 Hey what's up everyone welcome to day in the bay Nick Tony here we got a really fun project today our buddy Dustin Williams you may know him he just picked up a Honda Civic for a daily and yeah we got him down here in the bay unfortunately it had some clear coat failure it's a really great car in good condition but the paint had some failure and quite a bit of areas so he went all out got the whole car repainted so we're gonna let you guys get to know Dustin talk to him see what kind of cars he's driving right now and share some tips on what to do with fresh paint maybe what not to do so look forward to it all right let's do it all right so brand new paint right 30 days old yeah about four weeks 30 days or so okay awesome so there's lots of tips and tricks that we want to talk to you about today about new paint got fresh paint next gonna be our paint guru so we'll look over the car today kind of put a system together yeah so we're gonna do a traditional two-bucket wash method on the car so basically we're gonna have one bucket with our properly diluted car wash solution we're gonna use a car wash that has no lax in it because again we don't want to put lax on the fresh paint for you know a certain amount of time so that'll be our first bucket stack it will be plain water we'll use that as our rinse bucket and we'll just get off all the dirt and loose contaminants Justin was saying he hasn't done anything for about 30 days since cars have been painted so get it all clean and then start start working on the compound and polish process you know sometimes if you run into a softer more sensitive paint the you know really rare case the clay can kind of leave behind marring it I guess it kind of looked like a little scratch like a really fine kind of Marr sort of scratch not a really huge deal because we're gonna take you know we're gonna take care of that in the next compound step but you just don't want to just not ideal you don't want to inflict too much so this is our C2000 professional detailing clay we're gonna be using most of our professional line today just because a lot of the products are a little bit tuned more specifically for working on on fresh paint so yeah the car hasn't been washed for about a month or so so that I would imagine that's why we're feeling a little bit rough on the top areas it's pretty crazy you can even pick up contaminants in that amount of time that then it needs to be be clayed so yeah we're gonna go ahead and clay just the top areas make sure all those contaminants are off and then move on to the compound step we're gonna try the red foam first I know you like to cut I we both like to cut the microfiber just I don't know for the cutting step it typically requires a more aggressive you know yep you end up needing to get pretty aggressive and we honestly end up going in the microphone quite a bit we're gonna try the red foam first see how the paint responds and who knows this may this may do it this is actually one of my favorite cars there was always something about the 8th gen that I really love something about the body style it's kind of more of a fan of the JDM version I have the different headlights and the different tail lights but I really wanted one of these actually I just couldn't find one in a good condition at the time that I was ready to buy I take one out I can find one that was really clean but still a bit difficult to find all right so we got your Civic SI in here how's it looking so far right halfway through looks so good it's crazy because it's brand new paint you can still tell like the detail it's coming out my first car that I ever started to mod was a Honda Civic SI was the 9th gen okay so I've always been in the Honda's really I had a type R and I don't know for whatever reason the 8th gen is just like my favorite body style styling and look everything so I actually wasn't looking for a car at the time okay I was just you know every car every car browsing through all of like the marketplaces whatever and it popped up and it's like the movie addition is like V1 sure if you want an agent so I was like I did it I did it and I love it it's a fun car it's super easy to drive and it's exactly what I wanted and has the Fiji blue which is definitely part of the movie in addition came in so I thought it was only right to when I go get it repainted to get the original Fiji blue I know every car guy doesn't like the you know take choosing your favorite child but is there a favorite absolutely have a favorite it's the skyline GT-R and R32 Skyline GT-R I know it's it's ever since I was a kid you know that's like the car and it's like the heritage of what I love cars is like with that you know so like when I went to Japan I was able to pick up a ton of like true Japanese parts from all these different shops that I went to like Nismo garage Soros all these different parts and just really cool to like have like the culture from Japan back so it's kind of where I get my inspiration from so tell me a little bit more about kind of the hobby and what it means to you you've you've been in it really since the beginning and for sure I've had a license or probably even before for sure so like I started out in Mississippi and I was so deeply into the car community in Mississippi that nothing really happened there and there's you know small like the local town be sure never but like no huge car show so what I had to do when I lived in the city was I would drive eight to ten hours to car lines so like dedication Miami Orlando Dallas whatever and I don't know it just the people you meet through the car community is it's just so different everyone's so willing to help and you just keep them really really close with them you know meeting them and going out to eat with all your cars and you're like sitting that one spot where you can see all your cars yeah it's just really cool and like you get to like bond with each other over like building these cars in the garage late at night so yeah one my friend Sean you know we built his NSX in his garage and my WX and EVO and so it's it's cool that just spending time with you know good friends and like it's accomplishing when you're like finishing pull a car in the garage you guys are just like yes well thanks for coming out today I'm excited to have the car I'm excited to see what it's gonna look like at the end me too me too and we're looking forward to seeing you on the road on the next couple events we'll see in Chicago absolutely it'll be awesome it'll be really cool so yeah you guys are gonna have a car so it's gonna be really fun cool well thanks brother yes 305 ultra durable finishing glaze it's basically a breathable silicone free protection for fresh paint on on fresh paint it's typically not recommended to apply a wax or any sealant for 60 to 90 days sometimes so this is a great option it can give you some protection during that step and still a lot of paint to out gas and give us some protection during that that curing process so easy application a couple quick overlapping passes we're using a black finishing pad doesn't even have to dry it can wipe it right off and we're good to go well Dustin we're done I think we're done it looks incredible it looks so good it's crazy cuz like what is a brand new paint job you know and I can definitely definitely tell the difference between coming out of thinking it's now that was my thing like how are we gonna make a brand new paint job look this much better it was so fun to work on and yeah it looks so much it looks really good so are you sure you want to get the car away now no no no I think someone's really really gonna enjoy this you guys absolutely killed it in the cars so that's awesome I'm looking forward to seeing it out on the road and they never heard of a remote so well I'll see you out there and thanks again for sure yeah thanks for having me