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richy
11-18-2014, 03:01 AM
My mother just bought this new Lexus GS350. I had coated her old one and this one was to receive the deluxe treatment too. What I decided to do for her that I've never done for anybody else, was to put a triple layer of Finest on the GS. I made sure that I would have enough in the bottle to do so as I was going around the car (barely I might add) and I was pleased that I was able to do it to the entire car.


There are no before shots of the car. I cleaned the wheel barrels with Zep Citrus and then a Daytona brush in a bucket of DG 901. The faces got sprayed with ZC and agitated with a brush and then washed with a mitt with 901. The wells were cleaned with LATA and a long handled brush. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505. The barrels were shot with CP Hydro since I wasn't going to be pulling them.

The car was then hand washed with DG 901 followed by an intensive wash with IronX paste. It was clayed for the most part with a Speedy Prep towel but typical for a white car, there were some spots that needed "old school" clay to knock them out. The car was blown off with the Master Blaster afterward.

For the paint polish, I ended up settling on yellow B/S + Ameridepth + Flex 3401. This was every bit as powerful as using M205. I'm liking Ameridepth more and more lately. The wheels were cleaned with DG Squeaky Clean.

It was somewhat sunny the day I got done polishing and it was the last sunny day in the forecast, so I've got some outside shots late in the day that are just after being polished and prior to being coated:


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The car was brought inside and the next day it was triple coated: Wheels, glass (except windshield), headlights and tail lights (which had been polished too). The windshield got Fly-By-30 and the trim was done with DLux. The tires were shot via my air gun with Opti Bond at 100%. The paint was given a ReLoad wipe down as well. I was only able to shoot it inside and to be honest I'm not crazy about how the shots turned out. They look much more dull than normal. Maybe I should have used my tripod; served me right for being lazy with the camera. Oh well, can't change that now. Here's how the pics did turn out:


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In person, the gloss and slickness (the slickness aided and abetted by ReLoad) were off the charts. Was the triple coat worthwhile? ABSOLUTELY!! I hope to be able to upsell someone next year on that as I honestly do believe it made a visual difference and of course is a thicker coating which can only mean better protection. My Mom was very pleased and that's what was really important to me anyway.

Thanks for looking!

Cooter
11-18-2014, 03:30 AM
Looking great Richy!!! You're mom will be super excited. Very nice ride!! AWD is sweet!

Dr_Pain
11-18-2014, 04:03 AM
Well done! Come show me in person and see what a winter with no snow looks like LOL!

Moldavite
11-18-2014, 07:51 AM
Fantastic work!!!
thanks for sharing :)

TroyScherer
11-18-2014, 10:39 AM
Wow. She looks great Richy.


I did a triple coat of CQUK on our Jetta but I didn't bake it. I have heard baking CQUK helps the gloss as well similar to Finest.

richy
11-18-2014, 02:03 PM
Looking great Richy!!! You're mom will be super excited. Very nice ride!! AWD is sweet!
Thanks Heath! She is super happy with the car.


Well done! Come show me in person and see what a winter with no snow looks like LOL!
Claude, that's just mean man, that's just mean. Temps in the bloody teens today...for November? WTF!!


Fantastic work!!!
thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for taking the time to comment.



Wow. She looks great Richy.


I did a triple coat of CQUK on our Jetta but I didn't bake it. I have heard baking CQUK helps the gloss as well similar to Finest.

DARK HORSE
11-18-2014, 03:48 PM
Beautiful as always Richy, thanks for taking the time to share it here with us! BTW I hear ya about the cold, it's been negative digits here in the mornings and warming into the single digits later in the day. I can't believe it's so cold so early. I hope it's not a sign of what's to come in January.

Merlin
11-19-2014, 04:15 PM
Very nice work! GREAT JOB!

Triple coat? Interesting

fdresq4
11-20-2014, 10:15 AM
Looks great Richy! Probably one of my favorite cars. It was 17° here the other morning with wc in the single digits. I can't imagine what the folks near Buffalo, N.Y are going thru though.

richy
11-21-2014, 05:16 PM
Beautiful as always Richy, thanks for taking the time to share it here with us! BTW I hear ya about the cold, it's been negative digits here in the mornings and warming into the single digits later in the day. I can't believe it's so cold so early. I hope it's not a sign of what's to come in January.
Thanks so much Tad. I do find this early onset of winter to be depressing. At least we're fortunate enough to be going away twice this winter.


Very nice work! GREAT JOB!

Triple coat? Interesting
Thanks! I might start offering that as an option. I just don't want people to think it NEEDS it, you know what I mean? I don't want to reflect negatively upon Finest. I'd be very careful about how I worded it for sure.


Looks great Richy! Probably one of my favorite cars. It was 17° here the other morning with wc in the single digits. I can't imagine what the folks near Buffalo, N.Y are going thru though.
Thanks! All I can say is..."Come on Spring!!!!