Hello, Kansas City, welcome back to the Bespoke Refinement Podcast. We are so thankful to have you on this week to be talking about cars and detailing and Kansas City car detailing and just all of the things cars and Kansas City car detailing. Guys, today we are going to be talking about metallic paint.
What is it? What’s it do? What’s its purpose? Why do you have metallic paint on a car? And is it something that you should do on your vehicle or is it something you should not do on your vehicle? Guys, metallic flake is something that makes your vehicle’s paint pop exponentially. Metallic flake is a rhinestone material that is infused into the base coat and sometimes even the clear coat of your vehicle’s paint to make the paint finish glimmer and glisten in the sunlight and sometimes even in the dark it can glimmer and glisten if the rhinestones of the metallic flake is large enough. Now, the thing about metallic flake is there’s different levels to it and there’s different stages to it.
Over the years, we’ve done a handful of Kansas City car detailing packages and services to vehicles and boats and even RVs that have metallic flake in their paint. This metallic flake can vary in the depth and the velocity of its size causing the vehicle to either look really flaky or the flake to be very dim and less pronounced. On certain types of fishing boats, the metallic flake can be very common such as bass fishing boats.
A Kansas City car detailing package on a bass boat with metallic flake will really make the vehicle’s paint finish pop because bass boats have lots of metallic flake in them. Other paint finishes like Oxford White that comes from Ford is a white finish that has very fine metallic flake in it almost like dust. The flake is very small.
It’s very subtle but it really gives the car an off-white look that glistens. However, it doesn’t have much of a reflection effect to it. The vehicle that I’m working on right now that is receiving a Kansas City car detailing paint correction is a 1969 Camaro Z28 that has been refinished in a very very deep metallic black.
The car is gloss black with heavy silver metallic flake in it almost to make it look like a bass boat. There’s so much flake in it that even outside parked outside at nighttime or inside the garage with no lights on you can still see the metallic flake in the paint. The car had never really been properly refinished so it had a lot of micro marring and hazing and scratching that was hiding the depth the true depth of the metallic flake.
So in order to get the flake to come back first we began by hand washing the vehicle with an assortment of soaps and degreasers to ensure that there was no protection on the paint that there was nothing on the paint that was going to make the paint gunk up the polishing pads. Next we cleaned the car off with a steam cleaner. We do this to soften the clear coat.
Hitting the clear coat with a steam cleaner heats the clear coat up softens it up and loosens it and prepares it for the paint correction. After that to ensure that there were no contaminants in the clear coat we clay barred the entire vehicle with synthetic clay to ensure that the vehicle had no contamination in the clear coat. Once we were once we were 100 certain that there was no contamination in the clear coat and the clear coat was as smooth as butter we began by testing different pads and compounds and polishes to figure out what the best fit was for this vehicle’s paint.
In this case a wool thin cutting pad with heavy cut compound is what was going to cut the paint the best. In certain areas we did have to wet sand the clear coat because the imperfections were so bad. In other areas of the vehicle we did not have to wet sand the paint.
After this we then began by testing different polishes and different polishing pads. This vehicle actually required a third stage of a harder foam pad and a finishing compound followed by a soft foam pad and a very light polish to give the paint the rich black effect as well as allow the metallic flake to pop as well as it could. Once this was completed we then applied a ceramic coating to the vehicle’s paint to ensure that the clear coat is protected hard and not going to fade away over time even if the car spends most of its life inside of a garage.
Guys if you are looking to book a Kansas City car detailing package or service the best way to get a hold of us is to call 620-282-0402. You can also go online to BespokeRefinement.com. There you can check out a list of all of our different Kansas City car detailing packages and services that we have to offer the Kansas City area. We even have a gallery that shows off all of the really cool vehicles that have utilized our Kansas City car detailing services.
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