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Old 10-08-2016, 11:22 PM
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Default Pinnacle Diamond Coat Applied. A Few Fall Photos

Over the last week, I've spent about 20 hours cleaning, claying, correcting and applying the paint, wheel and window coatings on my new vette from Pinnacle Black Label Ceramic Coatings. The car only has 460 miles, but the labor on the black car was insane, however, so well worth it. Had a chance today to take a bunch of pics at a local park. Beautiful fall day for a drive.
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Very nice, your ride looks great!
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Wow! Thanks for posting. Sharp car.
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Fantastic detailing work. The C7 looks stunning as I thought it would.

You have proven a DIY detail project will do wonders for the car.

Great images. Thanks for posting.

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Really looks great. It also looks like you got one of the few good paint jobs, little to no OP or is the coating masking it?

Side question, do you have any clear bra (either xpel or 3M) on the car?
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Definitely a very shiny car now. Job well done.
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Very cool car and very nice photos!
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Originally Posted by nmvettec7
Fantastic detailing work. The C7 looks stunning as I thought it would.

You have proven a DIY detail project will do wonders for the car.

Great images. Thanks for posting.

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Thank you for all of your support and help along the way. You're probably tired of answering my questions.
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Originally Posted by ls3zob
Thank you for all of your support and help along the way. You're probably tired of answering my questions..
Not at all, you followed my method and the results are simply amazing.

You used the right product and did a lot of hard work. Pat yourself on the back.

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Originally Posted by Maxie2U
Really looks great. It also looks like you got one of the few good paint jobs, little to no OP or is the coating masking it?

Side question, do you have any clear bra (either xpel or 3M) on the car?
Thank you. A little bit of both. A decent paint job, but I did have to polish a few panels for OP. The coating does do wonders as the shine takes your eye off the OP.

As for Xpel, I have it on my 1LE, love the product. But the price to do the vette is ungodly. About 5x what it cost me to do all "trouble areas" on my Camaro in 2013. For now, no freeway driving with the vette and 8 car lengths distance behind the car in front of me. But it's only a matter of time, I know, until a stone strikes and ruins my day. So the front and rockers are a must. I'm looking at Cleartastic, rockers, mirrors and door handles, but can't seem to get a definitive answer on it sticking properly to ceramic coating. I need to speak with Pinnacle about this, but they're in FL so the hurricane has shut them down til next week. (Hopefully everyone and everything is ok and these poor people can get back to living their lives soon).
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Your car looks awesome , great job on the detail. thanks for sharing
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Wow! Great job. Your car looks amazing.
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Awesome job! Looks beautiful!
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Very, very nice!

Did you coat the barrels of the wheels too? What product did you use for the wheels?
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She sure looks great. Great job.
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I love it!!! Absolutely gorgeous car and photos. Your effort paid off ten fold. I love the black with red calipers. That was one of the top combos that I was on the prowl for when I was ready to buy one...

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Old 10-09-2016, 08:33 AM
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You actually removed the wheels to polish them? I only use a cleaner wax product once a year, a quick detailer to enhance the shine in between. I keep my car in a drive clean condition. Your car does look nice!
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Great job, looks awesome.
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Car looks amazing


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