I was contacted a few weeks ago by a gentleman wanting his 2012 CTS and Corvette detailed. He was just looking for a basic detail for both, but he left extra $$$ "just in case". After looking over his CTS coupe in the sun, I gave him a call and explained to him that the buffer swirls all over the car would take significantly more polishing than a basic detail provides. We discussed the options and decided for now to remove the buffer swirls and whatever else (like spider swirls) that would come out with two polishing steps. Didn't want to give him too much sticker shock going from a basic detail price to a full on correction, plus we still had the Corvette to detail as well. He originally hadn't planned on even having the CTS detailed since he just got the car, but decided to have it done when he felt it didn't look right in the sun. He said he'd consider doing what it takes to get the car near perfect in the spring.
This was by far one the most deeply swirled cars I've ever done. Usually rotary swirls aren't that hard to remove but it was like someone hate buffed this car and leaned into it as hard as possible.
Before shots, after an ONR wash and Clay Magic blue clay
Meguiars #105 cut 50/50 with Meguiars Ultimate Compound (cuts down dusting, sun friendly) using a Meguiars microfiber cutting disc and my PC 7424 XP
This is after the above step, you can see some hazing but the buffer swirls are gone. Several areas required multiple, slow, heavy pressure passes.
I followed with 3M Ultrafina using the blue Ultrafina foam waffle pad and my Dewalt 849 rotary at 1000-1800-1000 rpms
The car was then washed with ONR and Optimum Opti-Seal was applied. I've always been partial to carnaubas on jet black paint but the newest version of OS has amazing depth for a sealant. Tires/fenderwells dressed with Armor All. The car isn't perfect but it looks tons better and is now black (instead of a hazy grey) in the full sun.
2009 Chevy Corvette, pretty good shape, some spider swirling but the focus this time was the CTS and with the extra time needed for that car, we did a true one step on the paint.
ONR wash (paint was very smooth, test claying showed nothing on the clay)
Optimum G-P-S using an Optimum microfiber polishing pad and my PC
Armor All on tires/fenderwells
Just a few pics, if we ever do a correction on it, there will be more...
This was by far one the most deeply swirled cars I've ever done. Usually rotary swirls aren't that hard to remove but it was like someone hate buffed this car and leaned into it as hard as possible.
Before shots, after an ONR wash and Clay Magic blue clay
Meguiars #105 cut 50/50 with Meguiars Ultimate Compound (cuts down dusting, sun friendly) using a Meguiars microfiber cutting disc and my PC 7424 XP
This is after the above step, you can see some hazing but the buffer swirls are gone. Several areas required multiple, slow, heavy pressure passes.
I followed with 3M Ultrafina using the blue Ultrafina foam waffle pad and my Dewalt 849 rotary at 1000-1800-1000 rpms
The car was then washed with ONR and Optimum Opti-Seal was applied. I've always been partial to carnaubas on jet black paint but the newest version of OS has amazing depth for a sealant. Tires/fenderwells dressed with Armor All. The car isn't perfect but it looks tons better and is now black (instead of a hazy grey) in the full sun.
2009 Chevy Corvette, pretty good shape, some spider swirling but the focus this time was the CTS and with the extra time needed for that car, we did a true one step on the paint.
ONR wash (paint was very smooth, test claying showed nothing on the clay)
Optimum G-P-S using an Optimum microfiber polishing pad and my PC
Armor All on tires/fenderwells
Just a few pics, if we ever do a correction on it, there will be more...
