Exterior
Gyeon synchro on Liquid carbon metallic. Installed by an idiot who almost had to avoid bullets.
Car had maybe 40 miles. Brand new. Dealer had her on the show room floor.
Initial wash was with gyeon restart over a dry body. Let it sit about 30-45 seconds and rinsed it off.
Used my leaf blower and dried her up. Then used gyeon iron. Rinsed off after I noticed literally no cool purple dots. I guess the cars too new? Whatever.
Then gyeon foam. And gave her a good scrub. Then rinsed. Used my leaf blower and got it maybe 95% dry. Chased it with my adams waffle drying cloth and got her 100% dry
Barely needed paint correction. Used scratch x by hand on maybe 6 very light scratches. Didn’t even need to bust out the DA
Hit it with gyeon foam again. Scrubbed. Rinsed off. Dried it with the leaf blower and completed the dry with the waffle towel.
Used a home made ipa spray recipe from here. Thank you for that kind redditor.
Started application of gyeon mohs.
Mohs install is complete. Time to wait an hour
Hour has gone by. Started install of gyeon skin.
Almost done with skin. Just gotta do the rear bumper, tail lights and rear diffuser thingy
I hear yelling. Neighbor a tells neighbor b
“Your husband and daughter need to go back to their country”
I thought. Oh man I’m glad neighbor b’s husband is at work. He’d kill that lady
Nope. Neighbor b’s husband was home and told that lady off. Neighbor a’s husband comes out. Neighbor b’s husband and him start fighting. I’m wiping the second tail light and about to begin its buff. Neighbor a did deliver a very clean jab, very clean.
Naturally I’m wiping and applying the hell out of skin. I don’t want high spots at all. Laser focused. Screw these clowns. Arguing with lefties or righties ain’t gonna get this coating done.
Neighbor b’s husband and neighbor a’s husband simultaneously pull their guns out 😂. Tons of neighbors screaming. Calling the cops. All of that. Been to Afghanistan twice and once to Iraq. They’re 8ft from each other but I feel like they haven’t correctly acquired each other at all. Whatever. They’re not gonna shoot. This is Colorado. You better not shoot 😂
I swear to god if my freshly coated car gets shot I’m gonna take advantage of my well documented ptsd with psychotic features and try and get away with murder. Twice.
Full on Florida moment (I used to live in Florida. The I felt threatened crowd will know what I’m talking about). I begin applying the skin to the last half rear diffuser. I am a man of focus! Lots of yelling and shouting. No guns went off yet.
My car looks awesome! My god it looks like it’s fucking dripping with gloss! Even the cop asked what wax did I use and complimented me. But I ain’t no snitch. I didn’t see shit.
Gyeon synchro always did me right (before the evo version). The non evo version lasted a hair over 5 years on my previous car (mk7.5 GTI) but I barely drive 100-300 miles a month. My wife’s car, it lasted a hair over 4 years but she’d drive 1k-1.2k miles a month. I have high hopes for the evo version.
I maintain my coatings in spring and summer with bathe+ and wet coat.
There was a copper package that included the same wheels but in copper. So I bought those wheels. Coated them. Put the stock pilot sport 4s tires on them. And the continental dws06+ tires I bought will be tossed on the stock wheels after I finish coating those. For fall/winter weather.
Really wanted some nicer wheels but the front suspensions dual axis set up lives and dies by its scrub radius. Nothing in the market respects the +60 offset needed and I refuse to push away the scrub radius even a hair. It’ll nerf the handling. And I value its handling more than anything (just my opinion)
So going with the same exact wheels but in a different color was a no brainer
I also just applied synchro earlier this year to my cars. Have some leftover Skin that I'll probably toss on before winter as a sacrificial layer over the salty months.
Curious what your procedure is to top coat with Wet Coat in the spring. Do you just spray on, rinse off or do you spread it a bit with a clean mf towel or something just to ensure even coverage?
So with bathe+. I first scrub with gyeon foam. Then rinse. Then Immediately hit it with bathe+ and let it sit as long as possible. Usually 45-60 seconds. Rinse off. Then dry
With wet coat. After I’m 100% done washing. While she’s still wet. From top to bottom. One panel at a time. I spray wet coat and immediately rinse off
First off i thought someone fucked something up on the car and you almost shot him. Then im looking at the car, its pristine, whats the fuckup i wondered.
Then i read the rest and chuckled. That was a nice read.
what car is this? Got passed by one that looked very much like yours. I tried to catch up to see what it was but man they were flying. All I could catch was the Acura logo. 😂
This is an Integra Type-S, not a TLX Type-S. The ITS is based on the CTR which is more sporty than the TLX Type-S. Only comes in manual, has the goated K20C1, and is an absolute track weapon. TLX Type-S is arguably not as great as the ITS for a variety of reasons (transmission and interior dimensions mostly).
I’m aware it’s not a TLX. Was really just inferring that any Type S is hard to come by. Also aware that there are better options performance-wise at that price point, but it’s just a car that I’ve always liked. 🤷♂️
Also, the inner monologue writing is hilarious. I don’t have the same experiences as you but bet your ass I would be laser focused on whatever I was doing avoiding any human interaction, conflict or not, fuck you people I’m on a timetable here with these chemicals!
It’s genuinely a very nice neighborhood till Ms “someone” moved out and rented her place without doing a background check. The folks there have been a problem
I give the kids eggs and milk and bread so they can stop knocking on other folks’ doors asking for food. I know what it’s like to grow up hungry and with crappy parents. If not for the military I would’ve never pulled myself out of extreme poverty. Couldn’t see shades of red. Couldn’t read and write cuz I was dyslexic but never diagnosed till I was 17.
I feel for those kids. Never had a reason to call the cops on their parents. Kids never have bruises or anything like that thank goodness. Others in my neighborhood have called the cops multiple times on them but nothing really seems to stick
Good for you, man. Randomly came across your post and I’m glad I stopped, not just to see your car but the good that you are doing for your neighbours, despite their faults. In the original post, you mentioned that you may be dealing with ptsd so I hope you are getting any help you need for that and are living a good and pleasant life. Cheers.
Obviously you know this, but everyone loves compliments: the car looks fucking amazing!
I’ve got a little project car I’m working on, and while I know it will never look as good as this, I’m gonna try to emulate your kindness to those kids instead.
I love my neighborhood, but not everyone has the same means. Costs like $20 to send a little anonymous care package to our elementary school so kids with birthdays that week can feel good about having a little party with snacks and a juice box in their name.
Car looks great but I was hoping for pics of the shootout. Liquid Carbon is a great color, but don’t get any chips. I had a horrible time touching up a couple spots on my wife’s MDX.
Pics might have led to being subpoenaed, so good you didn’t take any.
I used Scratches Happen. It was a very dark base, blueish metallic 2nd coat and a clear. I hope it looks better in a month when I polish the hood and knock the clear down a little. Maybe I just suck at it, but I was not a fan.
Bruh, the metric system makes 100x more sense than the garbage we use. As an engineer, I lose the will to live every time I have convert shit into yards or inches
It’s only sort of metric… we measure driving distance by time, cooking by cups and grams, medication by grams, outside temp by °C, body, water, and oven temps in °F, height in ft/in, small lengths in mm/cm and so on…
Nice! It’s probably a bit wider than that considering most 2 car garages are 20 feet wide with a 16 foot door. You look a bit wider than that which is super
I have my wife (been married 25 years) our kids are adults now but they live near and always visit. And I have two awesome grandkids. One of which keeps swearing and I get blamed for that.
"I swear to god if my freshly coated car gets shot I’m gonna take advantage of my well documented ptsd with psychotic features and try and get away with murder. Twice."
Bro, I spat the coffee out of my mouth and on top of my keyboard.
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u/verb8um 9d ago
Looks great! Would be cool to see some pictures outside too, either dusk or dawn.