My day with Charlene

[512detail]

So I made two new friends today. One was very nice, inquisitive and eager to learn how to better care for his car.
The other one, however, all she wanted to do was growl, whine, and hiss.

Meet Charlene...

2200 miles and some change
-2016 Plum Crazy Purple SRT Hellcat Challenger

Arrived pretty clean...
Uber rw (and demo/how to)
3d bdx
Uber rw
Baggie test
Nanoskin glide + cobra clay mit
Essence
Duetto + rupes mf finishing disc (speed 2 to spread, then 4)
1 hr cure
Pinnacle Black Label Synergy (ive been testing essence secretly with a few things on my own car)

Interior, Wheels and hood (matte black w xpel full hood/front end wrap) will be properly addressed at another time (not sure what is best for that), and we simply spent a lot of time talking about Mopars, etc and I ran out of time to try and coat them. Poorboy’s Spray and Wipe was used for now.

Anyways...

Sun setting photo shoot....

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Now what happened next, well, that's between one SRT owner and the other (& thankfully not TX DPS either-lol)

Thanks for viewing
A day to remember...

-Brandt

 

[mjlinane]

Awesome work, Brandt.

 

[Ronkh]

Beautiful work
Beautiful car

 

[Bunky]

Looks great!

 

[JSFM35X]

If they did a dukes of Hazard re make, this would be the car!

WOW-just love that thing.

 

[Sizzle Chest]

Very nice work! Car looks great!!

 

[Justins00ss]

Stunning work!!! What are your thoughts on Essence so far? I have had great results with it as a finishing polish.

 

[512detail]

Thank you everyone. This was one of those jobs you remember for quite a while and my first client for the new car club deals I'm providing to my friends to get ready for show season (and help me save up for something cool detail related- perhaps a new mark II by end of summer- my duetto deserves some time off and after using essence several times I think a stronger polisher would really help.

Very nice work! Car looks great!!

your recent thread helped me out on this job. I still need to figure out what is best/safest to put on top of that xpel wrapped hood/front end

Stunning work!!! What are your thoughts on Essence so far? I have had great results with it as a finishing polish.

I've used it a couple times now. All with either the rupes yellow finishing foam or yellow mf finish disc

Granted I'm working with a duetto so results the cut is not as good as even a lhr 15 or especially a markII but I have gone as far as max speed with the mf finishing disc to get off some moderately deep scratches from that plum paint
-it didn't do anything to the isolated RIDS on my black trunk lid however--but I didn't go more aggressive on the pad at that time

If I would have had more time I would have gone with 4500 or rupes keramik and then finished up with essence on the new carpro gloss pad (but we were very time restricted here)

I have been experimenting with Dodo Hybrid Nano, Synergy, PBL Coating Booster, and Reload on top of essence on my own SRT. (with a control spot for essence only)

 

[JustJesus]

nice results, man

 

[512detail]

thank you. when my dlux gets in his trim will get coated and wheels too (next time we can get together-hopefully soon)

and I will probably put another coat of Synergy on there after checking the beading of the current setup- of course

going to play with carpro's fabric coating on my seats to get the hang of it and then use it on his interior (he didn't opt for the fancy Nappa leather on this one---he actually used to have a Jazz blue 6speed Cat (2015)) and its still for sale at this moment at the dealer