Bruno Soares
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Porsche Taycan 4S
Last week I had the opportunity to work on this new Porsche Taycan 4S. My brother bought it a month ago and asked if I could help him get this protected. The car didn't have a lot of swirls at all but had a decent amount of RIDS that required some work to be removed. The paint is pretty hard, at first I tried Essence on Rupes yellow pads, that did nothing. Went with LC orange pad and Griot's Correcting Cream, no change. Switched to Fast Correcting Cream and started seeing some results but took too many passes. Ended up using Meguiar's MF cutting discs with Jescar Correcting Compound and that took care of the RIDS with a few passes. That was finishing without haze but I still went over it all again with Essence and Rupes yellow pads to achieve better finish and prime for CQuartz.
The car has a full front coverage of PPF. On that I only used Essence and a CarPro gloss pad to make sure it was all clean and ready to be coated. This combo also boosts the clarity of the film. Did only about 2 passes on this as working Essence any longer on the PPF was making it cure too fast and become sticky which required re-application and immediate wipe off.
Here are the products I used:
This was my first time using SiC to top UK 3.0. It's not hard to apply but it's finicky. It takes longer to flash but if you wait too much it becomes difficult to wipe off. Took a few panels to find the sweet spot.
This was also my first time using FlyBy Forte, it's the 2021 version. It's a PITA to apply. Using a tiny cotton pad and applying it in circles is tedious and hard on the hand. The part of the instructions that says it just disappears is also not that simple, it takes a lot of rubbing in circular motion for it to come close to disappearing and I'm still not sure I got it 100% removed. Not sure I'll use this again. Previously I used McKee's 37 Glass coating for the windshield and although that is not completely pain free to install (it feels sticky if you have any humidity in the air), it's way easier than FlyBy Forte v4.
Another first for me was the AutoFiber Thin [Saver Applicator Terry] Microfiber Coating Applicator. This was great, so much more ergonomic than the blocks the coatings come with and also seemed to help use less product as not much gets absorbed into the sponge.
He was happy with the results and the car looks really good. Since he doesn't daily drive it, this should last a while on the car.
Car is a blast to drive, need to pay attention to speedometer as it's super quiet and easily gets into triple digit speeds.
Here are some pictures of the car.
Last week I had the opportunity to work on this new Porsche Taycan 4S. My brother bought it a month ago and asked if I could help him get this protected. The car didn't have a lot of swirls at all but had a decent amount of RIDS that required some work to be removed. The paint is pretty hard, at first I tried Essence on Rupes yellow pads, that did nothing. Went with LC orange pad and Griot's Correcting Cream, no change. Switched to Fast Correcting Cream and started seeing some results but took too many passes. Ended up using Meguiar's MF cutting discs with Jescar Correcting Compound and that took care of the RIDS with a few passes. That was finishing without haze but I still went over it all again with Essence and Rupes yellow pads to achieve better finish and prime for CQuartz.
The car has a full front coverage of PPF. On that I only used Essence and a CarPro gloss pad to make sure it was all clean and ready to be coated. This combo also boosts the clarity of the film. Did only about 2 passes on this as working Essence any longer on the PPF was making it cure too fast and become sticky which required re-application and immediate wipe off.
Here are the products I used:
- McKee's 37 Tire and Rubber Rejuvenator
- McKee's 37 Coating Prep Wash
- CarPro Iron-X
- Nanoskin AutoScrub
- CarPro Eraser
- Griot's Garage G8 and G15 polishers
- McKee's 37 Glass Restorer (polished windshield before coating)
- CarPro Essence
- Rupes Yellow foam pads
- Griot's Correcting Cream and Fast Correcting Cream (used just on test spot)
- Lake Country orange foam pads (used just on test spot)
- Meguiar's microfiber cutting discs
- Jescar Correcting Compound
- CarPro Gloss Pads
- AutoFiber Thin [Saver Applicator Terry] Microfiber Coating Applicator
- Various CarPro coatings (2 layers of UK 3.0 topped with 1 layer of SiC, Dlux on all textured plastics and wheels, FlyBy Forte on windshield)
- McKee's 37 20/20 Cockpit glass cleaner (to clean inside of glass due to new car offgassing)
- McKee's 37 Leather Guard UV50 to protect the leather seats
This was my first time using SiC to top UK 3.0. It's not hard to apply but it's finicky. It takes longer to flash but if you wait too much it becomes difficult to wipe off. Took a few panels to find the sweet spot.
This was also my first time using FlyBy Forte, it's the 2021 version. It's a PITA to apply. Using a tiny cotton pad and applying it in circles is tedious and hard on the hand. The part of the instructions that says it just disappears is also not that simple, it takes a lot of rubbing in circular motion for it to come close to disappearing and I'm still not sure I got it 100% removed. Not sure I'll use this again. Previously I used McKee's 37 Glass coating for the windshield and although that is not completely pain free to install (it feels sticky if you have any humidity in the air), it's way easier than FlyBy Forte v4.
Another first for me was the AutoFiber Thin [Saver Applicator Terry] Microfiber Coating Applicator. This was great, so much more ergonomic than the blocks the coatings come with and also seemed to help use less product as not much gets absorbed into the sponge.
He was happy with the results and the car looks really good. Since he doesn't daily drive it, this should last a while on the car.
Car is a blast to drive, need to pay attention to speedometer as it's super quiet and easily gets into triple digit speeds.
Here are some pictures of the car.
