- Hey, what's up, guys?
And welcome back to a brand new episode
of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
On today's video,
we're spotlighting one of our most popular polishing kits,
and that is the Torq 22D Polishing Kit.
Now, this kit is great
because it features the Torq 22D polisher.
The Torq 22D polisher is awesome
because it has a 21-millimeter long throw,
which means that you get more surface coverage
with less passes.
So if you're working on a larger vehicle,
such as a truck, a boat, an RV, you name it, if it's big,
the Torq 22D is what you're going to want to use.
You also get that with the six-inch backing plate,
so not only do you have a long throw,
but you have a nice big backing plate
to cover that throw.
So you get a lot more coverage done with minimal passes.
This kit does come with a variety of products,
such as the Chemical Guys V Line.
Now, the V Line is great because it comes with two compounds
and two polishes in a four-ounce size.
V32 is your extreme grade compound.
So that means that when the paint is super neglected,
super scratched, swirled, and oxidized like no tomorrow,
then you're going to want to go with V32,
because that's the most aggressive compound.
V34 is a hybrid grade compound that works out great
for removing light to medium scratches and swirls
and imperfections in paint.
So if the paint isn't too neglected,
but it's still a neglected enough that you have to go ahead
and say that you have to use a compound on it,
V34 is going to work out great.
V36, it's a light cutting polish,
which means that it's going to work out great
for removing light scratches, swirls, you know,
light imperfections in the paint, such as those,
light oxidation, water spots, and et cetera.
And then coming finally to V38,
which is your final grade polish.
Now, V38 is great for giving you that final jewel,
kinda like that cherry on top of your polish,
whenever you're done removing all those scratches and swirls
on the paint, V38 is going to be there for you
to bring out that luster, that depth,
and that ultimate clarity and shine.
Now, what are all these compounds and polishes
without some great pads?
Now, this kit also does come with the Hex-Logic pads.
You get three different ones, you get an orange cutting pad,
a white polishing Pat, and a black finishing pad.
So you get a pad for each process
that you want to do,
and to use with your Chemical Guys V Line.
Now, the orange pad,
that's going to work out great with V32, V34, and V36.
Because remember, all of these products
are cutting products,
so whenever you want to cut,
they're all going to work out great with that orange pad
because the orange pad is going to help you
remove light, medium, up to heavy imperfections.
So whether you want to use it
with the finer polish, such as V36,
that's going to work out great
for moving light to medium imperfections,
but if you do have to go with something more aggressive,
you have V34 and V32 in the worst case scenario.
Now, on this truck right here,
we decided to do the least aggressive approach.
So we decided to use with an orange pad first,
and that's simply because we want to make sure
that if there's less work that we can get the job done,
then we're going to do that.
We don't want to cut more life out of the paint
than necessary by going with the more aggressive compound,
we want to make sure that we start off
with the least aggressive approach,
because remember, anytime you polish,
you do diminish a light layer out of your clear coat.
So you want to make sure that you polish responsibly
and polish only when necessary.
On this black GMC,
we washed the vehicle using Citrus Wash & Gloss,
we've fully dried it, and then we pulled it into our garage
so that we can clay it
and get it prep for the polishing process.
So now that the vehicle is prepped,
we decided to take off the hood into a half
so that you guys can see a clear before and after
of what using this kit can do for your paint.
Now, on this black paint,
it looks super neglected, super scratched up,
it's swirled, you have a lot of water spots.
You have a lot of stuff going on in the paint.
You have a ton of imperfections that need to be corrected.
So the first thing that we decided to do
was use our orange cutting pad
with V36 light cutting polish.
Now, we decided to go with this combination
because remember, we want to go
with the least aggressive approach
because we want to minimize the amount of clear coat
that we cut from the surface.
So we ended up polishing the right side of the hood
using with the orange pad, and that worked out phenomenal.
It gave us the results that we wanted
and a lot better results than we expected.
We didn't have to go with the more aggressive approach,
such as V34 and/or V32,
V36 was a perfect solution for this paint.
So once we finished hitting it with V36 and the orange pad,
we decided that we want to go ahead
and get that nice high shine finish and that ultra clarity.
We followed it up by using V38 final grade polish
with our white polishing pad.
And that gave us that 100% clarity and shine
that we were looking for
after giving it that light cut
with the lighter polish with V36.
So following it up with V38 definitely gave us
those high shine results that we're looking for.
And we're overall happy with the results that we achieved
on this truck.
So you can see there and then,
from the unpolished side versus the polished side,
that the polished side looks a lot more black,
has a lot more depth, a lot more clarity,
and it looks a lot better.
The left side still has a lot of neglect.
You still have a lot of scratches, swirls, water spots,
marring, you know,
you have a ton of stuff going on on the left side,
but you can see it a true distinct kind of difference
between the two sides
of unpolished versus the polished side.
And finally, that brings us back to our final pad,
which is the black finishing pad.
So you use it once you're done polishing,
you can use it to apply your favorite coat
of sealant and/or wax, spread a nice, fine coat
onto the paint, and you can do that by machine,
so if you have a large area, you know,
if you have a large truck that you want to wax,
remember at the beginning of the video,
when I told you that you can use this
to wax your car as well?
Well, that's what we're going to do.
So we use our black finishing pad with a little bit of wax.
We waxed the side that we polished on the right side,
just so that you guys can see how much more the wax
kinda brings up the shine of the paint.
And we want to make sure to protect the paint
once we're done polishing it as well.
So remember, anytime you polish,
you want to make sure that, you know,
regardless of where you polish, how much you polish,
you want to make sure that you follow it up
with a coat of protection, whether it be a sealant or a wax,
just make sure to slap one of those on to protect your paint
and to bring out that shine.
Best practice for using these products
is whenever you apply the product
onto the surface,
you want to make sure to blot it out into the area
that you're going to be working in.
We recommend working in a two by two section
and then spreading out your product on speed setting one.
So with these DA polishers,
they work out great because they have that orbital motion,
so that whenever you put it on speed setting one,
it spreads a nice, fine coat onto the surface
that you're going to work it on to
so that you don't throw it on a high speed setting
and kind of fling your product all over the place.
So by working it in on a light speed setting,
speed setting one, just cover the areas
that you're going to be working in.
And then you can go ahead
and turn on to the high speed setting to fully work it
until it's fully translucent,
and then you'll know that you can go ahead
and wipe it right off with the nice microfiber towel.
Whenever you're applying your waxes,
you want to do it on speed setting one,
because remember, you're not working the wax into the paint,
you're simply want to apply a light layer
onto the paint.
So by spreading it out on speed setting one,
that's going to give you a nice uniform coat
throughout the surface and then that you can go ahead
and do your entire vehicle with.
So once you're done finished polishing the paint
and you've applied your coat of wax,
now you have that ultra clarity, ultra depth,
and the ultra shine to enhance,
so that you're not driving around
with all those hideous scratches and swirls on your ride.
Everything that I'm talking about today
comes in a nice, convenient kit.
So if you guys liked the products that we used today
to polish this GMC, make sure to visit our website,
chemicalguys.com, and pick up your Torq 22D kit today.
As always, my name is Joey,
this is Chemical Guys Detail Garage,
We'll see you guys next time.