How to improve on perfection

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.

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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.

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Road test across the USA

Road test across the USA

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.

Road test across the USA

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).

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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.

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Road test across the USA

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.

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Road test across the USA

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.

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Daily Ride Rescue an Audi A3

  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.

  1. Hood lining separated ( a common problem for German cars in hot climates)
  2. Many small dents
  3. Scuff marks on the front Bumper
  4. Swirl marks on every painted surface
  5. Dull paintwork
  6. Body plastic trims loose and hanging down
  7. Very dirty seat fabric and luggage areas
  8. Bump strips on doors peeling
  9. Rims have excessive brake dust build up
  10. Engine bay very dirty
  11. Headlights are hazy
  12. Glove box hinge broken
  13. CD cover missing
  14. Not registered for road use
  15. 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)
  16. 2 x tyres needed

Things needed

  1. NDG products
  2. Mega Gloss wash
  3. Shield 120
  4. NDG Hyperseal
  5. NDG Clay Bar
  6. NDG instant detailer
  7. NDG Genesis Compound & Polish
  8. NDG Extreme Hydrophobic Shield (For all wheel rims)
  9. NDG Fabcare
  10. Bio Crystal Magic cleaner
  11. Engine lacquer
  12. NDG Long life tyre shine
  13. Audi touch-up paint
  14. 1200 emery & sanding block
  15. Paintless dent removal equipment
  16. CD cover
  17. Plastic adhesive
  18. New hood lining material
  19. Trim glue
  20. 2 tyres
  21. Registration

Day 2

  1. Firstly to find out what that noise is when braking.
  2. Count the number of small dents in the paintwork and arrange the paintless dent removal tools
  3. Reattach plastic trim pieces
  4. Repair glovebox hinge
  5. Clean engine bay
  6. Order hoodlining trim (possible a change of colour to black)
  7. Remove all wheels and clean rims and apply NDG Extreme Hydrophobic Shield
  8. Remove seats for cleaning and NDG Fabcare treatment
  9. Clean Carpet and apply NDG Fabcare
  10. Apply NDG Shield 120 to all glass surfaces
  11. 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:

  1. Paint correction and colour coded touch-ups.
  2. Re-apply underbody paint to doorsills
  3. Re-buff the bodywork with Rotary machine and waffle pad
  4. Vacuumed interior
  5. Repaired plastic trims
  6. 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:

  1. Restoration of headlights
  2. Removed tape holding down re-glued trims
  3. Vacuum the car
  4. 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:

 

  1. Lower control arm fitted
  2. 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:

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

                     

                                  Before

Daily Ride Rescue an Audi A3

                                 After

Daily Ride Rescue an Audi A3

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.

 

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Ford XY Wedding Day

Ford XY Wedding Day, An Australian classic muscle car is getting ready for a wedding

Ford XY Wedding Day, An Australian classic muscle car is getting ready for a wedding

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.

NDG Hyperseal is available here

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