- What's up, guys?
And welcome back to another episode
of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
On the last video, you have guys seen me and AJ
give this Mazda 3 a deep exterior cleaning.
So we gave it a nice foam bath,
gave those wheels a nice, deep clean,
because this car was absolutely filthy.
And if you guys didn't watch that first video,
this car was sitting in a parking lot for about a year,
maybe even longer than a year, I think.
So this thing has some serious grime on it,
which now brings us to this video,
which is actually taking care of the paint.
So upon finishing, washing the vehicle, we dried it up.
It looked great from afar,
but looking at it up close,
AJ, I mean, that thing is definitely jacked up.
So let's bring you guys in for a closer look
and you guys can check it out too.
Look.
Right here, we have all kinds of things.
Now, keep in mind that this was not our doing
this was actually on the paint already.
And you can see because it does not come off whatsoever,
if I wipe my hands on it.
Now this right here is actually bird poop etching.
So, for this car to be sitting for an entire year
is to be expected that there's going
to be some damage on the paint
as opposed to all the dirt and grime
that was just sitting on it.
You have bird poop etchings right there.
You actually also have some water spots,
over here on the sides as well.
Now, this right here, I'm pretty sure
that this was before the car started sitting,
because this car was in a parking structure.
So I really don't understand how,
birds or water spots would may have affected the paint.
But this is just the reality of it.
And it's been sitting for a year.
All this stuff has been on there for an entire year,
which the bird poop etching
it's very acidic towards your paint.
So you can see right here
that it's actually etched the clear coat
and it looks very bad.
And if you were to just try to wash this off,
it's not going to do much at all
because it's actually damaged the clear coat itself.
So today we are going to be breaking down
the full step process on how to decontaminate
and correct this from your paint.
And, hopefully, get this car looking
to better than when it was new, right?
- Yeah. Let's get to it. - Let's do it.
- So the first step
we're going to start with is the Clay Bar.
So we're going to use a Medium Clay Bar,
which is going to help pick up all
that nasty grime and contamination that's on the paint.
We're also going to use Clay Luber,
so we can lubricate the surface and make sure
that we can get all that contamination off
without having any issues.
So Joey, why would we use a Medium Clay Bar
versus all the other Clay Bars?
- Well, I mean, it all depends
on the condition of the paint.
Now I did say that the vehicle was sitting for a year.
Now if you come up close to the paint, AJ,
you can actually feel and hear the contamination
that is on the paint.
Now we've done plenty of cars here before on video.
And I can tell you guys,
that this is definitely not a heavy level of contamination,
which is great for us because,
I mean, it's going to be a lot easier as far as work.
And it's also great for the paint,
which means that there's not a lot of embedded contaminants.
Now we're going with the meeting Clay Bar
because this is a great blend between a light and a medium.
So in this case, since the paint isn't too bad,
this is a great option to go with.
So if you're not sure which Clay Bar you need,
just feel the paint.
If it sounds like super raspy, sounds like sandpaper,
then you may wanna go with the more aggressive Clay Bar.
like the heavy.
If it's not too bad where it still sounds kind of raspy,
but not to the point where you would consider
it more of like a sandpaper raspy.
I would go with the medium.
And then if you have a newer car, obviously,
or maybe a car that's well-maintained,
you have your light Clay Bar.
So in this case, I'm going to grab some clay lubricant, AJ.
And I'm going to start on this side.
So you can go in and start on that side.
Now, the Clay Bar is great
because it's going to pull off all the embedded contaminants.
So, AJ, imagine your car sitting there,
the dirt and grime is on there.
It's not just... It's on there obviously.
But it's also going to start etching into your paint.
Now, if you don't take care of it,
it's going to start etching into your paint.
And over time, it's going to cloud the look of your paint
because all the oxidation...
It's going to build up oxidation, sorry.
With all the kind of moisture that lands on it.
So just imagine, your paint has pores,
all this dirt and grime, it gets into those pores.
And when it mixes with the water,
it's going to dry up on a hot summer day or whatever.
And it's going to pretty much cause it
to have more of a oxidized kind of look to it.
Now, this is pretty much the reason
why you do wanna Clay Barring in the first place
because you wanna make sure that
there's no contaminants on your paint,
prior to you moving to the next step,
which is polishing.
Which as you guys could see,
this is definitely going to require
some polishing in order to fix.
And right here, I mean, AJ,
we're just pretty much Clay Barring the surface.
We've done this a million times before.
And for you guys at home that are watching
Clay Barring is a super easy process
and it's a process that you do not wanna skip out on,
if you plan on doing any kind of polishing
or planning to kind of protections for your vehicle.
Now, check this out, you guys.
This Clay Bar, it's supposed to be gray like this.
When I flip it to this side,
you'll see that it starts
to kind of having a yellow brown tinge to it.
That's all the impurities that's in your paint
that your Clay Bar is pulling off.
So just imagine, your skin,
you have all those blackheads,
you wanna get that stuff out of your skin.
Prior to you kind of doing any more work to your skin.
In this case, it'd be like your vehicle.
So you wanna make sure that you exfoliate
all the contamination that's in your vehicle
prior to you moving on to any other steps.
- Jeez, this Clay Bar is turning mighty brown!
That is a lot of contamination
that has built up on the surface.
Especially for one year of sitting
in a garage or a structure.
Jeez.
- It's lot of contamination
that ends up embedding itself on there.
A lot of this stuff, AJ,
could have actually been sitting on there
prior to when it was actually in there for that entire year.
So, that's one of the things
that can pretty much bring down
the overall look of your vehicle.
And everyone wants a nice silky, smooth ride.
You're not going to get it,
if you have all these embedded contaminants in your paint.
So that's why Clay Bar is one of the most important things
in the detailing industry.
So that you can pretty much exfoliate your paint
and get it look into as good as new.
- And please, do you not be stingy with your Clay Luber.
Please, be generous with it.
You wanna make sure that surface is really lubricated
when you're using a Clay Bar.
Just so you have all that help that you can
to get all that contamination off of the paint.
- All right.
So with that being said,
right now, me and AJ,
we're going to pretty much finish up
doing the rest of the vehicle.
Now we're going to Clay Bar the paint
and we're also going to Clay Bar the glass.
Because if you guys didn't know,
you can actually Clay Bar by your glass,
which the glass is bounced out contamination
on there as well. - [AJ] Of course.
- And we just wanna make sure
that we do the best all around job on this vehicle.
So we're going to clay the entire vehicle
and be right back with the guys for the polishing process.
- So we just finished Clay Barring the vehicle.
We're going to move onto polishing.
We have our orange pad and we're going to be using C4.
Joey, let me know about C4.
- So we're going to be using
the C4, P4 combination on this vehicle.
Now you guys saw, up close how the paint is,
saw the bird poop etchings and all the scratch and swirls
and water spots and all the other stuff
that we don't know about
that's going on to this paint.
So we're going to be conducting a two-step correction
using our C4 and P4.
So we're going to be using our C4 first,
our Clear Cut Correction Compound.
Now this is going to be great for us
to pretty much just quickly eliminate a lot
of the heavy defects on this paint in one single step.
So we're going to be using it in combination
with the TORQ 10FX Polisher
and Orange Hex-Logic Cutting Pad.
And we're also going to be lubricating our pads
with some pad conditioner.
So we're pretty much going to do
the entire vehicle right now with the C4.
Now, remember C4 is a compound.
So after we hit her with the compound,
AJ, what do we wanna do afterwards?
- You're definitely going to want to polish it out.
- Exactly.
So for that, AJ, we're going to be using
our P4 Precision Paint Perfection Polish.
So this is a two-step correction, AJ.
So we do wanna make sure
that we compound and polish.
Reason for it, is because once you do an aggressive measure,
like C4, you wanna come back and refine it.
- Okay. - So you wanna refine it,
bring back that smooth, nice feel,
bring back that ultimate clarity.
And pretty much just give this vehicle
the justice that it deserves.
So right now, we're going to be hitting you her their C4.
You already have your machine
ready and prep. - Yes, I have.
- You have your pad conditioner right there.
- Thank you. - So
and hook up your machine.
And we're going to continue
with this policing process.
Show you guys some cool little 50, 50s in between.
And be back with you guys
once we're ready to hit it with the P4.
- Let's do it.
- All righty, guys.
So now, that we're done working in the C4 compound.
Now check it out, you guys.
I did this little small two by two section.
I didn't wanna stretch myself too much
just because I wanted to pay
a little bit more close attention.
Especially, through this little area right here
that I showed you guys at the beginning,
that had all the bird poop etching.
Now, if you guys take another closer look right now,
you'll see that the paint has much more clarity
and we've eliminated,
I would say about 90% of all the bird poop etchings
that were on here.
Now, I did stop right here in this little section.
It's kind of like a makeshift line.
I didn't put a tape line.
But just to kind of show you
where it was like kind of dripping
versus to where it was.
Amazing results.
I'm going to grab my LED inspection light.
Show you guys these results.
There's a little bit a residue on the surface
that I'm just wiping off.
Now, there is a little bit more permanent damage over here.
I am going to go over it once more,
just to kind of knock this off right here.
I'm not exactly sure, if you can see it on camera.
But I can see it here in person.
And there's just a slight bit more room for perfection here.
So I'm just going to hit this up just a little bit more,
correct it, and then we're pretty much going to continue
with the rest of the vehicle.
But all in all... I mean, check those results, guys.
It looks amazing.
Much better than before.
We have a lot more clarity, a lot more depth,
as opposed to this area down here
that still has all the etchings.
It's dry, it's oxidized, scratches, swirls.
So we pretty much wanna mimic this results
that we got right here onto the rest of the vehicle.
So we got that amazing results,
just using the C4 Clear Cut Correction Compound
and an orange pad.
And just imagine when we hit it
with the white pad in P4.
So if you guys wanna see the results, stay tuned.
Me and AJ, we're going to be here all day,
polishing this up.
So, I'll be right back.
Alrighty, guys.
So we just finished the entire vehicle using
the C4 Clear Cut Correction Compound
and the orange pad.
AJ, How do you feel?
- I feel amazing.
Honestly, seeing the vehicle change so fast
after just doing one compound,
instead of doing a whole four steps,
it really changed the game.
- It does a huge difference.
With just a little bit of work,
just a little bit of love,
you can achieve some amazing results.
Now, I'm pretty much tired.
It's hot in here.
We've been polishing for a while now.
And I mean, the results speak for themselves.
However, AJ, we can get it looking a lot better.
- Of course, of course.
- By using our P4 Precision Paint Perfection Polish.
Now that we're done, correcting it with the compound,
now it's time to refine what the finer polish.
So that's what P4 is all about.
Now, instead of using it with the orange pad,
we're actually going to be using it with
the White Hex-Logic Polishing Pad.
Now the composition of this pad,
it's much smoother and it's much more plush,
which means that it's going to work out great
just to refine the paint,
removing the kind of micro swirls and scratches,
and get us the results that we're looking for.
So that's what we're going to do right now.
P4, you know the drill, AJ.
Same process, pad conditioner, five drops,
go all the way around
and we'll be back with you guys once we're done.
- Enjoy this time lapse.
- We're done, guys. - Oh, my Gosh.
- We're done polishing.
We hit it with C4.
We hit it with P4.
The paint looks.
- Amazing! - Amazing.
Took the word out right out of my mouth.
Even though, I was about to say the exact same thing.
The paint looks amazing.
It looks much better than when it first came in.
I mean, if we can even just get
a before and after shot
of how dirty and neglected it was,
when it first came in,
to what it is now,
you would have never guessed it was the same car.
- I honestly thought those bird droppings
on the top of the car, were not going to come off,
cause they looked pretty caked on there.
Especially, for staying for a year.
- Yeah, so all that stuff, we ended up being able
to knock it out with the C4 Clear Cut Correction Compound.
And as you guys can see, it looks fantastic
when we followed it up
with the P4 Precision Paint Profession Polish.
Now, all that there's left to do is protect our investment.
Now, this isn't our car.
However, we did put a lot of hours of work into this,
and we wanna make sure that once we do all this work,
we wanna make sure that we protect the paint.
Because what we just did, AJ,
was we pretty much just refined the paint
to a fresh layer of paint.
- Yeah. - So right now,
if we were to take it outside
and here we're just to park it exactly
where he had it and everything
would have happened like this,
those bird droppings would etch right through the paint.
- Again.
- So right now, we need to add some protection.
So we're going to be applying... What do we have right here?
- HydroSlick.
HydroSlick is going to be great
cause it's going to give you a good ceramic layer.
It's like applying a wax and it's easy to buff off.
- Exactly.
So I got the HydroSlick Ceramic Coating HyperWax.
As AJ said it, it's a ceramic coating
in a pretty much wax like form.
So you guys, are all pretty much familiar
with applying carnauba based waxes
like those cream waxes, those are very old school.
We still use them today.
However, now we've pretty much combined it
with the formulation of SIO2,
which makes a durable layer of UV protection,
extreme hydrophobic properties and extreme slickness.
That's pretty much going to shed any kind
of contaminants right off.
And it's pretty much ultimately going to,
give us a first defense for any kind of freezer contaminants
from landing and damaging our paint work.
So we're going to be applying some HydroSlick.
And the reason that I mentioned to you guys earlier
about claying the glasses is because
HydroSlick can actually be applied to glass as well.
So we're going to be applying it
to literally the whole exterior of the vehicle.
So the paint, the glass, the headlights
the tail lights, even the wheels
because I'm super excited about how the wheels came out.
They look brand new.
I mean, honestly these are probably
the best wheels that we've ever seen.
Yeah.
They look really nice.
- Yeah, they're amazing. - I'm very happy about that.
So we're going to finish this up.
And we'll pretty much show you guys the final results.
- Let's get to it.
- Let's do it.
Alrighty, guys.
And that pretty much concludes this detail on this Mazda 3.
It looks fantastic.
AJ did an amazing job at applying HydroSlick
and I couldn't be happier with the results.
So, great job. - Yeah, I love it.
- So if you guys enjoyed this video,
make sure to leave us a like.
Comment down below your favorite part about this series.
And make sure to stay tuned for part three
where we tackle the interior of this Mazda.
- And if you liked any of the products
that you saw in the video,
stop by ChemicalGuys.com
or your local Detail Garage.
My name is AJ.
- I'm Joey.
And we'll see you guys next time.
Oop.
- Woohoo!