2011 BMW 750. Owner had been using someone else but since that person has expanded and isn't always onsite with his helpers, he feels the level of quality and service has fallen. Heard the same thing from the Ferrari 250 GTE owner too. Showing up hours late the last time the 750 was scheduled was the last straw. No, I won't say who it is and as far as I know, the owner has never posted here.
Buffer trails on several areas of the car:
And as typical of the newer, not jet black BMWs, the clear was brutally hard. Lots of pressure, M100 and Rupes!
ONR wash, Opti-Raser pink
Meguiars M100 using a Meguiars MF cutting pad and Rupes 21 (some areas took several passes)
Optimum Hyper Polish using an Optimum orange foam waffle cutting pad and Rupes
Opti-Seal
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
Should be the last crap exposure car...but at least you can see the gloss.
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2012 Nissan Frontier. Decided to apply Optimum Coating to my Dad's truck for Christmas. Ugly day when we did it but we had enough room and light in the garage to work on a rainy day.
ONR wash
Optimum Primer using an Optimum orange foam cutting pad and Rupes
ONR wipe-down
Optimum Coating applied to the paint and wheels
Optimum Glass Coating applied to the windshield
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
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2013 Honda Accord V6 Coupe. Really love the 9th generation redesign, much cleaner than the 8th gen cars, and size is back close to the 7th gen cars. Pretty quick too, low 14s at 101 for the automatics, high 13s at 103 for the manual. Come a long way since the first 68 hp Accords showed up in 1976.
Tried to coat this one over the summer but the heat combined with the really soft clear made it impossible. Only thing that would work without hazing the paint or sticking was Optimum G-P-S and I can't coat over that. Now with an additional 6 months of paint curing and much cooler (around 50 that day) it was much easier. The owner decided to go with 2.0 and he said he'd be happy with 90% correction since bugs had already begun to take their toll on the front bumper (he lives right near Lake Ray Hubbard and had to drive over it at night) and he was having a really hard time washing the soft paint without marring it. Basically just wanted to stop the bleeding, so to speak.
Looks like we were able to get at least 90% correction and the bug etchings really cleaned up, most came out completely.
ONR wash, Opti-Raser pink to spot clay
3D HD Polish using a Meguiars yellow foam polishing pad (Optimum orange foam cutting pad in few tougher spots) and Rupes 21
ONR wash
Opti-Coat 2.0 on paint and wheels
Optimum Glass Coating on windshield
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
Only 1 picture, as mentioned already, I've been having issues with dark cars in the full sun so I didn't even bother taking pics with my digital camera so just one cell phone picture.
Buffer trails on several areas of the car:
And as typical of the newer, not jet black BMWs, the clear was brutally hard. Lots of pressure, M100 and Rupes!
ONR wash, Opti-Raser pink
Meguiars M100 using a Meguiars MF cutting pad and Rupes 21 (some areas took several passes)
Optimum Hyper Polish using an Optimum orange foam waffle cutting pad and Rupes
Opti-Seal
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
Should be the last crap exposure car...but at least you can see the gloss.
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2012 Nissan Frontier. Decided to apply Optimum Coating to my Dad's truck for Christmas. Ugly day when we did it but we had enough room and light in the garage to work on a rainy day.
ONR wash
Optimum Primer using an Optimum orange foam cutting pad and Rupes
ONR wipe-down
Optimum Coating applied to the paint and wheels
Optimum Glass Coating applied to the windshield
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
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2013 Honda Accord V6 Coupe. Really love the 9th generation redesign, much cleaner than the 8th gen cars, and size is back close to the 7th gen cars. Pretty quick too, low 14s at 101 for the automatics, high 13s at 103 for the manual. Come a long way since the first 68 hp Accords showed up in 1976.
Tried to coat this one over the summer but the heat combined with the really soft clear made it impossible. Only thing that would work without hazing the paint or sticking was Optimum G-P-S and I can't coat over that. Now with an additional 6 months of paint curing and much cooler (around 50 that day) it was much easier. The owner decided to go with 2.0 and he said he'd be happy with 90% correction since bugs had already begun to take their toll on the front bumper (he lives right near Lake Ray Hubbard and had to drive over it at night) and he was having a really hard time washing the soft paint without marring it. Basically just wanted to stop the bleeding, so to speak.
Looks like we were able to get at least 90% correction and the bug etchings really cleaned up, most came out completely.
ONR wash, Opti-Raser pink to spot clay
3D HD Polish using a Meguiars yellow foam polishing pad (Optimum orange foam cutting pad in few tougher spots) and Rupes 21
ONR wash
Opti-Coat 2.0 on paint and wheels
Optimum Glass Coating on windshield
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
Only 1 picture, as mentioned already, I've been having issues with dark cars in the full sun so I didn't even bother taking pics with my digital camera so just one cell phone picture.
