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Old 07-06-08, 10:12   #1 (permalink)
kaval
Making It Shine! ;)
 
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Make It Shine: Very Wet Honda Civic Hatch

Hey everyone. I had the chance to detail the car of a good friend. It is a 1999 Civic with 204,000KMs on it.

I have been without a camera for the past few details but thankfully my friend has an XTi so he snapped quite a few pictures. It was nice for once for someone to be taking pictures while I focused at the task. After the car was done, we went to a parking lot to shoot some proper pictures.

Process:
- Wash via double-buckets, Optimum Car Wash & Sheepskin Mitts
- Dry with WW MFs
- Clay with Riccardo Clay & ONR diluted to Clay Lube
- IPA wipedown
- OP on LC 6.5" white pad, and Sonus 6" white pad via rotary @ 1600rpm
- IPA wipedown and rinse
- Opti-Seal x2
- Tires dressed with owner's Armour All-Foam when we reached the photoshoot destination.

I was very happy at the level of gloss achieved, and Opti-Seal amped it up quite a bit after that as you will see in the pictures.
























































After 2 coats of Opti-Seal:















Special thanks to Amer for the pictures and letting me use the camera! I definitely have to get a DSLR soon

Thanks for looking!

Kaval
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