Car Covers! No Car Cover At All Is Better Than A Cheap Car Cover. Here Is Why!!

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s that will be the subject of today's video and I receive a lot of questions on the subject from subscribers and also from customers, both for cars that are outside or even in a garage or workshop, the simple and quick answer to that question is I don't recommend them, all it takes is for one corner of the car

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to be unsecured and a slight breeze, whether you have a car inside or outside, will cause the cover to rub against the surface, causing wear and tear. in the finish of your vehicle. and I'm going to show you exactly what it looks like on this pontiac g8 gxp.

This is actually a beautiful rare car in this part of Pennsylvania and it's nice to be working on one today, it sure sounds good, so many of my customers. They know how to wash their cars before they even bring them to me, since we specialize in painting. We're very specialized, we fall under the umbrella of detailing, but we really only do one thing and that's take care of the painted finishes on a vehicle, so. even though it's been washed, it's been sitting around a lot for a few hours and it needs to go over it and we're going to use a no rinse wash so we don't put any more swirls or imperfections on this painted finish that you're going to have.

I'm surprised that the clear coat on this is extremely smooth and that's another topic that we can address today in today's video and this video is actually going to address some topics that may help you and that will give you some tips and tricks and things to look for and avoid. welcome back to the channel good friends brian from apex detail let's start this off after a quick wash with a no rinse wash no matter what you use t

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uh wolfgang's super no rinse wash. o-n-r uh american Detailer Garage all great products with a ton of lubrication.

I will continue to clay only where and when necessary with the store manager monitoring my every move. We move on to the next step and that is to remove the insect splatter or maybe. tar that splashed any transfer and I will choose citral 266 from Shaffer's quick tip. Although it is difficult to find online, it can surprisingly be found easily locally. Check with any local mechanic or diesel supply shop at any farm center anywhere that works with tractors. and nine times out of ten they will have it on hand and on sale now let's move on. Next up will be this has been through a lot of car washes and I could feel there is a lot of hot wax that is really popular in a lot of the tunnel washes these days that can get caught on the pads, making them not very effective at all , so we want to remove as much of that as possible before the fix and that's going to be this step here with that. full step and for that step I like igl pre-coat and jion prep my favorite products for prepping a panel now I can come up to you and show you the imperfections that we are going to address after the love marks, the outlines of the swirl marks and etched by water spots, but most importantly these car cover scuff marks come from a

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er cover that has a lot of seams and without the cover being secure, whether inside or outside, even the The slightest breeze can cause the rubber to move upwards. against the finishes of your vehicle, all finishes and will wear them out prematurely, so we will correct them well before continuing.

As usual, I will take measurements throughout the vehicle and make sure all panels are uniform. I really don't know, has anyone corrected this before? They left me with enough clear coat since there were repairs and right off the bat, in this first panel where I measure the hood, I can see that something is wrong with this type of vehicle and the year it should. I average five to five and a half mils thick clear primer base coat and the hood is about two mils thicker. I also find that on another panel that surrounds the vehicle, the driver's side rear door, those two panels have been repaired, repainted and that is something to keep in mind.

I truly believe that anyone who buys vehicles is a car enthusiast, works on their vehicles and should have one of these gauges. You can take it with you when you buy a vehicle. It will tell you very quickly, if a car has been repainted, has a bondo filler and it can tell you a bigger story, give you a bigger picture of the history of the vehicle and here again on this panel you will see: I'm going to stop and go back and measure again. Because there is something a little off, the thickness of this panel is a little larger than the rest of the vehicle as a whole.

I also follow up with a gloss meter test. I like to send the car with three digit readings on the meter and you can see here that there is a lot of room to work with, usually with four or five units on each jump, four or five units are visible to the naked eye, so we can do it several times here. By the way, I often get a lot of questions about gloss meters. and which ones to buy and look for, you really only need if you're working on a vehicle, a meter that has 60 degree readings, sometimes you'll see a 20 80 60, not really necessary unless you're working with multiple surfaces, high reflectivity.

I'll look for the 20 degree, but in a vehicle that's medium, so a 60 degree works well and once you get used to a unit you'll know how to use it. You don't need a three and four thousand dollar meter. Many people I see who have them have no idea how to use them anyway. Okay, we'll move on to the test site. One of the most important parts of your proofreading is finding the equipment that is effective but leaves the greatest amount of clarity. coat behind and we're going to start with a very very uh non aggressive equipment the koch kami m302 which is a micro cut a very very fine abrasive and we're going to use a pad that is quite soft and non aggressive a light polishing pad so just a few steps above the black application pad always start there if that works.

Hey, well, you don't need to go any further, you don't need a hard cutting compound or a very aggressive pad, so let's see how this rig does. once the residue is removed, I'll bring you closer and you'll see that this really did a great job. Imperfections are removed. I don't know if the camera catches it, but it leaves a slight haze and that's because This clear coat is that soft, it's smooth and thin, so you have to be careful, so I'm going to take a step back in the next section. which has more imperfections and I'll take a pad that's even less aggressive so it's just a small one. go over the application pad and we're left with the koch kami m3o2 once again the residue is removed and I have my towel slightly damp with a panel prep.

You don't want to spray a panel prep directly onto a surface immediately afterward. it has been corrected the pores are open the clear coat is swollen and preparing a panel is not a very good idea now you can see the difference this actually worked

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we took a step back we took away some of the aggression we have less hazing it is much clearer and we still have the blemishes are gone, maybe one or two are left behind, so maybe a second pass would be beneficial, but I'd leave it up to you, so here we go, we find our gear, we find our combination, uh, and if it's in the budget you can continue to apply the black application pad and dress up the surface when you have such a smooth clear coat that sometimes it's a necessary step just to bring in some clarity, get rid of the cloudiness, it doesn't take much to get cloudy. soft up and haze clear coat it's an extra step if it's not on a budget it's something you might want to talk to the owner about if it's your vehicle I would definitely take the time and go the extra step with a polish or jewelry polish or a cleaner polish and really brings out the clarity of the finish.

Well, I've got the shop manager up and alert again, so we're going to go back to refinish this pontiac g8 and get it fixed pretty quickly and get it done. okay with the painted finishes, um restored, let's go to the pillars, the b-pillars, the c-pillars, depending on the type of vehicle it is, its finishes will always be quite thin and smooth, so I want you to keep that in mind, a Sometimes they are movies. The wraps are sometimes plastic, but this is a light black piano finish, very smooth, so you need a finishing pad, a gloss pad, and a clear polish, a very fine abrasive to restore them.

Now I want to show you this pad on the mic. polisher there may be some transfer from time to time, don't worry, that's normal, sometimes it's a clear tint, sometimes the material itself just transfers to the pad, but if you apply very light pressure and keep it low the speed of the polisher, keep the polisher moving, it will be perfectly fine, it's very rare with today's vehicles that I don't have almost all of my polishers lined up and ready to get into some of these tight, intricate areas to polish them, fix them and perfect them. This is the extra step I was talking about before and I'll use extreme solutions, perfect for that really smooth varnish or the last step right before the protection and I like to combine it with the Car Pro gloss pad.

Let me show you exactly how. This can really give you that extra boost of brightness and clarity and do a 50 50 on this fender, so okay, let me show you there's a pretty big difference here, I don't really care what you use, what pad and combination you use. I can use angel wax, perfect car polish, essence or essence, plus they will give you approximately the same results. I just wanted to let you know and you can know that that extra step is available if needed, so then I wait for the surface to cool. after correction again, I don't want to spray a panel prep directly onto a freshly corrected, swollen and heated clear or single stage coat, so I will wait a long time and use instruments to make sure the surface has cooled and is time to cover and we will use our metallic oxide coating, which many have been enjoying at the moment and you have to take my word for it.

I'll link above to a testimonial that doesn't come from you or me. I can enjoy that, so let me protect this surface with a layer of metallic oxide and we can move on. Easy to use, very effective. The kit comes with everything you need, from the coating, enough to cover three to four cars, a dropper, and also the applicator. So okay, we let it sit overnight. I wait 10 to 12 hours and it's time to finish it off before sending the vehicle on its way. This customer enjoys the beads as much as some customers enjoy the very slick, very smooth, extremely shiny, beaded sheets like It's crazy and that will really work after the windows and tires shine.

You can relax, breathe deeply, step back a little, and enjoy the results now. The shop setup can make almost any vehicle look good, so you do want to take it outside and let it rough it. reviewer take a look and that will be the sunlight that will take care of today's video we cover a soft clear coat we cover our

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not recommended by me no matter what the quality is and we also take a look at this beautiful quite rare on my vehicle from the area and it really sounds amazing that he does it for today's video.

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