My friend bought a new Pontiac G8 a year or so ago, and I detailed it when he took delivery then (major dealer installed holograms, buffer trails, DISO, you name it). It's been a while and its taken some fairly serious abuse from daily driving, tunnel washes to keep the salt off during the winter, wife, kids, etc. Both of us are very busy and have been trying to schedule some time to do a full correction, but we finally got a free afternoon and figured that a quick clean up, one step correction and seal would have to do. I apologize again for the lack of during pics, or really very detailed before pics but it's been overcast most of the day and I was having a hard time getting decent pictures, and the time constraint didn't help. Overall it was very swirled with a LOT of RIDS, and a few really nasty scuffs that we were able to minimize at least. After stripping the paint you could really see in person how gray it looked. Rasky suggested to me trying an LC 5.5" orange pad with 205 and it did take care of all the swirls, and minimized most of the rids. There were a few nasty spots that I busted out the D300 and 3" mf pads on as well. I'd say MAYBE 65% correction, but for a one step we were both fairly pleased. Process was:
- Wheels got Griots Garage wheel cleaner (falling out of love with this stuff quickly)
- Tires cleaned with OPC 3:1 and dressed with Optimum Tire Shine
- Foamed with CG Citrus Wash via Gilmour Foamaster II
- Washed via 2bm with CGCW
- M205 on LC Orange pad via GGDA
- Spot compounding with D300/3"MF via PC7424
- Blackfire on lc Blue pad via PC7424
- Glass got SIG w/short nap glass towel
Condition Before:
While we were at it we debadged it except for the Pontiac emblem on the back, and put on the Holden 6.0 V8 side emblems. I'm not usually into debadged cars but I think the G8 looks nice without all the extra crap on the back.
Here are afters, not much sun but for a one step he was very pleased with it, and I was fairly pleased (hey, the autopian in me can't ignore RIDS).
Got another (I'm guessing) one step that I'm going to try the same combo with tomorrow, I"ll post up the results of that as well. Thanks for looking.
- Wheels got Griots Garage wheel cleaner (falling out of love with this stuff quickly)
- Tires cleaned with OPC 3:1 and dressed with Optimum Tire Shine
- Foamed with CG Citrus Wash via Gilmour Foamaster II
- Washed via 2bm with CGCW
- M205 on LC Orange pad via GGDA
- Spot compounding with D300/3"MF via PC7424
- Blackfire on lc Blue pad via PC7424
- Glass got SIG w/short nap glass towel
Condition Before:
While we were at it we debadged it except for the Pontiac emblem on the back, and put on the Holden 6.0 V8 side emblems. I'm not usually into debadged cars but I think the G8 looks nice without all the extra crap on the back.
Here are afters, not much sun but for a one step he was very pleased with it, and I was fairly pleased (hey, the autopian in me can't ignore RIDS).
Got another (I'm guessing) one step that I'm going to try the same combo with tomorrow, I"ll post up the results of that as well. Thanks for looking.
