Craig Encinitas
New member
- Jul 24, 2020
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2017 Shelby GT350
3,350 miles
Hello. I opted out of a full ceramic treatment to my garage queen, and decided on a 25% siO2 application. It’s from a brand not sold on AG, but is pretty much like CarPro products.
-Full strip wash
-P21s cleaner polish treatment
-used an siO2 primer polish with a 15mm DA using Lake Country 5” pads
-Also used a Griot’s Garage 3” DA bought from Auto Geek (I like it!).
-Laid down a coat of the siO2 oil-based coating
I’m not finished. And between the primer polishing and coating, I left a couple days of cure time (just because).
I also did not do a full paint correction.
Experimenting. I think the cleaner polish and primer polish could have been redundant steps. The finish is not perfect, but I literally need to take an LED pen and hover over the car to see the love marks and blemishes. Full paint correction will be way down the road.
Sneak preview:
Still to do:
-5% siO2 topper coat
-Polish glass
-do the door jams, trunk area and engine bay
-clean and coat wheels
-change the oil!
And when I say it is a garage queen, it’s not much by choice but more my job and lifestyle. I’ve never been a huge Mustang fan, but when I heard the exhaust on this car… That did it for me.
Oh, and the proverbial mid-life crisis purchase.
3,350 miles
Hello. I opted out of a full ceramic treatment to my garage queen, and decided on a 25% siO2 application. It’s from a brand not sold on AG, but is pretty much like CarPro products.
-Full strip wash
-P21s cleaner polish treatment
-used an siO2 primer polish with a 15mm DA using Lake Country 5” pads
-Also used a Griot’s Garage 3” DA bought from Auto Geek (I like it!).
-Laid down a coat of the siO2 oil-based coating
I’m not finished. And between the primer polishing and coating, I left a couple days of cure time (just because).
I also did not do a full paint correction.
Experimenting. I think the cleaner polish and primer polish could have been redundant steps. The finish is not perfect, but I literally need to take an LED pen and hover over the car to see the love marks and blemishes. Full paint correction will be way down the road.
Sneak preview:
Still to do:
-5% siO2 topper coat
-Polish glass
-do the door jams, trunk area and engine bay
-clean and coat wheels
-change the oil!
And when I say it is a garage queen, it’s not much by choice but more my job and lifestyle. I’ve never been a huge Mustang fan, but when I heard the exhaust on this car… That did it for me.
Oh, and the proverbial mid-life crisis purchase.
