As many of you know, I'm a P21S user - love the products - and every year about two weeks before I leave for the usual cross-country trip to the Porsche Parade, I spend a couple of days starting from scratch detailing the current Porsche... and after prepping the surface, putting at least two, sometimes three coats of P21S wax on it. I have found that on these long trips, you encounter nothing but bugs and any manner of strange weather, and by the time I get back after three weeks or so, the finish of the car has been mightily abused, and the wax is almost all gone.

This year, I just don't have the time, and with the trip to Charlotte looming in about 10 days, I've taken the CS to a shop around the corner from my house in LV called Granite Auto Grooming, which is also the HQs of Cayman Club site sponsor Rich Light and his Gloss-it products. He's doing a full Gloss-it Evolution paint correction treatment on the CS, and then finishing it off with his exclusive Gloss-it High Gloss treatment, which they guarantee to keep 80% of it's gloss and protection for 6 months. This will be a very good test, I think.

I do a lot of long-distance traveling to PCA and Cayman Club events every year, and then flog the car hard on the track, and this year has been no different so far - I try to find touchless or hand wash car washes when I'm on the road, but as you can see, the overall shape of the finish is pretty sad, with lots of swirl marks and micro scratches. Rich has already sent me some pictures from their "paint correction analysis" this morning... in these to picturs, you can see an example of the overall shape of the paint - ugh...





In these two pictures, they have used the first two steps on the rear driver's side fender, then taken it out into the sun and washed it off with water and alcohol - there is no wax or finish coat yet... you can already see the dramatic difference between the fender and the finish on the rear hatch for comparison.





So, I'm pretty excited to have the car's finish rejuvenated, and I'm going to take some pictures during the trip to document how well the finish holds up to the brutality of a trip like this...

brad

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Looks good. Is it a polish? Abrasive? By hand or orbital?

So far it is holding up pretty good on our minivan too! (it is dark blue)

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They are using their Gloss-it polishes - they have three levels of abrasiveness depending on the condition of the paint to begin with. They're using orbitals, I'm sure... I'm at home around the corner.

Here's a link to their site so you can see the stuff they're using:

Home - Gloss It - An Evolution in Appearance Products - Car care, detailing, car wax, detailing spray, purchase online

brad

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They use UDM (Ultimate Detailing Machines) which btw are available from our new sponsor Autopia at a discount.

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They are also using the Cyclo and new Flex machine.

Nice work, Beez! Black paint is not for wussies.

Thank you, blueone

Man, that's for sure...

brad

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Well, I picked up the car at the end of the day yesterday, and the results are simply amazing... This is what Rich calls a 80-85% paint correction - which is basically all the time had to do it yesterday, but the CS has never looked this nice... The scratches are all gone, and the shine is ridiculously glossy. Rich has a hand-held Japanese instrument that measures the glossy reflection off of surfaces - we measured some glass with it, and the number was about 105. My paint is now between 95 and 97, depending where on the car we measured.

Here's some pictures of the finished product:







This (above) is an amazing picture - this is Rich's reflection in the door panel - it's like a mirror.





Again, I'll be keeping track of how the finish holds up under the abuse of a cross-country trip and back - plenty of bugs and capricious weather to come, I'm sure. My hope is that it will hold up better then the usual 3 coats of P21S wax I usually use. I'll be posting along the way.

brad

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Very nice. Expensive looking results (and probably was).

So do you go back to P21S afterward or use something different? Sorry if I missed something. Looks amazing. My car looks like the before picture after a month of detail spray waterless- water restriction- washings but the P21s paintwork cleaner has always brought it back.