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My paint has a lot of swirls and light scratches. It's my daily driver and it's hard to keep it factory fresh. As long as we can't see it from the pics, I'm good!
Get your car professionally paint corrected. Then ceramic coat(not the spray bottle crap, the real stuff) the car and make a DIY. I've ceramic coated my car twice in the last 5.5 years, it definitely protects against swirls and light scratches.
My paint has a lot of swirls and light scratches. It's my daily driver and it's hard to keep it factory fresh. As long as we can't see it from the pics, I'm good!
Rock chips are a daily driver issue but swirls and some light scratches are caused by improper washing. I have zero swirls on my obsidian and its daily driven. Rock chips however are another story, mostly from the previous owner. I did a wet sand to get rid of most of the light ones.
Luckily we can find very good compounds today, and combined with different pads, you can increase or decrease the cut level and ultimately the final finish desired.
This is why I use menzerna products. Provides enough cut with the right pad to remove deeper scratches and can finish down super glossy with a light pad.
Glad to hear this works well, what year is yours? The app looks nice and I would get this but my D3 Tune already has some pretty good settings for each of the drive modes. Eco could also use a bit of boost but that's part of what makes it eco mode I guess.
Mine is a 2019, I cant wait to throw an axleback so i can feel and hear the difference as well! what tune do you have?
Great choice looking at alternatives, Grom has gave me so much trouble. About half the price and it has Airplay? That’s great.
It definitely took me a but to get everything set up the way I wanted to. But so dar it has been great; it does have airplay which I found out some apps like Netflix and Disney+ does not let you play videos off airplay! I can get internet and netflix no problem tho.
@jgscott wow - 285/35 on the 19's seems crazy wide for the GS but it came out great No plans on the front-end? Front Lip or F-Sport treatment?
Thanks AJ, was uncharted territory, and was afraid they would rub, but they don't thankfully. Yes they are crazy Wide and I like it alot!
So I did some research on the 285/35/19. I wanted a little higher side wall for protection and comfortable ride quality, but still performance. Also seems every GS I see especially with a Drop, the back tires just look too stupid small on ours cars. The 285/35 filled up nicely for me. To my surprise these very high performance cars run that size stock already. https://www.wheel-size.com/tire/iso-metric-285-35-R-19/
They are just what I wanted. Because of the size increased amount of rubber, they really absorb bumps and imperfections in the road and soak them up keeping them from inside the cabin. The Yokohama Advan Sport A/S + is rated great for handling and comfort with little to no noise. They are also one of the lightest weight tires in that size too. I could not be happier with this set up. http://www.best-tire-review.com/yoko...re-review.html
Have a 15 GS F Sport front bumper being PPF Wrapped now, and installing the Fog/Driving LED's. Also I do have the Think Designs Font lip piece's. I hate the big Ebay style wrap around Lips. Should have the Bumper, Think Lips wrapped, and lights installed complete shortly, and will post it when. Like this below, but of course all Black.
My detailing OCD is becoming a problem LOL. The paint is really good considering it's 10 years old, but there were noticeable
water spots etched in on the horizontal surfaces (trunk lid/roof/hood), which have been bothering me each time I wash it.
Took basically the whole day detailing her. Rinseless wash with Griot's rinseless, towel dry. Tested a clay bar to see if it would improve the spotting. It did not. Moved forward to compounding trunk lid/roof/hood (sonax cutmax with Meguiar's white microfiber cutting pads) and followed up with polish (koch chemie microcut with lake country green foam pad). After the two steps did a quick ipa wipedown and applied p21s carnauba.
I'm pretty surprised how much of a difference it made. The whole thing pops way brighter and the water spots are no more.. I wonder if the compound step was necessary. Didn't do a test section like you're supposed to LOL.
Anyway if anyone has pretty good paint and is wondering if doing a polish will really make a difference, my $0.02 says yes, which it probably wouldn't have yesterday.
Oops forgot to get white the license. What are the possible repercussions there anyway? I'm naive tend not to worry about that kind of stuff that much!???
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