Nissan GTR New Car Opti-Coat by Greg Gellas
 

I thought I would share my most recent car with everyone.

Here we have a brand new Nissan GTR, just an awesome car! As we all know during transport, and dealer prep, any car can get contamination, swirling, and damage to the paint. Although, not sever a little TLC is always good.

I started with the wheels. Sonax Full Effect, wheel woolies, a boars hair brush were all used to agitate brake dust. The tires were scrubbed with Optimum power clean and a Tuff shine tire brush.

Initially I foamed using 50% Dawn and 50% Chemical guys citrus wash and clear. Two buckets were used, although only one is in the picture :) After a through washing, I then removed any contamination using a Nanoskin fine grade wash mitt.

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I moved on to Iron-X. Without Iron-X the pores of the clear coat won't get the contamination removed.

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Using my Chemical Guys JetSpeed blower I dried it. Its a great option when compressed air isn't available. I was doing a 1 step polish on the car to correct any light swirls or damage, and amp up the gloss.

This is an awesome color, that it was very difficult to photograph damage. You can just make out the light sweeping lines in this picture.

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Here in the center of the picture you can see the 50/50 I was able to get. Clarity to the paint is being restored.

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There were some deeper scratches above the rear plate that were much easier to photograph.

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I was able to correct out about 90% of them. Some faint residual scratches remained.

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Please excuse the blurry shot, I wanted to include the severe the damage to the A pillars was.

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Exhaust tips needed attention.

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I applied Optimum Metal Polish to the foam applicator, not to the tips. The foam applicator holds the product and I am able to spread it easily this way. The applicator also allows me to polish in tight areas that may normally be out of reach.

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Much improved.

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The entire car got another wash with Dawn and Chemical Guys Wash and Clear. Once again the blower was used to dry the car to ensure I didn't introduce swirls or scratches into the car I just corrected. :) I put on my MF apron and gave it a complete IPA wipe down. The entire car got Opti-Coat, all trim, paint, and rear windows.

Being a new car the interior was getting a wipe down and dressing. While doing that noticed a small pice of plastic that was left sticking out of the door panel.

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Using dental pics I got it removed.

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So how did it turn out? Let me start with the fact that I didn't have my tripod with me. If any pictures are blurry please excuse me. Overall, depth and gloss were improved, any minor imperfections were corrected and it glows.

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As always thanks for looking. Greg Gellas

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Man i need to start looking for a good opticoat company near sac, that GTR looks CLEAN! I take my car in tomorrow for its first auto coating and hopefully it gets rid of the swirl marks from the dealer. (they SAID it would)

love that car. the front end is HUGE but i want. looks awesome

Are you talking Dawn, as in the dish soap? I used to use it waaaaay back when, but was told it was not good to use. True? Is it okay to use since you're only using 50% with the other wash? Just curious. I'm always amazed at what you detail guys can accomplish. Car looks great!!! :happy0180:

map of authorized installers of Opti-Coat should help you out

http://batchgeo.com/map/232199a337c8...9c28a4d3b9c6e7

Nice job Greg!

Very nice. Can't wait to get my car and head your direction!

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it!

That looks like leeberb's place.

Dawn is used to strip wax and sealants. It is NOT suggested for regular washes.

;) Well, Lee did do a full bumper, hood, fenders, a-pillar, rocker panels, Roof line, luggage compartment, mirror, paint protection film on the car. :D

Yes, when we get a car together we work out of one shop. :thumbsup: One stop drop off!

Fresh we will see you soon :D

Sweet one in the area an hour away! May I ask how long it takes you to get it done? It wouldmt be a trip that I could just drop the car off and go back later.

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Haha...that explains what happened to the paint on my Mom's old Malibu. Matte paint before matte paint jobs were cool! :w00t:

Ah I see. That's cool. . I knew the place looked familiar. Outstanding job on the car though. I've only had the pleasure to be around 1 GTR, but at least it was a black edition. Gorgeous cars, but too bad they've hiked the price up $30k since it's introduction a few years ago.

Thanks for detailing my GT-R Greg! I'd like it returned to me now.

Looks great.

Silver cars are the best if you want to hid imperfections, I can see why you had trouble getting the before pics to turn out. My old Subaru had a number of defects and paint issues but after a simple 2 step polish, clay and wax most of them were hard to make out from more than a couple feet away. :)