All In One Sealant

Equipment used:
Griot's Garage 6" DA buffer with 5" Lake Country BP
Griot's Garage 3" DA buffer
Lake Country CCS 5.5 pads (Orange and White)

On to the pics.
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Dog scratches under both rear windows.
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Due to time constraints I didn't have time to take any in progress pictures.
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The car was not perfect when I finished, but every time I saw her after the clean up she thanked me. My girlfriend and I tackled the interior together the next day. I started the exterior at 3:15 in the afternoon and didn't finish until after 1 A.M. I did take a break to eat dinner.
 
Thanks guys, when she left Sunday to go back to Texas I got a chance to see it beading since it rained most of the morning. The last thing I said to her when she left was "Remember, touchless car wash."
 
If applying Iron-X prior to washing, I would not agitate, as this can induce additional scratches
 
allenk4 said:
If applying Iron-X prior to washing, I would not agitate, as this can induce additional scratches
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I knew that I would be at least using an AIO on the whole car, and compound on quite a bit of it. I only used it on the horizontal panels and just used a wash mitt to make sure I had complete coverage. If I was doing this on another car, I probably would have washed prior to using the Iron X, but I knew whatever I did would be a huge improvement on this car.
 
allenk4 said:
Your photos will be much more appealing, always be there and get more comments if you upload using the AGO program

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I wasn't sure how to use the AGO program to load them into a post. I did upload them to AGO, just wasn't sure how to get them to the post. This is my first post uploading pics. Thanks for the info.

Walter
 
Good job.

I love seeing the daily drivers refreshed as they are usually more dramatic in the 'before and after' pictures.

Hopefully, the owner will try to take better care of the car now.

Randy
 
Very nice! A blue Cruz is in my spring/summer/fall maintenance program. I really like working on that car.
 
Thanks for the comments guys. I can only hope she will try to take better care of it now that it has been detailed. If she doesn't, at least I won't have to see it for a while, as she left for Texas last weekend.
 
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