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This is a short review of CarPro's Essence: Extreme Gloss. First let me say dealing with Cory Carruth at [email protected] has been a great experience! The car I worked on is a 2011 Porsche Turbo in Platinum Silver. The paint was in very good condition and had 22PLE applied 18 months ago. I started with a wash of Chemical Guys Citrus Wash followed by CarPro IRON X. The paint did not require clay.

I applied CarPro Essence with a microfiber pad. The results were nothing short of amazing. Depth, shine, smoothness; medium defects were removed with 2-3 passes. This was followed with a CarPro Gloss pad. Again, amazing!!! I've used $$$ in products, pad, etc. and nothing has come close to what CarPro has provided in the form of Essence. I am so pleased. Easy on and very easy off. I will be coating the turbo with CQuartz tomorrow. I'll post more then.

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drsullivan said:
This is a short review of CarPro's Essence: Extreme Gloss. First let me say dealing with Cory Carruth at [email protected] has been a great experience! The car I worked on is a 2011 Porsche Turbo in Platinum Silver. The paint was in very good condition and had 22PLE applied 18 months ago. I started with a wash of Chemical Guys Citrus Wash followed by CarPro IRON X. The paint did not require clay.

I applied CarPro Essence with a microfiber pad. The results were nothing short of amazing. Depth, shine, smoothness; medium defects were removed with 2-3 passes. This was followed with a CarPro Gloss pad. Again, amazing!!! I've used $$$ in products, pad, etc. and nothing has come close to what CarPro has provided in the form of Essence. I am so pleased. Easy on and very easy off. I will be coating the turbo with CQuartz tomorrow. I'll post more then.

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Dude amazing! I also was fan of Menzerna and bought them always, but now after trying this will never go back!
 
I recommend using Eraser after polishing with Essence. It does give you a hard shell (yes you can feel it), but I found that using Eraser after Esscence made the pain pop up even more, I guess that improves the ultra bonding of Reload on top of Essence.
 
I'm shy with using essence because of the smudging I've experienced. I ordered reflect instead of essence, that will be good enough for me. Anybody ever try the rupes gloss system?
 
drsullivan said:
This is a short review of CarPro's Essence: Extreme Gloss. First let me say dealing with Cory Carruth at [email protected] has been a great experience! The car I worked on is a 2011 Porsche Turbo in Platinum Silver. The paint was in very good condition and had 22PLE applied 18 months ago. I started with a wash of Chemical Guys Citrus Wash followed by CarPro IRON X. The paint did not require clay.

I applied CarPro Essence with a microfiber pad. The results were nothing short of amazing. Depth, shine, smoothness; medium defects were removed with 2-3 passes. This was followed with a CarPro Gloss pad. Again, amazing!!! I've used $$$ in products, pad, etc. and nothing has come close to what CarPro has provided in the form of Essence. I am so pleased. Easy on and very easy off. I will be coating the turbo with CQuartz tomorrow. I'll post more then.

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I'm thrilled your enjoying it! I've never seen a product like it or loved like it so quickly. There have been so many happy customers this month due to Essence launch, it was really a great experience for us.
 
Corey, I can't deny the gloss, it's awesome. Any advice to cure the smudges? I'm sure it could be user error on my part. I was using a megs mf cutting pad. Pad would darken and leave a smudge here and there. Had to use liquid sandpaper to get it out. I was probably doing something wrong....
 
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Corey, I can't deny the gloss, it's awesome. Any advice to cure the smudges? I'm sure it could be user error on my part. I was using a megs mf cutting pad. Pad would darken and leave a smudge here and there. Had to use liquid sandpaper to get it out. I was probably doing something wrong....
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Yes, thats very normal if you polish it too much or not enough. Sounds like certain spots you aren't polishing as consistently as others. Im guessing it is near the perimeter of a section where you are finding these? When ever you do a section be sure to do a final pass with fast arm movement around the perimeter as you will have naturally spread the product outwards of the section and that perimeter ring will not have been broken down consistently.

Summary - Final pass around perimeter and immediately wipe off.
 
Here is a Mercury outboard I polished.

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gta88ws6 said:
Here is a Mercury outboard I polished.

Essence and reload. No cquartz.
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Very impressive! I will be trying that combination on my 2015 Charger Scat Pack on Monday after Christmas! We're supposed to have some warm weather for Indy then.

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