2009 SRT Challenger with CSL+Exov3

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first wash-
2bm pbl shampoo v2
two fresh poorboys mf wash mitts
blown dry with my blaster
went over car with spray and wipe and three dmmts

sun was setting but took a few pics

ill have to say it was like pretty enjoyable watching the water behavior but I dod find a high spot on my passenger c pillar and nesr the passenger door/fender area- dangit!
i got a little too comfortable doing my own car i guess

also looks like a bird or cat scratched that same c pillar already, juat cant leave my car outside..I need an outdoor cover I guess for when I have to park it outside overnight

hard to tell if the zirkon was still left on there or not, so you know what that means, right. haha...guess I`ll have to add something else

 

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2nd "wash" was a high pressure rinse at coin op followed by a loop around the access road going no faster than 60 and there were only a couple drops of water left on the vehicle

had driven it 130 miles and wasnt really dirty but I wanted to high pressure rinse it and I don`t have a pw yet

after the drive I came back for a quick spray and wipe and dmmt touch up
total time before pics...21 mins and I even opened hood trunk and doors and wiped the jams down too (that includes when i left my house to drive to the coin op down the street as well)

didnt touch wheels/tires

 

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update: twice since last update I have rinsed it with high pressure water when it was a little dusty and then drove around the access road to the interstate not going over 60 and stop back by the coin op and spray it down with either spray and wipe, once

the other time it was with the new gtech qd which is also wonderful on this coating

a few days after that aforementioned last rinse and drive "wash" i drove to dallas and back (450miles or so) and san antonio twice (220 miles total) before doing a presoak with n914 @ww and a rw with about 20 micro towels, flipping each single short swipe and used polish angel black wulfenite as drying aid

edit, it rained on it several times on that trip and to my astonishishment it was really not very dirty at all

yesterday I drove about 100 miles and then i had to sit my car outside overnight and of course it sprinkled after it got nice and dusty so it was a leopard at 7am this morning

even though its supposed to rain again and my car wont have the garage for a few more days, I went back to the coin op and did another high pressure rinse and drove off

came back and wiped down with n914 @ww and took a few pics

beads on the plate, haha

so then i make the drive i mentioned earlier and come back and this yellow zo6 owner is quickly scrubbing down his car with the bay brush and then he comes out and starts slappong around a chaomis across it as his compadre hoses down the tires AND wheels with some foam in a can

pretty bad, yea I know, but it gets better

some person in a rav4 comes and tries to enter the auto wash tunnel from the exit only side, and even got out and looked around for the entrance point that takes your $

so then he backs up and tries to enter the exit of thr other auto wash bay (next to it)

about the time im finishing up wiping down the small amount of water left on my car I see this guy finally figured it out


I honestly couldn`t stop laughing. I almost dropped a micro too because my side starting hurting from laughter.

Anyways on with some early morning pics (730 or so)

when I got back home I did a rw on wheels and topped up with some healthy sprays of Polish Angel Supersport

didn`t touch the tires, still rocking bold n bright gel, last applied around fathers day

also cleaned and vacuumed the inside but it was hot outside my house so didn`t even pull out the camera

now the thread is fully updated

1 bucket wash
1 rinseless wash
a couple high pressure rinse and drive offs

to be honest, yes I have noticed a little bit of micromarring but I realize with my desire to play with toppers it will happen on this soft black paint

less on the csl w exov3 (as its 7h over 2h of the v2)

but the polish angel door and fender- none

so perhaps im only micromarring the 7h exov3 that sits on top of the csl?

I plan to experiment with essence plus on my trunk lid (the oldest running csl+exo test) once I get my garage back

 

[Never Enuff]

Your car wash experience sounds about the same as going to a boat ramp and watching for a few hours. I truly believe that more divorces have happened on a boat ramp than any other place!!! Your car looks great---as usual!!!!
Jay

 

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No job. The finish look just incredible

 

[NLove]

You`re car with 85k looks better than most new vehicles people drive off the lot! Keep up the good work.

 

[WT Taggart]

Brandt, Challenger looks great, enjoy seeing your work or should I say art. Thanks for sharing.


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thanks. the more I look at these pics the more I think I should have done the tires and wells again yesterday as well but I`m spoiled with the ac in garage and my truck is living in there until I can find the time to fix the window motor
when I looked at my car after I parked outside my garage last night all I could see was that the tires needed some shine to match the rest of the car

the struggle is real