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Optimum Coating : Honda HR-V in Silver.

Posted by joshlai on September 23, 2015
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We have with us a 1 day old Honda HR-V. This round, we are at Malacca, the historical state of Malaysia. Not wasting any time, lets start with the process.
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Upon arrival, we did our usual walk around the car to spot any visible damages.
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The car was swirl free as we inspected the paint with a LED light.
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We looked closer at other panels and concluded the car to be at a tip top paint condition.
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Recently, we had many cases of badly scratches taillights, hence as a precaution, we inspected the taillights closely as well.
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Although the paint was in good shape, we found the texture to be slightly rough. A full car claying was done.
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After claying, we gave the car a light polish to smooth out the surface.
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Finally, we checked the surface for any left over marring from the claying process.
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The sun came out hence we took all these shot without any artificial lighting.
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Finally, the surface is now coating worthy.
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The wheels were not very dirty since the car is a day old.
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There were some light signs of use.
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Wheel Barrel was also dirty from rain puddles beside of the road.
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We cleaned the wheel.
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Finally, we coated the wheels and gave it a coat of tyre shine.
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Lastly, the car was coated and left to cure. Here are the results.
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Optimum Coating : Mercedes Benz E300 Bluetec Hybrid

Posted by joshlai on September 18, 2015
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2015-08-31 10.44.58
We are all the way down south at Johor Bharu to prep and coat this sexy Mercedes Benz today. The car is around 3 months old but very under utilized. The main use of the car was to go to fancy business functions hence the clean and spanking new paint.
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Upon arrival, we did our usual walk around the car to check for any obvious defects.
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Immediately we spot a paint chip off on one of the door.
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The paint had severe stain and contamination.
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All over the car, there were small black spots.
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There were some light tar spots on the side panels.
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We also found some wax residue on some of the edges.
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Because the car is diesel powered, exhaust area were slightly cover in the brown carbon emitted from the exhaust.
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Overall, the paint was still in a very good shape with next to no swirls.
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We gave the car our standard decontamination wash. The surface is clean but without any protection.
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The wax residue left on the edge was removed carefully with a cotton bud.
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Finally, we gave the paint a light polish to smooth  out any non-visible blemish.
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LED spotlight indicated no visible damage on the paint. The car is now ready for coating.
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We also gave the exhaust a quick polish, removing the brown stains.
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The small tar spots were removed as well.
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The owner was quite particular on his car washing methods.
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We did some minor cleaning and got the wheels coated.
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The glass were slightly stained with watermark.
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We removed all the watermark stains and restored the glass to a sleek surface.
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Finally, we got the car coated and here are the results.
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Optimum Detail : Another Epic Headlight Restoration

Posted by joshlai on September 15, 2015
Posted in: Detailing. Tagged: car, cars, coating, correction, div, done, done right, dual action polisher, epic, gloss, halogen spotlight, headlight, headlightcorrection, honda, ipoh, malaysia, oc1, opti, opti-coat, opti-coat pro, opti-guard, opticoat, opticoatpro, optimum, optimum coating, reflection, right, shine, teasers, toilet bowl, transportation, travel, water droplets, white. Leave a comment

We would like to share with you a  short yet mind blowing article. Here we have a very damaged headlight.
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The edge of the headlight is badly scuffed.
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There were some severe scuffs on the lens as well.
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As we looked closer into surface conditions, it is obvious that the original coating built-in to the lens has oxidized.
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A closer look at the scuffs.
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We started with 800grid, to 1500grid and finally to 2000grid.
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Finally, corrected the sanding marks with the Rupes correction system with a combination of Menzerna polishes.
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