Hyundai Aftermarket - Detailer's Domain: VW GTI - Paint Correction and Opti Coat

Subject - 2010 VW GTI

Requirements - Full Exterior Paint Correction and Opti Coat installation.

We get another one ready for Waterfest.

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

- Meg's M105 with Surbuf and Griots Orbital

- 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

Meg's M105

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

Direct sun shots out side, Wow this is bad

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Prep - Wheels/Tires/Wash/Decon/Autoscrub

Pre soak /Bug and Tar

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Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

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Wheel woolie in action (coming soon)

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Rinse wheels

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Rinse bumper

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Foaming up the car

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Decon

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Rinse

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Drying with the Uber Super Drying Microfiber Towel

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AutoScrub

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Blowing out the excess water

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Shots of the paint after prep

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50/50 shots (before and after compound and polishing)

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John in the background happy with the progress on making his baby shine

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Tail lights were cleaned up - Sonax 5/5 followed by Sonax 3/6

Before

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After

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Close up shots after correction

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Action shots

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Outside shots after paint correction

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Rinse off all the dust from compound and polish

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Opti Coat

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Buffing off the Opti Coat

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After

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