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July 22, 2017March 7, 2018

How to improve on perfection

55 Chevy Hyperseal.

We are committed to developing our products to suit the Classic show cars maintenance which is a world of the least amount of times you need to touch, wash and or wax a car the better.

This is where NDG’s Hyperseal and Mega Gloss Wash come into a league of their own. We carried out a training day for the owner of a Classic and Muscle car renovation and High end spray painting business who also built and owns this superb example of a 55 Chevy coupe.

The end result on the Chevy training day was a long lasting super glassy finish, just the way you want it to be. It looked superb in the late day sun and one of those moments where a picture cannot capture what you are seeing. We did try and some of the pics are below the video.

Training

After the normal preparation processes we trained the staff of High Gloss Spray Painting how to apply our products to show cars and specialty paint jobs; Mega Gloss Car Wash is a long lasting wash coating that lasts a month on normal use road cars. Show cars several months if not more and has excellent anti static properties to repel electrically charged dust particles. It also has good anti micro scratch properties (when someone leans on the paintwork it usually leaves micro scratches). Hyperseal Mega Gloss and UV polish which is applied and finished like a normal polish and lasts 12 months on a normal use road car. For show cars 3 years can be achieved. Hyperseal has excellent UV resistance properties and can resist some heavy handling scratches. But the big feature for show cars is that it has a glass like gloss finish.

Show Car

Here is a story of the car winning awards at the Summernats in Canberra.
NDG will be supporting this Chevy show car when it attends events.

Some more news on the Chevy.

After the win in Tamworth in May where the car was trailered on an open trailer for 4.5hours, Bill says that he “was surprised that there was no effort in getting the car prepared for the show after the drive”.

We are sure that there will be more news on this car.

Another win for the Chevy with Hyperseal finish.

July 21, 2017March 7, 2018

Road test across the USA

For this Blog , Road test across the USA, we will give you a look at one of the many ways we test our products prior to launching any of them to market. We took one of our US based cars to a drive across the USA from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to the Pacific coats in Los Angeles to test the beta version of Hyperseal, long life tire shine and leather care.

For this we coated the car front to back on the driver’s side with Hyperseal and the Windshield with Shield 120 and the tires with Long life tire shine which were applied the day we were leaving. To prove a point (that NDG Hyperseal is a DIY product) we did the application in a normal household garage using the basic tools of car detailing.

To start we put our feet into the warm waters of the Atlantic ocean as we plan to do the same thing when we arrive at the Pacific Ocean. We started in a typical Florida super-low cell storm to flooded roads and multiple end to end car crashes all around us to early hour pushing through Alabama where sleepless drivers suffering from micro-sleeping leave the dead straight freeways and roll over (we have seen this every time we do this drive).

On sunrise we arrive on the Texas, Louisiana border where we have a good look at the X5’s condition. It’s turning into the real Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde with the drivers side soiled but no where near the condition of the passenger side which was sporting the typical overnight driving look with splattered bugs and dirty road spray. We pushed on to west Houston for a lunch break and to resupply before hitting the every boring drive to San Antonio to visit the Alamo and get a few key photos. From San Antonio we hit the hill country and then into the central and west Texas desert, stopping overnight at Fort Stockton for a bit of shut eye.

Morning came and the heat was already waiting for the next leg to El Paso by mid afternoon for a refuel, lunch and then push onto Tucson Arizona to our USA Head Office location for a good look at what the drive has dished up so far. Next day we loaded up and continued starting about 1pm for the more rustic part of the drive via Phoenix AZ and then into the High desert plains to Thousand palms for a camp out beneath the stars and a typical cowboy campfire meal.

Next morning we pushed to get to the Pacific by Midday where we symbolically put our feet into the much cooler water of the Pacific ocean.

Looking at the X5 BMW there was a stark difference between each side of the car so it was an excellent test bed for analysing the results and in this case ultimately improving Hyperseal and Shield120 and the Long life tire shine.

We carry out many tests all over the world all the time. Some of these we will blog about from time to time.

July 20, 2017March 1, 2018

Daily Ride Rescue an Audi A3

The Challenge

For this Blog we are taking a 1999 Audi A3 1.8 daily commuter that has been driven to work, parked (in the wrong places) and driven home again each night. The result is not a bad car with low KM’s for it’s age 188,000 kms.

We plan to take this car from a sorry state to a Mega gloss finish with a clean hydrophobic interior with everything working in sound condition in 7 days. We paid AUS $1500/$US1200 for the car.

Our objective is to sell it for AUS$4500/US$4000 with 12 months Australian registration included.

Day 1

The purchase and then the assessment. Car was bought from a foreign student who’s tenure was completed in Australia and it was time to return home. We washed the car with Mega Gloss car wash so we could do an assessment of what is needed to achieve out goals.

Things wrong.

Hood lining separated ( a common problem for German cars in hot climates)
Many small dents
Scuff marks on the front Bumper
Swirl marks on every painted surface
Dull paintwork
Body plastic trims loose and hanging down
Very dirty seat fabric and luggage areas
Bump strips on doors peeling
Rims have excessive brake dust build up
Engine bay very dirty
Headlights are hazy
Glove box hinge broken
CD cover missing
Not registered for road use
ABS light on and a clunk when applying brakes. (sounds like a loose brake calliper and on checking there are new brake pads so this is possible)
2 x tyres needed

Things needed

NDG products
Mega Gloss wash
Shield 120
NDG Hyperseal
NDG Clay Bar
NDG instant detailer
NDG Genesis Compound & Polish
NDG Extreme Hydrophobic Shield (For all wheel rims)
NDG Fabcare
Bio Crystal Magic cleaner
Engine lacquer
NDG Long life tyre shine
Audi touch-up paint
1200 emery & sanding block
Paintless dent removal equipment
CD cover
Plastic adhesive
New hood lining material
Trim glue
2 tyres
Registration

Day 2

Firstly to find out what that noise is when braking.
Count the number of small dents in the paintwork and arrange the paintless dent removal tools
Reattach plastic trim pieces
Repair glovebox hinge
Clean engine bay
Order hoodlining trim (possible a change of colour to black)
Remove all wheels and clean rims and apply NDG Extreme Hydrophobic Shield
Remove seats for cleaning and NDG Fabcare treatment
Clean Carpet and apply NDG Fabcare
Apply NDG Shield 120 to all glass surfaces
Start the paint restoration process

Day 3

After a morning at a photoshoot with the Barn Yard rescue Mercedes which was invited to attend the official photoshoot for the reopening of a Drive-in theatre after 33 years of abandonment. (just a one off event) it was back to theDaily Ride Rescue Audi.

Work completed:

Paint correction and colour coded touch-ups.
Re-apply underbody paint to doorsills
Re-buff the bodywork with Rotary machine and waffle pad
Vacuumed interior
Repaired plastic trims
Cleaned all door trims

Day 4.

Getting closer to finishing you always need to ask yourself it you are putting too much into the project. In this case probably the answer in “Yes” but the results we are getting from this A3 are excellent. We did remove the Headlights and repaired a broken mounting tab and cleaned lenses and reflectors which always gives a car that new look. Now the remaining jobs are Re-trim the hood-lining and to remove the remaining small dents.

Work completed:

Restoration of headlights
Removed tape holding down re-glued trims
Vacuum the car
Repainted the battery clamp

Day 5.

The new RH lower control arm arrived and was fitted without any issue. The car has been taken by a journalist who it driving it until the headlining material arrives where the interior will be removed and seats will be cleaned and coated in NDG Fabcare while the headlining is being re-trimmed. If we have enough material left we will also trim the door and side panel inserts. We took the car for a drive to settle in the suspension and check for any noises. We got a nice video of NDG Shield120 in action. The remaining dents will be removed on the final day of the work. This is turning out to be a nice car.

Work completed:

Lower control arm fitted
Smaller dents removed

Day 6:

Now the hard part of this rescue project. Replace and treat the trim with NDG Fabcare. First we needed to remove the Hood-lining and inserts on the door trim and back seats areas. No-one put their hands up for this job as it there is no fun in doing this work on an older car. clips break and plastic is brittle so a hot glue gun needs to be on hand to repair this inevitable breakages. But outside of this the replacements went straight forward enough and the car just looks that much better. We all think we did a better job of trim colours than the Audi Factory. We noticed that there was a small coolant leak and on closer inspection saw that an o-ring was leaking so we replaced it. The AC was a bit weak so one of our staff have an AC service license and got that sorted out along with a medium pressure clean of the condenser to improve the temperature drawdown.

Work completed:

Straighten the steering wheel
Replace the Hoodlining
Replace the door and side panel trim inserts
replace the Temperature sensor o-ring
Service AC system.

Before

After

The End result is that we all like this car and if it wasn’t a project car we would keep it. It turned out great!. Maybe we put too much effort into is car but it was a case of everything we did just made it a nicer car. Now to sell it to someone who will enjoy it.

Project Daily ride rescue completed, SOLD and delivered.

July 20, 2017July 22, 2017

Ford XY Wedding Day

An Australian classic muscle car is getting ready for a wedding but it was looking a bit dull.

We were asked to give it the once over with NDG’s Champion, Hyperseal.

After looking at the car and doing a few tests it was decided not to Compound polish the paintwork as the car had been resprayed and not done that well. Plus, the pin-stripes had just been installed so the risk of damaging the paintwork and stripes was too high to do a full compound polish so we decided to DA polished the safe areas with NDG Genesis Compound and clay-bar’d the rest of the bodywork using NDG Mega Gloss Wash as the lubricant.

Even with these challenges we achieved the desired results.

The weather had been great so far, but, had been forecast to turn cold and rainy during the day. Just as we were about to Hyperseal the car the weather turned cold and rainy.

It was a good demonstration to show that Hyperseal is not affected by cold or inclement weather so we just carried on applying the coating.

On finishing the car the owner got the classic car owner fever with wanting to do more to the car as it was looking great. The rear spoiler needed some TLC so it was removed for restoration which gave us the opportunity to do some more work on the trunk lid.

We had a ball working on this iconic piece of Aussie motoring and, we loved the way the car came out with it’s rich burgundy colour shinning and contrasting against the big Australian sky.

Yes the wedding went ahead without a hitch.

NDG Hyperseal is a great Champion all-rounder Specialty surface coating for cars with superior UV resistance and 1 to 3 years service.

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