2009 Corvette Polished & Sealed

The owner of this one is my brothers girlfriend. She is the second owner of this corvette. My brother helped me with this one as well.

I forgot to get a before photo prior to us starting but the car was rather clean.

We started on the inside and it was clean as well. We did a light vacuum. We gave the interior a wipedown with Meguiar's Quik Interior Detailer followed by 303 Automotive Protectant. The interior was a bit dry so it took a couple coats of 303 to rehydrate it.

We cleaned the interior glass with DP Krystal Vision Glass Cleaner.

The leather seats were cleaned with Meguiar's D181 Leather cleaner and protected with Meguiar's Ultimate Leather Balm.

We finished off the interior with a Meguiar's New Car Scent Air-Refresher Odor Eliminator.

Here's the finished look. These were taken the following day after the paint correction process.

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After the interior was complete we moved on to the exterior.

Prior to washing I cleaned the wheels and tires. I used Meguiar's D143 on the wheels and tires. Also cleaned the wheel wells with Meguiar's D108.

We moved onto using the Mike Phillips aggressive wash method

Ironx doing it's thing.

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The Adams foam gun with 2.5 ounces of DP Xtreme Foam Car Shampoo

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My bro giving the car a foam bath

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We resumed with claying the car. This did not have a lot of surface contaminants which was a good thing. We finished claying rather quickly.

The color hides defects pretty well but the defects that were in the paint were not that bad.

I didn't take too many photos while we were correcting it.

This was the perfect opportunity to use the new Rupes LHR15 Mark II and the Rupes UHS system. My Rupes Mini showed up just in time to knock out the smaller areas.

Also used the Meguiar's MT300 with the Rupes UHS. Worked well with the UHS system.

Here are some of the defects in the paint. Very minor and hard to capture with the camera.

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They were taken care of with a few passes using the Rupes UHS

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The Rupes Mini was put to work right away. The 3" UHS pads fit into the recessed tail lights just right.

Before

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After

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For protection the car received Blackfire Wet Diamond Paint Protection.

Here are some photos of the car sitting overnight in the garage. The Rupes UHS polishing compound added some nice gloss.

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Reflection shot after the car sat in the garage overnight.

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We gave this a final wipe with Blackfire Midnight Sun Carnauba Spray Wax.

Pulled it outside and the finish was swirl free. The Rupes UHS system was a rockstar on this one.

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