Detailed: 05 GTO (56k tread carefully)

[quantim0]

This is my friends car. I have a GTO also and he wanted his to look like mine. So we traded cars on Tuesday night and I went to work. The car was in horrible shape. There were water etchings covering every square inch on the horizontal surfaces. Swirls everywhere. These cars have a pretty soft clear so where there were no waterspots, swirl removal wasn't that big of a deal.

Process:
Exterior
- Washed with NXT/foam gun: to strip off the existing protection (don't think there was any)
- DP Exterior Cleaner 1:1 in fender wells and on painted surfaces that faced the road
- DP Wheel Gel for wheels and tires
- PB Bug Squash 2:1 on bumper and mirrors
- DP Krystal Vision glass cleaner on Cobra glass towel

- Clayed with Clay Magic clay kit. (I use Pinn Poly Clay, but that wouldn't work here, lol)

- PC with OC/LC Yellow on all water spotted panels, still only took out about 90% of water marks. But I didn't want to remove too much clear in one shot.
- PC OP/LC Orange on other panels that were just swirled
- PC OP/LC White on areas that were compounded to remove hazing

- Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealent: this stuff is beyond awesome on metallics
- P21S carnauba wax
- Topped of DG Aquawax a few hours later: This stuff is amazing. The slickness is mindblowing and durability is pretty good too.
- Tires done with Pinnacle Black Onyx tire gel

Interior
- All interior surfaces cleaned with DP Interior Cleaner, leather needs some Leatherique to bring it back fully
- Leather dressed with Connolly Conditioner
- Other interior sufaces dressed with DP Interior Protectant

Photos
Interior before/after:

Exterior before:

Clay from the roof:

Quick swirl removal test:

After compounding and final polish on one side (bad hazing present)

After WGDGPS:

Finished Pics after wax:

 

[Meghan]

Did I turn you on to a new sealant?

 

[quantim0]

Yeah, just a little. Both our cars are metallics, so the Wolfgang will be going on mine when the DP needs to be stripped off.

 

[Nuke33]

Looks great

 

[justin_murphy]

Very good job! I would call this a restore rather than detail!

Nice choice of products too. Glad to see they are working for you.


Thanks for posting bro.

 

[AL417]

The "before" pics were kinda scarey. Your friend obviously never took care of his car. Really nice job on the turn around.

 

[quantim0]

Yeah, his idea detailing products were what comes from Walmart.

However, I already got him to put in a $100+ order from AG. He's getting the PC/Edge kit from AG soon also. I told him that I wasn't doing this again for him.

Thanks for the compliments

 

[Whitethunder46]

Put the spoiler back on!!! Haha

 

[Mike T]

Beautiful job.

 

[P1et]

Fantastic work, very nice! Especially since it's black. Another reason for me to get the Wolfgang Deep Gloss Sealant!

 

[Gary Sword]

Beautiful job! What's with the holes in the truck?

 

[Nica]

It's amazing what clay will do to the car isn't it. The first time I tried it I was blown away with the claying. Always look forward to claying my vehicles.

Dude did you forget to dry the car?:awesome: :awesome: That thing is wet man, very nice :applause:

 

[quantim0]

The holes in the trunk are from the spoiler. I removed the spoiler from my car and plugged the holes. He wanted to see what his looked like with the spoiler removed. I hadn't gotten plugs for the holes until after the pictures were taken. Eventually both our holes will be filled and the trunk repainted.

 

[Bobjones]

Nice Holden, I mean Monaro, I mean GTO!!