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Detailer's Domain: Scion FRS - New Car Prep - Opti Coat - Clear Film Install

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Old 07-29-2012, 05:27 PM
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Subject - Scion FRS

Requirements - Full Exterior Paint Correction/Opti Coat/ Clear Film installation. (Full Hood, Full Fenders, Mirrors, Lights, Door Cups)



For a new car this one was in pretty bad shape. The typical sticky paint from the imports made this one tedious to work on

Exterior



- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes

- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down

- Wheel wells were cleaned up

- Washed with 1Z einszett W99

- Wolf's Decon Gel

- Wash down and rinsed

- Door jambs were cleaned up

- Nano Scrub AutoScrub

- Dried

- Tires dressed

- Masking

- Paint Measurement

- Sonax 5/5 Fine Abrasive Paste - Microfiber DA Cut Pad - Griots Orbital

- Sonax 3/6 Nano Polish - Uber Green Pad - Griots Orbital

- Opti Coat

- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight

- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed

- Rubber and Plastics Treated

- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed

- Exhaust tips cleaned

- Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed



Products used



Links to products used -



1Z einszett W99

Wolf's Decon Gel

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

NanoSkin AutoScrub System

Sonax Compound 5/5 - Coming Soon

Sonax Nano Polish 3/6 - Coming Soon

Opti Coat

Adam's Super VRT

Optimum Metal Polish



Tools used

Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Uber No Name MF Towels

Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher

Uber Buffing Pads

Defelsko Paint Meter

Fenix TK35

Brinkmann

Kranzle Pressure Washer

Cam Spray Foam Canon

2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies

Uber Firehose Nozzle

Metro Air Force Blaster



Before





























Dan inspecting the car





We ran late into the night with this one. (limited prep shots)

Wash





Rinse





Tires being cleaned up









Paint Correction

Before shots













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Polishing away







After polishing





Clear Film Installation















Afters





































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Very nice job! The Rave Black Pearl Scion FRS is just so nice! I recently had to get the same color paint for my car.
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I can't believe how poor the paint was for being brand new!
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subie and toyota paint are pretty bad.
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Another amazing detail project!



Out of curiosity, when doing the clear film....what do you do to the paint underneath before applying the film? Do you still wax and polish it? For some reason I keep thinking that clear film wont stick properly to paint if its waxed.
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we like to polish out the panels we are working on then we just use a solution to install the clear film.




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