What's going on everybody.
Thanks so much for tuning in for today's episode
of Detail Garage, where we brought in this beautiful
blue Volkswagen Golf R.
Recently it was taken to a body shop where
it was polished incorrectly and now it's covered
in swirls, scratches and marring as well as holograms.
Now, the last time we tackled this subject,
we had virtually the exact same car.
I don't know what it is about these Volkswagens,
but we keep getting the same dark blue cars with holograms.
But I wanted to show you the easiest way to remove it
using V36 and an orange hex logic pad.
To begin any detail, you want to remove as much of
the bulk dirt and debris on the surface as possible.
So we took the car outside, gave it a foam bath
using Citrus Wash and Gloss, which lays down a thick
layer of suds which help lubricate the surface
to help prevent any kind of future scratches and swirls,
while also enhancing some of that gloss.
Then we gave it a light clay bar treatment because,
although the car is new, it's still gonna have
some kind of contamination in the pores of the paint
and that's something you want to remove before
you start polishing because it can create more damage.
But now moving on to the polishing steps,
we're gonna be using a TORQ 15DA which throws a
15 millimeter throw, because this car doesn't have
a lot of intricate designs, it's got more of a flat
panel effect so that's going to give us the right
amount of throw as well as the five inch pad which covers
a lot of surface area.
This way we're not wasting a lot of time or having to cover
up some kind of tire (murmur).
And then we're going to refine it after we use our V36.
We're gonna move down to a white pad with V38,
to really jewel that paint.
So let's get started.
Before we begin I want to mention a few things
starting off with what is marring and holograms.
And we'll start with marring.
What that is essentially is usually during
a clay bar treatment if the clay bar goes dry or
it creates a lot of friction, that starts to flatten out
the paint or it gives this really rough look.
A lot of people have probably seen it where your paint
looks kind of cloudy, and that's usually due to marring,
which is lack of lubrication.
Moving on to holograms, that's where you, usually with the
light as it moves you can see kind of a faint ghost trail,
or a buffer trail as it's commonly known as.
As that's because of either an extreme angle of the pad,
which means that you're not placing it flat on the surface.
It's digging in creating a hot spot on the edge of the pad.
And this is cutting at an uneven rate and that's what gives
you that kind of cloudy look as well as that hologram look.
But the way to remove that is machine polishing.
Now obviously that's going to remove a fine layer
of your clear coat, but it also removes the scratches,
the swirls and any other kind of defects that are
on the surface layer of the clear coat.
Now also, why we're using V36 is because, as I mentioned,
this car was just polished and I'm not sure exactly
how much paint was taken off in the initial polish,
so since it's a new car we don't wanna remove as much
possible clear coat as we can and we want to do
the least aggressive approach first.
This way we can have as much clear coat
for as long as possible.
So now we're gonna go down here and grab our machine.
The TORQ 15DA which I mentioned has a 15 millimeter throw,
this is going to cover a lot of area
and since this car, again, has very flat panels,
we don't need something that we're going to have
to necessarily use in a tight controlled throw.
But we also have our orange hex logic pad and
why we're using that is because this is going to be
a heavy polishing pad which has a minor cut.
So this gives you that perfect combination of, again,
using the least aggressive approach while also refining it
and giving you that mirror finish.
Because in some cases you can even finish with V36
if you work in properly, but for this car,
since it has this really deep blue paint,
we're going to do a two step polish.
Which means one step with the orange pad and V36
and the second step with a white pad and V38.
But to begin we're gonna shake up our V36
and apply five dime size dots to the pad
or about the size of one hex.
And the reason why we use five is so that we can let
the polisher create enough friction and also diminish
the polish, let it do it's job thoroughly.
And then to prevent any kind of excess heat,
we're gonna use some polishing pad conditioner.
This also kind of helps to save your pad so if you're
replacing your pads often, you probably wanna invest
in a kind of polishing pad conditioner or maybe
use less product which will help save the foam.
Now we'll go back up here and we're gonna blotch it out.
And on the lowest speed setting we're going to spread it out
and on the highest speed setting that's where we're
gonna be doing our polishing.
What a dual action does is it's going to oscillate in one
central area as well as oscillating around that area,
so it's creating two motions.
And when you're polishing, you want to make sure
that the machine is completely flat because again,
that's going to prevent the holograms and marring
and then you wanna do, apply a light pressure,
about the weight of your hand is good enough,
you want to make sure that the pad is still spinning
because if it stalls out or if it slows down
you're not polishing.
It's basically just going to be vibrating on the surface
so you wanna make sure that it's spinning at all times.
This way it's properly diminishing polish and that's
where you're finding that clear coat.
And then we're going to also make sure that we're not
dipping and diving too much front to back because, again,
that's going to create holograms so you wanna keep it
nice and flat on the surface there.
And use it on the highest speed setting whether you're
using a dual action or random orbital,
Or if you're using a rotary,
you're probably gonna have to fine tune your RPMs,
but for today we're gonna use the highest speed setting
which is speed setting six on the TORQ 15DA.
(polisher vibrating)
So once your polish has gone basically to clear
or translucent, you want to take a clean microfiber towel
and just wipe away any of the excess.
So we can check your work.
I already can see that is a huge transformation.
There's a lot of deep lustrous blue brought back.
And also I split the gas cap here in half just to show you
guys what it look like before in case you forgot.
Because it's literally a huge transformation,
because over here you have the marring, you have slight
scratches and swirls here and it just looks awful
compared to how it should look with this really rich blue.
Now we're gonna continue the same process
around the rest of the vehicle and then we're going to
refine it using V38 as I mention because,
although this looks great, it can always look better.
So, we're gonna do that and then whenever you're done
with your polishing job this is a great time to either
put on a ceramic coating, or you can put your favorite
glaze sealant wax combination on there to really
enrich the shine, but more importantly,
you're adding paint protection.
Now on car like this, it's brand new, we want it to look
as best as it can for as long as possible.
So having a triple combination or even just a stand alone
ceramic coating is gonna be the best way to do that.
So if you guys want to check out these products,
head over to our website,
chemicalguys.com or to your local detail garage.
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