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Hello fellow Austinite!

The kit you outlined seems fine, you'll just buy more throughout the year anyway. Anyone that posts on the forums is already lost

-Don

22 hours ago, Ekim716 said:

Im curious how they manage to reconnect and reapply things like cameras for rain sensors and registration/inspection. 

My Stingray is an LT1 Z51, so some fun track upgrades but none of the windshield fun like the HUD.  

I'm on a replacement window for my Stingray.  The new windshield was 2 days old when I got a small chip in it.  Since then I've added a couple more.  Fortunately none are in my line of sight.  But my eye is still drawn to them.  Stupid rock chips!

The window is a safelite replacements, maybe I'll have em look at it to see if it can be filled.

On 12/12/2017 at 10:10 PM, buffalobob920 said:

Started upgrading my corvette stingray replacing stock spoiler with zo6 carbon fiber and lower diffuser replacing that with carbon fiber and replacing taillights with clear will be posting more pictures as I finish

 

 

 

 

I look forward to the end result!

oooh, I just got some of that, looks like I'll go full wash this weekend instead of rinseless for fun.

I use the Husky tool chests from home depot like those in shane@detailedreflections' post.  Looks very similar in that I put all the 'liquid' items laying flat in a large drawer.  The 'paste' items I keep in the house as the garage isn't climate controlled and I'm in Texas.

It's all in that cabinet on the right.. with gallon jugs in the large drawers at the bottom.  Otherwise looks like Shane's post above.

OCDRifter

I used the Adams paint coating about a year ago.

and I didn't win a giveaway. I looked around and saw a Dan Hupp won the pumpkin spice kit, now I'm jealous ? 

Thought I'd share a habit of mine that y'all may appreciate / laugh at. I have a blue 2016 Vette that I lovingly care for, but drive every day. This means sometimes it gets, brace yourselves, rained upon   well, I bought a master blaster earlier in the year and one time after driving the car home in the rain looked at the master blaster on the wall, and back at my wet car sitting in the garage and had a thought.  Couldn't I just blow all that nasty rain water off? I mean it is ceramic coated so the rain and road dirt has been just sheeting off anyway. Well, yep sure can, and it works pretty darn well... assuming it was raining steadily. Blows all that dirty rain water right off.  Lots of folks ask about the effectiveness of the paint coating and the usefulness of the master blaster. For me this exemplifies both. 

Yeah, that's pretty true from my experience too.  Which made me laugh the first time I sprayed the car down after applying the ceramic coating kit.  "why isn't this?...what's wrong with my.... OH! cool."

it still stuck around enough to be useful, just didn't turn my car into a white puffball.  Good news is that dirt doesn't stick very well either.

I pulled off at a buc-ees to remove the carcass of a suicidal bug from my hood. I my have also gotten some jerkey and a root beer. But I couldn look at that bug any longer

and yep, detail spray and single soft in the vette's secret compartment

Blue! Love the color and the detail job!

Mine is 10 months old, still working.  I've applied the boost twice since and it has been awesome.

Came here for Tommy Boy link, was not disappointed.

Really impressive!

I use the blue shampoo or rinseless depending on how dirty it is.  The ceramic coating makes the car so easy to clean.  Some boost every couple months ( maybe some Brilliant Glaze if I'm taking it to the track or other show off opportunity;)

The coating has been on for 10 months and still working well.  

Hey, thanks for the update.  Glad you got a good result this time.  

I'm usually the only person in my car, with an occasional passenger heading to lunch.  So the car stays pretty clean.  That said, I keep a single soft in the car and clean dust all the time.  I only use products on the car when I see something that needs to be addressed.  I will detail the dash and sun facing areas of the interior every couple months.  Just to keep some UV protection going.

@Blue17CamaroZL1  Really nice job on that!  A great car bedroom you've got there.  I need a mini-split in mine! Great idea.

I think the only option is to move.  That's clearly from a Pterodactyl.  Seriously though, the soaking thing is your best option.  if the liquid runs away from the spot use a small piece of paper towel to keep the product on the spot.  Soak it good, and often.  Don't let the harsher chemicals dry though.  

Might move up to Goo Gone or something like that too.

Could probably use the rinseless method if you sprayed a fair amount on it. I have done rinseless after pulling into the garage after rain caught me. Of course I got laughed at by the rest of the folks in the house. But THEY DONT KNOW!!! They just don't know.

Well, a lot of absolutes in there mixed with pragmatic sounding words.  I really can't argue his lack of scientifically backed-up claims with my own and help the conversation.  I'd just suggest people that feel he may be right look for some supporting data.  Honestly, I used the ceramic coating for protection, and I see the same counter-claims about that.  My experience is that product (from Adams) makes it easier to clean the car and keep it clean.  Which means less rubbing and scrubbing on the paint.  Which seems to mean less damage. So Transitive properties! less cleaning = protection.  If wax/sealant does that for you too... you win ;p 

This was 2 weekends ago, but I've been traveling and busy and whatever.  But this was a lot of fun.  My friend asked me to detail her racecar because she was asked to bring it to Alamo Drafthouse in Austin for a special showing of Cars 3.  She's a beast on the track and the car showed it.  We spent about 6 hours on it, doing a strip wash, full paint correction from clay up, LPS, glaze and finally I busted the Patriot wax out of the fridge.

Looked great when we were done! The kids loved it (and several little girls asked her how a girl can be a racecar driver, which she LOVED answering).

Here are the pics without which this post is worthless!

I think they are a little cost prohibitive and I'm not sure anyone is manufacturing them for the STI.  My wife would be very angry if I spent thousands on rotors because I wanted to keep my wheels cleaner.  She already thinks I'm nuts on how I care for my car that would be the final straw.  Brembo makes zinc plated rotors to reduce corrosion but I wonder how long the coating would hold up before they rust like every other rotor.

Yeah, adding those aftermarket can cost a ludicrous amount of money. Chevy started offering 8k rebates on Corvettes equipped with the brakes because the option added 8k to the price and folks skipped the car.  Replacing them on the vette is about 15k.  

http://www.thedrive.com/news/8995/gm-knocking-8000-off-some-new-chevy-corvettes

But as you found there are other options, just make sure the brakes work well cold.  That's another problem with Carbon-ceramic, because they are made for high-temperature racing performance they can feel soft, or squishy, at normal driving temps.  But if you race on them for any duration those carbon-ceramics are amazing.

Shhhh. I half-arsed the lower parts of the car until I had my garage redone. Now I clean the car inside with AC and just sit on gardening pads on the floor to do the wheels and rockers and exhaust tips, etc...

Chadley, woah dudette that finish on the flames is so deep I think we can see all the way to hell.  Also, you detailed a BBQ, you win the forums.