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Today I have my BMW M3.
My M3 is dirty. I haven't in over 2 years, ever since it got repainted.
So now it's time for me to repaint it.
And I do have JetSeal, Blacklight, waxes, sealants, the whole nine yards on the car.
But I'm going to remove that before I polish. So i'm going to remove that with our Clean Slate.
Now Clean slate is designed to specifically to clean the surface and cleanse it before a polish.
So it's going to strip off a lot of the wax, sealants, glazes, anything that is on the vehicle's surface.
To start off, I have my two buckets and I'm going to put my Dirt Traps.
That way I don't scratch the vehicle surface with any dirt particles that come off it.
Once I push them down in there, I'm going to set up both of my buckets.
One is going to be my wash bucket. One is going to be my rinse bucket.
So for my wash bucket, I'm going to add one ounce of our Clean Slate.
That's about an ounce.
Alright.
I'm going to activate it with some water.
Just to get a little bit of suds.
And i'm going to start rinsing down the car.
So now that I rinsed off the car, it's time for us to start washing so I'm going to have my Chenille Microfiber Wash Mitt.
Dip it into our soap bucket here.
And just go straight onto the surface.
So when wiping it's always important to wipe in straight lines.
Especially with this product because it is going to be stripping off a lot of those old waxes and sealants.
And as you can see not much dirt is coming off it because when I rinsed it off it did knock off a lot of that old dirt.
So as i'm wiping off the surface, it's easy to see which side I already wiped off.
You can see a nice beading effect from all the old waxes and sealants on that side.
And you can see that this side has been cleansed and being cleansed with our Clean Slate.
So this is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the beading effect to go away.
Because that means, it is coming off. All the old waxes and sealants are coming off and being stripped off the surface.
That's exactly what I'm looking for.
So we are going to repeat this process throughout the whole vehicle to strip off everything off it.
And get it prepped for a paint correction, getting rid of scratches and swirls, the whole nine yards.
See if you noticed, before, when I applied water to this area, it beaded off.
Now you are getting this beading effect.
You get that when there is nothing on the paint or when you have a certain sealant.
So as you can tell, there is no wax on this whatsoever.
That means this paint is stripped completely down.
So it's ready for any kind of claybar treatment or any kind of paint correction you want to do.
That's actually the results we are looking for.
So we went ahead and stripped off the wax and sealant. And we went ahead claybared.
So now it's time for us to do our test spot.
So what we are going to do now...
is we are going to tape off a certain area
of the vehicle to do our test spot on.
A nice small section should do.
Alright so we'll use this nice flat surface to do our test spot.
So first thing's first, I'll grab my 10FX.
Our orange Quantum cutting pad.
Make sure we center it.
Perfect.
Alright so we are going to grab our V36; our lightest cutting compound.
If we have to go more aggressive then we'll go ahead and grab our V34 or V32 if necessary.
Get a few drops.
Since it's a brand new pad,
make sure to condition it
with a little bit of Pad Conditioner.
Spread it out on the surface.
Just blot it out.
Once you blotch it out on the surface you turn it on to the slowest speed setting.
You do that mainly to spread it out.
Once you spread it out at the lowest speed setting, once you have it looking like this,
then that's when you start working at the highest speed setting
to start cutting.
Once you have it all cut, you know it's nice and ready when it's all clear.
So let's go at it.
Alright beautiful.
So now that I worked the compound into a clear state, I'm going to buff off and see what kind of results I get.
I can already see a vast improvement.
It looks like a mirror from here.
A lot of the scratches and swirls are gone.
There is probably a little bit of pitting from me driving on the road.
But, in other words, I'm happy with the results I got with this.
Just using V36.
I'll probably finish off using V38 just to get a little bit more of a high gloss finish.
But in terms of cutting, this is the right combination.
V36 and an orange Quantum cutting pad is the perfect combination for this paint.
So just remember, every time you finish cutting with V36, you typically want to polish.
And follow up with V38 and a white pad.
So earlier today I washed my M3 using Clean Slate.
And because I used Clean Slate I was able to strip off all the old waxes, glazes, and sealants off of my vehicle's surface.
So what that means is, I was able to polish without having to strip those out.
Usually when you start polishing, you strip off all the old waxes, sealants, and everything.
And they usually start caking up on your pad,
but because I took care of it using Clean Slate prior towards that, I was able to do it a lot faster and a lot more efficiently.