- Yeah, good day, name is Shane here.
This is my '67 Impala.
The guys at Clean Getaways have just put on
some beautiful tinting on my car.
They've polished the chroma, ceramic coating.
They've done a five star, amazing job.
Would recommend them to anyone, anytime.
Check it out, she's a work of art.
- [Man] Awesome.
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- Hey guys, Joe here,
thanks so much for watching.
Well, as you just saw, we have got this amazing,
this beautiful Chevy Impala here at the workshop.
It's in for the whole day,
we're doing a lot of work to it.
We're starting off with the window tinting.
We're going to be tinting all the windows,
to really just give it a lot more privacy.
That's what we're doing right now in the coating bay.
And then once that's done,
we're going to be doing paint correction,
and also the ceramic coating treatment.
So the paint work is not like a concourse,
full, showroom, spec paint work.
It is, it has been resprayed to the original color,
but we're going to make it as good
as we possibly can without doing any wet sanding.
So, this is going to be a great way to see
what a car like this, the '67 Impala
which is just beautiful,
can look like when it's done paint correction
and also a ceramic coating.
So, let's check it out.
Chevy Impala is in the wash bay.
Time to rinse it down, snow foam it,
clean all the little nooks and crevices
inside the little emblems and badges,
and the wheels.
So that it's all prepped, decontaminated,
ready for us to do the machine polishing stage.
All right, so what we want to do now
is use our little detailing brushes to be able
to just brush it out all around the emblems,
the badges, and just the little nooks and crevices
where over the years dirt and dust get built up.
It may look a little like, over the top
when we're using our brushes
and we're cleaning in these.
But when you really think about it,
the wash mitt can only get so far in.
And these just little bristles just really help
loosen up the grime and dirt.
Just in those really hard to get to places.
A car of this age, you know,
it's probably never really had that thorough of a clean.
So, that's why we use these little brushes.
They can look a little over the top,
but at the end of the day it's just ensuring
that we really do clean these areas thoroughly.
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It's time to wash the car by hand now.
It's really not that dirty since we've done
the snow foaming and everything on it.
So we're just going to go over with a really nice soft
microfiber pillow here.
You can actually put your hand in it, which is pretty cool.
And it's got no cuff as well, no sleeve.
So, for the sake of my fingers,
I might just leave my hand in it
and we'll start washing the car.
Then we get ready to decontaminate it.
Thanks.
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Just finished rinsing down the car.
The next stage now is the decontamination stage.
So with the gloves, you can actually feel
how smooth or rough the paintwork is
when you're wearing a glove.
Or you can even put your hand
in like a freezer bag, plastic bag.
That way it's like your hand is not a smooth surface.
So that's not a good indication
when you just use your skin.
So using a glove is good, cause when you,
you can actually feel it
and you can, you can nearly hear it.
I don't know if the mic will pick it up,
but it's pretty gritty.
And some of that grit will actually be the paint itself.
But there's going to be like contamination,
a buildup of pollution, dirt, and grime
that's embedded in the clear coat
that we want to get off first
before we do any of the machine polishing.
Cause that ensures that we're not trying
to machine polish all that out.
We're actually just going to be machine polishing
and massaging the paint work.
So, we're going to be using the Bowden's Three Way.
The Three Way is a really, really good
decontaminating product.
It's highly lubricated.
It breaks down the fallout,
you know, the metal particles.
But it also has some like cleaners in there as well.
So it kills three birds one stone pretty much.
Hence being called Three Way.
So we're going to spray this car down now.
Just gotta pump some up more.
That was a little embarrassing.
We just want to give the car a nice soak.
Just let it sit for a little bit.
It may react a little bit.
It might show that it's reacting by turning purple,
but with this type of car I doubt it will.
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The Three Way has been sitting
on the paint work for a couple of minutes now,
it's really working.
Reacting to any particles and contamination.
So now it's time to do the decontamination stage.
We use a clay towel.
There's all different ones you can get.
But we like these, they're really good.
It's most likely going to put micro scratches
in the paint when we're doing it.
But I'm okay with that, because they're going
to be machine polishing it and it will remove those.
So it's time to clay towel the whole car.
The Three Way will be the lubricant here,
so we don't really need super soapy water.
And that way it's going to get the surface nice and slick.
So let's see how it all goes.
Time to rinse it down now,
we're just gonna use the pressure cleaner.
You might be wondering, you know,
should we be using, you know, like a hose or whatever.
But when we open up the fan on the pressure washer
it's not super aggressive.
Like it wouldn't blast my skin off,
so it isn't going to be ruining the paint or anything.
And there are no leaks in this car.
So that's another good reason to use the pressure cleaner
because it's the most effective
and helps to get the best result.
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So, we've just been inspecting the paint work on the Impala.
It's such a beautiful color.
It's the factory color, but it has been resprayed.
So, that means it's been resprayed
about 10 to 20 years ago.
Wasn't, you know, a Rolls Royce paint job.
It would have cost a little bit,
but it's not gone for perfection.
So there's actually a few defects
under the paint work that we can't fix.
But there's also what we call peel.
There's there's a lot of, if you look at the paint work,
it's really disfigured.
It's got, it looks like orange skin.
It's really ripply.
And that there, the only way of removing that
is by wet sanding it back.
So using sanding paper, doing different grades.
Pretty much starting at about something more aggressive,
around a 1000 or 1500 grit probably.
To go 2000 and 3000, and then be compounding that out.
But that there will take an extra few days.
And we're not going to do that,
the client doesn't want to do that.
They don't want to pay for it.
They just want to get something done
that's going to really increase the shine
and fit in their budget.
So, we've got a paint gauge here.
And we're going to measure
how much paint is on this car.
So we know where to draw the line
when it comes to compounding.
We don't want to pulse through,
but I've got a funny feeling
there'll be plenty of paint on this car.
We've got about 184 microns there.
We'll just move it around.
It's good to get an indication in the local area.
So dealing with around 160.
So we're dealing around 160 to 190
kind of paint on the bonnet.
And if we go here as well.
It's good to be able to go around the whole car,
cause sometimes some panels have been resprayed
along the way, and the client doesn't even know about it.
So we can measure the panels to see
how much paint is on this panels.
Cause if there is like below 100 microns,
then that's a red flag.
We gotta be really cautious on that.
We start very refined, and we work our way up
to see how much can we remove
without potentially causing any damage to the car.
So let's just go around and measure the paint.
It's 250.
520.
Back to 200.
300.
It looks like there's been a blow in here.
Some kind of respray there.
This has definitely been resprayed.
It's measuring around 180.
That's a good measurement.
Plenty of paint on the back here around 260, 270.
250.
300 on the door.
So there's a lot more in this area,
and then same on the other side.
So, it's a bit uneven.
So it looks like it's probably been resprayed
multiple times over a period of time.
Another 230.
There's a decent amount of paint on here.
Not as much as I thought there would have been.
I thought there might have been at least 300 all round.
But where we can go pretty aggressive
without having to worry about burning through
the clear coat.
So that's really, really good.
And we're only removing a few microns.
We're not removing 50 microns or anything like that.
We're not going crazy aggressive.
That would be hectic.
Clients really got nothing to worry about,
but we still take care when we're doing it.
We don't go in all crazy, guns blazing.
We're going to start with a cross cut foam pad.
This is like one of your more aggressive
foam pads for cutting.
Really, really awesome, I love these pads
because they've actually been cut out by machine.
And what this allows is for the compound
to really cut the pan work more.
But also not be too aggressive.
So it's not as aggressive as a wool pad.
And this just helps for good spreading
of heat and product.
And so that when we do pull out
like the grime and the dirt and obviously
some of the clear coat, it goes back into the pad.
And it makes the pad far more effective.
I said pad too many times then.
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But, we're going to give this a go.
And we'll just see how much
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All right, so we're just going to tape this up.
Cause we're going to do like a little test patch
so we can see how the correction work
will go on this bonnet.
That way we can really make sure
we're using the right combination here.
Whether we need to change our pad or compounds.
We won't know until we give it a go,
especially when it's a resprayed car.
Safety first.
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Wipe this compound off and we'll see what we got here.
So you can still see there's defects in the clear coat.
Those defects you can see in the clear coat
won't actually come out with a compounding.
That needs wet sanding performed, and whatnot.
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All right, so we're just getting in with these wheels,
with the Bowden's Own Metal Polish.
It's a really good machine metal polish.
It's quite refined.
And we're just trying to clean up these chrome wheels.
We find that these wheels,
you see them on a lot of classic cars,
when they've sort of pimped their ride a little bit.
Which looks cool, but we find
that you can't really get them coming up that nice.
As nice as you'd want them to be anyway.
Which is kind of disappointing.
Finding a lot of these kinds of wheels.
So, we're just gonna machine polish them,
and polish by hand just to get that bling back.
It's coming up a lot more shinier.
We just got to clean the residue off
with the glass cleaner.
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Hey guys, well it's six o'clock at night
and we have just finished doing
the two stage paint correction on the Impala next to me.
So, it's taking quite some time.
Mark staying back late to help me here, which is awesome.
It's great having family in the business.
And so we just got to get this Audi
out of the coating bay behind me.
And take in the Impala.
And then we'll begin laying down the ceramic coating.
Can't wait to show you the results, looks awesome.
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So guys, like I said before,
we are laying down the Gtechniq Crystal Serum Ultra
ceramic coating.
This is a really durable ceramic coating.
It makes it very, very slick.
And it's just going to really help protect this paint work.
So this is going to be so good,
because it's going to protect it from bird poo,
bat poo, all those kind of things
your car is subject to when you're at a car show.
Where it was just parked in the garage
and it's getting heaps of dust and dirt.
Having this coating on the car is going to make it
so much easier to keep clean.
It's not a force field, or you know,
a magic barrier or something.
But it's the next best thing pretty much.
So, you know, it's not just for new cars,
it's for old collectible cars and weekend warriors
like this thing too.
And not only is it going to protect it,
but it's going to make it so much more glossy.
And you're going to see that soon,
when we show you finishing shots.
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Man, massive day.
We finally got it done.
The Impala is tinted.
It's been corrected, and also we have laid
down the GTechniq Crystal Serum Ultra ceramic coating.
It has come up amazing.
You know, the client I believe is going to be really,
really stoked when he sees this.
So, tomorrow he's picking it up.
I'm going to put it back in the coating bay.
Back to sleep.
And he's going to pick it up in the morning,
or maybe the afternoon.
So thanks so much for watching this video.
And I really appreciate it.
My name's Joe, Clean Getaway Car Detailing.
You know what to do, have a clean getaway.
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