Detailer's Domain: Subaru BRZ - New Car Prep with Opti Coat
 

Subject: Subaru BRZ - WRB
Requirements - New Car Prep - Opticoat

Customer brought us his new BRZ, remove imperfections and apply Opti Coat.

Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed with Adam's Car Wash
- Decon
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Nano Scrub AutoScrub
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Menzerna FG400 - MF Cutting Pad
- Sonax 3/6 Nano Polish - Uber Green Pad
- Opti Coat
- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used -
Auto Finesse Lather
Optimum Power Clean
Auto Finesse Iron Out
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Menzerna FG400
Sonax Nano Polish
Opti Coat
Wolf's Glass Guard
Adam's Super VRT
Optimum Metal Polish

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Rupes Bigfoot LHR15ES
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before
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http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1424.jpg

Wash

Wheels, tires, wheel wells get hit with APC and Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1455-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1451.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1454.jpg

Foam
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1460.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1468-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1469-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1473-1.jpg

Rinse
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1478-1.jpg

Before correction
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1494-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1493.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1486.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1484.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1522-1.jpg

Rupes BigFoot Polisher LHR15ES
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1512.jpg

Door corrected
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1520.jpg

After compound and polishing
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1517.jpg

Before shot of the exhaust tip
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1497-1.jpg

Adam's Metal Polish on the exhaust tips
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1506-1.jpg

After
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1504.jpg

Final wipe down on the wheels
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1496.jpg

Opti Coat applied
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1526.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1525.jpg

Afters
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1549-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...DSC_1547-1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1540.jpg
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http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...u/DSC_1551.jpg

Enjoy!

Awesome job! On those small surface scratches you showed pictures of in the "before" pics how aggressive of a compound did you use to get them out?

sure the FG400 is aggressive but also finishes down really well.