Sorry, no BTS or ETS.
2007 Cadillac CTS and 2008 DTS. We detailed the owner's black CTS last week, he's decided to sell that one and keep these two. He bought both used and neither appeared to have been detailed properly. He had the DTS detailed a year or so ago and the interior was still overly shiny and the paint had buffer trails and spider swirls. The CTS also had a lot of spider swirls and marring plus a terrible paint blending (with massive orange peel) on the right rear fender that he intends to have refinished. He wants the cars to look good but he isn't fanatical about it so he really wanted to keep it to one polishing step.
The very late winter sun still isn't optimal for showing swirls due to how relatively low it still is in the sky and the metallic paint, the car looked worse than the pictures show:
Got lucky this time, first product/pad combo I picked worked! Optimum Hyper Compound using an Optimum MF cutting pad got out 80-90% of the spider swirls and all of the holograms and still left an excellent finish. Again the low sun angle and metallic paint makes the paint look a bit better than it is, not nearly 100% perfect like it appears, but the improvement was dramatic enough my son even noticed and he hardly ever comments on things like that.
The finish OHC was leaving behind on the hard GM paint was very impressive for a compound that was removing so much. I was able to go right to Opti-Seal, other than the left rear fender and C pillar on the DTS. Paint was really soft there even though I didn't notice any obvious signs of refinishing. Had to go over that area with Optimum G-P-S.
ONR wash, Opti-Raser pink (mild) to clay
Optimum Hyper Compound using an Optimum MF cutting pad and my Meguiars G110 v2 DA polisher
Optimum G-P-S using an Optimum MF polishing pad on the C pillar and left rear fender of the DTS
Optimum Opti-Seal
ONR wash and wax @ 32:1 to clean glass
Armor All on tires/fenderwells
2007 Cadillac CTS and 2008 DTS. We detailed the owner's black CTS last week, he's decided to sell that one and keep these two. He bought both used and neither appeared to have been detailed properly. He had the DTS detailed a year or so ago and the interior was still overly shiny and the paint had buffer trails and spider swirls. The CTS also had a lot of spider swirls and marring plus a terrible paint blending (with massive orange peel) on the right rear fender that he intends to have refinished. He wants the cars to look good but he isn't fanatical about it so he really wanted to keep it to one polishing step.
The very late winter sun still isn't optimal for showing swirls due to how relatively low it still is in the sky and the metallic paint, the car looked worse than the pictures show:
Got lucky this time, first product/pad combo I picked worked! Optimum Hyper Compound using an Optimum MF cutting pad got out 80-90% of the spider swirls and all of the holograms and still left an excellent finish. Again the low sun angle and metallic paint makes the paint look a bit better than it is, not nearly 100% perfect like it appears, but the improvement was dramatic enough my son even noticed and he hardly ever comments on things like that.
The finish OHC was leaving behind on the hard GM paint was very impressive for a compound that was removing so much. I was able to go right to Opti-Seal, other than the left rear fender and C pillar on the DTS. Paint was really soft there even though I didn't notice any obvious signs of refinishing. Had to go over that area with Optimum G-P-S.
ONR wash, Opti-Raser pink (mild) to clay
Optimum Hyper Compound using an Optimum MF cutting pad and my Meguiars G110 v2 DA polisher
Optimum G-P-S using an Optimum MF polishing pad on the C pillar and left rear fender of the DTS
Optimum Opti-Seal
ONR wash and wax @ 32:1 to clean glass
Armor All on tires/fenderwells
