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Reichler

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About Reichler

  • Birthday 10/18/1979

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  • Location
    Royersford, PA
  • Vehicle Year
    2005 & 2006
  • Vehicle Make
    Pontiac
  • Vehicle Model
    GTO
  • Real Name
    Charlie
  1. I've done 3 white vehicles. 2 were left outside to cure and one was left in the garage. All 3 came out fine and still look great. That said, I did one medium blue car in June when the humidity wasn't that high, but it was warm out, and left it outside overnight to cure. I polished and coated the car in the garage, then pulled it out into the sun to look the whole car over. It looked perfect, so let the car sit outside overnight. Attached is what I saw the next day right before I went to boost it. After boosting the "holograms" went away, but they do reappear occasionally as the boost wears down. As a test, I took some PCP on an orange pad and lightly wiped a section with my hand. The holograms were gone instantly. Only thing I can think of was the uncured coating combined with humidity in the air caused the coating to not cure properly leading to the cloudy holograms. YMMV, but I won't ever ceramic coat a darker car and leave it outside again. I did it as a test to see if it could be done, and well, it really shouldn't be. My suggestion is if you plan to coat a darker color and are worried about the appearance, then find a garage to park it in overnight if you don't have one, or avoid using a coating altogether.
  2. Huh? Unless there was an announcement somewhere that I never heard/saw, he sure does if you bought it from him back when he sold them.
  3. If my memory serves me correct, it's a Ram Air III. It was rebuilt most likely back in the 80's with a more aggressive cam and has unknown mufflers. Hidden headlights were an option only; fixed headlights were standard. The vast majority of all 69 Judge's were Carousel Red too.
  4. Absolute blast working on that car. Really doesn't get much better than polishing out a 69 Carousel Red, 4-speed Judge. It's arguably one of the most iconic muscle cars out there.
  5. I've done (3) clear-bra installs and countless headlight kits in the past 5 years. Patience and experience are key as there is an inherrant nature about the clear-bra material, how it reacts, and how to best install it that simply can't be tought. There is a reason professionals charge so much. Each and every clear-bra install that I have done has come out better than the previous simply due to experience. My best advice is to shy away from any compound curves. If your car does have them, take it to a professional. It takes lots of experience to know how to get around them without damaging, stretching or creasing the material. That said, if you have the patience and desire, give it a whirl. I've ordered all my kits from clearmask.
  6. Please. Let's start off the life and story of this Malibu correctly. The headline of this thread should be: "2013 Chevy Malibu & The Fantastic Voyage". A 500-some mile road-trip, stop at a good local brewery for lunch, and the hysterical ricer fly-by on our way home deserves mention. That was indeed a good road-trip.
  7. Leave it alone. Having a dealer or body shop try to mess with something so insignificant is going to open up a box of worms. As far as nothing being better than factory paint, that's only true if you don't pay for a high end paint job by a reputable shop. A true high end paint job is FAR superior to anything a car manufacturer can and will put out. I've also yet to see a factory paint job that didn't have marks and/or other minor imperfections in the paint.
  8. Kev - Drive your butt back up to PA and I'll help you polish out your GTO again. I have a Flex now and we could tackle that thing in no time.
  9. Versions of the Adam's pad conditioning brush have been around for quite some time.
  10. The pad conditioning brush, as Dylan noted, is the key. Hit it on the side of the pad for a few seconds and it will "brush" out any dried up polish and leave your pad looking almost brand new. I NEVER use my orange pad without this in my pocket. I can do an entire car and am left with a pad that looks new by the end.
  11. They are called utility towels for a reason - you don't use them on your exterior paint. Door jams, engine bay, exhaust tips, etc...
  12. Yup as Dan said. My 06 was built in April 06, so no wiring harness. I also did not want to patch into the cluster harness and luckily found a thread over on ls1gto outlining an alternate install method. I crimped on a spade connector to the end of the ground wire and secured it beneath a steering column bolt. I then landed one of the wires to the rear of the OBDII port and the remaining wires to the fuse panel. I zip-tied the wires at 2 locations on the bottom of the steering column for a clean install. You can't see the wires once I re-installed the kick panel. As far as the banners? The GTO side emblem badge was on ebay. The 04 GTO poster was something I picked up at the NYC Autoshow back in early 2004 when the GTO came out and right before I purchased my first GTO (2004 IBM).
  13. My fav IBM GTO out there. Can't wait to see how it looks this year up at GM Nationals.
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