TTQ B4U
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- Jan 20, 2016
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So fellow Racing club Member has owned this 2013 S Series of for over a year and just hasn't had the ability to provide it the roll-back in ages and dirt that it has been crying out for. No worries, together we selected a package that would do just that and it turned out AMAZING! This no longer looks like a 5-6 year old car but rather nearly brand new.
Overall the car wasn't horrible but it did have a full covering in swirls and being without any layer of protection dirt was stuck to it like Velcro. The good news for Pearl White owners is the color and metallic flake work together to hide these imperfections most of the time. They do pop out at night under lights or in direct sun but the latter is relay only visible from the right angle and not across the entire panel. That all sounds good but those swirls mask the depth of the metallic and greatly reduce the reflective of the pearl and clear coat overall. They may not look too deep or harsh in the pics but in person they do pop out much more.
The plan on this car was to perform my Option 2: Premium Enhancement whereby the goal is to reduce the imperfections in the area of 75% or so. Great news is I often can knock them down much more and in this case wile the clear is a SUPER Hard layer, it corrected in the area of 90-95% and what imperfections do remain are not really ever going to be noticed since, as noted above, the color masks them well.
The car was polished, Coated with 2 layers of Cquartz UK 3.0, the glass was also coated with Gyeon's Q2 VIEW Product and the Trim Coated with Gyeon's Q2 TRIM product so Josh won't have to mess with any trim products after his standard washes. Now water will fly off his car like it should.
White can be a difficult color to capture with a camera but there's simply nothing like seeing a Tri-Color Pearl all cleaned up with a nice depth to the clear coat coming through just super clean and pure in person.
Photo wise, they are slim as I was pressed for time given I had one afternoon to finish this and out of respect that he had a 20 minute ride from work to my house then over a 1hr+ ride back home.
Process:
Some BEFORE Shots:
The car sure needed a strong clean up and the lower trim / rockers were caked with road paint and tar.
With that the paint finish was also rather dull in appearance.
Even the lights and plastics were badly marred up and not able to really "POP!" out and show off the clean lines of the car.
The appearance of swirls was there even though masked well by the color of the paint
I absolutely LOVE the design of the exterior on the Model S. Timeless IMO. It is a BIG car for sure.
All the glass was polished to remove etchings and water spots, then coated including the roof which is all glass and will now shed water like it should.
Overall the car wasn't horrible but it did have a full covering in swirls and being without any layer of protection dirt was stuck to it like Velcro. The good news for Pearl White owners is the color and metallic flake work together to hide these imperfections most of the time. They do pop out at night under lights or in direct sun but the latter is relay only visible from the right angle and not across the entire panel. That all sounds good but those swirls mask the depth of the metallic and greatly reduce the reflective of the pearl and clear coat overall. They may not look too deep or harsh in the pics but in person they do pop out much more.
The plan on this car was to perform my Option 2: Premium Enhancement whereby the goal is to reduce the imperfections in the area of 75% or so. Great news is I often can knock them down much more and in this case wile the clear is a SUPER Hard layer, it corrected in the area of 90-95% and what imperfections do remain are not really ever going to be noticed since, as noted above, the color masks them well.
The car was polished, Coated with 2 layers of Cquartz UK 3.0, the glass was also coated with Gyeon's Q2 VIEW Product and the Trim Coated with Gyeon's Q2 TRIM product so Josh won't have to mess with any trim products after his standard washes. Now water will fly off his car like it should.
White can be a difficult color to capture with a camera but there's simply nothing like seeing a Tri-Color Pearl all cleaned up with a nice depth to the clear coat coming through just super clean and pure in person.
Photo wise, they are slim as I was pressed for time given I had one afternoon to finish this and out of respect that he had a 20 minute ride from work to my house then over a 1hr+ ride back home.
Process:
- Wash
- Iron X
- Nano Sponge - Fine Grade as this wasn't too bad
- Rupes LK900 Mille
- Rupes UHS Pads and Polish
- Quick once-over with Flex 3401 & LC Hybrid Frost White Pads & CarPro Essence
- Cquartz UK v3.0
- Gyeon Q2 TRIM
- Gyeon Q2 VIEW
- Topped with CarPro Reload
Some BEFORE Shots:
The car sure needed a strong clean up and the lower trim / rockers were caked with road paint and tar.
With that the paint finish was also rather dull in appearance.
Even the lights and plastics were badly marred up and not able to really "POP!" out and show off the clean lines of the car.
The appearance of swirls was there even though masked well by the color of the paint
I absolutely LOVE the design of the exterior on the Model S. Timeless IMO. It is a BIG car for sure.
All the glass was polished to remove etchings and water spots, then coated including the roof which is all glass and will now shed water like it should.
