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Awesome job Dan! Nothing warms my cold, black heart like someone stepping up for a helpless animal. Hope she finds lots of love in her new home!

Welcome man! Love the GTI. My daily is a '16 Golf R with Unitronic Stage 1. My first VW and it is awesome.

Honestly, you are in the perfect spot to ceramic coat them and be done with it. They are brand new. The biggest challenge to applying the ceramic coating is that you need the wheels 100% clean and polished and you wont need to worry about that. I spent 2 days on the wheels on my wife's car to get them perfect before ceramic coating but they had 20k miles on them. The ceramic will hold up to the heat where as wax will not and will make cleaning them much easier. Unless you just like to wax wheels, get the coating lol

The short answer is paint sealant and ceramic coatings have very little in common. Long answer below Sealants are basically synthetic waxes which offer a longer amount of protection (months) over something like Buttery wax or the paste waxes Adam's offers. They have to be reapplied every few months, depending on conditions, and offer no scratch protection or additional "hardness". Ceramic coatings are a completely different animal. They are super long lasting (read: years) and are bonded to the paint and form a glass like layer of extra hardness. They help resist scratches and swirls, bird poop damage, fall out, whatever, to a much higher degree. They are hydrophobic meaning they basically repel water. They require your paint to be perfect before you apply them or you just lock in the damage underneath the coating for years (unless you want to polish it all off and start over). Once the coating is on, no more wax or anything on top as it actually impedes some of the benefits of the coating. Just use the "Boost" when the coating no longer feels super slick, thats it for maintenance basically. Ceramics are the latest, greatest tech and honestly, when done right, are amazing. You can definitely apply them as a DIY as I am doing it myself. I have a black Z06 now and I am correcting it as we speak to get ready for the paint coating. I have already done the wheels on my wife'a Audi because that thing makes brake dust like you wouldnt believe... Adam's offers different coating kits depending on what you want to coat along with videos on how they work and how to apply them. Give it a shot, I think you will be quite surprised.

Nice job man and thats a great looking SQ! The coatings are really awesome products. You need to do your wheels and calipers next. Those big Audi's produce a lot of brake dust and are a no fun to clean up. How do I know? My wife has a Glacier White '14 SQ5 with the 21's. She loves it...Sometimes I even get to drive it

The Flex is an awesome machine and even though it's a shorter throw than the big SK, it is forced rotation and IMO has its place in the world. Money being no option, keep them both. More tools are always better and will make you a more versatile detailer Now the mini, that guy is a must have. So many areas which were difficult or impossible to reach with your Flex (or any larger polisher) will become easy with the mini. The pad size is just right and combined with the long throw, it makes it a very versatile machine.

Welcome! I am just down the road from you in Georgetown!

Thanks man! It seems it can be used on the rubber sealant but the prep is critical to success. I think it's a "proceed with caution" situation. Either commit to getting it perfect or don't do it at all.

Following this closely as I asked a similar question about rubber trim in the FAQ thread yesterday. I think I will do a small test area after a thorough prep to see how it looks before committing to the entire trim. My wife's SQ5 has a lot of rubber trim around the windows which I was hoping to use this on but I want to be sure I know what I am doing

So far, it seems every example I have seen of this has been on textured plastic surfaces. How does this do on very smooth plastic? Does it still apply evenly? Also, what about rubber window trim? Is the coating as effective on it and is the durability impacted? Got mine in the mail already but I havent had a chance to try it yet.

I have been using SVRT on the door panels of my C6's for several years. For some reason, the rubber\vinyl door inserts on a C6 will tend to turn blotchy\chalky in areas over time. TID and other interior products just cant resolve it so I tried SVRT once and loved it for this application. Like others have said, just go over with a clean dry towel to remove some gloss and that "slick" feeling it can leave behind.

Your routine looks good. Mine is very similar. A for time of day, due to the direction my house faces, I have to either start early 7:30-8am or late in the evening, 8pm or so. Neither of them are ideal but I can generally get the wash done quick enough so that I can pull in the garage to finish up the smaller details. Be careful with the leaf blower dry. I know it seems safer than drying with microfiber towels but if it is unfiltered air you are blowing out, it could be like a sandblaster to your paint. Also, if it is gas powered, you could potentially get oil or other contaminants on the paint.

Excellent job man! Definitely a labor of love. I just bought a black 06 Z06 that need a little touch up. Would you say the paint is "hard" like most GM's? I didnt polish my blue Vette (in sig) as it was in excellent shape when I got it so I have no experience with polishing Vette paint.

Hello and welcome from another "Justin in Kentucky"! What part are you from?

I live in Georgetown...15 minutes north of Lexington. Work in Lex.