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- What's goin' on, everybody?
Thanks so much for tuning in for today's episode
of "Chemical Guys Detail Garage."
You guys have been asking us for an old car,
or a really oxidized car, and today,
we brought in this Nissan Sentra,
which has very heavy oxidized paint.
As you can see, it's almost got a matte finish
when it's supposed to be glossy,
but what's happened here
is that this is a single stage repaint,
which means that the clear coat and the paint
have been mixed into one,
and basically, over time, without proper care,
it started to fade, and now it's got this very matte finish,
but we've already done a test spot, and that's revealed
that there's still fresh paint underneath here,
so what we're gonna do here
is show you how to properly polish,
and also how to revive the shine of dead paint,
and then we're gonna protect it
so that we can preserve this look for as long as possible.
Now, as I mentioned, this is a single stage paint,
and it wasn't done very well,
so it's not gonna be 100% paint correction,
but for today's purposes, basically what we're gonna do
is focus on removing the oxidation
so that we can have some of that shine restored
because again, one, this is a fairly inexpensive car
with a very cheap paint job,
and we don't want a show car shine,
but basically, we just want to remove that light layer,
and also, since this is a single stage paint,
we don't wanna remove a lot of that
because that means we're gonna have nothin' left over,
so we're using the least aggressive approach
being V36 with an Orange pad,
and I'm gonna use the TORQ 15DA
because that's one of my favorite machines.
It has a 15-millimeter throw,
and since this car doesn't have very intricate designs
and it's mostly flat panels,
we don't need somethin' that's going to be very controlled,
so the 15-millimeter's going to cover a lot of space,
and then usin' the five-inch pad,
that gives us the combination
to restore some of the shine very quickly and very easily.
So down here, this is, again, the 15DA,
and I've already set it up with our Orange Hex-Logic pad.
We're gonna use a little bit of the V36 Cutting Polish.
This is great for either a test spot,
or if you're looking to refine
maybe minor scratches and swirls on any color car,
this is the go-to for many detailers,
and we're just gonna use a couple dots
since we're only doing half the fender here to start with.
We'll just do, we'll do three dots,
and about the size of one hex,
and we'll spray it with some Pad Conditioner.
If you're unfamiliar with what Pad Conditioner does,
basically what this is doing
is it rejuvenates the pad
so that it can last as long as possible,
but this is also reducing some of that friction,
so you're not harming the paint, or potentially burning it,
which, although it's very difficult to do with the DA,
it's still possible,
so taking the kind of precautions like that
is going to give you the best overall finish.
Now, to start, we're going to blotch it out,
and on the low speed setting,
were going to spread it out
and make a two by two-foot section.
And just a couple things before we get started,
when we're spreading it out,
we're gonna use the lowest speed setting,
which is speed setting 15 on this,
and then when we actually do our polishing,
we're gonna use speed setting 6, which is speed setting 55,
or 5,500, and then basically what you wanna do
is you wanna make sure that the machine
is completely flat at all times,
because if it dips or dives, it could either stall the pad,
or it creates a hot spot,
which doesn't give you very accurate results.
It gives more of a marring, or a hologram look,
but also, you wanna make sure
that you're not putting too much pressure
because that can also stall the pad,
and then when you're working the polish in,
you want to make sure
that you're moving about an inch per second.
Basically what that means is your arm speed
is moving about an inch per second.
This way, you're evenly removing paint,
because if you do it too quickly,
it doesn't give the proper time
for the polish to break down, and also,
this can also not remove all the scratches and swirls,
or oxidation, whatever you're workin' with,
so then you get, again, not very good results.
So we're gonna start by spreading it out,
and then we'll start workin' in on the high speed setting,
and I'll give you guys a little before and after.
That's why we've taped it off here,
to show you what it looked like before,
and we'll get the nice, reflective side on this side.
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So basically, V36 has gone translucent, or clear,
and now we're going to take a clean microfiber towel
and buff it off, so we can check our work here,
and also so we're not leaving any residue behind,
but already, you can see
that you've got a lot of the gloss back.
This is something very easy to do
because it's just removing that light layer of oxidation,
but like I mentioned,
we wanna use the least aggressive approach
because there's not gonna be a whole lot of paint left
if you use a heavy compound,
or even doing wet-sanding or anything like that,
because it is a single stage paint job,
and it wasn't done properly,
so we just wanna restore some of that shine
so that the car has more of that life brought back to it,
and just from that light polish,
you can see that we've brought back a lot of that gloss,
because before, it had that matte finish
with no reflection at all,
and now you have a minor reflection here,
which is a lot better than it looked before,
so now we're gonna refine this using V38 with a white pad,
and this is something you can do
just to jewel it a little bit more,
or maybe your paint's like this, and you wanna stop here,
that's also fine, but for the purposes of this vehicle,
we wanna add just that little bit extra gloss
because even though it looks good,
it can always look better,
so White pad, V38,
that's going to just refine any light marring,
or maybe buffer trails,
or anything else that can be left on the surface.
It doesn't have a whole lot of cut,
so it's not gonna remove any kind of scratches,
but it's just basically that last touch
to really refine the finish.
So the same procedure, we're going to center the White pad.
This is just a fine refinishing pad.
This is great for your last step,
or if you're using a light polish,
and then we're using V38.
And again, we'll just use about three dots
because we are working in a small section.
A little more pad conditioner.
People often ask us, when do you use Pad Conditioner?
Or, do you have to use it
every time you blotch out on the paint?
After you do this for maybe three or four panels,
the pad's gonna be pretty well soaked-in
with the Pad Conditioner,
so it's not necessary to do it every single time,
but I do it for the first few,
and then as needed around the vehicle
because the pad will start to get really heavy
with the Pad Conditioner, and then you'll start to see
kinda the liquid drip, or it'll start flinging polish,
so just as it needs it, and for sure,
the first few times so you're not killin' the pad.
And the same process, we'll blotch it out,
and then the lowest speed setting.
We'll spread it out, and then the high speed setting,
we're gonna polish.
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So again, once the polish has gone basically clear,
you're gonna take a clean microfiber towel
and buff away any of the excess,
and just like that, we've restored a lot of life and luster
back into this paint.
Before, it had this very dull gray, greenish paint job,
but now this is actually a fairly metallic, glossy finish.
But like I said, you can see in the paint job
there's some orange peel in there,
and it's not exactly a high-gloss finish,
so it's probably just a one-day paint job,
but for what it is, I think it looks fantastic,
and this is somethin' you guys can do at home.
It just takes the right prep,
and speaking of that, what we did
was we started off using our Waterless Wash Swift Wipe
to remove any of the surface dirt and debris
that was on there, and then we used a OG Clay Bar
to remove any of the embedded contaminants
as well as some of the lighter oxidation,
and then here, polishing with V36
with an Orange Hex-Logic pad,
removed a lot of the dead paint and the oxidation,
and then refining using V38 with a White pad
to just give you the shine that you see here before you.
So all these products,
you can check them out on our website, ChemicalGuys.com.
I'm gonna jump on the rest of the car,
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