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Today I did some detailing...
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Unfortunately Car had not seen a power washer in 6 months , or a detail in 12months ++ until two weeks ago when I managed to squeeze in a 2BM Wash, De Contaminate, Clay (mostly to remove 2 part epoxy high solids white over-spray) and 1 Coat of 845.
Unfortunately two weeks ago time didn't allow a 2nd coat of 845 , which I had hoped to do today which sadly ended up only been a Quick 2BM Wash, Touch up with OAC Perfection and attach the Snail Shell in prep for a 2500km + return trip/holiday !
Hopefully ill get time to finally use the DAP on the micro swirls on my return !0 -
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Been a busy bee recently, had a Mini in for an Exterior Decontamination and Wax:
RickyP's Passat Estate getting an Exterior Decontamination, Single Stage Gloss Enhancement, Sealed, Waxed and the interior tidied:
Robbiew's IS250 got an Exterior Decontamination and Wax:
A buddies Dad's Hemi V8 engined 300C getting a single stage compound and wax to remove oxidation and most swirls in prep for GASCC yesterday:
Gavman's ST getting a single stage to remove swirls and sealed with Fusso:
A few more polishing jobs lined up soon!0 -
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After my car being abused by TS Valeting (one mitt for the whole car, wheels included, dragging from bottom to top) last week, I decided to show the car some love. They also cracked a panel on the boot with their abusive washing (I dont have a pic, but its this panel on the boot lid)
Washed, clayed, detarred (tardis), washed, dried, hand polished and hand waxed.
Kerbing
Reflections :cool:
And a bit of autosol and tardis on the exhaust
To cap it all off, it rained:0 -
First time to use Bilt Hammer wheel and snow foam. More than happy with both.
Wheels before, during and after (no agitation) and final picture is after some very quick agitation with the large Wheel Woolie and then dressed. Cleaning the wheels took 1/10 of the time it used to. :cool:
Snow foam equally as brilliant, seemed to dwell a bit longer than Chemical Guys (not as foamy on the car though as expected).
Both great products!
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Cleaned the car yesterday
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3 bucket wash
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Curran Carpro TarX is an amazing product, it really helped with taking off bugs etc. Made the process much easier. My only problem is that the wind caught the gate which subsequently knocked the bottle over, so lost half before I started.0 -
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My two cars this weekend
A friend of a friends Golf....
and a lovely 1930's Austin....
Paint was in bits on this, someone must have can sprayed it at some point.
While it is far from perfect the owner went crazy when he seen it, really should have got a before shot!
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Think this could be my first post in the detailing forum,
Gave the car a good going over yesterday, I'm not new to cleaning cars but I'm new to proper cleaning. So here's my first go at it.
What I did:
2 bucket wash with autoglym bodywork shampoo conditioner & microfibre mitt,
Took off tar with autoglym intensive tar remover,
Then iron x, worked wonders on it it seemed, there was a lot of stuff streaking off it.
Washed it again quickly and dried with a dry me crazy towel, great yoke, just keeps sucking up water.
Then used a meguiars clay bar with diluted demon shine as a lube,
Rinsed it down thoroughly, then used autoglym srp with a hand pad, most of the yellowing & fade went with a light enough pass but some areas like the edges of the doors, roof and bootlid needed a little more attention.
Next step was collinite 845, got it out and shook the sh1te out of it, then put it in a slightly warm pot of water because it was a little lumpy, went on and came off really easy.
Then I dressed the tyres with meguiars endurance tyre gel.
Very happy with the results, if there's something not right about my methods i'd be glad to hear pointers.
Iron X at work on the bootlid, stuff amazed me :pac:
On the wing:
I dont have any other 'during' photos but here's the aftermath:
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The car hood/bonnet isn't as shiny as the rest of the car. If I feel it with the back of my hand, it doesn't feel rough at all but its like covered with a layer of fog and it looks so dull compared with the rest of the body. I have AG SRP, should I apply that (with hand) if that can make a difference ? Any advise please ?
PS: Sorry for not sharing pics for the past few months, other priorities took over but I did keep the car clean! 0 -
The car hood/bonnet isn't as shiny as the rest of the car. If I feel it with the back of my hand, it doesn't feel rough at all but its like covered with a layer of fog and it looks so dull compared with the rest of the body. I have AG SRP, should I apply that (with hand) if that can make a difference ? Any advise please ?
PS: Sorry for not sharing pics for the past few months, other priorities took over but I did keep the car clean!
I assumed you've used a clay bar on it? To start afresh you could strip everything using IPA then:
Wash
de-tar
de-iron
Clay bar
Wash
Polish
Seal
I use SRP but I have a silver car, not sure what's best for black.0 -
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