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- What's going on, everybody?
Happy Friday, and thanks so much for tuning in
for today's episode of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today, myself and Joseph are going to go over
the dos and don'ts of what you do or don't do
when you get a brand new car.
So, Joseph, tell us about your
obviously, brand new vehicle.
- Yeah, it seems like we were just here, right?
Like not too long ago for the Mustang.
So newest project is the 2020 Veloster N,
so this actually got Road and Track's Car of the Year.
It became very intriguing to me.
I had to see what it's all about.
I've always been a huge hatchback, hot hatch type thing
- [Host] With your Hondas, right?
- [Joseph] Exactly, with the Hondas.
So, I mean, though I've had four Mustangs
I've actually had four Honda CR-X's
Which have been like, you know, a blast
and this, dude, I couldn't pass it up.
- So brand new, right off the lot, Right?
You even special ordered it and had it tucked away
so nobody else could touch it.
- That's right, yeah.
Originally they pulled it in to the showroom floor.
Of course, because they wanted to showcase
the unique vehicle.
And I asked them to,
"Please pull it off the showroom and just tuck it away."
Because you know how the showroom gets.
People touch it, just caress it,
scratch stuff up, abuse it-
- The paint is in-
- Beat it.
- Pretty pristine condition but,
being that it's a new car,
there are some things that you should be cautious of,
especially if you just bought a new car
because, obviously, they are expensive.
- Yeah.
- And we want you guys to have the most fun
detailing your vehicle,
but also being safe at the same time.
So, starting right off the bat,
A lot of people will just
either think this is clean enough
and just leave it that way
or maybe they'll take it to a mobile car wash.
Or, not even a mobile car wash, like a coin car wash.
- Yeah.
- Rinse it down
Octavia, the guy behind the camera said that,
"Some people will actually just
put a clear bra on their car."
That's what he says he's planning on doing
with his brand new car.
And, we wanted to show you guys
exactly what's on the vehicle.
So, even if the car was inside of the showroom,
it's still contaminated with fallout-
- That's true.
- It could have residue from the wrap
that it had on there when it was transported.
So, it's always important to strip away
anything that's on the surface.
Whether there is old residue,
- Yeah.
- It could be glaze, sealant, or waxes
that the dealership used, or anything else
like contamination from sitting outside, right?
- Yeah, and then a lot of times too though
comes straight from the factory
and it sits out at the ports for a while.
We never know how long it'll be.
So, I don't know what that was.
Sounded like a pterodactyl was flying by.
So, but yeah, that's the main thing.
- Veloster to pterodactyl.
- Yeah. See there you go,
nice I like that, I like it.
So yeah, but we were talking about methods of protection
and you have your sealants out there, you have your PPF,
which still might be an option for me as well.
PPF, Paint Protection Film, is going to be great
for those people that do a lot spirited driving,
canyon runs, track days, but for right now,
I think we got other plans, right?
We're going to mess around with it?
- Yeah but,
you've always got something up your sleeve for new cars,
If anybody has seen Joseph's vehicles in the past.
The Fiat, the Mustang, or anything before that,
You know that, It's not going to stay stock for long right?
- No it doesn't, yeah.
But this one is going to be totally drivable
and it's going to be good times.
- You said that you Fiat was drivable
and that was static dropped-
- Yeah that was crazy,
that was probably my craziest build of all, for sure.
- Go check out that video, maybe we'll link that one in the
video, just click down below
- That'd be cool stuff.
- So, aside from the washing process,
There's also things like the interior
that people jump right into, because it's brand new,
it smells great, and then, things start to deteriorating,
like the staining off from your seats
because it's still a car, and things happen
where you drop things that messes it up.
Or you forget to put some kind of protection
on the dash board, or the plastics
and they start to discoloring or cracking, so-
- It's true.
- Now that it's brand new,
now is the best time to start protecting it
so it lasts as long as possible.
So, Joseph doesn't like anything that really shines,
or has a greasy touch so,
He doesn't put any kind of protection on his dash board,
but what he'll do instead is
He'll put on some kind of spray like:
Inner Cleaner Total Interior.
- Yeah, I usually like Total Interior.
Total Interior is great
because it's a cleaner and a protectant,
no type of shine, but also
It's good for like navigation screen,
even glass and stuff
So it's kind of like a one-all-does-all type deal.
My other favorite too will be like
Silk Shine on the high traffic areas
such as, like your door seals.
- A place where people commonly forget to clean.
- Exactly, and you have like your tennis shoes,
so as you do that motion,
when you get a little scuff on there,
just that little, feels good,
just that little breeze happens and stuff.
That's what you'll go ahead and do
to wipe it on down and it works out really well.
- So let's take a walk around the vehicle.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- You can explain to Octavia and the guys watching,
- Okay.
- Behind the scenes.
- Behind the scenes, so yeah.
First thing that I fell in love with,
definitely is this color, I mean,
That's the reason why I went with this beautiful ice blue
and just like with the Mustang, you know?
That was the orange fury,
I love those type of colors that you can go and play with.
So excited to see what type of products that we're going to
go ahead and test out here.
Also, the wheels, you have a really nice setup
to where you have a 19"
which fills up a lot of that wheel gap.
Now we will take care of what's remaining
as far as the little gap.
But still, those beautiful 19s are wrapped in pirellis.
You got the 235s squared all around
so that makes it really good.
Now again, I don't know if we're going to
dive too much into the inside.
The inside's very very simple.
The key thing is that if we notice
that light blue seatbelt right now,
is something that I'm really
paying close attention to because-
- [Host] Let's show the audience, let's open that door up.
- Yeah, let's go ahead and do the little thing here.
So, again, so with this,
This is the thing that I'm really going to
pay a lot of attention to because
That is a high, high traffic area
and you are dealing with a light colored material.
That means such things as like: Grease, dirt, make-up.
That is going to be your enemy for something like that.
So we definitely want to go and keep that protected
and always keep a bottle of lightning fast Nonsense,
something like that readily available to clean it up.
The rest of the materials in the car are very simple,
very clean, so you're dealing with a lot of plastics.
You do have leather on the steering wheel,
and the rest is going to be, pretty much,
just the carpet and cloth.
Easy things to go ahead and maintain,
But I also found it's just very user friendly,
as you're sitting in the cockpit,
everything feels good,
all of the display is right there in front of you,
where it should be.
And that steering wheel, whenever you put your hands on it,
just the girth of it, just the feeling of it
is just outstanding, I love it.
- [Host] Back to your seat belts though.
A lot of people ask us,
"Is it okay to detail seat belts or headliners
and being that seat belts have a
fire repellent coating on it,
a lot of people didn't know that,
they have a fire repellent coating on those,
It's always a good idea to just damp your towel
and then scrub away and kind of staining,
rather than spraying on there.
Or I had people tell me that they'll
pull the seatbelt outside of the car,
then hit it with the pressure washer with-
- [Joseph] Aw jeez.
- Awful for your paint and
just imagine that buckle whipping around.
Speaking of buckles, Ricardo was asking me,
why do I move mine off to the side?
- [Joseph] Oh yeah.
- And it's because, as a mechanic in training,
as well as, also detailing, I've always been afraid of
leaning up against the car and scratching it.
So, people call it weird but
I pull it off to the side just so that
the buckle is not rubbing up against it.
- [Joseph] That makes sense.
- So, my basket weave belt,
It's like 10 years old now.
- [Joseph] Oh yeah, it looks good, I like it.
Just in case of any thrusting happens close to the call
as you're just, trying to really do this.
Last thing you want to do is
grind that metal buckle up against the thing.
You know what I mean?
- It could be worse.
- [Joseph] That's right. Now coming up to the rear end,
I definitely appreciate a very thick and chunky back end
on a vehicle, so I fell in love, again, with this.
The design of it is really cool.
The light fixture is really really cool on here.
Let me go ahead and hit that little,
of course that didn't go ahead and,
okay and I guess it doesn't...
Yeah I know, I always try and get-
- It locks and unlocks huh?
- [Joseph] Yeah, it looks really really cool.
Plus, you have the beautiful third brake light
which is a unique touch.
Usually, you'll see something like that
on the lower portion of the vehicle or within the glass.
- [Host] Like an F-1 race car.
- [Joseph] Exactly, very much.
It's meant for a lot of spirited driving.
The "N", a lot of people don't know what it means.
- [Host] Yeah, I'm going to ask that same thing too.
- [Joseph] That was actually coming from the Nürburgring.
That's one of the places to where
Hyundai's doing a lot of their testing
and it's also stage where they do some of their development,
But I can't remember the name of it.
It's some unique name so I'll have to look that up.
- I thought it stood for like "Nice!" Or something.
- It might, "Nice!" Yeah, I like that. I like that.
And then there's the diffuser and the exhaust.
I mean, hopefully we will get a clip of
how this exhaust sounds,
because, to date, this is the most beautiful sounding,
aggressive note that I've had.
The snaps, the crackles, all that stuff.
- [Host] Also, very unique when you were driving.
I was like, that's a very different sound.
- [Joseph] Yeah, Not what you would think-
- It's like a little raspy, a little poppy,
you know, it's interesting.
- [Joseph] Yeah, yeah, so it works out really good,
and yeah you do have some different materials
as we were talking earlier.
You have the gloss black surface over here,
which, I'm curious to see how sensitive this is going to be.
On the Mustang, on the Challengers,
that section of the gloss black by their trunk and stuff,
is known for just being ridiculously hard to maintain.
- So on that note, it's always a good idea
to use a soap that has a lot of suds,
which is going to help lubricate when you're washing it,
or when you're using a quick detail spray
or Wattles Wash, saturate the towel
before you start wiping away,
this way you have the most lubrication
so you're not scratching obviously.
- That's true.
- Unless you feel like polishing this.
- No I know,
because usually that's what would have to happen.
The other thing that you'll notice,
and something that we often talk about, the exhaust tips.
What one of the main things that I know though,
This is a 2-liter turbo car.
Any time you're dealing with a turbo vehicle,
those things will build up pretty quickly.
So, for something like that, I'll do EZ Wipe down,
or something like a synthetic with detail in between,
but then eventually hitting it up,
probably with a light metal polish. Something like that,
just to keep that nice looking shine, You know?
- [Host] Exactly, yeah.
Anything else you want to talk about
on this brand new vehicle?
- No, just excited, for what it is,
I've been having a blast.
It is a 2-liter turbo engine at 275 horsepower stock,
which actually, for something this size,
275 is not that bad.
By the time I get done with a couple little touches,
I expect it to be right around, like, 330.
Somewhere around there, which would be totally fine.
- And it's stick, right?
- It is a stick, yeah.
And then it has a lot of different features like,
you can change the exhaust, the suspension,
literally your dampening to soft, hard, Eco.
A lot of really cool features in a small package.
- Yeah, very nice.
All wheel drive or is it-
- No, front wheel drive. Yeah, yeah.
- Some say that's okay I guess.
- Yeah, you know. It's something different
- Yeah.
All right you guys,
so this has been the first installment
of the Do's and Don'ts of detailing your brand new car.
You can use the same techniques and procedures
on your used car, or the new-to-you car
to make it look it's best for as long as possible.
So if you liked today's video
be sure to give it a thumbs up.
Drop your comments down below for future videos
or anything you want to see done to this Veloster
and we'll see you guys next time
right here in the Detail Garage.
Nice piggy back Joseph
You're just doing hand overs
- Hey, you know that's-
- [Host] What is this an airport?
- [Joseph] I like the piggy.
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