First machine detail for my camaro ss

[BTBSS]

So tomorrow marks the first full correction for the camaro SS that I bought when I traded in my trailblazer SS back on 3/31/14. It's a 2012 and only had 4k miles on it when I bought it. It's my DD and now has 7,600 miles on it. My trailblazer took me a good 6hrs to do hopefully the camaro is less time. I have the flat black hood stripes so that's less paint I have to worry about.

Any tips for this that have done a camaro before. I know one of the tricks is to apply SVRT to the vinyl so the wax or polish doesn't stick to it if it gets past the tape but when I did that and tried to apply the Adams masking tape the tape would not stick. So I'm thinking about not applying SVRT.

 

Any suggestions

 

Thanks

[Chris@Adams]

Watch the videos tonight for a refresher......have fun & take some pics!

If you are taping your trim you can skip the SVRT and you can always apply afterwards.

[BTBSS]

Took me 11.5hrs. Wash with dawns two bucket wash. The leaf blow dry followed with DS an waffle towel. Then Adams clay bar( the old one before they made their own) man it needed it.

Taped off the vinyl hood stripes an applied the SVRT to the trim for the grill an rear bumper. Then went at it with Adams orange polish. Followed up wit white( fine polish). Next was MSS

Then was Americana. Topped the stripes with SVRT. Tires with the same . Wheel wells with under carriage spray. In and out spray for the lower grill and rear bumper. Also used the two step polishing on the rims by hand followed with MSS. Will post a pic in daylight

 

Is 11..5 hours normal for the amount of work I did?

Edited June 8, 2014 by BTBSS

[The Guz]

Seems normal to me.  Camaro's typically have hard paint.  I think you did just fine. Although I would do a strip wash next time rather than using dawn. 

[egott_91]

Seems normal to me. Camaro's typically have hard paint. I think you did just fine. Although I would do a strip wash next time rather than using dawn.

Dawn strips sealant and wax also.

[GXPaycheck]

Dawn strips sealant and wax also.

Not to mention it can dry out the rubber.

Strip wash with APC in the wsh bucket is a safer bet.

[BTBSS]

Yea the dawn would dry out the rubber but since it had SVRT on before I wasn't worried about drying it out with one wash of dawn. After the car was dry SVRT went back on all the rubber and plastic trim

 

Just seems like the older I get the longer it takes or maybe I'm just wiser now and more of a perfectionist to try and achieve the best results.

[BTBSS]

Don't know why mobile upload is upside down

Edited June 8, 2014 by BTBSS

[Rich]

Don't know why mobile upload is upside down

One of those days, huh?    

[Team Adam's]

11.5 hours isn't bad at all for all the work you did.

 

Don't be concerned about how long it takes you to go through the processes.  As long as it's done right and you're happy with the results, that's all that matters!