Full Detail on a Chevy HHR
November 9, 2009 by Gainesville Detailing
Today i had the opportunity of detailing a Chevy HHR. These vehicles are kind of funny looking to me. I believe it was a remake of an older version or something. The vehicle has a dark blue paint with metallic flecks in it. The paint was not in too good of shape. After washing it really good with the two bucket wash method I gave it a clay treatment. Here is a picture of what the clay looked like after a few passes in a two by two foot section on the hood. Needless to say this vehicle needed paint cleaning really bad. All I was going to do today though was wash, clay, and polish then wax. All of these steps were done by hand. It is going to need some paint correction with a machine, but for now it needed these hand steps at the least.
This paint was thoroughly covered with tree sap due to its location in the parking lot. No worry I just kept working one section at a time. Each time I was finished with a section I kneeded the clay bar until it exposed some fresh clay. It took the better part of an hour to do which is very long for claying a vehicle. Well after getting it completely clayed I applied some zanio polish to it. I finished it off with some Mother’s pure caranuaba wax and it shined up really nice. This vehicle will still need to get some paint correction done in the future. You can see how well it shined up from this picture below.
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Great job. How long did you work on the car? Congrats
I spent about four hours on the car. Thanks for the compliment.