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Old 03-04-15, 03:00 PM
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Dropped off my car last week to pretty her up.

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2-3 stage paint correction
Full front ppf
Cquartz finest ppc
Cquartz finest leather
Retint windows

Should be getting pics soon. Geeked as hell to see the results. Detailer said with the two steps it looks amazing, nught and day. Final step polish and coat tomorrow will have the obsidian black looking like a mirror!

Ugggg the wait is killing me! Lol
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Originally Posted by popping
Dropped off my car last week to pretty her up.

Work getting done

2-3 stage paint correction
Full front ppf
Cquartz finest ppc
Cquartz finest leather
Retint windows

Should be getting pics soon. Geeked as hell to see the results. Detailer said with the two steps it looks amazing, nught and day. Final step polish and coat tomorrow will have the obsidian black looking like a mirror!

Ugggg the wait is killing me! Lol
Assuming you are going with Ivan of Lustr Detail given your location shows Illinois and he is one of just 3 installers in the state of IL.

He's one of the best in the business for a reason... your car will look stunning!!

-Zach
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Yes you are correct zach!
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CQuartz finest is a must for a black car!! It's going to look great!
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Here's a sneak peak

33/67 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbv40YxZyUw

After 2 step correction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OjxADc4Dng

Final stage tomorrow then finest is applied
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Looks great! Love that car
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Looks ahhmazing
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looking good. great job to the detailer
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Originally Posted by zmcgovern4
Looks great! Love that car
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looking good. great job to the detailer
Thanks all! Ivan at Lustr did an amazing job. Like you said Zach, I was in great hands.
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Man, your detailer is ****ing good!!! Amazing results. Finest of the finest Congrats man!

I'm going to replace Opticoat with Cquartz UK on my dark blue IS350 this weekend and I hope I can get result similar to this level lol.
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Glad you liked the car Quang. I've been so swamped with work that I still have those SLR photos sitting on the card (not even on the computer yet), but I'll be sure to email them to you as soon as I get a chance. Will be by this weekend hopefully. Then you can post them here and show off my amazing work even more .

Kidding aside, the car was unfortunately fairly hammered due to the negligence of the previous owner, but with mainly 2 stages (some areas got 3-4) of polishing, we were able to restore it to an amazing finish. Then Finest just topped it all off and left a really glossy paint job.

Thanks again for the kind words buddy and see you again soon for the leather coating.

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Greg@DI has a name of Ivan@DI?? Ivan hacked Greg's account

Popping, With the name of Quang, I am 90% sure you are Vietnamese? That is very rare in IL.
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Is the paint soft or hard on the Lexus GS black color?

If you pros don't mind sharing, what polishes did you use on this car? M100/M205 or Menzerna SI1500 and SF4500??
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Greg@DI has a name of Ivan@DI?? Ivan hacked Greg's account

Popping, With the name of Quang, I am 90% sure you are Vietnamese? That is very rare in IL.
lol Ivan logs in with the DI username... sometimes it is Greg posting, and sometimes it is Ivan. We should probably just change the username all together to "DetailedImage" if multiple people will be posting.

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Is the paint soft or hard on the Lexus GS black color?

If you pros don't mind sharing, what polishes did you use on this car? M100/M205 or Menzerna SI1500 and SF4500??
Lexus OB is notorious for being quite soft.. haven't ever worked on a new GS specifically, but I don't see why it would be any different.

Perhaps Ivan will chime in and share his findings.
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