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

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

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Dan inspecting the car

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

Wash

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Rinse

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Tires being cleaned up

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Paint Correction

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50/50

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Polishing away

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After polishing

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Clear Film Installation

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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.

I can't believe how poor the paint was for being brand new!

subie and toyota paint are pretty bad.

Another amazing detail project! :thumbup:



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. :dunno:

we like to polish out the panels we are working on then we just use a solution to install the clear film.