- What's up guys, welcome back
to Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
If you've been following along in this beginner's series,
we have already washed the truck, We have washed the wheels.
We've clayed it.
We've polished out the scratches and swirls.
And now that our hard work is all done,
there's one more step.
There's actually several steps left to protect our hard work
Cause the last thing we want to do is bring this back
on the road and have to do all this stuff all over again.
So Henry, what is the next step in the detailing?
- [Henry] The next step is going to be a very crucial step
in my mind because we're going to be applying
a ceramic coating. Do you know what a ceramic coating is?
- [Jason] What I think a ceramic coating is,
to break this down for all the beginners is
you have your paint on your car and then you have
a layer called the clear coat which is kind of a hard layer
that protects your paint. What a ceramic coating is,
is it would be like a sacrificial layer
as you like to put it on top of the clear coat,
even that's protecting it even further.
- So the Hydrocharge is one of the easiest ceramic coatings
that are professional as well as a big gainer can apply to
their service vehicle. So what is Hydrocharge?
Hydrocharge is a spray ceramic coating
that can be simply applied to any type of surface
that are painted. How do you apply it?
You grab a microfiber applicator, you shake up the product
to get the proper mixture. You spray it directly
onto your microfiber applicator. You glide around
onto a surface linear motion, side-to-side
on a two-by-two area. We don't recommend going all over
the entire car then come back and removing it
because keep this in mind, a ceramic coating
is going too hard on your paint, how Jason said.
It's going to cause a sacrificial layer
as well as bring us some amazing shine.
So Hydrocharge is going to be applied within 30 seconds
to one minute on the surface of your paints.
As soon as you apply it on it all depends on the weather
where you live, if it's super hot,
let it sit for 30 seconds. If it's super cold, let it sit
for one minute, but then buff it off
with a premium microfiber towel.
- And then after that you want to leave it
as long as possible but a minimum of 24 hours
to let it cure and basically hard and on the surfaces.
- That's correct but if you want to apply a second product
you just not to let us sit on there for three hours.
- Correct. The other added benefit
of having a ceramic coating on is
the hydrophobic properties. As we saw when we did the wash
on this truck the water was just sheeting all the way down.
There was zero protection on this thing.
So it's going to be really cool to see what it does
after we put some of this on. Really, what's supposed
to happen is the water should beat up on the surface
and just roll right off which also will probably take
some dirt and dust with it.
- Now I know what you guys might be thinking.
Can HydroCharge be applied on glass? And the answer is no.
We recommend applying something like HydroStick
which is our second product.
It's still a ceramic product is still a ceramic Hyperwax.
Whenever you guys hear the word Hyperwax
that just means we simplify ceramic even further
for any beginners out there, but this product can be applied
on your wheels on your Chrome, on your glass
on your headlights, your taillights, as well
as your painted surfaces and the cool thing about it.
It's in a gel format. So just simply shake it up.
You're actually going to apply six dots
onto microfiber applicator and you're going to follow
the same exact concept as you would
when applying Hydrocharge. - Exactly.
- It's still going to harden up, but like this
we bring out ceramic properties to your glass
to your headlights, your wheels like this
you stay ceramic coated all year round using the Hydro line.
- Now, one important thing to note
while you're using a ceramic is that
you want to have a clean surface when you do this
which is why we went through all the previous steps.
If you have any light dust or dirt on the surface
of your paint, when you apply this
you're basically sealing it into your clear coat
which is not a great idea. - Not a great idea.
Especially scratches and swirls, because
like that you would have to re-polish all your surface
in order to remove a ceramic. So say time,
save that headache, do it right the first time,
wash, clay, polish and apply a ceramic.
Don't be that person that ceramic coat it over scratches
and swirls because whenever your car hits the sun
you're going to be exposed.
- Exactly. - Even though your car beads
and you have scratches and swirls,
that's not the best way to go.
All right, Jason, moving on to the next step
which is going to be another crucial step
because not all paint can be perfect. - That's right.
- When applying it. - Not all paint can be perfect
but it can look perfect if you use a glazes
After a ceramic, we apply a glaze. Now, a glaze.
- Like a glazed donut.
- I love donuts and what is the glaze do on the donut?
- Makes it delicious, makes it look.
- It makes it delicious, it makes it look good.
And any of the pores that are on the donut
that glaze fills it over and makes it look smooth, right?
- That's right. - So it's similar to this.
- The glaze actually will fill in micro scratches
and swirls basically almost like erasing them to the vision.
It's like make up.
- GlossWorkz Ultimate Glaze is going to do an amazing job
at filling in any micro scratches
that you forgot to Polish out.
Unfortunately not all pain can come out
to a hundred percent.
So that's how we recommend applying a glaze.
A glaze is like makeup, how you said and just simply rub it
on. But this one, you could let it sit on the surface
of your pain from anywhere from 10 minutes to 15 minutes
and then come back with a premium microfiber towel
and just buff it off.
Where are the applicable locations you could apply a glaze?
- Pretty much anywhere.
You can apply a glaze on your paint
on your headlights, on your wheels.
- Glazes can be applied on multiple different surfaces
such as your chrome, your painted surfaces
your shiny black plastics. Cause I know there's a lot
of those plastics actually scratch up a lot
especially you Mopar owners and Mustang owners in the back.
So you go hire the scratch and swirls
with the Ultimate Glaze today, my GlossWorkz.
- And now getting into these products here
this section of the detailing flow chart, you can apply all
of these by hand or in this particular case
we can also apply this using our Torq 10FX or a Torq 22D,
which we use in the previous. Really any of our polishers
with the correct polishing path
- Which is going to be the blue pad.
If you remember, from our previous video
we use the orange cutting pad to get rid
of the scratches and swirls on the surface of the ride.
In this case, we don't want a pad that cuts,
we want one that buffs.
- We do want to pad that just cleanses the paint,
get it deep into the pores of the paint.
You're not even going to be applying it with high speed
just speed setting one glide it across the paint apply more
if you need to but keep this in mind,
anything that comes off onto the microfiber towel
is just excess. So that's how we say a little bit
goes a very long way. After applying a Glazer,
still one other step.
- A sealant, because now that we have all these awesome
products on our paint, we want to seal all the juices in
right? - Yeah. - It's just like a steak.
- That's right. You gotta, You gotta.
- You char it on both sides, right?
You gotta seal in, you seal in all the juice.
So we want to seal in all this beauty and shine
that we just created on our ride.
So that's why we're going with Jet Seal
which is a sealant and a paint protectant
- Jet Seal Actually has aerospace technology
embedded into it so it could be withstanding
high amounts of heat. And it's also a synthetic handmade
sealant.
Jet Seal can be applied on your glass, on your headlights
your tail lights, your paint, your chrome, your aluminum
like this to prevent your headlight failing.
This should prevent your dashboards fading because
over time, UV rays can penetrate through the glass
penetrate the clear plastics or even your paint
and cause critical failure over time.
So this is why we recommend applying some type
of protection, light jet seal onto your paint
- And jet seal is great because it does have a
huge amount of UV protection. And up to 12 months
- So, this should stay protected for 12 months
but you also need to keep this in mind.
We can't stress this enough, you still need to
wash your car constantly to maintain your shine,
maintain your protection. Because if you've not wash it,
just imagine today you get ready, right Jason?
You get your hair done. You look amazing.
You're walking down the red carpet and
you look fantastic, Right?
Three weeks down the line. You're not going to look like
that if you don't take care of yourself.
- Now, after we've applied our sealant
you can add another step.
This is a synthetic sealant, like Henry said
where you get amazing protection and a synthetic shine.
- Yes. - But a lot of people tend to like
the shine of the natural carnauba wax.
- Fun fact, A sealant is going to give it
a much cooler shine. So your car is dark.
It's going to give it that cool lustrous shine.
- And a carnauba wax is going to give it
a warmer shine, like a glow.
- Yeah, So anybody that has yellows, greens, oranges,
even black, it's still going to bring out an amazing shine
but just imagine it's going to be glowing.
- You can use these independently, but our recommendation is
to use them both together because then you get the best
of both worlds in one shot.
So today we have my personal favorite Butter Wet Wax
and it's a natural carnauba.
This could be hand applied or again, we can use our machine
to apply this to the surface.
And it, it goes on the same exact way as Jet Seal
same exact way as GlossWorkz.
You basically - It's all in the name,
it goes on just like butter, it comes off just like butter,
wax on wax off just like Mr. Miyagi, but don't go
in circles going linear motion, removing it.
The cool thing about butter wax.
Also, Jason, I'm pretty sure if you knew
about it or fun fact, since I'm so amazed about butter wax
if you're feeling kind of lazy
you could also apply it while your car's wet.
- Really? See, I didn't even know that.
- You could apply while your car is wet
and still going to bring out an amazing shiny reflection.
Or if you get tree sap, bird droppings, bird residues,
marked up on your paint, just rub some little butter wax
on it, wipe on wipe off and you're good to go.
- There's actually an amazing video on our YouTube channel,
if you want to check it out where we remove paint transfer
we don't have to Polish it out.
We literally just use some buttermilk wax rubbed that
on and it comes right off. So if you accidentally
I don't know, tag a pole or something like that
or somebody sideswiped you while you were parked.
And it's just a tiny little bit of a paint transfer
on there that that can actually rub right out.
The other thing with this is you want to let it
haze up for a little bit, right after you apply it
you'll notice that the haze kind of comes up
and your paint will look a little hazy at that point
you just buffet right off with a microfiber towel and bam.
It is shiny.
- And finally for the cherry on top, Jason, I'm pretty sure
there's going to be one product that can maintain your shine
and reflection in between washes, which is?
- Right. So that's the Henry brings up
a great point is we just put all
of this stuff on our car, we want to protect it.
We don't want to have to do this again
in three days, you don't have to do this again in a
in a month even, right?
So in between our maintenance washes
which is going to help us protect all of the coatings
that we put on here, we also have a quick detail spray
in this particular case a ceramic quick detail spray
called HydroSpeed.
So what this does is it basically takes care
of very light dust, dirt and debri
that's on the surface of your vehicle.
You can easily spray this on and just wipe it off.
And not only are you protecting all
of the coatings that we have put on here already
but you're also adding a little more SiO2 properties
to the paint. So you're kind of filling in
anything that maybe was rubbed off by some incoming dirt
or grime or anything like that.
Super simple to use you just spray it and wipe.
- How I'd like to explain is, it's just basically a booster.
So say for example your ceramic coatings
need a little bit extra boost.
You just spray this on, wipe it off.
HydroSpeed has a self-cleaning properties
which means it's not going to leave any residue
left behind just simply spray wipe off.
If you are living in an area where it's super hot
just spray directly onto microfiber towel, rub it on
wipe it off, any residue left behind.
But if you are living in a much cooler area
spray it onto the directly on the surface
make sure that the surface is cool to the touch like that.
It won't evaporate on you and like that you
you achieve the little cherry on top, your shine
your reflection is all there.
Everybody's going to be raving about your car,
talking about your ride. And that's why you tell them
that your shine came from the best family on YouTube
which is Chemical Guys Shine. -That's it?
This is especially good for people that have show cars.
If you go take your car to some meetups
or anything like that, and it's usually in great condition
but then when you get there
you just give it a little touch of this, shine it up
just before everybody gets there and it'll look amazing.
I think that pretty much wraps it up.
The only thing I think we should mention also is
between all these rides, you definitely want to
give your car maintenance wash the fact
that we have all of these on here now.
The wash should be way easier.
Everything should, it should be completely hydrophobic.
The water should just beat up right off
of the vehicle should be super easy to dry at this point
no dragging with the towel like we saw in our first video
we recommend using a pH balance soap to
give your car that maintenance wash or HydroSuds
which is another ceramic SiO2 to soap that will
help maintain the ceramic properties that we have applied
on our car as well. Henry, which soaps are PH balanced?
- Every single soap that Chemical Guys carries
is pH balanced except Clean Slate and
Citrus Washing Gloss, Citrus Washing Gloss can also
be a pH balance, but just keep this mine use one ounce
while washing your ride. - Citrus is an amazing smelling
and functional type of cleaner, but it is very powerful.
So when you use something like Clean Slate
or Citrus Washing Gloss in high quantities
you're going to be stripping some stuff off,
which is great if you want a fresh start and it's great
if you have some heavy grime, but it's not great
if you have coatings on there that you want to keep.
So that's everything on the detailing flowchart.
We went through every step of the way.
And if you guys have any other questions
leave them in the comments section down below
and we will answer those for you.
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- And let us know you want us to tackle the enter.
That's right is a whole another ball game
for you, Jason. - It's a whole other flowchart, friends.
If you want to pick up any of these products
you can go to chemicalguys.com
or stop by your local Detail Garage.
And we will see you next time.