Optimum Hyper Polish - 2003 Honda Civic LX

**Mike Phillips** · 05-31-2010, 01:54 PM

Video: Optimum Hyper Polish - 2003 Honda Civic LX

Last Tuesday David Ghodoussi, President and CEO for Optimum Polymer Technologies came to Autogeek to make a video for our "New Products Showcase" feature here at our Show Car Garage Studio.

Show Car Garage Video: Optimum Hyper Polish

In this video we show using the new spray-on Optimum Hyper-Polish using both a Porter Cable 7424XP and a DeWalt 849 Rotary Buffer using a neglected 2003 Honda Civic LX as our demo car.

The Optimum Hyper Polish has a long play time, or buffing cycle, it uses both SMAT and DAT for cleaning and abrading ability and you can vary the aggressiveness of the cut by changing the aggressiveness or gentleness of your pad. For a more aggressive cut use a wool cutting pad on a rotary buffer or an aggressive foam pad on any eclectic polisher or for a finishing polish use a finishing pad on any eclectic polisher. Wipe-off is easy and the results are a clear glossy finish.

SMAT = Super Micro Abrasive Technology
DAT = Diminishing Abrasive Technology

Here`s a few shots from that video and then the following Thursday I finished buffing out the rest of the car for the owner, Kendra, who was kind enough to let us user her car in our video.

After and Before shots

Our special guest David Ghodoussi from Optimum Polymer Technologies

On Thursday, I took some "Before Shots" to show the oxidation, swirls and water spot etchings in the paint...

After washing and claying the car we moved it back into the studio to finish buffing the rest of the car.

There wasn`t too much plastic trim to tape off but anything that could be covered or taped-off was to make clean-up faster and easier.

In the video we demonstrated using a Rotary Buffer with a white foam polishing pad which worked great but for the actual buff-out I chose an aggressive yellow 6" Kompressor Pad backed up by a Meguiars Solo Easy Buff W66 Rotary Backing Plate

This shot was taken after cutting the entire car using Optimum Hyper Polish.

**Mike Phillips** · 05-31-2010, 01:59 PM

Continued...

Even after washing and claying the paint you can see lots of embedded dirt being removed off and out of the paint as it builds up on the face of the Kompressor pad...

This is after cleaning the pad using the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer with some DP Polishing Pad Rejuvenator

Here`s the results after cutting the finishing with Optimum Hyper-Polish

Next up I`m going to use a Porter Cable 7424XP with a 5.5" White Polishing Pad with Optimum Poli-Seal to seal the paint

It`s kind of hard to see but there`s a thin layer of the Optimum Poli-Seal over the entire car...

This is after wiping off the Optimum Poli-Seal...

Tires were all treated with Optimum Opti-Bond Tire Gel

Here`s a shot taken just this morning...

Products Used
Optimum Hyper Polish Spray
Optimum Poli-Seal
Optimum Opti-Bond Tire Gel
Porter Cable 7424XP
Makita 9227C Variable Speed Rotary Buffer
DeWalt 849 Variable Speed Rotary Buffer
5.5" White Polishing Pad
Yellow 6" Kompressor Pad
DP Polishing Pad Rejuvenator
Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer
Meguiar`s Solo Easy Buff W66 Rotary Backing Plate

**njcarting1** · 05-31-2010, 02:37 PM

WOW

What a difference looks great, thanks for the thread...

**Stephan** · 05-31-2010, 04:54 PM

Looks fantastic...I can`t wait to try some of that to see how it works.

**G.T.Subie** · 05-31-2010, 05:58 PM

Awesome work as usual.

That Hyper Polish look interesting.

**Mike Phillips** · 06-01-2010, 08:19 AM

Since the car belongs to a young lady that works here at Autogeek I took a few more shots of it before other cars parked in the parking lot blocking a side shot....