We are all the way in a rural village to get this Nissan Xtrail corrected and Opti-Coated. The car is brand new, barely reaching 3 days old. Due to its area of activity, its constantly exposed to mud, rain, bad road conditions, etc.
Upon arrival, we saw the car in a rather poor lighting condition. Making the car glossy as ever.
As we our eyes got closer to the car. There you can spot the amount of dirt.
On the glass, its a mixture mud, rain and sand.
We got our LED out and check the paint. Swirls were visible on the paint even though its white.
We washed the car and found that the paint had 0 protection.
On the glass, the water doesn’t flow off at all.
After finishing with the cleaning, we moved on to the correction stage. Here is step 1. Still some minor not so visible swirl.
Final step fully removed the swirl. Due to the age of the car, the damages are on a few areas only, hence we did spot repairs.
Finally, after about 5hours, we finally got to the coating stage, here are the results of the coat.
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Recon cars are very common in Malaysia. Mostly imported from Japan, these cars are shipped in, reconditioned, and sold as if new. Here we have with us an Audi A5 sportback. Being in black, we had already assumed the condition to be bad. Read on to know more.
From the looks of the car, it seem to be shine and glossy. With only 50k clocked mileage, we can only say, looks can be deceiving.
The sun was out, we just had to take some sun shots with the damages.
It is a very common view being a reconditioned unit, most car dealers will send the car for either a fresh coat of paint or a cheap polish.
In this case, we can definitely see some neglect.
Swirl levels were not high, but sufficient to affect the shine a little.
Some panels had more damage, some had less. So we now can confirm the car dealer did not do anything to the car.
It may not be as bad as its looks, but flies died from the shitty paint condition too.
As usual, we gave the car a good deep clean. All neglected areas were taken care of.
Paint was restored to the default condition.
There were no longer any visible swirls or scratches.
As for the finishing, we cleaned up all trim, edges, and removed all polishing residue.
The wheels on this ride was modified to a matte black/alloy finish. The brake dust however, is still caked up.
A closer look on the wheel and it filthy!
Wheels barrels were cleaned.
You can actually see the brake dust dissolving with the alkaline cleaner.
and finally, After all the cleaning.
Wheel barrels are proper now.
Reach for the skies! Check out the insane reflections.
And finally the coated car.
Today we have here with us a Volkswagen MK7 Golf GTI. It had been one of the many cars we have been requested to post up. As we have many many cars awaiting article posting, we chose this to be up first.
Upon arrival, we always check the cleanliness of the car. Which in this case seem to be clean and shiny.
As we moved to the frontal area of the car, we are able to see that there is a wet look on the car, most probably due to lighting or the dealership waxed the car.
As we started to inspect the car close up, we found dirt stains everywhere.
Windows were covered in dust.
Doors were covered with the standard road grime and dust.
Side skirts are collecting much dirt too.
Due to the aerodynamic’s of the car, sand, dust and dirt are collected at the back section of the car too.
We also found some minor tree sap stains on the paint.
A closer look onto the paint, it is not as clean as it looks after all.
Into the paint condition, we did a sun shot and found that the paint is still in a flawless state.
With a LED light source, we can conclude the paint’s condition.
As the paint condition is at such a good state, there is no correction required. Our focus will be on stain removals. Here is a before
And After stain removal.
The owner passed us a new set of LED taillights to be coated as well, so we prepared them as well.
The wheels prior delivery is normally covered in some sort of plastic film, this plastic film will leave adhesive residue which is normally missed out by the dealers. Here is a before.
After the residue is removed.
The wheels were covered in brake dust as usual. This is a before.
More before shots.
And After much hours spent on decontamination.
Finally, wet white gloss.
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