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In the picture above, with the Chevelle in our training shop, the paint looks pretty good. In the below picture, the paint also looks pretty good. But pictures can be deceiving. Over the decades, there's always a group of experts that will look at one of these pictures and then for some reason, they will actually think I bring in cars that ALREADY LOOK GOOD for my classes. They are so wrong. But this is why I call them experts. LOL
This is also why I like to photo and video document the before condition, (obviously before the class), and then just as important - the AFTER condition, after the class goes through our training. And when I share the actual before pictures and the after pictures, the experts go silent. LOL
Here's the Chevelle as she looked when she arrived at the Dr. Beasley's Detailing Training Acadamy in Stuart, Florida.
Here's why I don't use WHITE and LIGHT colored vehicles as well as boats for our car and boat detailing classes. If you look closely, you can see the swirls and traffic film build-up on the white SS stripes on the hood of the Chevelle. They are really bad, they just don't showcase well via pictures and videos - at least not like medium, dark and black cars.
Now I've moved so the sun is reflecting down on the red portion of the fender. This is the exact same clearcoated paint, but now you can accurately see the true condition of the red paint under the clearcoat, which is also the same condition the white paint is under the clearcoat.
The below picture is the same picture as above, only I've cropped in much tighter.
Same condition paint all over the Chevelle
Inside Before Shots
I also document the before condition once the car is moved inside using both overhead LED lights and swirl finder lights.
No pretty - at least not for a super cool Chevelle with a radical 496 Cubic Inch Big Block Chevy Engine (pictures of engine below)
Test Spot
To make sure the paint can actually be fixed, I do a Test Spot on the driver's side trunk lid.
Again - not pretty for such an iconic muscle car.
Detailometer Readings
Of course, our human eyes can easily see the paint is neglected and ugly, but the Detailometer takes the human element out of the observation and delivers a quantifiable measurement based on controlled optic readings.
Wow! There's a lot of room for improvement
It will be rewarding watching the class transform this paint using a rotary polisher and a wool pad with Dr. Beasley's CoreCut NSP Primer.
Here's where I'll do the Test Spot
CoreCut and also our CoreCut+ cut incredibly fast!
Here's after results
This is after cutting with CoreCut with a wool pad on a rotary polisher, followed by re-polishing using a foam polishing pad and NSP 150, then NSP 95 with a foam finishing pad and then ceramic coating. For show car training, I show a 3-step process. For all you experts that say, I can do that in 2 steps, so can I, but I'm teaching SHOW CAR DETAILING and often times, to maximize perfection, a final finishing step with a fine cut or ultra fine cut polish will deliver show car results.
Now this looks GREAT!
And the little tiny dots are probably Solvent Pop from when this car was painted and because Solvent Pop is like a tunnel THROUGH the layer of paint, more and more compounding simply remove more and more paint without fixing the Solvent Pop.
Let's take another reading with the Detailometer
That's what I'm talking about
This Chevelle is going to come out looking freaking amazing!
Here's a few more pictures to photo document the current condition of the paint. I'll shoot a video as soon as the car arrives.
These water spots and traffic film on the paint are BONDED to the paint. This kind of contamination will not WASH off. The paint needs to be machine polished and this will remove the water spots, traffic film, oxidation, swirls and scratches.
The valve covers say 454 but this engine has been bored out to 496 cubic inches!
Another GREAT training car for the upcoming September class.
Are you new to the detailing world?
If you are, just note, all my classes look like this. I bring in severely neglected cars, lots of them and always cool cars for you to train on. When looking at other classes, look to see if they show you what you'll actually get to train on BEFORE you sign-up and pay for the class.
I have a lot of people that take my class that tell me they took some other class and regretted the investment.
I have 1-day classes in October, November and December. Click the link below to get signed up for one of these future classes
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Questions about the classes or training? Shoot me a text or give me a call at 760-515-0444
Mike
