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GonzoBernelli

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The CG Jet Seal and V07 arrived in the Fedex truck this morning but could not experiment with it until this evening.  The hood on my S6 was polished with HD Cut and HD Uno then finished off with Poxy a few days ago.  Washed car this morning with CG Citrus & Gloss Wash then de-dusted and de-waterspotted after dinner using CG V07.  Finished up with Jet Seal.  I have never seen such a glossy finish but for a $20000 paint job at Autorama. The hood reflections corrected my corrective bifocals! The rest of the car has layers of Klasse AIO and SG topped with UPP.  The V07 over this lot really brightened things considerably and Jet Seal then just went well over the top. I'm impressed! Way impressed!! What an improvement from 10 years ago.  Pix tomorrow as it was almost full-on dark when I quit for the day.
 
I hate to say this, BUT, your Audi S6 (and most European high-end cars) already have a pretty nice factory finish to begin with. The absence of orange peel in the paint from factory production  that is "standard-equipment"  in many  Japanese and American cars makes it much easier to get the "car show" shine/reflection that everyone admires/desires.


 


That said, I think even most car-care enthusiasts (IE, those with  OCD (obsessive-compulsive detailing)) can relate to finding a car-care chemical product and application method that works for them, and hence, your sharing that information with us Autopians is greatly appreciated.


 


 


By the way, what color is your S6? (Looking forward to some pics!!)
 
GonzoBernelli- Glad you found a combo that works for you!


 


The KSG *does* mute things a little bit, but I wonder how much of the improvement was from the HD polishes.


 


Now to see how the Poxy/CG V07/Jet Seal does with regard to protection!  But I bet you don't let things go the way I do, so maybe that won't be an issue.
 
Before forced indoors by today's storm, polished the passenger side using HD Adapt with LC MF pad followed by HD Polish with LC soft white polishing pad then Jet Seal.


 


Focus on yours truely


 


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Focus on front of back door - trees still dripping after this afternoon's thunder storm.  Yellow truck & roof line distorted by OP.


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Focus on hood "line"


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Focus point on tree


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Ah, that sure is reflective!


 


On the OP, my S8 has it really bad...so much for their modern robotic painting system!  Never bothered correcting it..
 
OK GonzoBerneili (and Accumulator):


After seeing these pictures of the S8, your car "suffers" for the dreaded manufacturing orange peel (OP). I thought it would have a better paint finish than that from Audi.


 


The subject of orange peel removal by wet sanding has been discussed at great lengths (ad nauseam?), but most will agree (concur?) that it's better left as is than remove the original clear coat needed to correct/remove the orange peel. That said, the new consumer-applied surface coatings now available seem to challenge (debunk?) that thinking. Is it worth it?? That's the "great debate" (crux of the matter?) (REALLY Capitan Obvious?  Or should we say Capitan Vocabulary!)


 


You A8 still looks good despite the OP.
 
Lonnie- Yeah, I considered my A8/S8 rather pricey for such severe OP, I'm just leaving it alone.  There are some reasonable arguments about the safety of reducing it (at least to some degree, if not making it glass-flat) and while it did disappoint me up on delivery, now it doesn't bother me after living with it for all these years. 
 
I've even gone to a high end body shop to look into knocking down the OP to flatness, then shooting 2 additional layers of PPG's ceramic clear coat.  That is how much I want to have a good looking' car.
 
GonzoBernelli- I bet you've come to this conclusion already, but IMO any respraying will almost certainly open a whole new can-o'-worms that you really don't want to live with.  Spending the requisite thousands of dollars (consider all the disassembly! and who knows how it'd go back together...)  just wouldn't end up making things bettter overall.
 
GonzoBernelli:


I've got to ask the "dumb" question of why you did not apply the JetSeal first and let it cure for 24 hours, and THEN go over it with the V07 spray?


Obviously you've gotten the results with the method you used of V07 first and then the JeatSeal.
 
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