2006 Impala SS, Decon, Polish, Opti-Guard

[RaskyR1]

So this car actually belongs to one of my co-workers. He picked it up a few months ago from an old lady who really only used it to go to the grocery store. When he bought the car from her it only had 5000 miles on it! Currently it has just over 8000. Overall the car was in great shape but you can tell it was not washed often as there was baked on bugs, tar, and rust blooms.



Process:



Wash - Rinse with PW, foamed with CGCW/OPC and let dwell, rinse and wash with CGCW. Bugs sprayed with OPC a second time to help soften them up

Decon - IronX followed by TarX

Wheels - Sonax Full Effect and various brushes

Tires - OPC, dressed with Hyper Dressing at 3:1

Bonded contaminant removal - Speedy Prep towel and Glide as lube (Awesome)

Paint correction - Sonax Perfect Finish via DA with tangerine LC pads

Wheels lightly polished with Optimum Hyper Polish and tangerine LC pad

Chrome tips - Meguiar's all metal polish

Glass - D120

Coating prep - Wash with ONR and thorough wipe down with CarPro Eraser

Coating - Optimum Opti-Guard, applied to all paint, trim, and wheels





Before pics

Bugs

Bugs

and more bugs!

Tar on lowers

Tips

It was hard to capture IronX doing it's thing but all panels were showing heavy signs of iron on the paint.

Light swirls

Sad attempt and 50/50 shots...sorry.

After pics

Thanks for looking,

Rasky

 

[Scottwax]

Very wet in the after shots, tips look amazing!

 

[maxepr1]

Still looks like new! Exhaust looks amazing! Allot easier now on the back with a lift!

 

[C. Charles Hahn]

Damn that lift makes me jealous. Could have used it today with the GTI I Opti-Coated.



The SS looks incredible, BTW! Would never guess it's an '06

 

[RaskyR1]

Thanks guys!