Porsche GT3 First Wash & Drive

What's up guys in today's episode? We are working on not one, not two, but three new 2018 9 9 1.2 gt3 s. These two in particular came from Rhode Island and this one here, the chalk white one, came from Florida. They had a flat bed. Up here now you may be wondering why you are detailing and cleaning new cars. Well, it's pretty interesting, these all came out of the factory at the same time, so for me, from a nerd perspective, I really want to see what's different or what it is. Same thing on all three and I think it's going to be a lot of fun, so we'll go over number two, focus on the inner glass.

One member, new cars, is a pain in the ass. There is yellow. because there is grime on the inside of the windshield, so I'm playing with some techniques. I'm not exactly sure I'm in love with them yet, but I hope you guys can chime in in the comments and see if you have anything else you want. do on the inner glass, plus we're going to put on a completely transparent bra here and of course do a paint correction and a lot more so in this episode we're trying to protect Jimena and here's such a killer blue if If you're not familiar with the new GT3, watch any car review video or read any article and you'll quickly understand why this thing is such a beast.

The old 3.8 liter has now been replaced by a 4.0 that goes from 475 horses to 500, but the six-speed manual transmission is what makes this a hot item, since the previous generation did not come with this option, whatever transmission you get who cares its a gt3 and they are awesome especially if you

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them hard now so we can quickly get to the paint comparison part of the episode here is what i did on all three gt3s when they got off the truck before evaluating or comparing the paints in the shop. I focused on the wheels

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by pre-rinsing them with water, then added a little plum and then used them.

Crude wheel soap and water in the aerator along with wheel brushes and

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gloves. The reason I didn't use a foam gun here is because it could hit the paint and dry it out before I could finish the thorough work on the new wheels again. This is a matter of convenience, it is by no means mandatory. Once I was done, I rinsed again and moved on to the next wheel. Once I was done with all the wheels, I lightly sprayed plum again on the lower painted surfaces, nose and trunk, to release any factory brakes. or railroad dust that it may have collected during its trip to the United States, you are wondering: yes, you can use certain wheel cleaners that contain sodium thiopental, so do it with the paint, as it will also interact with the iron particles .

I chose this. Instead of playing with a new car in my attempts to adhere to the idea of ​​​​a less aggressive technique

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, if the iron was not removed with this technique and then clanking is needed, then so be it, but in this case after Sitting for about two minutes and not drying, the light iron deposits were eaten away and removed with a pressure

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er during the pre-rinse for its first full wash. I called the paint raw and highlighted a 50/50 mix for an extra touch. Now, in the future, I will use foam and reinforcement to maintain and protect the car;

However, here I wanted a stronger cleaning to see the true state of the paint - lightly shake the foamy paint. I used the technique that has worked since my first video five or six years ago instead of using laundry gloves. and multiple Reed unk and dirty water, use a clean microfiber towel on all four sides and when it is dirty just take another clean microfiber towel and continue, yes you will use a few more towels for sure but it is 100% clean there is no cross contamination. I usually reserved this technique for super rare cars with smooth paint or black paint, but now I'm using it more and more in place of the traditional wash mitt.

I encourage you to first prime your microfiber towels with soap and water if possible. tends to slide or float on paint more easily when filled with soap and water; Additionally, a small interior brush can also be useful in tight places. Once you're done with the light agitation, rinse it one last time and dry it with a damp microfiber. towel but without hambo hydrate for this initial inspection and possible subsequent polishing. I took the cars inside to inspect the paint. Well, guys, start the third day. I want to give you a little summary of what's going on here now.

I called Dan from turn seven. The guys know who it is because we ran into a little problem, the car over there Dan is behind the camera, pan over there, the gt3 and the chalk white. I have my guys helping me on that side of the car because we saw something that I wasn't really sure if I liked or not, so if I'm not a hundred percent, I just ripped it out and we're going to redo it so we can back up a little bit. I called Danny to help me polish this one up. We're almost done, we took off the nose and turned off the headlights, but the interesting thing is that the three wings, this rear decklid, they all have pigtails to varying degrees, so I'd say the chalk white one is the worst.

I would say this. it's the second worst and that's actually not that bad now take it put it aside look at the paint the paint is actually in different condition this is the best paint I've seen so far it's the second best and this is the The worst thing is if I turn off the light very quickly and show you that the painting at some point in its life had to be outside or something, I don't know, I don't know if you can see it or not, but this has to be composed. and polished, so quick recap of day three is polished, polished, compounded and polished, and then the three wings had to be almost sanded, compounded and polished, so there are some interesting things happening because I've never had three cars come out of the factory in the at the same time, enter the store at the same time, so that's great, right after this, we'll work on it once the clear fasteners are ready, we'll work on the interior glass and I'll show you some steps on how do it.

To make it less torturous, we first masked the input blades Matt and buffed with a one-inch Kevin Brown special around the edges of the blade with m100 and a microfiber cutting pad, then followed up with three-inch ones on the tighter areas. large and finished with em 205 on the three inch foam pad once again, the paint was relatively smooth on all three rear decks and they cut well and finished easily. I assume there were pigtails on all platforms because the shape and small workspace didn't make it possible. allow the best sanding position or line of sight for the worker in the factory, but again, that's just a guess, with the wings completed, the owners asked me to remove all the badges before cleaning the bra and, what is More importantly, they preferred the badge 997 GT3 which is a little bigger than the GT3 that comes with the car, so I'll install the bigger one at the end of the detail, like I did in previous videos.

I used fishing line and ran it behind the badge and they came loose. abnormally easy, maybe it was because they were installed a few weeks ago, but either way it took me less than 20 seconds to remove them from the paint. I then carefully removed the remaining 3m double sided tape and was done, no adhesive removal required. and it was literally that painless. We then began paint restoration on all cars except the spoiler and rear hood. To do this, I'm trying out the new Brite polishing light that attaches directly to your polisher and threads. Designed for its side handle, it shines a light directly onto the surface you're working on and obviously stays with the polisher as you move it back and forth, so it's certainly convenient, however I found it a little cumbersome at times Working with the light on both sides of the handle, I would say one side, might be best, rather than having to get used to the new dimensions of the polisher and trying to avoid bumping or scratching the paint, is something to consider as well, For me more tests are necessary.

Before I can decide if this is something I'll use in the future, for now I'm sticking with a handheld light and one in the angled distance to complete these gt3s during the Mexico blue polish. I noticed three dots on the controller. rear side quarter that were unique among the three GGs, okay, so I'm trying to keep you posted as part of this little documentary, so to speak, so I polished the door and most of the hood that we're working on in the roof and We're going through the whole process like we normally would, but I want to stop every once in a while when I see something that's fascinating, at least to us nerds watching this, anyway, you see these three pieces of tape, it looks like that from the beginning.

At the factory there's a little delivery of an inch or two maybe or something like that, so I'll zoom in on the camera and show you, but I haven't compounded or polished anything on this panel, but as I was inspecting it and going over it, I thought, You know, I called Dan like, hey Dan, and we sanded this little place down. Here it is, oh no, we didn't say anything like Clow and I found two more and then we looked at it and thought to ourselves. Oh wow, this looks like this. This particular panel must have had some kind of paint defect and they sanded it down, but they didn't actually go through the process to refine it, which we all know, you know, in the details of a detail. perspective is much more difficult to compose is an easy thing to sand is an easy thing to refine that's where, so to speak, the money is made or the last ten percent or whatever you want to call it again and then we'll go over the trunk lid.

I've talked a lot about it, but I can tell you right now that it's being painted or fabricated or built or something like that in a completely different factory, I guess, or with a different method because in each of them you know there's some kind of problem too. of refinement, so I'll keep moving forward, but every time I find something interesting or noteworthy, I go out on camera and show it to you after composing and polishing those pigtails, I wanted to see if the paint thickness of the cars was similar. or very different now, the door jams were consistent around four Mills, while the paint was around five or more, so there really isn't a huge difference in thickness consistency around the cars, but the quality of the finish or the refining process may vary due to the same.

The compounding and polishing will most likely be done by humans rather than machines, so it is not unlikely that there will be a variation in the finish when you are finished. We put a clear clip on the front here and on the hood, but not on the door. This is a broth that is not transparent. on the right, what is that? He says six, okay, so it's six thousand. Now I'm going to use clear broth which is right next to this paint, so I'm pretty close to what that says, twelve point five, so I'm basically doubling. the thickness so to speak, essentially there's another six mil of plastic or clear bra on top of six mil paint, so you've sort of doubled your protection for lack of a better word, but that's not true, you just put six mil of clear broth on top of six mils of paint which I think is pretty good so we just measured the paint on the gt3 and the clear bronze shows the difference of about 6 to 7 millimeters or and now you have a vinyl wrap that I want show. a little example, this thing has been repainted, but it's irrelevant for this demonstration, so I'm going to put the paint measurement here, it's 12, right now I'm going to apply the vinyl wrap and it's 13, so obviously it's about a million and a half. difference and so clear bras really focus on protection, so if you're going to get a rock job, hey, I'm going to

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my car, they might send me to Rock, your clear bra is paint protection, the wrap of vinyl is really to change it, look at this thing.

It's crazy, it has all kinds of crazy colors in the company name and it's a race car so there's a big difference between the vinyl and the clear Bron and the big difference would be the protection factor and obviously the light color for eyebrows will be whatever you want. If that's what you're looking for now, I have a video. I'll post a link here somewhere between showing the differences between the two and really digging into all the differences. The type of material. How much? It's like how long does all that kind of stuff take, so if you really want to know the difference or get nervous between the vinyl bra and the clear bra, watch that video.

Once any sanding or cut marks have been restored, the car is lifted for Brian and Nick to carefully inspect. They remove the headlights to do this, first removing the side markers under the plastic trunk tray and then taping off the surrounding paint. If you're wondering why I didn't wait to polish it when they were done, it's because it's very difficult to polish something. that wobbles or moves once loosened. Plus, these guys are very picky about everything, so I knew thepaint was going to be left intact then. Brian uses a polar tab to remove the plastic component or tab that connects the bumper to the fender and then a few. posts, the bumper shifted enough to reach the ball under the headlight again.

All of this could have been done from inside the trunk on earlier models, but not on newer cars which had the headlights disconnected, but on this one you have to remove the bumper cover to get to 10, then remove the headlight from the fender. and the electrical units are separated. Over the next few days we cleaned all the painted surfaces of the gt3. I'll spare you the gory details now, but if you want to see an exact step by step. -Steps procedure on another Porsche, click link above now with fastener installed Brian and Nick returned to reinstall headlights with bumper in place, side markers under tray and front spoiler, owners requested I told the dealer not to put the front lip on the car because I was only going to remove it a few days later, so that was a big help with the front trunk.

The plastics were ready again. We were ready to move on to the next step when we are done with the fasteners, if possible. I like to pull it out in the sun to help the water evaporate and inspect every corner, every edge and look for bubbles that are always present minutes after installation, when I find something that needs more attention I lightly place a small strip of tape adhesive near the spot in question and walk around the car to complete the last 10% of the clear bra job, since we all know the clients and I include myself in this one, we don't remember or appreciate the 99% that went right, instead we look At 1% that's not perfect, so this inspection I'm doing now I hope to reduce that 1% to maybe zero.

In the same way, I remove the seat covers, the mats and very carefully remove the sticker from the window. Now I never bend someone's window sticker. especially on a new car because it's bad luck more on this later, then throw it back inside after an hour or two in the sun and wipe off the edges and bubbles you found outside. At this point the bra should be warm and pliable as it helps the material work when it is a little more pliable, then I quickly vacuum the mats and seat, then touch up the interior plastics with molding foam and add a little Scotch Save on carpets because rubber mats are not used.

New cars in particular have plastic that leaks. So these new ones are called plasticizers, these things release from the plastic boards or the leather and stick to the glass. Now they always admit that that's the smell of the new car that smells, that's the gas, that gas comes out the window. it goes off everywhere but when it goes away when it is close to the glass it simply cuts off, it rises you know that gas came out and it sticks and that is a yellowish film that is seen all the time super annoying so the purpose today is to try to minimize it or chew it so the new owner doesn't have to deal with it for a couple of weeks or months again.

If you put it in the sun, it will actually get worse faster, so that's a little FYI. Anyway, I put a towel in here because I'm going to use rubbing alcohol and this is a new car and God forbid we have a little leak, this will pick it up, so rubbing alcohol. I have towels everywhere again. this on camera trying to do something quick this is super tight it doesn't leak anywhere and I would do it outside the car on that side but I can't do everything and film at the same time. I wanted to present this to you.

I'm not sure if you've seen it, it's a palette. I don't think it has a specific name, but it's just a window cleaning paddle and on the end here is a little scouring pad, so you can remove that film. you've seen the reach tool or whatever it's called and it's a little triangle and it has a hood you put the hood on you take it off you put it on you put it on this microfiber for me it's a little bit slower because they fill up they lift up so They get wet really fast so I just swapped out microfiber towels and literally by doing this I can lift it up a little bit, do it again, lift it up a little bit so I always have a clean towel without having to attach it, that's my process of thought, so again I would do this outside the car like this, I would put a little bit of isopropyl alcohol in here, this is about a 50/50 or 60/40 mix, just a little bit on the microfiber and you'll hold it in your hand and then you can get to really very tight points, but you're putting a lot of downward pressure, more consistent pressure than just saying your hand goes up like this, so I seem to like this idea.

To make it work well for me again, I'm going to shoot more videos and see if I stick with this plan and then once you have it, you know you're happy with it, you can literally take this off, put on a new towel and then leave. Go back in and clean it again and follow all the steps we normally do anyway. I just want to present this to you. I think it's great. I'm not 100% sure but this is like this constant battle since you all know the The joke is that I'd rather polish like four cars than make a windshield glass because it's just a nightmare with that movie so stay tuned for more information about this for the other windows.

I use the scouring pad to remove the glue from the window sticker and a small squeegee to see if it was as helpful as I hope it will be now stay tuned. I still don't have enough data to make a confident recommendation at this time. I bought some frames online and quickly put the stickers on the windows to protect them during the owners' time. It will be a nice touch when they arrive to pick up their babies a few days later. I installed the new larger badge on the rear bumper. Many of you commented on my Instagram page that I should have created a template before removing the old badges, but since I'm not reinstalling those badges, it became unnecessary.

I would start from scratch with its placement and asking someone who is picky about everything in life to place a badge perfectly without a template on a supercar is time consuming. measure twice and cut once something like that was in overdrive. I'm not proud of it, but it took me about an hour and 40 minutes to be happy with its placement, most of it just standing and looking to visually gauge what spaces there were. excruciating project If that wasn't enough, we placed decals along the bottom edge of the car on the chalk white GT3, after careful consideration by the owner, we followed the door line instead of the body line, a one is parallel to the floor while the other is parallel to the door now this sounds subtle but they have slightly different slopes for each once the backrest is removed cut around the door and place the details around the back and you're done , installation is pretty easy, perfect location, however it is numbing. and very tedious, I then added a moleskin to the rims for a consistent look.

These semi matte looking rims tend to become stained or water stained if not well protected. I then added two coats of highlight and two coats of skin over the clear bra after applying it. a moment to the trim and rubber for a little snap before the owners arrived, the truth is that my favorite part of the job is presenting the car to the owner, especially if it is new. I usually walk around the car and explain the interesting things I found. during the work and any useful maintenance tips that will keep the car in good condition once it leaves the shop.

Additionally, I gave them the frame with the window sticker as a thank you for using ammo and answered any questions before their first trip home and as a thank you. Surprise for me, my friend Chris let me drive his brand new, freshly detailed, fresh off the lot GT first as he knows this is my next dream car, so it was pretty special and a little stressful to be the one. first to drive his car. on public roads and I haven't stopped dreaming about it since then, so I added the Porsche GT3 to my car vision wall in the hope that one day my dream will become a reality.