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Old 09-16-04, 01:08   #3 (permalink)
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Wow, pretty damn good for your first time, eh? My friend has an '03 GS 300 and it sure is fast; love to know what the GS 430 is like.

You need to get over the fear of ordering online and get some of the stuff that is available at autopia-carcare.com, properautocare.com, autogeek.net, etc. That car was close to 50k new, so treat it with some lovely higher end products to really baby it. And as said before, you would really be doing yourself a favor to get a Porter Cable 7424 random orbit polisher.

I used to have an ES300, so I'm intimately familiar with what can (and can't) be done with Toyota paints.


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Mothers pre-wax cleaner, 3M Perfect it II rubbing compound, Meguiars Scratch-X and microfiber, Mothers sealer and glaze, Meguiars NXT Tech wax
Alot of this is redundancy. Although looking at your before pictures, sounds like it needed it!

I think the NXT was probably negated the "Mothers sealer and glaze", as I believe the NXT has cleaning properties. NXT afficianados please chime in.

PI II Rubbing Compound and Scratch-X are probably about the same in terms of abrasiveness, so probably one or the other.

Below is a picture of a '95 ES which was taken in 2001 mostlikely. So almost as old in the pic as yours is now. I used All-In-One, Sealant Glaze, Blitz Wax, with Einmann Fabrik Clear Pearl and One Grand Show-Off quick detailers.

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