shooterjgs

Bandits car 
 
(Trans Am baby!)

Apologize up front as I completely forgot to take before pictures. I completely detailed and applied Ceramic Spray back in October 2019. Decided to do it all over again now. 
 
1. Spent all day Thursday washing, Iron remover, clay bar and cleaning the engine bay and tires and wheels.
2. Spent all day Friday finish polishing with Swirl Killer, applying Surface Prep and applied Ceramic Spray coating to the entire car including door jams on the "Garage Queen".
3. Applied Tire Shine and put the license plate back on today. Done for now due to extreme heat index. I'll clean the interior on Monday.
 

my wife just bought my son a shirt for us to match 😅

Same place the next 12 years will go...only faster. Enjoy every minute!

I treated the new deck box to VRT.
 
I’m off today with the family celebrating the twin daughter’s 12th birthday. Where the heck did that time go?!? 

I strip washed, chemically decontaminated, clay toweled and lightly polished the SS using all Adam’s products. Today I wiped it down with Adam’s Coating Prep then coated it with Adam’s Ceramic Paint Coating. After I was done I pulled it out in the sun and saw that the hood which looked great under LED garage lights had numerous high spots only visible in the shade. I got out the Adam’s miracle product AKA Brilliant Glaze and lightly massaged the high points off. The rest of the car was fine, go figure. Tomorrow morning before I go to the office I will give it a coat of Ceramic Boost.


On a side note, I got my Adam’s shipment today. For the first time since my first order in 2009 I received damaged product. I’ll email them tomorrow for assistance. Packaging was good and intact so not sure what happened.

I had 2020 Mazda 3 dropped off at noon on Friday that was just a few days old and never washed by the dealer and only about a 100 miles on it.  I started with a strip wash, followed by iron remover and it did have a lot of rail dust. Next up was to get it clayed and then on to polishing.  I did a test spot with a finishing polish and a white pad and was more than satisfied with the results.  There was one place that I found some marks, so I hit it by hand with Scratch and Swirl remover.  
 
Following the polishing, it received a thorough Surface Prep and then Ceramic Spray Coating.  This afternoon, I went over it Ceramic Boost before the owner picked it up at 5:00.  I also went  over the faux leather with Leather Conditioner which helped bring out the color.  
 
Over all it was a fun car to do and the owner was very happy and it finally got me out of the slump of only getting black vehicles.   

Got GXP #1 ready for its new owner
 
 

Light rain on and off here in South Texas ... Try to stay in but sometimes you just have to...  Quick wipe down with some CS3 and she looks good again. 
 
 
 

Car was already clean (not that this one gets too dirty, LOL) , but I did to a quick, first time try, CS3 to get some bugs and stuff off the front.  Liked it.  This pic is freshly finished two coats of Wheel Coating on the wheels and a two step Correcting Polish/Polish job on the new carbon fiber wing (noteworthy is the wing is not clear coated yet.  Still in the resin finish.  May get it cleared)...

Yesterday, I finally took the time to get some of the dust off of my toy as it is sitting in the garage. 
 

 

 
I washed the wheels first with a 1:1 eAPC for the tires, wheels, wheel well, and surrounding panels. Then, I hit the tires with TRC, followed by WC. After that, I used UF soap, but I had to act quickly as the sun was strong, but the washing step seems to be the quickest part of the process.
 
After rinsing, I immediately brought the car inside the garage to cool down and dry off, using DS as the lubricant. Following that, I waxed all panels with BW and used BG on the external glass and lights. Today I’m going to focus on the interior. 

I one bucket washed (with many wash mitts) the SS using Adam’s Car Shampoo. Car was dried after a sheeting rinse.  Wheels and tires were cleaned with Adam’s APC and Tire & Rubber Cleaner. After drying, the wheels got a shpritz of Ceramic Boost and the tires got 2 coats of Tire Armor. Interior got wiped down with Leather & Interior Cleaner then treated to Sweet Almond Interior Detailer w/Microban. I’m very impressed with the new Interior Detailer; love the scent and love the finish.

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Thank you for everything you do Chris!

Don't know how I missed this one... But yeah thanks for helping out all of us with the pandemic... 

I had a car delivered last night and I got a good start on it before letting it sit in the driveway overnight since it was an exterior only job.   After a wash, iron removal and clay, I got past the layer to see how the paint itself was.  It was in a condition that I did my test section on the hood to find out what the effort was going to be.  Before it was all done, I spent 9 hours on the exterior just to make it presentable.
 
After going over it with Correcting Polish and a few Orange pads, it was on to Finishing Polish to make it look like a car again.  Unfortunately, the car came out of Florida and while it defeated many Love Bugs, they won the war and the paint eaten in many places and coupled with the many rock chips, the current owner is having it repainted this fall and then we'll Ceramic Coat it.  The front fascia is so eaten up that it needs to be replaced so I put the Original Ceramic Paste Wax on it to get through the summer .
 
The hood came out looking good, just too bad there are so many rock chips and love bug marks.  The last picture show the entire car and it is a beautiful car, it's really ashame the original owner didn't take care of it.  If it had of been Red, I probably would have made an offer on it today, it isn't every day that a 670 horsepower, 2017 Roush Mustang with a 6 speed manual tranny gets dropped off in your driveway.
 

Almost 3 weeks with tons of rain, a few washes... tire armor is holding up!

Day... I can’t remember what day it is..? Anyway I did a full Tire Armor detail today.  I have been CS3ing between the rains in so cal, And every time I did tire shine, then it rains again and the tire shine instantly washes off.  So we will see how the Tire Armor holds up!
first pic is throughly cleaned
second pic is first application 
third pic is second application 
 
I hope this lasts because I hate doing wheels and tires. And this was not a fun process!

My favorite of this thread!   

I used Adams Compound and Adams Polish to correct the paint. I then applied Adams Ceramic Paint Coating. I also used Adams Wheel Coating for the wheels.

Ha ha 
“More work than I planned to do, but you know how it goes. Once you get started..”
 
Totally understand!!! Four hours later having a blast and the wife comes out and says are you done YET?

Light rain on and off here in South Texas ... Try to stay in but sometimes you just have to...  Quick wipe down with some CS3 and she looks good again. 
 
 
 

Applied some G&G to the shower in my master. 
Have to to a rinsless wash on the twins.
 

Finished my old truck today. Bought it for a winter beater. The paint was terrible. I wasn’t worried about perfect at all. I did do a 2 step and it got about 80% defect removal. Cut with a rotary and wool pad. Then finished with a DA. Topped with ceramic coating.

Yesterday I rinseless washed the SS using Adam’s Rinseless and several MF towels in a bucket. I used Ceramic Boost after I dried the vehicle because why not? Plus I have a gallon of it to use. 😁. Wheels and tires were cleaned with same wash solution after the car was clean. All wheels got Adam’s  Ceramic Boost and tires got Adam’s Tire Shine. I hit the side marker doodads with In & Out Spray as they were starting to look grey instead of black. 


 
Sadly what with this Wuhan Corona virus quarantine our parking lot which usually has about two dozen vehicles in after I leave the office only had one other...😢. That just kills me. Those are not just my coworkers, they’re my friends, some of whom I’ve known for almost forty years.

This s*** can’t get over soon enough.