SS LeadFoot

It did a great job! better than anticipated. Here are some pics. You can still see the huge chip in the hood but you have to really look for it. It was hard to get on camera lol. Super happy with the end result. Most chips required only 1 application. The one on the hood was so deep it required about 10.

I recently placed an order and received it last night. Well I made an error and ordered the wrong product. I jumped on the computer and Emery was able to hook me up. Not only are these products top notch but I think their customer service is even better! Thanks again Emery!

Hands down CS3! I have used it on the windows, paint, trim, and engine bay. Works great everywhere.

So I washed the wife's car on Mother's day and it sat outside for a week. It was supposed to rain the weekend after so I decided to run outside and try the CS3and see how It does. Disclaimer, the wife's car has no protection on it. It hardly get washed.  I left 1 door untreated to see if I could see a difference. Before it rained I could feel a difference and see a difference. Well it rained today. First pic is the door not treated. 2nd pic is treated. It is an amazing product considering all the beading you see is all because of CS3. Before it didn't bead AT ALL. Last pic is glass sealant. Love that also

So I know I have been looking for a way to make the mats look deep black. I have tried some tire shine, VRT, and another tire product not from Adams. All make my shoes slippery. Very dangerous for sure. Fun but dangerous This weekend I tried Tire Armor. I figured since it dries to the touch, why not? Looks great! I will keep you posted on if I ice skate when I walk. 

Oh man what haven't I done yet!?
 
I washed the wife's car and her engine bay. Used CS3 on the inside. Her car had no wax/polish/sealant on it so I decided to spray it with CS3 to see how it did. It is AMAZING! CS3 is my new favorite product, water falls off the car now. Also did her window with glass sealant.
 
I did the entire ceramic process to my daily. I washed, clayed, paint corrected (my first time using a polisher) fixed rock  chips (my first time doing this) then ceramic coated it.
 
I also used the aerosol can glass cleaner for the first time. I have to say I really like it. You have to be careful not to overspray but it does a great job!
 
No I just need to figure out what next. I am painting the hood scoop grilles since they were peeling and then will use undercarriage spray. Maybe I will clean the SS.

Oh man what haven't I done yet!?
 
I washed the wife's car and her engine bay. Used CS3 on the inside. Her car had no wax/polish/sealant on it so I decided to spray it with CS3 to see how it did. It is AMAZING! CS3 is my new favorite product, water falls off the car now. Also did her window with glass sealant.
 
I did the entire ceramic process to my daily. I washed, clayed, paint corrected (my first time using a polisher) fixed rock  chips (my first time doing this) then ceramic coated it.
 
I also used the aerosol can glass cleaner for the first time. I have to say I really like it. You have to be careful not to overspray but it does a great job!
 
No I just need to figure out what next. I am painting the hood scoop grilles since they were peeling and then will use undercarriage spray. Maybe I will clean the SS.

Keep a folded towel under the car seats.  Did that for my grandkids and worked. 

Oh man what haven't I done yet!?
 
I washed the wife's car and her engine bay. Used CS3 on the inside. Her car had no wax/polish/sealant on it so I decided to spray it with CS3 to see how it did. It is AMAZING! CS3 is my new favorite product, water falls off the car now. Also did her window with glass sealant.
 
I did the entire ceramic process to my daily. I washed, clayed, paint corrected (my first time using a polisher) fixed rock  chips (my first time doing this) then ceramic coated it.
 
I also used the aerosol can glass cleaner for the first time. I have to say I really like it. You have to be careful not to overspray but it does a great job!
 
No I just need to figure out what next. I am painting the hood scoop grilles since they were peeling and then will use undercarriage spray. Maybe I will clean the SS.

Always enjoy seeing a clean Pontiac 😎

Oh man what haven't I done yet!?
 
I washed the wife's car and her engine bay. Used CS3 on the inside. Her car had no wax/polish/sealant on it so I decided to spray it with CS3 to see how it did. It is AMAZING! CS3 is my new favorite product, water falls off the car now. Also did her window with glass sealant.
 
I did the entire ceramic process to my daily. I washed, clayed, paint corrected (my first time using a polisher) fixed rock  chips (my first time doing this) then ceramic coated it.
 
I also used the aerosol can glass cleaner for the first time. I have to say I really like it. You have to be careful not to overspray but it does a great job!
 
No I just need to figure out what next. I am painting the hood scoop grilles since they were peeling and then will use undercarriage spray. Maybe I will clean the SS.

Used to be Guard n Gloss or Brilliant Glaze were my favorite products,  now it's CS3.  Can't imagine they'll come out with anything better.  But I've been wrong before!

I am lucky to have a 2 car garage so they both sit inside. I have been thinking about selling the GP as well. I have been kicking the idea round of getting a S6. I have a 2nd kid on the way and the wife wants me to get a 4 door car and a new car because she thinks the GP isn't safe. Can't argue with a pregnant woman.

I just corrected & Ceramic Coated this black Buick with our  UV Ceramic Paint Coating.
With the UV tracers it makes the job so much easier. Check out the gloss, depth & shine!
 

I still need to do a little more compounding around the edges of the headlights, but I am going to ceramic coat them. I will recommend to the owner to have them professionally clear coated, but that will be up to him. I don't have a paint gun or paint booth to do things like that 😞

I did however prep the vehicle tonight with Surface Prep and then applied Adam's UV Ceramic Paint Coating onto all body panels. No in-process pictures of the application this time, since I wanted to get it done before 1:30AM, which I did. Here's a picture of it applied and curing though 🙂

 
Tomorrow night - interior cleaning, one more compounding step on the headlights, then coating the headlights and wheels. It should be ready for the owner by Thursday or Friday evening, and then I have another Holden next in line after this one!

Man we have almost the same cars!

You can swirl the Ceramic Coating. The paint underneath is still protected.
 
I used to use a car cover on my GTO. No more, I went through three covers in about five years. Once you see the damage and realize what it's from, you can't un-see it.

Besides that:  If the ceramic coating can't keep a carefully applied indoor car cover from swirling up your paint then what's the point of a ceramic coating?
 

Coat the garage queen .  My Camaro is the garage queen as well and I coated both of mine .  But then again I have not touched a wax or sealant in years.  

So I washed the wife's car on Mother's day and it sat outside for a week. It was supposed to rain the weekend after so I decided to run outside and try the CS3and see how It does. Disclaimer, the wife's car has no protection on it. It hardly get washed.  I left 1 door untreated to see if I could see a difference. Before it rained I could feel a difference and see a difference. Well it rained today. First pic is the door not treated. 2nd pic is treated. It is an amazing product considering all the beading you see is all because of CS3. Before it didn't bead AT ALL. Last pic is glass sealant. Love that also

First let me say a BIG thank you to everyone on this board for your help but a Special BIG thank you to Dan@Adams. He was able to help me behind the scene and gave me the extra confidence I needed to attempt this.
 
So I did it. After washing, claying, paint correcting, touch up paint,, then the ceramic process I am done. I will say this, When I first finished I was a little disappointed. When I was paint correcting I used too much compound and it exposed a lot of rock chips that were not as visible as before because of the white compound getting in there. No big deal a oft of those came out when I used the spray prep. The ceramic was not as hard to apply as I thought. It smells horrible though. I did it in my garage and it was very humid. Took about 3.5 minutes to be able to wipe it off. Once I was don, or so I thought, I pulled it outside. This was the best thing I did. I saw immediately all the spots I missed when removing. Some were easy to get off others were not. Took a long time to get it right. Not sure if I did it right but I would try and buff them off and if that didn't work I reapplied ceramic and wiped down after about 40 seconds to a minute. My initial thought was I wasn't going to like the end result. I was sure I messed it up in a lot of areas. I pulled it out this morning to apply the boost and was really happy with the result. all the areas that  thought were going to be bad seemed to have disappeared. There are a few small areas that I will follow up with BG to address. The beading is amazing! I haven't touched it with water yet but while spraying the boost on it dripped right off the car. I had to spray the towel  and then wipe for the boost to stay. 
 
I would say the ceramic only part took me a little over 5 hours. The car looks amazing don't get me wrong, just not sure I would do this again. I will have to wait to see how long this last. 
 
Some helpful tips and tricks that I learned:
I started with the roof and worked my way down. Found this helpful so I knew were I was going. I also used a stopwatch. I timed how long the roof took to cure to wipe then timed each other section accordingly. I figured if I messed up the roof who cares
 
The stop watch helped me a lot because after a minute I wanted to remove it because it felt like 3 minutes  
 
Don't put ceramic on the pad while standing over the car. 
 
A detail cart would have helped big time.
 
Get your bucket to sit on.
 
I used three applicator pads. Well really only 2 but I dropped one so I threw it away. I turned the applicator every section. 
 
Best thing I did was move it into the sun after I was done to see where I missed. 
 
Let me know your thoughts 
 
Last two pics are after the ceramic was applied and was in the garage. First 5 are from after the 2 hours plus boost. 
 

First let me say a BIG thank you to everyone on this board for your help but a Special BIG thank you to Dan@Adams. He was able to help me behind the scene and gave me the extra confidence I needed to attempt this.
 
So I did it. After washing, claying, paint correcting, touch up paint,, then the ceramic process I am done. I will say this, When I first finished I was a little disappointed. When I was paint correcting I used too much compound and it exposed a lot of rock chips that were not as visible as before because of the white compound getting in there. No big deal a oft of those came out when I used the spray prep. The ceramic was not as hard to apply as I thought. It smells horrible though. I did it in my garage and it was very humid. Took about 3.5 minutes to be able to wipe it off. Once I was don, or so I thought, I pulled it outside. This was the best thing I did. I saw immediately all the spots I missed when removing. Some were easy to get off others were not. Took a long time to get it right. Not sure if I did it right but I would try and buff them off and if that didn't work I reapplied ceramic and wiped down after about 40 seconds to a minute. My initial thought was I wasn't going to like the end result. I was sure I messed it up in a lot of areas. I pulled it out this morning to apply the boost and was really happy with the result. all the areas that  thought were going to be bad seemed to have disappeared. There are a few small areas that I will follow up with BG to address. The beading is amazing! I haven't touched it with water yet but while spraying the boost on it dripped right off the car. I had to spray the towel  and then wipe for the boost to stay. 
 
I would say the ceramic only part took me a little over 5 hours. The car looks amazing don't get me wrong, just not sure I would do this again. I will have to wait to see how long this last. 
 
Some helpful tips and tricks that I learned:
I started with the roof and worked my way down. Found this helpful so I knew were I was going. I also used a stopwatch. I timed how long the roof took to cure to wipe then timed each other section accordingly. I figured if I messed up the roof who cares
 
The stop watch helped me a lot because after a minute I wanted to remove it because it felt like 3 minutes  
 
Don't put ceramic on the pad while standing over the car. 
 
A detail cart would have helped big time.
 
Get your bucket to sit on.
 
I used three applicator pads. Well really only 2 but I dropped one so I threw it away. I turned the applicator every section. 
 
Best thing I did was move it into the sun after I was done to see where I missed. 
 
Let me know your thoughts 
 
Last two pics are after the ceramic was applied and was in the garage. First 5 are from after the 2 hours plus boost. 
 

Yes it can be used on coated and non-coated vehicles, but that doesn't mean that you must buy it if you're already happy with other ceramic maintenance products like CS3, Wash + Coat, etc. This is another cool and effective option though 😎

Lookin' Good!

Came out great.  I used to like how my brothers red 03 looked polished and ceramic coated before he sold it a few years ago.   
 
Don't beat yourself up.  High spots are part of the learning curve when first starting out.  Even the best of us still get them.  The good thing is the coating is forgiving.  You will also get faster applying it and learning you can work larger areas if the temperature allows.  Lighting is important as well as you saw once you pulled the car out in the sun.  
 
Once you start washing it you will realize it was all worth it.