Dan
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Sometimes some of the greatest discoveries are by accident.
Since I've been doing some (mechanical) work on my older S4, I decided it would be fun to do some comparison tests as the car was going to be parked for a while. The paint is in pretty poor shape, it has moderate swirling and hasn't ever been polished by machine. I've never had much luck with swirl fillers but I wanted to compare my newly acquired SRP to the DWG I had sitting around. I also wanted to see how much layering I could do with KSG. KSG is the only product I have used that, without a doubt layers, but I was curious as to how much. So I split the trunk up into sections with some painters tape. I proceeded to layer SRP, DWG, #21 and KSG (surface prepped with KAIO). I left one section with only one coat of KSG to compare to the other.
I did these sections whenever I had time, but let each section sit and dry at least 12 hours. With everything else going on, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the KSG layered side. I kept comparing SRP to DWG. #21 was a total failure in swirl hiding. Then a few days later, thinking I didn't prove anything, I removed the tape. I decided to give the trunk another look and I was blown away.
The KSG x 6 area had virtually no swirls. Only the deepest of the deep swirls showed slightly. I was dumbfounded. Here I was comparing DWG to SRP and KSG threw a sucker punch. I had seen Autogeeks description of KSG, they stated it was one of the best swirl fillers, but I took it as a sales pitch. I really am blown away by this....
Getting pictures of this was a challenge, but I was able to place a credit card on the paint surface, focus lock on it, and then move it out of the way and snap the picture.
6 coats of Autoglym Super Resin Polish
6 coats of Danase Wet Glaze, original version
One coat of KSG
This picture is also representative of the #21 and similar swirling to the actual paint
6 coats of KSG
Since I've been doing some (mechanical) work on my older S4, I decided it would be fun to do some comparison tests as the car was going to be parked for a while. The paint is in pretty poor shape, it has moderate swirling and hasn't ever been polished by machine. I've never had much luck with swirl fillers but I wanted to compare my newly acquired SRP to the DWG I had sitting around. I also wanted to see how much layering I could do with KSG. KSG is the only product I have used that, without a doubt layers, but I was curious as to how much. So I split the trunk up into sections with some painters tape. I proceeded to layer SRP, DWG, #21 and KSG (surface prepped with KAIO). I left one section with only one coat of KSG to compare to the other.
I did these sections whenever I had time, but let each section sit and dry at least 12 hours. With everything else going on, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the KSG layered side. I kept comparing SRP to DWG. #21 was a total failure in swirl hiding. Then a few days later, thinking I didn't prove anything, I removed the tape. I decided to give the trunk another look and I was blown away.
The KSG x 6 area had virtually no swirls. Only the deepest of the deep swirls showed slightly. I was dumbfounded. Here I was comparing DWG to SRP and KSG threw a sucker punch. I had seen Autogeeks description of KSG, they stated it was one of the best swirl fillers, but I took it as a sales pitch. I really am blown away by this....
Getting pictures of this was a challenge, but I was able to place a credit card on the paint surface, focus lock on it, and then move it out of the way and snap the picture.
6 coats of Autoglym Super Resin Polish
6 coats of Danase Wet Glaze, original version
One coat of KSG
This picture is also representative of the #21 and similar swirling to the actual paint
6 coats of KSG
