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Just brought home a new 2019 Subaru Outback Touring model. What’s the best advice to start with on brand new paint? Straight to clay bar? Or...? The color is cinnamon brown with brown leather interior.

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Congrats on new car. Looks very nice, I like that interior. I think you should start by inspecting the paint under sun light or using a swirl finder. If paint is perfect, and it likely won’t be, go ahead and clay and seal/coat/wax etc. however, chances are you will need at least a light polish to remove minor imperfections. So I would wash, iron decontamination, clay, polish, IPA wipe down and then seal/wax/coAt etc....
 
Congrats!! Great color combo. Subaru makes awesome vehicles.

Agree with ntwillie1 on how to proceed with "LIGHT polish" being the operative phrase and that's assuming it's needed.
 
mthopton said:
Just brought home a new 2019 Subaru Outback Touring model. What’s the best advice to start with on brand new paint? Straight to clay bar? Or...? The color is cinnamon brown with brown leather interior.
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Great looking ride. Wash it, look it over under lighting for swirls. May not likely have any if much at all. Typically they have softer/easy paints to correct so I would go with something like CarPro Essence. It's a great light swirl correcting polish that finishes out extremely well on soft paints. It also has semi-permanent fillers which are what fill in the micro scratches that polishing creates. Not scratches visible to the naked 20/20 eye mind you. It's an SiO2 base layer product that stand alone will give you several weeks of protection but IMO you'd be best served by simply applying Cquartz UK v3.0 right over it and be done. You'll love the gloss it brings out.

Here's a sample from this gallery of a 2016 Outback Wagon 3.6R that I did a couple weeks back. Essence was the product used as the All in One (AIO) on this beauty.

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Damn. That looks awesome! Thanks for the tips. Time to go to work!


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Damn. That looks awesome! Thanks for the tips. Time to go to work!
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That's GYEON's Q2 TRIM on the all the cladding and bumpers too. Do it. You'll thank me. Good for 6-9 months plus of looking like it was just dressed and it sheds dirt much easier too. No more drab grey or having to spend 20 minutes on it to make it look good. One and done. I did my wife's SUV a while back and it still looks fresh as day one.
 
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Great looking ride. Wash it, look it over under lighting for swirls. May not likely have any if much at all. Typically they have softer/easy paints to correct so I would go with something like CarPro Essence. It's a great light swirl correcting polish that finishes out extremely well on soft paints. It also has semi-permanent fillers which are what fill in the micro scratches that polishing creates. Not scratches visible to the naked 20/20 eye mind you. It's an SiO2 base layer product that stand alone will give you several weeks of protection but IMO you'd be best served by simply applying Cquartz UK v3.0 right over it and be done. You'll love the gloss it brings out.

Here's a sample from this gallery of a 2016 Outback Wagon 3.6R that I did a couple weeks back. Essence was the product used as the All in One (AIO) on this beauty.

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I second this.

CarPro essence has an amazing gloss enhancer in it! If you can get away with just "light" polishing, Essence is the answer every time in my opinion. It doesn't dust (with proper pad useage of course) and literally melts into the finish when wiping off.

They say it can be used as a more "moderate" polish if you use an more aggressive pad as well.

Don't mix up Essence and Essence +, Essence + does not contain any cutting abrasives.

Love your interior color as well!
 
Congrats on the new Subaru!

Pretty much what's already been said, I tend not to think of a new car as *new*, rather un-registered and un-titled. Which means it hasn't seen it's share of travel by rail, truck, test drives, weather, folks who clean the cars on the lots via "cave-man style", etc...

Because of this new vehicles tend to get the new vehicle prep:

Exterior:
- Engine
- Wheels / wells
- Iron decon
- Wash
- Clay
- Polish
- Wipe down
- LSP
- Dressed & trimmed
- Glass

Interior
- Vacuum
- Wipe down
- Protectants on leather & vinyl
- Glass
- Dressed and trimmed


Here are few examples you can peruse through:

LSN Autodetailing - 2016 Corvette Stingray - New Car Prep Detail

LSN Auto Detailing - 2016 Mustang EB Prem PP - New Vehicle Prep

LSN Autodetailing - 2017 Chevy Silverado - New Car Prep Detail

2013 CPO CLS550 - LSN Auto Detailing
 
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