Detailing Questions

[jph102900]

@1st v-dub

thanks for the compliments guys! I was pretty impressed myself, as was marks_lude, the member on here that I did this for.

We were pretty aggressive with his car. Usually wash the car, dry, clay bar the car, then wash it again, and dry.

Then I use a 3m rubbing compound (usually fine cut if the car has good clear left, regular rubbing compound if it’s a super oxidized single stage which his was as it was painted once I believe). Either way his paint was pretty faded.

Then I think we used a Meguires Paint cleaner which is just a finer cut.

Add in some 3m Imperial Hand Glaze to fill some scratches.

Top with 2 coats of mother’s carnuba wax (old school stuff in the metal tin) I think it has one of the higher carnuba percentages of the things you can buy at pep boys.

Used a wool pad for the rubbing compound and polish. Cotton plush pad for hand glaze and regular cotton one to take off the wax. I usually end up spending at least 4 hours on a car, but I’m slow and my arm gets tired, even with an orbital buffer, lol.

Sounds like the same process that I used on my accord. Luckily most of the accord was metal and the plastic parts actually were not too faded at the time. I traded that car in for 500 bucks at Rohrich when I bought my Mazda and then saw it a month later on sale for $2,750 at one of those POS dealerships on route 51 going into the city :bash: