Charger Daytona R/T - pblv2

[512detail]

First Mopar of the year. How did it take so long? haha
Vehicle arrived before sunrise so I got everything ready and started about 7am.

wheels:
pb spray and rinse
super slick n suds
wheel woolies misc sizes
megs apc/tuff shine brush
gyeon wet coat (last bottle)
p808, bold n bright

wash/decon:
bdx, sss, 2bm, micros
somewhat dried with big blue towel
clayed with mckees new N rw @lube dilution and nanoskin fine
blown dry with blaster

glass: pa diver
pb glass on inside windows
trim: cf radiance (reload type product)

probably forgot something in there

car was pretty bad and had deep scratches and marks in the clear

owner had opted for the only coating i will offer on just a one step (unless paint was able to be in 90s% from it) - pblv2 (which i will ne changing to mckees next bottle for cost purposes)

the cut:
duetto, hydroshred cyan pad with cf p1, speed 5
also used mini with rupes green pad and nano with equivalent other branded pad

didn`t come out perfect but much improved. i think the hood and trunk needed to be wet sanded













video below...pardon the radio on in the background but if you listen to the words of the song during the vid it`s kind of ironic



since the roof was matte and the hood/trunk were just horrible, the hood and trunk lid got a two step of cf p1 on rupes blue pads + essence on rupes yellow pad

at that point I was kind of in the zone and feeling a little generous so i ended up doing the doors and pillars with essence as well. just a quick once over like it was a glaze working into the paint

it definitely stepped up the gloss









vehicle was wiped down with opt paint prep
coated with pblv2

i then realized it was 545 and the sun was already setting so i barely got any decent shots and didn`t have the tires/trim dressed at that point.

client wasn`t coming to pick up until after 7 so i did that later

a few sunsetting shots














and one garage shot as he picked it up (after dressing tires)




kind of hard to get a merlin with that hood



thanks for viewing

[trashmanssd]

Great work as usual, Thanks for sharing. Love the car and the color something about blue that I just love.

[grungy]

Brandt, you did the owner proud.

[rlmccarty2000]

Looks great to me. I see you are switching from PBL to McKees. Is there any real difference between the two (besides cost and bottle)? This would make a good side by side test. I betting there is no dicernable difference.

[nickclark08]

Nice work Brandt! Glad you found a combo that worked for the one-step. Made that Blue look great.

[512detail]

Great work as usual, Thanks for sharing. Love the car and the color something about blue that I just love.

thanks. yes, its a very nice color, 2nd favorite for me to jazz blue. I think this is called Daytona blue, it has some metallic in it but it was really hard to see until I cut into it

Brandt, you did the owner proud.

thank you. he seemed happy to me. he wanted me to make him a list of things to buy to maintain it

Looks great to me. I see you are switching from PBL to McKees. Is there any real difference between the two (besides cost and bottle)? This would make a good side by side test. I betting there is no dicernable difference.

thanks. mckees is cheaper, that`s about it. I`ll use the rest of my pblv2 bottle but since I`m only charging $100 (for sedan or smaller) after polishing for this coating, mckees would just be a better business choice for me and yes they probably do last about the same time

after a year of pblv2 on my srt it was already fading out
I advertise it as my one year (intro) coating

as far as the side by side, perhaps when I get to the end of this bottle I and order the mckees I will do that on a neighbors hood or something

[512detail]

Nice work Brandt! Glad you found a combo that worked for the one-step. Made that Blue look great.

thanks

once I pulled it into the garage after the wash I knew I was in for some work

[65chevy]

wow nice job

[ViperGuy21]

Great work as always!