Oops, I meant to say "Astra"!! Hi boys and girls! Well what a lucky boy I was today to get a car that doesn't have a ceramic finish!!! Wohooo! Haven't had a car with normal paint in ages... Anyway, this guy's been a regular customer of mine for about a year now and just like the title says, he's a very big clean freak. I even found some hygienic spray in his car... but these are the kind of customers I LOVE! This car has about 95k on the clock, it's 6 years old (I believe) and it's a daily driver... and its the one of the cleanest, most pristine automobiles I've even seen.
After the first time I cleaned his car he hasn't dared to go to another car wash, but unfortunately the guys who have washed it before me left some pretty ugly scratches and swirls on it. They were very difficult to pick up being that it's a silver car, but there's one before pic in there of the swirls. You could also see that he'd either been through an automatic car wash a few times or it's been carved up like Jacko-... lantern (OK I won't go there... even though I know he's out in the desert somewhere with Elvis and the others...
) with a water blade.
Here's some befores:
Caught the oily dipstick in the end
This car was wearing Dodo Hard Candy and I wanted to strip off what was left of it, but I did things a little different this time. I usually add some APC into my snow foam mix, but yesterday I was doing a 599 GTB that had been wearing 4 layers of Swissvax Concorso since February. After doing a heavy foam/APC mix I rinsed the car and the water was still beading like crazy. Basically the APC mix that I used didn't do squat for stripping off the old wax. So I went around with a heavy APC mix only and sprayed the car down just before I washed it (you don't have to spray every centimeter of the car). After that I washed the car normally with shampoo together with the APC that was on the car and it took off everything! So I've come to the conclusion that running an APC mix through a foam lance and then just rinsing it off is really a waste of product no matter how long it dwells... the APC needs to be worked in. Here's the sheet of water on the hood after using this method:
My only decent shot of the swirls:
Trailer hitch
Repainted
It cost me a lot of elbow grease to remove all this grease...
Look at the floor mats on this thing! I only vacuumed them!!
Oh and under this was the spare of course... not one spec of dirt and I've never laid a finger on it.
My signature of Tic Tacs (minus my business card, he knows me
)
The polishing was a one-step with InstaFinish Buff n' Shine followed by Collinite 845. Also, all of the windows were polished and the windscreen was treated with Nanolex while the others all got a coat of Liquid glass. The rims also received a coat of Liquid Glass and all trim and tires were dressed with InstaFinish Super Protect All.
Thanks for reading and to all the Playboy subscribers, thanks for "reading"!
- Jesse
Re: A clean freak's Vectra...
I think it's great that he takes such good care of it.
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