- Hey, what's up guys?
Welcome back to Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today in the shop, we have the blessing
of working on this beautiful Infiniti Q60 S.
Now, this vehicle looks amazing, it looks new,
it has a very aggressive look.
Unfortunately the paint doesn't look all that great.
In one of our last videos,
we did a full A to Z exterior detail
on just washing the car.
So today, I actually want to
and repeat that process
but we're going to take on the full nine yards
and we're actually going to show you how to play it,
we'll do a paint correction
and I'm going to show you guys how to protect the paint
so we get this car looking too better than new.
So before we start this process,
we want to make sure that we properly inspect the paint.
Now, you're looking at me here you look at the car,
and it looks good in the shade
but unfortunately, that's not the case
with this brand new car when you see it in the sun.
So we're actually going to
and pull this car into the sun
and inspect the paint panel by panel
so that you guys can see the neglect
that this paint has suffered.
Whoa, alright.
So, now that we got that into the sun,
let's inspect the paint.
So right away, you see the car is filthy.
It looks like it hasn't been washed in a while,
you have a lot of water spouts going on a lot of dirt,
a lot of grime buildup,
so, for sure this car is going to need a wash.
The next thing I noticed over here,
there's a lot of wax residue
that the owner previously did not wipe off properly.
So you'll see that right there,
you have a lot of wax residue right there,
you have some right here
and you can actually see on the plastic over here
he got it on the trim as well.
So that's a big no whenever you're applying wax,
you want to make sure you don't get on the plastic,
but for the main focus, we want to worry about the paint
and getting the exterior of the vehicle
looking as great as possible.
So if you come join me back on the trunk,
I'm not sure how well it captures it on camera
but there's a ton of scratches and swirls.
This car is a 2016, so it is on the newer side
but there is still some neglect on there
between those four years from 2016
and present day.
And I can already tell that the paint is going to be rough.
I don't want to touch it just because
I don't want to furthermore scratch the paint,
but you can for sure tell that
there's a lot of industrial fallout,
a lot of embedded contamination on the paint
and, I mean, all around if you just
and walk around the vehicle,
you can see that there's a lot of little dings
and little scratches, fine swirls,
you got a big chunk of bird turd right here.
So whenever you're working on a vehicle like this,
it's best to always inspect the paint
so that what you're working with.
On the hood, not only do you see a bunch of scratches
and swirls, if you kind of look at it at an angle,
you can actually see some fine oxidation building up.
Whatever the previous owner did to this vehicle,
obviously they did not care for it.
You can tell that they most likely
took it to a drive thru carwash,
that's why you see a lot of very fine swirls,
and it just doesn't look that great.
So, I just want you guys to see what we're working with.
We're going to be conducting a full detail on this vehicle.
We're going to break it out in three sections.
One, Clean, two, Restore and three, Protect.
Alright guys, so we got our car in place,
we have everything ready,
we have all of our wash accessories,
our foam cannon, our soap
and wash mitts ready.
So just like any other wash,
we're going to be utilizing our Two Bucket Method,
we're going to be using our two dirt traps
and I have designated two different colors,
one for my soap bucket
and one's for my rinse bucket.
I'm going to set these down
at the bottom of my buckets
so that they filter any wash water
from any kind of dirt particles, grime, you know,
who knows what's on this car?
We just want to make sure that
we have a filtration system in process
so that we don't get back that dirt
and grime that we have on the vehicle into our buckets
and go back and forth
and you know, cause further scratches or swirls.
So our choice of soap today is actually going to be
Clean Slate.
Now Clean Slate is perfect for jobs like these
where you want to start fresh.
So, with a car like this,
we want to go and strip it from any kind of waxes,
sealants and glazes that's on the paint.
Like I said, we don't know what's on the paint
but it's best to always strip it
from any kind of oils that are on there
so that we get the best results possible
whenever we go for a paint correction
and we apply any kind of protective coatings.
As you guys saw, there is still some leftover wax
on the paint so I know for a fact
that there is some wax on this car.
So we just want to make sure that we knock that off.
We're going to go to utilize that Clean Slate
and our foam cannon
because the vehicle is pretty dirty
so we want to make sure that
we get that advanced lubrication properties,
so that we don't furthermore scratch the vehicle
and assign it scratches.
Lastly, we're going to be utilizing our Chanel Wash Mitt.
Now this wash mitt works out great
because it's going to
and agitate any kind of dirt
and grime that's on the vehicle,
without forcing us to apply any aggressive motions
so that we don't scratch the paint.
I know I'm saying that a lot
but the main mission here is so that we clean the vehicle
without installing further scratches and swirls.
I know that we are going to be polishing it
but it's always best to
and wash it properly so we don't cause
any further damage that we have to repair.
The last thing I do want to mention is
we are washing outside in direct sunlight,
that's completely fine
because we actually are using deionized water,
which means that there's no minerals in the water
that are going to leave any stains
when we're outside in the sun.
Alright, so now that I've explained what we're going to do,
I'm going to put my wash mitt in my bucket,
fill up my foam cannon, rinse the car
and then we'll be back once we're ready to foam.
Alright guys, so we're done rinsing the vehicle
and now we're going to begin to foam.
Before I start foaming, I do want to answer a question
that I do see a lot of you guys ask is,
"Can I foam my car, rinse it off and just dry it?"
Well, that works out great
but the thing is,
there still may be a fine layer of dirt on your paint,
especially if there's no protection or anything like that,
you still want to go and wipe it down with the wash mitt.
I'm going to go on to connect my foam cannon here,
and I'm going to go and do it two coats.
So the first coat, I'm going to foam up the car
and then I'm going to go and let that pull off
that dirt, grime contamination
and that Clean Slate give it some time
to you know, break down the oils, the waxes, the ceilings,
the glazes around the paint,
and then we're going to rinse it
and then we're going to foam it one more time
and do our contact wash with our Chanel Wash Mitt.
So, that's there for me, we back when it's done.
Alright guys, so we just finished filming up the car once.
Now we're going to let that dwell.
Like I said, I like to give it some time to go out
and do its job,
break down the waxes, sealants
and pull off any kind of loose dirt, debris
and grime that's on the paint,
so that we have a more cleaner wash.
The point of the foam cannon is to give us
that emulsification and that lubrication.
We want to remove as much dirt as we can
because we want to make sure that
whenever we go for a contact wash with our wash mitt,
we don't install any scratches
and swirls with the fine dust
and dirt that may still be lingering on the paint.
I give it about a few minutes, not too many,
just one minute, two minutes.
Let it kinda pull off that dirt and grime
and once you kinda see most of the foam
just kinda running off, you rinse it off,
and then we'll come back with the contact wash.
Alright guys, so now that we're back,
we've just foamed up the car a second time,
Now let's time to proceed
with our contact wash.
So the first thing we're going to do is
we're going to grab our Chanel Wash Mitt,
get some nice suds going on in there
and as always, whenever you're working with
the Two Bucket Method, you want to make sure
that you start from the top of your vehicle
and work your way down and all the way around.
So with that in mind, we want to make sure that
you wipe in straight motions,
you don't want to mimic any swirls
or any kind of circular motions
because what ends up happening is,
whenever you get like fine dirt,
especially if you don't foam car twice,
you're still going to have some dirt on the paint.
So if you do that,
all that fine dirt is just going to be kind of
mimic throughout the entire paint,
and you're going to get left with swirls.
So, don't do that, straight motions.
A straight scratch is a lot easier to polish out
than a circular one
because then it's all over the place.
And now once you do a certain section, you can
and do the hood.
I like working from the middle and working my way out.
We did foam this car twice,
so I honestly don't really feel much grime on it at all.
But once you do a nice section,
you can always flip your wash mitt as well to
and get more uses out of your wash mitt.
And then, once I've done a little section here,
I want to come back to my rinse bucket.
I'm going to set that in there,
and then I'm going to
and pretty much kinda scrub that towards the bottom
where the dirt trap is at.
I know you guys can't really see
cause all the soap that we have on there,
but you want to make sure you scrub it towards the bottom,
cause you're going to knock off any kind of loose dirt
and debris from your wash mitt, take it out...
Rinse it outside of your bucket so that all that dirt,
any kind of grime that's still on there,
all that water gets right off.
Come back to your soap bucket,
get it nice and sudsy all over again,
and then you want to go to proceed
with the next section of the vehicle.
You might want to start off with the other side,
start off with the roof, work your way down to the hood
and then do the trunk as well.
We're going to go and do the whole entire vehicle
and then we'll be back once it's done,
so that we can rinse it off.
Alright guys, so now that we're done rinsing the car,
we're going to go to proceed to drying it.
Now my towel of choice is going to to be our Woolly Mammoth.
Now, the Woolly Mammoth is great
because it's a extra plush, extra big,
super drying towel that's going to
and pick up and whisk away
any kind of water that's on the surface of the paint.
It's going to soak up all that water
so that we don't have any water spouts left behind,
and it's super soft so that
if there's still any kind of dirt
or grime that's on the surface,
those microfiber is going to to pick it right up.
So all you want to do with this towel,
you can use it different ways.
I like to just simply set it on there
and just drag downwards,
and that picks up any water that's on the surface,
you do this on the windshield,
on the glass.
We did use deionized water,
so the sun is pretty much helping me
kind of just dry up a lot of this water
that's on the surface so,
you'll see right there on the hood that,
there's no water spouts left behind,
it cleans it up nicely, I mean,
that's pretty much ultimately what we want, you know.
We're going to to prepare it for
a paint correction.
So we want to make sure that this paint is as bare
and as clean as possible,
so that we can inspect the paint with the LED Light
on our next part of this detailing process.
So I'm going to finish up drying this vehicle,
we're going to pull it inside
and begin with part two which is restoring the paint
to getting it looking better than brand new.
So make sure to stay tuned on our next episode
of this detailing series,
where we clear the surface
to prep it for paint correction
and I'll show you guys and walk you guys
through the process of how to choose the proper chemical
as far as a compound or polish, choice of the machine
and pad to get this paint looking great.