Gloss-it has just completed our second Signature Detail class certification. Bob Willis Gloss-it Tech advisor/ Signature Detailer / Authorized GI Reseller and owner of Auto Concierge and myself instructed class attendees Richie Carbone owner of Richie's custom detail from Winter Garden Florida and Mark Zamzow from Z's Best Detail from Northern California.
Bob Willis / GI Tech Advisor 
Richie Carbone 
Mark Zamzow 
These experience detailer's spent 5 days of extensive training at the Gloss-it corp head quarters perfecting the art of paint correction with Gloss-it polishes, different polishers and GI foams pads. This course consist of learning to correct paint on a 90 to 100 percent level of correction from a variety of different type of paint imperfections (
swirl-marks, deep rids, car wash scratches, pig tail sand marks), Specific cars were choosen for their hardness of finish from single stage paint ( pigmented paint that pulls color to base coat clear coat paint thats soft and hard to finish down.
The class objective was to assess different paint correction options, diagnose the severity of the impefection and learn proper techniques for removing without damaging the paint and leaving a micro and hologram free finish.
The cars used for the class was a hammered 1991 Mitsubishi Stealth twin turbo black of course which was really in need of repaint and a 2005 corvette C5 that has very very hard paint and is difficult to correct 100%. Richie, Mark and Bob were up for the challenge.
First up to bat was the hammered Stealth. This car was
not going to correct 100%. Parts of the car had been repainted and some part had original paint from 19 years ago. Wow! As Bob clearly said this was a "problem child" And boy was he right!:bitenails:
Before Sun Shots:
Inside Shots: w/ 250 watt halogen 
Fenix 100 lumens light 
First was a test panel to determine a paint correction plan.
Not much paint. 4.2. Yikes:bitenails:
Richie performs a test panel.
Just one pass with extreme cut, 5.75 pad and Evp pad prime. 80 percent corrected...Not bad but far from done
We all realized this car was going to need an aggressive plan of action to come close to 95% correction.
Products used for paint correction:
5' Evo Backing Plate
3' Evo Backing Plate
5.75 Grey synthetic heavy cut wool
3.75 Grey synthetic heavy cut wool
5.75 Fast Cut white Foam
3.75 Fast Cut white Foam
5.75 Blue finishing Foam
3.75 Blue finishing Foam
Beta Xtreme cut
extreme cut
Beta 4 lite cut polish
Evolution Polish w/evp pad prime
Cyclo polisher w/ blue finishing pads/ 1 coat of Signature Gloss Jewelled in.
Concorso Gloss / 1 coat hand applied with 100ppi red foam 100ppi applicator
Gloss Enhancer QD for final wipe down!
Crew jumps in and gets started on a 45 hour correction!
Hey Bob lets stop with the funny bizz over here!
Nice work mark!
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