Divine Detail 2008 C6 Corvette

[CalgaryDetail]

Second vehicle that had to be detailed for the car show, now my apologies for not having as many pictures but I had a lot of work ahead of me so had to use my time wisely. The vehicle:
2008 C6 Corvette
The vehicle had been in the shop for some work so it wasn’t dirty at all just a bit of dust, so we went with ONR, after the quick wash the vehicle was clayed with the help of Ricardo Clay bar. Once the claying was done we taped up the vehicle and took some paint gauge readings, now this Corvettes was not your regular metal vehicles, this one was full composite and therefore, used the PosiTector 200 along with the gel.

Now keep in mind that the readings were based on composite and it’s not like your regular vehicle, overall the vehicle had reasonable clear coat with some low spots as shown on the graph bellow:

After taking the readings it was time to inspect what I was up against, for this I used the 3M Sun Gun:

At first I though great, not much to correct

Then I saw these very minor imperfections (just above the light)

Again, very minor

Now this scratch was going to need some attention

 

[CalgaryDetail]

Certain areas were going to require more attention then others
Now I was taking into consideration the toughness of the clear coat and the combo of choice was Menzerna 85RD3.02 with 3M blue polishing pad and Metabo at 1500rpm.
Sorry I didn’t have time to do a before or after nor a 50/50 on this vehicle, but overall the vehicle finished down very well with this combo, certain areas required two to three passes to truly remove all scratches. One thing I noticed was that the clear coat was not as bad as I was lead to believe. It actually behaved quite nice, didn’t give me any problems at all. Here are some pictures after all the polishing had been completed:

Well once satisfied with the paint correction it was time to HD Cleanse Pro the vehicle, this was done with three people, one person would apply the HD Cleanse Pro and the other two would remove, this system worked quite well. Once the entire vehicle had been HD Cleansed it was time to apply a nice coat of Vintage. Wile we let Vintage cure it was time to take care of the rims.
For the rims Hollywoods Metal Polish was used, this product worked quite well:

Once all the rims and exhaust tips were done it was time to give the interior a nice vacuum along with a wipe down followed up with a good protection. The leather received a nice deep clean treatment then heated up with the help of the 1000W lights followed up with a leather conditioning, yes the leather conditioner was applied by hand. Sorry no pictures during the work.
Engine was giving a quick wipe down and then dressed with 303, again no pictures of this due to time.
To finish of the vehicle it was time to buff off Vintage, this was done quite quick considering it was three of us working on the vehicle. After a few hours gave the vehicle the Field Glaze wipe down and she was done.

 

[CalgaryDetail]

Now for the end result:

The rims turned out very nice, the tires were dressed with Optimum Tire Protection

Sorry very few interior pictures

Here is a walk around the vehicle when it was completed:


Well one down more to come. Hope you enjoyed the detail. Feed back is always appreciated.

 

[Stephan]

The car looks great...you mentioned the Menzerna combo, I have never heard of that particular Menzerna before the 85RD3.02 what is that?

Also you mention that at the end you went over the car with a field glaze, is that just glaze or something else?

Nice work:bigups

 

[cwcad]

Well documented detail, Calgary. I had the same question as Stephan. What is this field glaze?

 

[Ronkh]

The car looks great...you mentioned the Menzerna combo, I have never heard of that particular Menzerna before the 85RD3.02 what is that?

Also you mention that at the end you went over the car with a field glaze, is that just glaze or something else?

Nice work:bigups

Zymol® Field Glaze

Field Glaze was developed for those times when your car needs a quick complete waxing, a touch-up between regular waxing or a simple way to remove fingerprints and road debris. From daily driver to show car, Field Glaze is quick and easy to use and provides brilliant "just-waxed" results without alcohol or silicone. Field Glaze contains Carnauba 13% Sap.

 

[Stephan]

Zymol® Field Glaze

Field Glaze was developed for those times when your car needs a quick complete waxing, a touch-up between regular waxing or a simple way to remove fingerprints and road debris. From daily driver to show car, Field Glaze is quick and easy to use and provides brilliant "just-waxed" results without alcohol or silicone. Field Glaze contains Carnauba 13% Sap.

Excellent thanks...

 

[Beemerboy]

Zymol® Field Glaze

Field Glaze was developed for those times when your car needs a quick complete waxing, a touch-up between regular waxing or a simple way to remove fingerprints and road debris. From daily driver to show car, Field Glaze is quick and easy to use and provides brilliant "just-waxed" results without alcohol or silicone. Field Glaze contains Carnauba 13% Sap.

Is this like QD on steroids? sounds very similar to QD...thanks

 

[Stephan]

Is this like QD on steroids? sounds very similar to QD...thanks

again, its a product whose name is somewhat deceiving...

So based on one name, three companies have chosen to use it differently, one as a final polish, one as a filler before your LSP (Thats what I thought it was suppose to be) and now as a QD...

 

[Beemerboy]

again, its a product whose name is somewhat deceiving...

So based on one name, three companies have chosen to use it differently, one as a final polish, one as a filler before your LSP (Thats what I thought it was suppose to be) and now as a QD...

Its of little wonder why the novice car care guy has so many questions about what's this? and what's that?

 

[CalgaryDetail]

thanks everyone for the compliments...

85Rd3.02 is a polish that we get from europe. im not sure if you can get it in NA.. its got a nive cut but finshes really well. Its like 85RD on roids

as for field glaze, its a qd of sorts. It will remove light dust and finger prints but we use it for is to remoce the sweating of zymol waxes. After youwax with zymol yo let he car sit for 3-4 hours. During this time the extra oils leach out and look kinda like buffer trails. The field glaze removes this and helps level the wax making it shine that much more

 

[Beemerboy]

thanks everyone for the compliments...

85Rd3.02 is a polish that we get from europe. im not sure if you can get it in NA.. its got a nive cut but finshes really well. Its like 85RD on roids

as for field glaze, its a qd of sorts. It will remove light dust and finger prints but we use it for is to remoce the sweating of zymol waxes. After youwax with zymol yo let he car sit for 3-4 hours. During this time the extra oils leach out and look kinda like buffer trails. The field glaze removes this and helps level the wax making it shine that much more

You can speed up that leaching process with the oils by spraying on cold water and wiping it down...its what I do on my jet black car.

Question why are you using a paint gauge? its a brand new car or are you just have some fun with it?

 

[CalgaryDetail]

You can speed up that leaching process with the oils by spraying on cold water and wiping it down...its what I do on my jet black car.

Question why are you using a paint gauge? its a brand new car or are you just have some fun with it?

Yes using cold water works well, we have found that the field glaze adds a nice shine to it that cold water dosent. Both work well, but we like the look of field glaze better.

As for the paint gauge, yes the car was new however the dealer prep on these cars is brutal. I will be posting a brand new yellow vette. the clear was to thin to polish, so although a car is new does not mean there is enough paint to work with. Plus its better safe then sorry:bigups

 

[trhland]

wow that looks great mike ! nice job!!!!