Oakes - Detailed: 2008 Pontiac G8 GXP

OakesDetail

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This very low mile 2008 G8 GXP was in need of a good refresh and protect. The car was not hacked up by the dealer, however, it may or may not have gotten proper treatment between then and now. Fortunately, being driven such low miles...only 7k, there wasn't much damage to be found. Granted, it did suffer from some scuffs and scratches that can be seen in the photos. The Phantom Black paint come out fantastic in the end with a lot of gloss to compliment it's metallic base. These are definitely neat cars!





Products used:



Meguairs M105 + yellow pad



Menzerna 106 + white pad



Meguairs Super Degreaser



P21S Paint cleanser



P21S TAW



CG metal wax/polish with mothers powerball mini



Stoners Tarminator



CG Citruswash Clear



CG Wheel cleaner



Sonus green ultrafine clay



CG Maxi suds clay solution



Wolfgang Fuzion wax



Sprayaway ammonia free window cleaner



Rejex



Might be other products







Procedure: Car was rinsed sprayed with citrus degreaser and left on for a minute, rinsed off and washed with Citrus wash, then clayed the car, rewashed and dried. Cleaned wheels with CG WC and exhaust tips were cleaned with CG metal polish/wax and powerball mini. After car was washed all trim was taped off. Paint readings were taken, front was reading in from 90s to 290-334 range microns. Did test panel and after trying several combos we went with 105 and yellow pad, even though car only had 7k on it, it still needed some compounding. After M105 car was polished with green pad and menzerna106. Tail lights were polished with same combo as car on PC. After polishing, used paint cleanser to remove polishing oils and then waxed with. Engine was washed, car was cleaned and dressed inside as well.









Onto Correction pictures





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Final and Reflection pictures





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As always, thanks for looking!



-Oakes
 
Looks fantastic!



Would you happen to have taken any paint thickness readings? I'd really like to know how thick the paint is on our cars without having to splurge on a reader. I know our cars scratch very easily.
 
We did, I recall the range being from 100-120 microns throughout the vehicle. I do not have the actual numbers recorded handy.
 
OakesDetail said:
We did, I recall the range being from 100-120 microns throughout the vehicle. I do not have the actual numbers recorded handy.

Awesome, thanks! Mine's a 2009.5 with a little over 11,500 miles on it, so I imagine mine would be very similar - and has similar micro-marring and hazing to this one. Thank goodness it isn't black!



EDIT: By the way, just wanted to point out - the GXP was only offered as a 2009 model.
 
You're welcome, and interesting points...I know he definitely received the vehicle in 2008, but that's not to say that's the model year as I also received my 2009 vehicle in 08. However it was in the early part of the year if I recall correctly.
 
OakesDetail said:
You're welcome, and interesting points...I know he definitely received the vehicle in 2008, but that's not to say that's the model year as I also received my 2009 vehicle in 08. However it was in the early part of the year if I recall correctly.

He was probably one of the earliest adopters, then.



As for the front bumper cover - I was totally mistaken, so I removed that tidbit from my post.
 
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