That's awesome thank you! I definitely make the videos for entertainment purposes but I do believe there's a lot of good information in here that other detailers can take and put to work 👍👍
I’ve been a subscriber for a long time, and the quality of your detail work has always been second to none. And each video gets better and better. So satisfying watching not only the work but hearing the thought process behind your obsessive level of detailing. Your rise and success is well deserved! I’m in the area and surely will get my cars in on that waitlist for you to detail one day
Thanks for watching Samson! I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the videos and I'd love to earn your business one day!! I have some great videos coming soon too!
Top notch work, again. Thanks for the great content and thorough explanations/thought processes of what you're looking for, doing and why. And professional input on products used. The education you've provided on your channel is absolutely tremendous.
Thanks! The team is really me haha. Paul definitely does a phenomenal job helping with the ppf tho. He has been wonderful and helping me improve my PPF skills too!
I'm in Australia and would really appreciate if you made a video on how to sus out whether someone offering similar detailing and PPF services are high quality. I admire your passion.
Excellent work, really appreciate your channel as a DIYer for directions on how to keep my personal vehichles in great shape. I also live in the Midwest and would love to see a video breaking down your winter washing methods/tips (i.e. I know you use hot water in cold temps, but what outdoor temperature ranges do you wash in during the winter and what water temp do you use and how much time do you budget for your outdoor wash during freezing temps? I see that you wash in the drive way during the winter with car running, how bad is the freezing water on the ground? Then you pull cars into heated garage and use Bigboi heated blow dryer and then do final detail in garage? Do you ever wash in your heated garage? What extra steps do you use to remove salt durning the winter?....). Again thank you for sharing your expertise!
Thanks for watching I'll try and make a video on this soon. But I wash cars outside when it's pretty cold. I think the real feel was around 10° yesterday when I was washing a Porsche. One really nice thing about that is you basically never get water spots because it's way too cold for the water to evaporate. So washing and direct sun is no big deal. When it does get around 10° or below that or even like 15 or 20 it can get really hard for you personally to be outside for that full wash process. So sometimes I do kind of an abbreviated wash and then finish up inside. You really start to feel it in your hands after 20 or 30 minutes being outside even with the proper gloves. Oddly I've never had freezing water in my driveway issues. I have a blacktop and even when it's freezing outside and I get a light dusting of snow it just melts during the daytime. I think the blacktop just does something different than concrete and dissipates the snow and water or heats up enough from the UV and the Sun to actually retain heat and melt everything. I don't always keep cars running but typically it's a good idea if the car is brand new and is in the break-in. Frequent turn off and turn-ons is not great for a car with 10 miles on it. On occasion I do washing in the garage and then I have a giant squeegee and I push all the water back out with the door cracked an inch. This is a pretty slow process though because I have to squeegee a lot in between doing certain sections or I'll flood the garage. But if I really need to wash something extremely expensive to do PPF for example and it's like -20 out then I'll do a wash inside or do a very very slow and careful waterless wash with an IK foamer Gyeon foam or CarPro lift are great have you hitters for helping with extra contamination like extra salt on your car. In the winter every single wash I do gyeon WetCoat or carpro hydro I'm literally everything I can spray it on. It's a spray and rinse product which is great so you can spray it anywhere. I like to try and put it into my control arms in a fender wells on my wheels calipers glass paint trim you name it I put it on it. It's a really great ceramic base sealant that will keep your car a little more clean and a little more protective through the harshest parts of the winter. It's extremely fast and easy to apply. I don't recommend doing this in your garage especially if you have an epoxy floor or tile floor like me. The runoff will basically wax your floor. So only do this one outside in your driveway.
That was some amazing work. It's eye opening to people to see how many defects and problems exist on their brand-new vehicles. My neighbors bought a new Genesis GV-80 recently and were shocked when I showed them all the scratches and other issues with the paint. Thank you for the video.
Things are crazy busy Bill! But I'm not complaining! Next video will.be a beautiful McLaren GT. Then a shark blue touring and then likely a video on my new car! A 992 gt3rs will follow that likely. Great content in the works!!
I randomly got recommended one of your videos on my feed like 2days ago. Started binge watching every video ever since. You're the most meticulous, OCD, perfectionist, patient detailer ever..lol and that's not a bad thing. Plus, you're very respectful to others in your same profession and extremely knowledgeable of your stuff. Definitely deserve more subs for sure. Hopefully you can upload more often. Love your content 👏 (new sub btw)
Thank you!!! So glad you found status and are enjoying the videos!! I have a McLaren GT video coming hopefully in a week or two! Then a Porsche sport Classic. 911 touring Gt3rs 992 A video on my new car. RS5 And that's just what's filmed and awaiting editing! Be sure to check out my Instagram I do daily stories 🙂👍
I sincerely appreciate your attention to nuances, including avoidance of start/stopping a new vehicle. Do you typically PPF Porsche headlights? I understand the pros/cons, just wanted to get your perspective as I'm deciding for my own 911. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and appreciate the details. We typically do not PPF headlights unless our customers specifically wants it and I understand the risk. The risk is that it will lightly delaminate on removal or even I installation that could get messed up
Hey Aaron! Can't wait to work on your car soon! McLaren GT video up next then a shark blue touring video after that. Shark blue touring was beautiful! McLaren GT was Volcano Yellow. Incredible yellow gold metallic.
@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks for the response. I meant more so larger equipment like vacuums, what cables etc you also recommend. Please consider a shop or tool tour!
Yes it did get clay especially because of the full body PPF. It will often pull very mild things that may not really be a issue during correction or ceramic but will show as a micro dimple in the PPF. So. As a precaution we clay basically everything we PPF. Sometimes we break traditional rules for certain instances. So it's hard to say we always or never do something.
It's cut with emblem on. Hard to explain but it's cut basically on badge and then fi is pushed flush with badge. You won't see the edge. This makes removal easier. PPF should always be installed with a future removal in mind. Pulling the badge off risks losing a bolt in hood especially on carbon hoods. Literally never getting that out and it will rattle around. No benefits to removal when you cut and tuck it the way I do.
Love your videos! When you’re doing a prep wash before ppf or coating, are you using a dedicated stripping soap or just a regular soap like reset or bathe? Thanks!
Thanks! Typically I'm using gyeon foam or Carpro Lift. That's my pre foam and I mix it really strong. Then contact with reset bathe etc. Fun fact lift and foam work great as a wheel cleaner when you spray your left over solution on top of break buster 👍
Do you wipe up the polish liquid at all or do you just polish the whole car and do the wash at the end and that’s it? I’m having a hard time removing all the polish liquid while I’m prepping before coating. Love the videos and skill !
Good question because I don't show that often. After every polish section or cycle I wipe a d inspect. The paint is "clean" after paint correction. The dust is just overwhelming and a wash is best. Not sure I understand your comment about polish liquid removal before coating. You should be wiping your polish and compound off after you do a door for example. Wipe. Inspect. Do more or move on if Happy. If your having serious problems with polish residue sticking them you may need to change brands of pads. Polish. Compound. Polishers. Or technique.
On most cars you can. But Porsches are well known to have the lens totally delaminate and get ruined. Like even during the install and positioning. It can totally ruin it. To big of a risk and if a customer wants it you are signing a liability waiver because I will fully warn them and take zero responsibility if they don't listen to our advice to not do it.
One question... I've recently bought an A5 with trunk and carpet quite messed up, from previous detailers using agressive brushes. Is there any way to fix that?
@@STATUSDETAIL Yeah, they are messed up quite a bit... Speaking of brushes, any brushes that are available online that you recommend? For Audi's velour mats, carpet and trunk
@@xFlowRS I don't mess with carpet in trunks much. I just vacuum you them. That style fabric is likely to rip fibers out if you start brushing to much and it's hard to do extraction because it's basically cardboard/wood structure under it.
@@STATUSDETAIL Point taken. Problem is, on top of everything, mine is full of sand, so I can't leave it like that. Oh, some stains from wheels being driven in the trunk on top of that. I don't know how they made '18 car this messed up.
@@xFlowRS vacuum for sand or just fully remove and smack them a bunch to try and loosen it out. You could try tide in a spray bottle and gentle motions with microfibers to remove stains. But it's possible it won't be perfect.
Sometimes it will take me awhile to edit. It's been so busy that this video was sitting awhile and it had other videos in front of it waiting for editing. So the rush of customers plus previously filmed videos waiting there turn for editing makes this winter job show up in summer time lol. As I mentioned I'm going to try and get a little better at making videos come out faster! But as a one man show it can get tricky!
The only thing crazy here is there might be people who DON’T take their new Porsche to Evan. I feel sorry for those people. I started using Gyeon Tire this spring and I love it, but I have noticed dust seems to stick to it more than other dressings I’ve tried (admittedly I live in a fairly dusty environment). Am I over-applying? Or do I need to knock it down more with a MF towel after 15 mins? What would you do?
It always shocks me to see how bad some paint can be on delivery especially when these cars are worth so much money. Great video as usual, love how much effort you put in to every car.
Stunning job as always Evan. Hoping to see more content instead of once a month. Also not trying to be negative but I think the music in the b roll needs to go. Me personally I think you should go back to the violin type music like in the older Bugatti videos. Im looking forward to seeing the video on your new car, I got my rejuvenator oil marinating as we speak on my Lexus
Thanks! Music has all been a hot subject of debate lol Since I switched to this format the views have been huge and lots of positive feedback on music. If course some negative too. I definitely want to post more than once a month! I'm hoping to get back to 2-3 a month.
@@STATUSDETAIL Buying some Decontamination products and some microfiber cloths from ur store and gotta say man, youve really got the store laid out very well it narrows everything down perfectly for a detailing to not get overwhelmed, thanks man!
Extending edges can work well. But on many panels to do it perfect with no adhesive lines or stretch marks you need a lot of extra film... Bulk install to pull stretch and tack to another panel so the panel your installing on is completely floating. When you plot you tack corners or something on the panel your installing so you can get stretch without the film sliding all over. This creates adhesive lines. Some panels would definitely be convenient to plot. Like smaller pieces on a c8 lower front bumper for example. But I'm low volume and don't want a plotter and software fees for such a small percentage of work. Bulking allows for advanced installation techniques. Simple as that. For a company with employees who don't have the skill set needed to do something to the standard I want the great equalizer is a plotter. It will help them go from incapable of bulking to doing potentially passable plot work. Go find a shop with a bunch of employees. They all have plotters for a reason. Turnover/trainability. Just my two cents. The stuff people don't like to talk about 👍
I guess this channel is for car detailing enthusiasts. With all the detail paid to the car paint , how would one want to take that mint detailed car out to the environment again ? Such a car should only stay inside a showroom or a clean garage for all year round. I mean the moment you take the car out for a drive, forget it, all that mint condition is gone. Is the car meant to serve the owner or the owner serving the car which is an inanimate thing? If I spend all that time getting all the spots and imperfections out of the paint , and then seeing it marred again the moment I took it out for a drive , I will go nuts. What kind of real joy can one get to own a car this way ? I mean, consider the paranoia !
You do the steps performed to make it perfect. Then PPF to seal that in. Then ceramic to make it easier to wash. So you can drive it and enjoy it. If your going to never drive it and put it inside forever you can skip the $9k PPF step. Correct it. Coat it. Stare at it lol
@@STATUSDETAIL $9K is a lot of money, and the PPF eventually will need to get replaced at some point in time. Cars depreciates in value , even if you put the PPF on it, it will still depreciate in value. So that's additional 9K you will never recover when you sell it. Over the 8 years that I have owned my current Mercedes, I wash it once a week, polish it once a year, and apply the Turtle wax ceramic spray coating once a week, the car , though with some swirls if you look at it up close, still looks very decent. And total cost spent over 8 years on products, ~ $500.
@@anthonyboey3210 nothing wrong with that approach. But this car will do 150 on a racetrack routinely and is likely considerably more expensive than the Mercedes unless it's like a GTR pro. Why not pay for the protection if the money isn't going to be missed in your bank account. A lot of people watch videos like this in there own shoes and naturally it seems very expensive then. Imagine you make 4 or 5 times or more your current income. You will look at protection of your quarter million dollar car differently.
Love your work, yet I have to admit your pronunciation of “Porsch” is driving me nuts. It is “Porsch (eh). Just my OCD kicking in. Prob the reason why I watch your videos! 😂
Another Great video ! Every time I detail my car I think " It looks good but it's not a Status Detail "
Thanks! We need to get you closer to the status feeling then! What do you need to know!?
So glad your channel is getting the recognition it has always deserved! Your content is amazing, so congrats on almost 20k
Thank you! About 950 subs away from 20k!
I suggested your channel and you to my detailer that is trying to get into more high ticket cars as a golden standard for detailing and ppf.
That's awesome thank you! I definitely make the videos for entertainment purposes but I do believe there's a lot of good information in here that other detailers can take and put to work 👍👍
You guys are insane! Such perfection
Thanks! 🙂👍
The "Doctor of Detailing" is in!
🙂👍👍
I’ve been a subscriber for a long time, and the quality of your detail work has always been second to none. And each video gets better and better. So satisfying watching not only the work but hearing the thought process behind your obsessive level of detailing. Your rise and success is well deserved! I’m in the area and surely will get my cars in on that waitlist for you to detail one day
Thanks for watching Samson! I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the videos and I'd love to earn your business one day!! I have some great videos coming soon too!
Top notch work, again. Thanks for the great content and thorough explanations/thought processes of what you're looking for, doing and why. And professional input on products used. The education you've provided on your channel is absolutely tremendous.
I'm glad to hear it's helpful and educational 👍🙂
It's always so awesome seeing you and your team take the time to do the job right! Beautiful work!
Thanks! The team is really me haha. Paul definitely does a phenomenal job helping with the ppf tho. He has been wonderful and helping me improve my PPF skills too!
Really satisfying to see such methodical work !
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍👍
What a car that is and it absolutely deserves the status detail treatment. Immaculate professional work as always 😳😳😳😎
Thanks!
I'm in Australia and would really appreciate if you made a video on how to sus out whether someone offering similar detailing and PPF services are high quality. I admire your passion.
I can try and put some thoughts on this in a future video 👍
Excellent work, really appreciate your channel as a DIYer for directions on how to keep my personal vehichles in great shape. I also live in the Midwest and would love to see a video breaking down your winter washing methods/tips (i.e. I know you use hot water in cold temps, but what outdoor temperature ranges do you wash in during the winter and what water temp do you use and how much time do you budget for your outdoor wash during freezing temps? I see that you wash in the drive way during the winter with car running, how bad is the freezing water on the ground? Then you pull cars into heated garage and use Bigboi heated blow dryer and then do final detail in garage? Do you ever wash in your heated garage? What extra steps do you use to remove salt durning the winter?....). Again thank you for sharing your expertise!
Thanks for watching
I'll try and make a video on this soon.
But I wash cars outside when it's pretty cold. I think the real feel was around 10° yesterday when I was washing a Porsche. One really nice thing about that is you basically never get water spots because it's way too cold for the water to evaporate. So washing and direct sun is no big deal.
When it does get around 10° or below that or even like 15 or 20 it can get really hard for you personally to be outside for that full wash process. So sometimes I do kind of an abbreviated wash and then finish up inside. You really start to feel it in your hands after 20 or 30 minutes being outside even with the proper gloves.
Oddly I've never had freezing water in my driveway issues. I have a blacktop and even when it's freezing outside and I get a light dusting of snow it just melts during the daytime. I think the blacktop just does something different than concrete and dissipates the snow and water or heats up enough from the UV and the Sun to actually retain heat and melt everything. I don't always keep cars running but typically it's a good idea if the car is brand new and is in the break-in. Frequent turn off and turn-ons is not great for a car with 10 miles on it.
On occasion I do washing in the garage and then I have a giant squeegee and I push all the water back out with the door cracked an inch. This is a pretty slow process though because I have to squeegee a lot in between doing certain sections or I'll flood the garage. But if I really need to wash something extremely expensive to do PPF for example and it's like -20 out then I'll do a wash inside or do a very very slow and careful waterless wash with an IK foamer
Gyeon foam or CarPro lift are great have you hitters for helping with extra contamination like extra salt on your car.
In the winter every single wash I do gyeon WetCoat or carpro hydro I'm literally everything I can spray it on. It's a spray and rinse product which is great so you can spray it anywhere. I like to try and put it into my control arms in a fender wells on my wheels calipers glass paint trim you name it I put it on it. It's a really great ceramic base sealant that will keep your car a little more clean and a little more protective through the harshest parts of the winter. It's extremely fast and easy to apply. I don't recommend doing this in your garage especially if you have an epoxy floor or tile floor like me. The runoff will basically wax your floor. So only do this one outside in your driveway.
That was some amazing work. It's eye opening to people to see how many defects and problems exist on their brand-new vehicles. My neighbors bought a new Genesis GV-80 recently and were shocked when I showed them all the scratches and other issues with the paint. Thank you for the video.
Wait until I show you all the wetsandng I did on a $400k McLaren in my next video lol
@@STATUSDETAILAwesome! I'm glad you're doing it and not me. I was nervous wetsanding my Mazda.
@@archiepezek yea wetsandng can be a little scary lol
Brilliant work. Love your commitment to quality work. Lloyd
Thank you 👍
Hey Evan. Great to see a new video from you. Must be really busy with the advent of Spring and everyone wanting their cars detailed.
Things are crazy busy Bill! But I'm not complaining! Next video will.be a beautiful McLaren GT. Then a shark blue touring and then likely a video on my new car! A 992 gt3rs will follow that likely. Great content in the works!!
@@STATUSDETAIL Can't wait!
@15:49 "you can't tuck this..." -Mc Hammer lol
Lol. Missed opportunity for a meme
I randomly got recommended one of your videos on my feed like 2days ago. Started binge watching every video ever since. You're the most meticulous, OCD, perfectionist, patient detailer ever..lol and that's not a bad thing. Plus, you're very respectful to others in your same profession and extremely knowledgeable of your stuff. Definitely deserve more subs for sure. Hopefully you can upload more often. Love your content 👏 (new sub btw)
Thank you!!! So glad you found status and are enjoying the videos!! I have a McLaren GT video coming hopefully in a week or two!
Then a Porsche sport Classic.
911 touring
Gt3rs 992
A video on my new car. RS5
And that's just what's filmed and awaiting editing!
Be sure to check out my Instagram I do daily stories 🙂👍
@@STATUSDETAIL Awesome, can't wait 👍
I sincerely appreciate your attention to nuances, including avoidance of start/stopping a new vehicle. Do you typically PPF Porsche headlights? I understand the pros/cons, just wanted to get your perspective as I'm deciding for my own 911. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and appreciate the details. We typically do not PPF headlights unless our customers specifically wants it and I understand the risk.
The risk is that it will lightly delaminate on removal or even I installation that could get messed up
Another amazing video! I Can’t wait to see my Taycan 4S on the channel!
Looking forward to your visit to Status 🙂👍👍 thanks for watching!
Good stuff man... Can't wait to get mine to you soon...
Hey Aaron! Can't wait to work on your car soon!
McLaren GT video up next then a shark blue touring video after that. Shark blue touring was beautiful! McLaren GT was Volcano Yellow. Incredible yellow gold metallic.
Awesome job and very detailed 👌
Thank for watching!
terrific content yet again Evan! keep up the great work chief
Thanks!
I learn so much from this guy😭😭
🙂🙂
Amazing work
Thanks!
Do you have a list somewhere of all the equipment/tools you use? Would love to see a video of everything!
Basically everything on statusdetailstore.com but I do use a few things not listed there.
@@STATUSDETAIL Thanks for the response. I meant more so larger equipment like vacuums, what cables etc you also recommend. Please consider a shop or tool tour!
@@mcdixon23 gotcha! I'll keep that in mind 👍
Love that intro! The quality of this channel continues to grow.
Did this car get clayed since it was in such good shape?
Thanks! Working on the McLaren GT video currently 🙂👍
Yes it did get clay especially because of the full body PPF. It will often pull very mild things that may not really be a issue during correction or ceramic but will show as a micro dimple in the PPF. So. As a precaution we clay basically everything we PPF. Sometimes we break traditional rules for certain instances. So it's hard to say we always or never do something.
Congrats brother you're doing an amazing job 🎉
Thanks!
Do you remove the hood emblem and ppf over the area to avoid having to trim around the emblem?
It's cut with emblem on. Hard to explain but it's cut basically on badge and then fi is pushed flush with badge. You won't see the edge.
This makes removal easier. PPF should always be installed with a future removal in mind. Pulling the badge off risks losing a bolt in hood especially on carbon hoods. Literally never getting that out and it will rattle around.
No benefits to removal when you cut and tuck it the way I do.
I had to come back for the song. Where can I find it?! Shazam kept pulling different versions
Search sickick summer time sadness on TH-cam 👍
He remixed that song.
How do you clean those tough areas at 9:31. Do you use a steam cleaner?
Typically just towels and detail brushes 👍
I love how cautious he is
Thank you 👍🙂
What do you use for tack?
@@E.D.M.Detailing isopropyl I think it's 91 or 93 percent. I do 70ml of that into 1000 ml di water
Love your videos! When you’re doing a prep wash before ppf or coating, are you using a dedicated stripping soap or just a regular soap like reset or bathe?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Typically I'm using gyeon foam or Carpro Lift. That's my pre foam and I mix it really strong.
Then contact with reset bathe etc. Fun fact lift and foam work great as a wheel cleaner when you spray your left over solution on top of break buster 👍
@@STATUSDETAIL Right on, thanks!
Do you wipe up the polish liquid at all or do you just polish the whole car and do the wash at the end and that’s it? I’m having a hard time removing all the polish liquid while I’m prepping before coating. Love the videos and skill !
Good question because I don't show that often. After every polish section or cycle I wipe a d inspect. The paint is "clean" after paint correction. The dust is just overwhelming and a wash is best.
Not sure I understand your comment about polish liquid removal before coating. You should be wiping your polish and compound off after you do a door for example. Wipe. Inspect. Do more or move on if Happy. If your having serious problems with polish residue sticking them you may need to change brands of pads. Polish. Compound. Polishers. Or technique.
Do you also ppf the headlamps
On most cars you can. But Porsches are well known to have the lens totally delaminate and get ruined. Like even during the install and positioning. It can totally ruin it. To big of a risk and if a customer wants it you are signing a liability waiver because I will fully warn them and take zero responsibility if they don't listen to our advice to not do it.
One question... I've recently bought an A5 with trunk and carpet quite messed up, from previous detailers using agressive brushes. Is there any way to fix that?
Without a photo it might be pretty hard to help.
It is possible it needs to be replaced of the fibers are just ripped out or to rough.
@@STATUSDETAIL Yeah, they are messed up quite a bit... Speaking of brushes, any brushes that are available online that you recommend? For Audi's velour mats, carpet and trunk
@@xFlowRS I don't mess with carpet in trunks much. I just vacuum you them. That style fabric is likely to rip fibers out if you start brushing to much and it's hard to do extraction because it's basically cardboard/wood structure under it.
@@STATUSDETAIL Point taken. Problem is, on top of everything, mine is full of sand, so I can't leave it like that. Oh, some stains from wheels being driven in the trunk on top of that. I don't know how they made '18 car this messed up.
@@xFlowRS vacuum for sand or just fully remove and smack them a bunch to try and loosen it out.
You could try tide in a spray bottle and gentle motions with microfibers to remove stains. But it's possible it won't be perfect.
I would have removed the mounting marks off the tires. A little acetone works well.
Interesting. I'll keep that in mind 👍
@@STATUSDETAIL
Incredible work man!
Love the attention to detail.
@@RayNLA thank you 🙂
What squeegees do you use?
@@E.D.M.Detailing just oink squeegee from Amazon. I think it's just a mass produced one that's sold by Ms y different companies
Man how long are these time lapses between when the detail job is done to when the video gets uploaded lol? Always seems like they're months apart
Sometimes it will take me awhile to edit. It's been so busy that this video was sitting awhile and it had other videos in front of it waiting for editing. So the rush of customers plus previously filmed videos waiting there turn for editing makes this winter job show up in summer time lol.
As I mentioned I'm going to try and get a little better at making videos come out faster! But as a one man show it can get tricky!
Should have ceramic coated those black rims. They are a magnet for brake rust.
They did get ceramic but it wasn't shown in the video
The only thing crazy here is there might be people who DON’T take their new Porsche to Evan. I feel sorry for those people.
I started using Gyeon Tire this spring and I love it, but I have noticed dust seems to stick to it more than other dressings I’ve tried (admittedly I live in a fairly dusty environment). Am I over-applying? Or do I need to knock it down more with a MF towel after 15 mins? What would you do?
Thank you!
I wipe q2 tire off with a towel. Like fully remove it so if you touch the tire it is dry with no residue.
It always shocks me to see how bad some paint can be on delivery especially when these cars are worth so much money. Great video as usual, love how much effort you put in to every car.
Thank you! This car was in ok shape. One of the best of the recent Porsche deliverys. But definitely not showroom new and perfect
Stunning job as always Evan. Hoping to see more content instead of once a month. Also not trying to be negative but I think the music in the b roll needs to go. Me personally I think you should go back to the violin type music like in the older Bugatti videos. Im looking forward to seeing the video on your new car, I got my rejuvenator oil marinating as we speak on my Lexus
Thanks!
Music has all been a hot subject of debate lol
Since I switched to this format the views have been huge and lots of positive feedback on music. If course some negative too.
I definitely want to post more than once a month! I'm hoping to get back to 2-3 a month.
It’s sad how bad the paint comes from the factory. Nice job.
Thanks! This paint was pretty "good" lol
Lmao "Hydrophobic Wrap" at 0:48 💀
Lol yea I didn't expect that lol
@@STATUSDETAIL Buying some Decontamination products and some microfiber cloths from ur store and gotta say man, youve really got the store laid out very well it narrows everything down perfectly for a detailing to not get overwhelmed, thanks man!
@@EvanLocklear thanks! I definitely try to keep it simple. So I'm glad it's coming across that way. 👍🙂
I dont see anything wrong with plotting a film to have overhang so you can tuck all your edges
Extending edges can work well. But on many panels to do it perfect with no adhesive lines or stretch marks you need a lot of extra film... Bulk install to pull stretch and tack to another panel so the panel your installing on is completely floating. When you plot you tack corners or something on the panel your installing so you can get stretch without the film sliding all over. This creates adhesive lines. Some panels would definitely be convenient to plot. Like smaller pieces on a c8 lower front bumper for example. But I'm low volume and don't want a plotter and software fees for such a small percentage of work. Bulking allows for advanced installation techniques. Simple as that.
For a company with employees who don't have the skill set needed to do something to the standard I want the great equalizer is a plotter. It will help them go from incapable of bulking to doing potentially passable plot work. Go find a shop with a bunch of employees. They all have plotters for a reason. Turnover/trainability.
Just my two cents. The stuff people don't like to talk about 👍
“You can’t tuck this”
Car - according to Status Detail
Starting out we didn't think that convertible area could be tucked fully. It turned out that we could!
wonderful wonderful W o n d e r f u l 💯%... If you don't treat your precious car this way, that's crazy ;-)
Thanks for watching 🙂
I guess this channel is for car detailing enthusiasts. With all the detail paid to the car paint , how would one want to take that mint detailed car out to the environment again ? Such a car should only stay inside a showroom or a clean garage for all year round. I mean the moment you take the car out for a drive, forget it, all that mint condition is gone. Is the car meant to serve the owner or the owner serving the car which is an inanimate thing? If I spend all that time getting all the spots and imperfections out of the paint , and then seeing it marred again the moment I took it out for a drive , I will go nuts. What kind of real joy can one get to own a car this way ? I mean, consider the paranoia !
You do the steps performed to make it perfect. Then PPF to seal that in. Then ceramic to make it easier to wash.
So you can drive it and enjoy it.
If your going to never drive it and put it inside forever you can skip the $9k PPF step. Correct it. Coat it. Stare at it lol
@@STATUSDETAIL $9K is a lot of money, and the PPF eventually will need to get replaced at some point in time. Cars depreciates in value , even if you put the PPF on it, it will still depreciate in value. So that's additional 9K you will never recover when you sell it.
Over the 8 years that I have owned my current Mercedes, I wash it once a week, polish it once a year, and apply the Turtle wax ceramic spray coating once a week, the car , though with some swirls if you look at it up close, still looks very decent. And total cost spent over 8 years on products, ~ $500.
@@anthonyboey3210 nothing wrong with that approach. But this car will do 150 on a racetrack routinely and is likely considerably more expensive than the Mercedes unless it's like a GTR pro.
Why not pay for the protection if the money isn't going to be missed in your bank account.
A lot of people watch videos like this in there own shoes and naturally it seems very expensive then. Imagine you make 4 or 5 times or more your current income. You will look at protection of your quarter million dollar car differently.
You really love to talk
Do you have a suggestion for a future video?
He’s very educated and knows his stuff
What Evan has to say is more interesting and informative then anything you have to say.
Love your work, yet I have to admit your pronunciation of “Porsch” is driving me nuts. It is “Porsch (eh). Just my OCD kicking in. Prob the reason why I watch your videos! 😂
Lol. I say Audi the lame way too lol sorry.
$12,000 for PPF and ceramic? For $6,000 you can get a new paintjob!
Not a very good one.