HiLustre Product Reveiw

[Barry Theal]

Hello everyone. Hope all is well. I been real busy as of late and got a lot of things going and I thought I would share a new product I`ve been using. The product is called Finish-it and its manufactured by a company called HiLustre. HiLustre is a company based out of California, IMHO they are gonna be a big competitor in the market of detailing products. Anyway I had a real close friend of mine just get a Tahoe fully repainted it and ask me to fix the painters mistakes. I have been using Finish-it on several test panels for a few days and thought I would share some results with you. This product is a water based Non- Dimishing product. All I can say so far is wow!!!!!!!!!! Here are some of the results I was able to produce. This paint has no depth and is a real ****** job. Orange peel is bad. There is no clarity at all.



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I first dry sanded the masked off area with 3m trizact 1500 and then wetsanded it with Norton 3000. Both were done By a D/A.



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Here is what it looked like sand flat.



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Once sanded I used Finish-it on a Wool pad and rotory, and then I finished down with a dual action polisher and a orange foam pad. With two steps I went from flatly sanded paint to LSP ready paint. These pictures results are after 3 ipa wipedowns.



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Here is a camera flash on the sanded side.



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Here is a camera flashes on the finished side.



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Here is a reflection shot with no flash to show some depth and clarity. After looking at this picture you can tell I`m married with kids lol. Boy my face is get chubby. :lol



http://i484.photobucket.com/albums/rr202/barrytheal/hi%20lustre/bba4f058.jpg



Anyway guys ill keep you updated as I go. I`ll be doing this vehicle over the weekend. ILl get some really good shots for ya. As of now this product is gonna be my new goto product!



Barry

[Street5927]

Wow, looks great. I can`t wait to see it completely finished off. How would you compare this product to the 3M Perfect-It for Light/Dark colored vehicles, which is also water based???

[Barry Theal]

Wow, looks great. I can`t wait to see it completely finished off. How would you compare this product to the 3M Perfect-It for Light/Dark colored vehicles, which is also water based???



It will blow 3m Perfect it away. I really been looking for a product like this in a while. I use Ardex 1500 relgiously and Ill tell ya what I think I need to make a switch. I was really amazed by how well this works with both rotory and orbital polishers so far. I got excellant results with it on a pc7424 and on a rotory and a Dual action air polisher. I`m lost for words so far. I found a product that cuts like m105 and finishes better then m205 all in the same bottle!!!! LOOK OUT.

[Strokin04]

Hmmm. Looks like Barry just helped me spend more money. Great work as always!!!

[Barry Theal]

Seriously not much money at 7.95 for a 16 oz bottle how can you go wrong?

[imported_Jakerooni]

Link to where the rest of us can purchase it Barry ;).... you know how I am LOL

[Barry Theal]

HiLustre Car Care Products : Cleaners, Waxes, Polishes, Glazes (http://hilustre.com/details.php?productID=2)



There ya go homeboy!!!:getdown

[Leadfootluke]

HiLustre Car Care Products : Cleaners, Waxes, Polishes, Glazes (http://hilustre.com/details.php?productID=2)



There ya go homeboy!!!:getdown



Wow! Great price!

So your saying this product can remove 1500 grit marks and finish LSP ready?

[dheath]

Aww, come on barry - more details please. Do you use it via KBM? How would you rate its cutting ability compared to the more popular polishes/compounds out there?



Its a great price and with your praises, sounds like a winner. Hopefully they have a distributor in San Diego and I can pick up a bottle.

[Barry Theal]

Wow! Great price!

So your saying this product can remove 1500 grit marks and finish LSP ready?



No lead foot luke. What I`m saying is I sanded the paint with 1500 then 3000.



The two steps were one with rotory and one with Dual action polisher. Now two steps from a flatly sanded surface is pretty dog gone good! Hopefully that helps bud.

[Dan]

Barry, did you check if it fills?

[ta240]

their shipping charge is reasonable too!

[RDAVEX7]

their shipping charge is reasonable too!



Great, then you wont mind shipping some to my house too lol!









HiLustre and Gloss Haus are the two companys that I have had my eye on. I need to pick up the phone and get some of these products here to try out.

[Rob Tomlin]

It will blow 3m Perfect it away. I really been looking for a product like this in a while. I use Ardex 1500 relgiously and Ill tell ya what I think I need to make a switch. I was really amazed by how well this works with both rotory and orbital polishers so far. I got excellant results with it on a pc7424 and on a rotory and a Dual action air polisher. I`m lost for words so far. I found a product that cuts like m105 and finishes better then m205 all in the same bottle!!!! LOOK OUT.



Wow, that`s one of those statements that sounds "too good to be true"....especially when you add the fact that it only costs $7.95 a bottle!

[bogi094]

can this product be used as a one step? or when u meant cuts like m105 and finishes better than m205 you meant doing two steps with diff. pads?



Sounds like a great product- ill have to get my hands on it after I get my hd uno

which by the way I got a wrong package- they sent me hd total and hd free instead of my polisher kit :(