Tag team! Ronkh and ihaveacamaro take on this blue Camaro :)

[ihaveacamaro]

First off, I want to say a sincere thanks to Ron for letting me use his garage and time and supplies on detailing my Camaro. It's very much appreciated!!

It's been a while since I polished my own car and not having my own garage anymore, I asked for Ron's help and he agreed

My car had some mild to moderate swirling after a couple years and I wanted to get rid of those and apply a coating for its longevity.

Here's a pic similar to how it came. Not so dirty, but a few bugs. Note this is the next day so you won't see swirls in this pic. In fact, it was difficult to capture the swirls in the camera so no before pics, but they were visible to our eyes.

Process was wash with blackfire waterless, poorboys bug remover, didn't really need claying because I clayed three weeks ago, Ron used his flex and orange flat pad and fg400, I used my Rupes 21 and cyan hdrotech pad and fg400. No polishing was needed as you'll see.

Here's Ron doing his thing:

We didn't have time to hit the wheels, tires, trim, interior etc so we focused on the paint.

After compounding, the paint was LSP ready. FG400 is amazing stuff!!

I apologize for not taking better before and after pics, but here's some after compounding pics:

After compounding, we washed the car. DP coating prep polish to remove oils and then gloss coat was applied.

At this point, it was dark out so here's a far pic to show you what it looked like in the sun (immediately after compounding) and some night shots.

I'll get some after shots in the light as soon as I get a chance!

Thanks for looking!

 

[Sicoupe]

Beautiful job buddy!

 

[dcjredline]

Dang!!!! Nice work you two

 

[expdetailing]

it's nice to see forum members helping each other out.
BTW, you didn't happen to notice any little girl's trophies laying around at his house did you?

 

[Justin at Final Inspection]

Great job! FG400 on factory painted late model GM paint is gold!!! Used the same on a red ZL1 awhile back. FG400, orange CCS pad, topped with Synergy.

Love that color BTW!!!

 

[281]

Very cool! Love that color blue :xyxthumbs:

 

[ihaveacamaro]

Here's some pics from today! Ignore any bugs, had 300+ miles to drive after the detail lol.

 

[swanicyouth]

Looks Bootylicious


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[ihaveacamaro]

Beautiful job buddy!

Thank you!

Dang!!!! Nice work you two

Thanks redline!

it's nice to see forum members helping each other out.
BTW, you didn't happen to notice any little girl's trophies laying around at his house did you?

Ron was a great help!! He's a boss with the flex.

Hahaha I saw the little girls, so I'm assuming he was hiding their trophies lmao

Great job! FG400 on factory painted late model GM paint is gold!!! Used the same on a red ZL1 awhile back. FG400, orange CCS pad, topped with Synergy.

Love that color BTW!!!

Yeah FG400 is great stuff. I really liked it for a one step and it's amazing the finishing ability, even with a cutting pad!

Thank you, I wasn't getting a Camaro until I found it in that color! Unfortunately, it has been discontinued oh well, makes it more rare for me!

 

[ihaveacamaro]

Very cool! Love that color blue :xyxthumbs:

Thanks, blue is my favorite!

Looks Bootylicious


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lol, thanks Steve!

 

[ronkh57]

it's nice to see forum members helping each other out.
BTW, you didn't happen to notice any little girl's trophies laying around at his house did you?

Wow

Great job! FG400 on factory painted late model GM paint is gold!!! Used the same on a red ZL1 awhile back. FG400, orange CCS pad, topped with Synergy.

Love that color BTW!!!

Offered the Synergy. He said "no". Since he has no place to keep it up, coatng makes the best sense. But would have loved to see it on there.

 

[ronkh57]

more pics

http://s23.photobucket.com/user/ronkh/roshan camaro/story

 

[Marc08EX]

Very nice job you guys!!! Paint is looking great! Nothing beats a coating especially when life gets busy.

Those are new wheels right Roshan? It's the updated Camaro wheels if I'm not mistaken. Are you planning to plastidip it again white?

 

[ihaveacamaro]

Very nice job you guys!!! Paint is looking great! Nothing beats a coating especially when life gets busy.

Those are new wheels right Roshan? It's the updated Camaro wheels if I'm not mistaken. Are you planning to plastidip it again white?

Marc, you have an extreme eye for detail my man!

They are the new wheels. Take off wheels and tires from a brand new Camaro costs $1100. New tires from tirerack cost $900 plus fees of getting a shop to put them on and mount them and what not.

Bought the takeoff wheels, sold my old wheels and shot tires for $350. So ended up getting new wheels and tires for $850 compared to just new tires for over $900. No brainer really

As for the plastidip, no. They are more of a hassle than it's worth. You have to apply so many coats to get it looking good white and even though I had plenty of coats it still came off in pieces and it was difficult to maintain. I'm sticking to the normal color for now rops:

 

[tpr1634]

Looks awesome fellas.

 

[trashmanssd]

Looks great, Know whats funny on that far away shot with the tape still around the hash marks. I like it I think it looks really good with the lighter blue outline on the white hash marks on the medium blue car.

 

[Tato]

Very good work and share, it's amazing to see what can be achieved with only a compounding step performed by true detailers. Awesome!

Thanks for sharing process and results,

Kind Regards from Brazil.

 

[ihaveacamaro]

Looks awesome fellas.

Thanks! :xyxthumbs:

Looks great, Know whats funny on that far away shot with the tape still around the hash marks. I like it I think it looks really good with the lighter blue outline on the white hash marks on the medium blue car.

Hmm, interesting, gonna have to take a second look! I think I'm done changing colors though, everytime I do something ends up not perfect and it drives me insane lmao! OCDetailing at its finest

Very good work and share, it's amazing to see what can be achieved with only a compounding step performed by true detailers. Awesome!

Thanks for sharing process and results,

Kind Regards from Brazil.

I think we got to give more credit to the FG400 here. That stuff is just amazing on so many paints. It really likes to be worked in, but if you make it happy, man oh man, will it give you some amazing results!

Thanks for looking! rops:

 

[tw33k2514]

That is one sick looking car to begin with. You did an outstanding job.

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[fly07sti]

Great work you two. Sure is nice to have a friend that you trust with buffing skills help you out on your own ride. I'm glad my boy James (281) volunteered to help me on mine. All thanks to this forum.