McLaren GT FIXING Major Factory DEFECTS!
A McLaren GT spec in Volcano Yellow is some of the coolest paint I have ever seen!! But when I saw it under my detail lights it was a disaster... Don't worry I fixed everything and filmed it all for your viewing pleasure! The car received a full decontamination wash, paint correction, in depth wet sanding, STEK PPF and Gtechniq Ceramic.
00:00 Recap
0:36 Intro
01:23 Wash
01:55 Paint Correction
4:21 Wet Sanding
9:11 Dust Clean Up
11:05 STEK PPF Install
15:18 Interior Cleaning
16:57 Finished!
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welcome back happy to see you on youtube again!!!!
It's good to be back 🙂🙂🙂
Love the videos brother!! Post more regularly haha!
Thanks! I will definitely try!!
Another satisfied customer here... Evan recently completed my 992 teased at 18:13. The result was great (paint correction, full PPF) and the car was sitting ready when I arrived to drive it 1000 miles home. Thank you Evan & Paul!
Thank you for choosing Status Detail! Your video will be awesome!!!
JW, how much did that cost?
@@GoonSquad710 speed brake did a big detail. Around 12k. The McLaren was around $5050
@@STATUSDETAIL nice, thanks for the reply!
@@GoonSquad710 👍👍
Oh and he's back..... miss you're videos man, 💙 good to see another banging video
I'm back!!! Just had a car cancel due to Porsche stop sale too lol. Guess I have more editing time now lolol
@STATUSDETAIL you go brother, I'm always looking out for your videos
@@cebasmb8250 the next couple videos will all be incredible! Lots of great Porsche content and my RS5 video should be a great story.
@STATUSDETAIL keep going man, you do fantastic works as I mentioned before your my favorite
F#cking amazing work yet again. keep it up evan.
Thank you! Will try and get the next one out sooner!
Hell yeah!! Great video brother!! Your attention to detail is absolutely insane. By far my favorite detail channel on YT.
Yes he is my favorite tooo
😃😃😃😃 Thanks guys!
Happy your business is going so amazing you deserve it with such attention to detail!
Thank you 🙂 more awesome videos and stories coming soon!!
Incredible car!
Agreed. This color in person is out of this world cool!
this guy should have millions of subscribers!!!!!! hes so informative
Thank you!!!! We will hit 1 million for sure. With awesome fans like yourself it's only a matter of time 👍👍👍🤝
Hey man really been liking your content lately. I wanted to ask if you could do a video on how you detail the engine bay
Thanks! I can definitely do a video on that soon!
The quality of these videos are amazing! Glad to hear business is great for you too
Thanks! Going to try and turn out some even better videos really soon!
Lol! I like how he says, "Send anything cool and unique," like a Porsche is not a cool car. Great video! As always great break down of knowledge and experience info.
Lol I do so many Porsches it's like a Porsche factory over here. Send me something red from Italy!!!
Great video! Excited for your ultimate wash video that’s in the works for future… I live in Great Lakes region too with tough winters. Short of a ceramic coating, suggestions to prep for winter season? 🙏🏼 Thank you sir!
All year round but especially in winter the best thing you can do for your car is put gyeon wet coat or carpro hydr light on it It's a spray and rinse ceramic sealant that works on glass paint wheels etc. You can even spray it into your fenders onto your suspension. I use it every single wash in the winter. And thanks for watching! That video is definitely filmed but has not been released as you know. It's kind of in a backlog of videos now. I have four or five amazing videos to edit and put together I'm just a little overwhelmed with editing at the moment! But it's all coming for sure!!
Thank you, sir! Excited for your upcoming videos-keep up the great work!
Glad to have you back. I miss the Sunday morning uploads on the regular. Hope all is well Evan, I’m excited for more content
I'm definitely going to try and post again soon! No shortage of content. Just need to start editing more!!!! All is well 🙂🙂
terrific content yet again Evan! glad you're back :)
Thank you! Good to be back 🙂
So glad to hear business is great that’s a good thing 👍 As always great break down of knowledge and experience info.
Thanks! Yes business is doing well!
Love your work. Great dedication and love for what you do comes through. Keep it up. Lloyd
Thank you for watching 🙂👍
I was scared as shit of wet sanding before... Bought an A5 from Germany, and it came all banged up, so the choice was between sanding everything to make it look good, or paint booth. So I let go of my fear, and sanded the whole thing... Turned out great! Clips like these really help DIY people, not to mention that most detailers don't have the guts to sand panels. Thank you!
Thanks for watching! Sanding a full car is pretty hardcore lol
@@STATUSDETAIL It was mostly factory paint, so there was a lot of clear to work with. Kovax did the job :) Took ages though, went rotary afterwards, then dual-action for finish, followed by CanCoat Evo... Cleanest A5 in the city now
@@xFlowRS haha I love it. Probably got a lot of OEM orange peel out too
@@STATUSDETAIL Yeah, but not all of it... Still has room for future 1 step corrections. Moonlight Blue is the color, looks insane.
great video !!! Attention to detail is on another level!
Thanks! 🙂👍👍
Seems as though the Maclaren owner got to you in the nick of time. Good to see you back!
Good to be back! This car definitely needed some status love. Wait until you see the diaster paint on the 600k sport classic. It makes this look like a picnic lol
Any way you can do a video on maintaining matte paint or a matte PPF?
Definitely a possibility
Building out my garage up here in manitoba while working fulltime driving trains to eventually offer some pretty high end work. Figured if i build a professional space out the clients will eventually find me. 😅 Who knows.
A nice space helps but the final product you turn out matters more than the shop you do it in. Think rocky. He trained in bad gyms and won. Then trained in glamorous gyms and lost. The work you put in matters more than the environment you do it in. Ideally you have excellent work going in and a great environment. If your starting environment is clean and has good lights your set to start 👍
Those holograms are from a rotary polisher. These brands keep us in business by leaving them behind 😂
Job security!
may be time to hire an editor
I have definitely thought about it recently lol
Love these videos. I'm not even a detailer. I lease upper end normal cars ever 3 years like Infiniti, Audi, etc. Just got a new A5 and with 100 miles on the car, got 3 chips on the hood. I have OCD and want everything to be perfect. Car is totaled now. 😅. Tried my best to light sand it and touch it up, then sand and polish. It was tough due to the location and couldn't use any type of block but it came out better than it was. Its nice to see someone that has this level and attention to detail on other people's cars. If it one thing I can't stand is the old "it's good enough" from companies/people doing work on cars.
"it's totalled" lolol. If your leasing it won't make as much sense. But if it really bothers you a lot then PPF right away will give your eyes and brain some relaxation for 3 years. Th first few chips scratches etc on a new car are always the hardest!
@@STATUSDETAIL all my previous leases, chips were very few and far between but never had one so early on in my lease. If I ever decide to actually purchase a car as a weekend driver I'll probably PPF the entire car and make sure the company doesn't use stencil/plotters so the edges are wrapped. Keep up the good work.
hey Evan, I'm looking to make an order from your store and just noticed the black stick you're using to tuck the edges. Can I purchase one of those and the pink install blade from your or can you share links to them? Thank you!
Those are actually from Amazon. I don't currently sell any ppf equipment or tools. If you search ppf tools on Amazon you fill everything. You may need to scroll for awhile to get the little tucking tools. I just checked my order history. Search this for the tucking tools FOSHIO Vinyl Car Wrapping Flexible Micro Squeegee Curves Slot Tint Tool Set
Found them, thank you! Order coming through asap.@@STATUSDETAIL
Hey Evan, great video as usual! Wondering what ceramic coat did you use on top of the PPF? Halo or CSU?
Csl with exo v5. I do not like CSU.
@@STATUSDETAIL does csl/exo v5 bond well on PPF? Isn’t better to use something more “flexible” for PPF such as Halo?
@@Dan_511 I do not like halo. When you ask gtechniq the right questions they don't have good answers for why halo exists in my opinion. Csl plus v5 works incredibly well on Stek PPF.
Yeah if I lived in the US the incoming car would be going straight to you. Amazing job well done, sometimes I even think you go over the top, and I’m crazy nit picky 😅. Yeah, get some help man, expand!
I have a customer sending me two cars from Canada soon lol. So you never know you could still ship it lol. Appreciate the kind words 🙂🙂👍
When you do the 2nd post polishing wash, do you only foam it and rinse? Or do you also contact wash again? And also how do you dry it? Also do you have a video uploaded precisely on how to wet sand?
No video on wet sanding. KXK dynamics has great sanding information. Typically it's rinse. Foam. Rinse. Blow dry. Then gently wipe down with panel prep. PPF or ceramic follows. Contact can be done but depends how dirty the car is. Compound dust that is days old sometimes sticks more. Light polishing dust should just rinse away.
@@STATUSDETAIL Ok thanks for the information! While I have you here lol, if using a PH neutral shampoo, can you let it dry in the sun before rinsing off? I’m currently trying to do mobile detailing, but I live in SC and it’s really hot here this time of year, I’m also working by myself, so I struggle to wash the entire car before the soap begins to dry in the sun. Should I just let it dry and then rinse when I’m done, or should I wash and rinse section by section to ensure it doesn’t dry out? I just worry about water spotting instead then..
@@MiataPower96 it's definitely not ideal y let anything dry during a wash. I know a lot of mobile guys do like a easy up tent. Get a little shade and help things not dry so fast. Do your best to wash in shade if possible
@@STATUSDETAIL any suggestions on a tent?
@@MiataPower96 not from me but mobile guys will know. Maybe try Facebook groups for detailing. Lots of good guys offering help.
welcome back lol
I'm back baby, I'm back! George costanza Voice.
What grade sand paper did you used? On this one i always wash my car's after polishing it people always say you don't have to but i do it anyways my piece of mind
I think I did like 2500 then maybe a little 3000. Sometimes I go lower. This was filmed awhile ago so I don't fully remember the grade paper it was. In general sanding is similar to paint correction least aggressive method first. So if I can do a high number sandpaper first and get the results that's great. Some people are going to want to go right to like 1,000 and then try and sand the 1000 out with 3000. But sometimes 3 is all you need then just compound.
@STATUSDETAIL thanks I do use 2500 but was little skeptical on what you used I do a lot of paint correction for paint shop's your videos and mind blowing man love it
@@cebasmb8250 thanks!
Hi Evan! I'm an owner of a 2017 BMW M4 Competition. I am a long time subscriber and I just wanted to ask you if I should do a PPF install on my car. I use my car regurarly, it's a daily driver, it's my only car. I drive it on the highway, I go 4-5 times a year on a longer trip (1400 miles back and forth) and I am not planning selling the car. It's my dream car and I want to keep as long as I can. Btw I am based in Austria.
Hello to you in Austria! If you're going to keep a car forever then PPF tends to be a pretty good idea. Based on the details you've already given me I would guess the hood fenders rocker panels and front bumper likely have a good amount of road rash and chips already. At some point in time if you respray anything that has major defects in it make sure you let it cure for 30 days and then have PPF put on the entire front. Typically speaking cars Don't get too many rock ships on the doors rear fenders trunk lid and rear bumper. So you could do full body at that point if you were interested. In my opinion it's not a great idea to put PPF over a panel with multiple chips and bangs It just won't look very good unless we're only talking about a few here and there. If the stage you're at right now I would highly recommend a great paint correction and a ceramic coating on the outside. But if it's coming up on that time and you're ready to go through the whole process respray what needs to be sprayed and then do your PPF 👍 I hope that helps. Greetings from the USA🤝
@@STATUSDETAIL On the hood I have one small rock chip, on the front bumper two smaller on both sides. Where the side skirts start just behind the wheel that area is rough...I still have the factory PPF on the rear fenders in front of the rear wheels. That started to get yellowish which I suppose it's normal. Would you recommend using a paint pen to correct the rock chips? I'm not keen on respraying the whole front bumper and the hood 😁
@@Stilo95 you can definitely do touch up paint. A local PPF shop might even put a random scrap over some of the more damaged spots just to show you how it looks so you would understand the final product better. At the milage your talking about I'm sure you have lots of little hits and ppf will magnify that.
@@STATUSDETAIL I have 18.000 miles on the clock. I will consider the PPF. Thank you so much for your help, videos and everything you teach us! Much love ❤
@@Stilo95 my pleasure 🙂👍
Still waiting for him to take the car to the track.
Lol I think I remember him saying this was a around town fun car. The GT isn't really sold to the track guy. It's the frabd touring model.
😂😂😂let me tell you something 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol that was my favorite part 😃
First !
Second 🤝
"not going to drive it" "not going to track it" "not going to rallies" "only going to hold it for about a year" Like why even buy the car at that point, you're just paying for storage that could be used to park something you enjoy
There are several reasons to own a car like this even when you're not going to drive it very much. For example I would personally buy a car like this in a similar situation basically to have it as part of my status detail fleet. This then gives me a tax deduction. I'd rather the money sit in the form of a McLaren in my garage vs in the form of a check to the IRS
Hey bro, you know you don’t have to do it ALL right? Like it’s okay to reach out to some video folks if you don’t have the bandwidth. KZhead does pay when you reach over 100k subscribers.. just saying!
It's definitely something I have considered!!! I'm a bit of a perfectionist as you might have noticed lol. So it would be hard to find someone I am comfortable with editing and making the videos. But if I could find the right person and arrangement I do believe ultimately that is a incredible solution and will be great for the channel
This music is horrible. Please make it stop.
Sorry to hear you didn't like it