My First time detailing a car using a PC

OUCH · 04-27-03, 01:17

Wanted to play with my new toys, so I offered to detail my friends car who paid me for my services and gave me free lunch and dinner

His car has never seen polish nor wax since the past 4-6 years he's had it. So I cleaned the car with Dawn, and then claybarred it, I did half and he did the rest

His car used to look cream white like almost brownish of some sort so we both thought it's Pearl White, hahaha

Till I got done with Claybar, Paint Cleaner, Polish Sealant and here's what we came up with..

The white car behind is MY baby..

Check out the used bottles of Clay Magic

Not bad for a Newbie huh

UPDATE.. Scroll below, I just realized I am NOT happy with the gloss and shininess, I feel I should've gotten a better result for using a machine, I think I could've achieved the same shininess n gloss with just my bare hands

mark2003 · 04-27-03, 02:11

Looks good, I wanna see more pics of the lude

OUCH · 04-27-03, 02:33

There you go fellow Lude Owner/Lover

You should join http://www.preludeonline.com GREAT Prelude Site..

TurboCat · 04-27-03, 03:52

Wow! That looks beautiful!!! I forgot how nice a white car could look!

Fantastic work!

4DSC · 04-27-03, 10:20

That's one clean Max! It looks great.

OUCH · 04-27-03, 12:27

Thanks

After I got done with the Paint Cleaner it was reflecting everything but it wasn't glossy or wet looking and then I started using AIO and I still wasn't noticing much difference from before and it was really starting to piss me off... So I was blah whatever atleast I can return it... So I took the car out of the garage and I was like DAYUM

what happened here? Look at that car, it's glossy

OUCH · 04-27-03, 11:26

Just realized something, I'm not very happy with the results, I want it glossier and shinier and more wet looking, what else can I do to improve this?

disasnguy · 04-27-03, 11:32

sweet ride.

cvcaelen · 04-27-03, 11:40

Quote:

Originally posted by OUCH
Just realized something, I'm not very happy with the results, I want it glossier and shinier and more wet looking, what else can I do to improve this?

My best bet at this is that your car was in pristine shape before you started the process, and a PC could not improve the results you allready had.

Christiaan

Mage · 04-28-03, 12:47

Sweet car

OUCH · 04-28-03, 01:18

Quote:

Originally posted by cvcaelen
My best bet at this is that your car was in pristine shape before you started the process, and a PC could not improve the results you allready had.

Christiaan

Actually car was in pretty bad shape, like it had rust spots all over and the surface was very dull.. I dunno I guess I'm just expecting too much, especially after seeing what some of you guys have done here.

4DSC · 04-28-03, 12:06

OUCH could you clarify the products you vaguely refer to in the first post that you used?

If you're not satisfied with the results you might want to try polishing it again or use something slightly stronger. It's usually all in the prep, but white is a colour that will never look quite as deep or wet as a darker colour in most lighting conditions. It's just the nature of the colour and my silver car is nearly as bad...