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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



























Prep - Wheels/Tires/Wash/Decon/Autoscrub

Pre soak /Bug and Tar





Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner







Wheel woolie in action (coming soon)





Rinse wheels







Rinse bumper





Foaming up the car



















Decon





Rinse







Drying with the Uber Super Drying Microfiber Towel





AutoScrub





Blowing out the excess water







Shots of the paint after prep













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







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





























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



Before





After







Close up shots after correction





Action shots





Outside shots after paint correction



















Rinse off all the dust from compound and polish







Opti Coat





Buffing off the Opti Coat



After