Paint Correction
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B. West
GT Owner
Clear bra it before you get any scratches/swirls. I don't have hardly any but I would do it immediately if did the paint correction over again. I haven't washed my car in a year.....light no rinse spray and silo seal c1.5 sealant spray keeps it pretty shiny. Your paint looks good though. Well worth the investment.
MartynL
GT Owner
Sinovac
GT Owner
Wwabbit
GT Owner
Howard
GT Owner
Beach-GT
GT Owner
So what is a paint correction? Was it orange and you fixed it to red? Did you do a re-paint to fix bad Paint? It looks good.
1. Dry wash (would have been wet wash, but I had just washed it).
2. Clay bar.
3. Speed compound.
4. Correction compound.
5. Finishing polish.
6. Finishing wax.
7. Sealer.
This took two guys all day.
The car has 19k miles and had never been detailed. Parked next to Jim Padilla's 1k mi GT, which had just been detailed, the difference was more than I could stand. I can park next to him now.
*IDK what all these terms mean. They used Meguiers products. All I know is they went over the entire car seven times. This includes taping off the weatherstripping, getting into every nook and cranny, using a xenon light to find paint flaws. They also did the wheels and calipers. And, BTW, if you want to watch what they do, be prepared to see your paint look worse before it looks better. It's a slightly destructive process to the clear coat, so get somebody you can trust.
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bonehead
GT Owner
Looks great, Gary. Two questions. What's a dry wash. Is that the silly 'waterless' thing that Ed Sims uses?
Second, is that the actual order in which they detailed your car? Because I would hope that a pro would know to put a sealant on BEFORE wax.
Actually, these guys were amateurs so I got off cheap, and everyone knows how silly Special Ed is.
Look at the reflection of the grass and tell me these guys effed up.
Look at the reflection of the grass and tell me these guys effed up.
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