- Hey, what's up, guys?
Welcome to another episode of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today in the shop,
we got this beautiful Challenger here.
Now, as you guys can see on the closeup view,
this vehicle has been neglected,
has a lot of water spots,
and a little background story for you guys is,
the owner of this vehicle bought the car used
and he hasn't done any work to it yet,
so he hasn't waxed it,
he hasn't clay barred it or anything like that,
so that's to be expected whenever you get
any kind of alkaline deposits on your paint
and you don't have any protection,
it's going to stain and etch right away.
Besides that,
the owner said that they do park it under a household
where the owner, the balcony,
they have plants which they fertilize and, you know,
they have a lot of water and chemicals going on right there.
So, all that stuff leaks over and onto the vehicle
and it lands on it and it looks like this.
It looks really, really nasty,
and honestly, like, you don't want to be driving around
with a car looking like this.
To top it off, the owner thought it'd be a great idea
to rinse it off with a garden hose
simply because he didn't want to wipe it down.
So he got the garden hose,
he rinsed off the car and he left it like that,
didn't bother drying it
and this is our end conclusion right here,
so this is pretty much the worst of the worst.
These water spots, you can even feel them on the surface.
They're really bad.
We'll go around the vehicle
and you'll see that they're on the glass.
They're on the paint.
They're on pretty much all the plastic surfaces.
I mean, the good thing is that they're not on the wheels,
as I can see right here,
so that's a great thing
that we're not going to have to worry about.
But today in this video,
we're going to show you guys
how to remove these water spots very easily and effectively
using Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel.
Now, Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel,
it's a citrus-based gel that pretty much breaks down
any kind of alkaline and calcium deposits
that are on the paint or any kind of glossy surface.
So you can use this product on the paint,
you can use it on the glass,
any kind of smooth, glossy plastics and/or,
you know, glossy wheels if they're metal
or anything like that,
use it on there.
It'll instantly erase
those alkaline deposits that are sitting on the paint.
So before you do get,
before you get into that,
you want to make sure that you wipe down the surface properly,
so, you know, don't rinse it off with the garden hose
and just leave it like that.
You want to sure that you actually clean it
and prepare it for an application,
so you manna make sure you're using,
like, a quick detail spray.
Today I'm using Synthetic Quick Detail Spray.
This product works out great
to remove light dust, debris, you know,
bird droppings that are on the surface of your paint
without scratching the paint
and without having to conduct a full-service carwash.
So all I'm going to do is spray once onto my towel here
and I'm going to
and pretty much wipe off these water spots.
In a lot of these areas,
it'll kinda like wipe right off,
but they'll kind of like disappear
and then they'll come back just because the etching,
it stains the paint so it's not really going to come off
with just the standard wipe.
I don't know if you guys can tell right here,
you have a lot of, like, smearing going on
and these are going to be like the lighter water spots,
but for like up here on the hood,
you can wipe 'em off,
but they're just going to come right back.
I think the worst scenario is actually on the top
where all that water and stuff was leaking onto.
I'll have my cameraman, you know,
pan over that area so you guys can check it out,
but this right here, it's pretty bad.
It's very, you know,
unfortunate to have to clean this,
but luckily we have this Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel
that's going to make our life a lot easier.
So the way you use this gel is, like I said,
you want to make sure you're working on a clean surface,
grab the gel and get a microfiber applicator
and all you want to do is apply a few drops.
I usually like to do about two drops
when it doesn't want to drag on me.
I'll give it one more drop just because
it's a little bit heavier in concentration up here.
I will start at the worst area.
So we'll do the section
that I've already wiped down.
All I want to do is get the Water Spot Remover Gel
and kind of blot it out like as if it was a wax.
Remember, this is a gel-based product,
so when you work it in,
you just want to work it in kinda like a wax
how you regularly would.
And just like that, very quickly, very effectively,
you'll see that it neutralizes
and it literally erases these water spots
right off the surface of the paint.
Then section.
Now you want to wipe it off.
A great way to do this is to simply use your detail spray
to wipe it off.
Why?
Because it's going to make your life easier to wipe it off
and it's going to neutralize any kind of leftover
citrus-based cleaners that are sitting on the surface.
So all you want to do is simply spray it,
set that down,
and then you just want to wipe it off.
And like I said,
this makes it very easy to just simply wipe it right off
without having to struggle.
I mean, it is a gel-based product,
so, you know, it is kind of a sticky product,
so it will kinda stick to the surface
if you're trying to just do it with,
like, a dry side of the towel.
But you just pretty much work it
and you just want to make sure
that you wipe off all the product entirely.
Wipe it right off.
And check it out,
it looks like brand new.
Those water spots were never there.
It looks great.
I do see some haze right here in this section
that I'm going to wipe off.
And there you go.
Now, like I said,
the owner of this vehicle just picked it up.
He's going to actually plan on clay barring, polishing
and applying HydroSilex ceramic coating to the paint.
That's one thing that you guys can do to prevent this.
If you have a coating such as HydroSilex
sitting on the paint,
that's going to make your paint extremely slick,
so any kind of water that gets on there,
it'll just literally bead it right off
or sheet it right off.
And it definitely makes it a lot easier
to prevent any kind of contamination
from etching its way into the surface of your paint
so that you ensure that your paint
is protected at all times.
So then I've done a section of the hood.
I still do want to show you guys more surfaces
that you guys can
and use this Water Spot Remover Gel on.
Like I mentioned, you can pretty much use it on anything
that's a glossy surface.
So next, we're going to move to the glass.
We'll show you guys how to do that.
And then any other part of, you know,
the vehicle that's glossy that has water spots,
we'll show you guys on that, too.
So now that we're done with the paint over there,
I want to show you guys
an example here on the glass.
remember, you want to make sure that you clean the surface,
so get your towel and you want to wipe off any kind of
water spots that are on there.
And I know a lot of these water spots just kinda disappear
when you wipe 'em off with the detail spray,
but that's exactly the point
that I want to show you guys.
Even though you can wipe it down or wash it off,
you still have some of them that are pretty etched in.
I don't know if you guys can catch it on camera,
but there's a lot of 'em right here,
around the lip,
and especially on this kind of border right here.
So they get pretty etched into the surface
when there's no protection,
so that's why you want to make sure
that you neutralize these things as soon as possible
before they make it a nightmare
for you to remove it from your paint.
So now that we've done that and we've cleaned the surface,
going to grab
the Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel.
And since my pad's already saturated with some,
I'm just going to put one drop of product.
That's going to be more than enough
for this little section here.
And remember, just blot it out
and then watch as the magic unravels before your eyes.
I'm just kidding, guys.
It looks great.
It's going to neutralize
and erase these alkaline deposits
that etched their way into the surface.
And I'm not even putting any,
you know, crazy elbow grease into here.
It's just simply a matter
of working the product onto the surface.
There are going to be some areas
that are kinda hard to get into,
just like that little corner there.
I'm going to try my best to get in there.
There we go.
So just
knocks it right off.
It literally erases it from the surface.
That's the reason I like,
I love Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel
because no matter if the water spots
are light or pretty etched in,
they do a great job at both.
So just work it in.
And remember, now that you're done,
you can pretty much spray your water
or your Quick Detail Spray onto the surface,
wipe it right off and it just wipes right off no problem.
Go to a dry side and pick up any excess.
I'll flip over my towel
'cause it's already kind of just soaked.
And just wipe it right off and just reveal that nice glass,
that high clarity without any kind of residue left behind.
Check it out, guys.
You can actually see my reflection in there.
Looks nice and clean, etch free,
and we don't have to worry about these nasty water spots
like you see over here on this side.
You want to worry more about this right here.
You want to spend time looking good.
You don't want to spend time having to worry
about these water spots that are in your paint.
So, as you guys can see,
even around the vehicle on that glass,
on the door, on the paint,
we still have a bunch more work
to get done on this vehicle.
I'm going to do the entire vehicle
and then we'll be right back once we're done
and we're all removed of all these water spots.
(chill music)
All right, guys.
Well, there you have it.
Just using Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel,
we managed to get all the water spots
that are on this vehicle off the paint
so that it doesn't cause any future damage such as etchings.
You know, I do want to go over that.
If you do leave these water spots on the paint,
what happens is over time,
they're going to pretty much stay in the paint
and they're going to etch their way in there
and they're pretty much going to live there forever
unless you decide to remove 'em.
And when you let 'em sit there for a while,
then that's when they permanently start etching
and then you're going to have to,
you know, resort to more aggressive measures
as opposed to like the Heavy Duty Water Spot Remover Gel.
You're most likely going to have to polish out water spots
or in worst-case scenario,
you're going to have to repaint the vehicle entirely
if it gets that bad.
I hope this video was informative for you guys.
You know, like I said,
you don't want to be that guy
that lets these water spots sit in their paint
because over time they're going to etch
and it's not going to look good on you.
You don't want to drive around
with a super etched up, watered ride,
so just make sure to clean it up as soon as possible
and you'll prevent any kind of headaches in the future.
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My name is Joey.
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