Cayenne, LX470, Harley Road King, Tahoe

Scottwax · 01-20-06, 07:32

2004 Porsche Cayenne. Weekly wash customer, last deep polished and waxed in October. Paint still looked pretty good so I used my hybrid Pink Moose (Vanilla Moose and Red Machine Glaze mixed 50/50) with a Meguiars polishing pad and topped with Natty's Blue. Pretty hard to beat this combo for sheer wetness.

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2004 Lexus LX470. Same owner but I only clean it when I wax it 3-4 times a year. Same process and products.

Scottwax · 01-20-06, 07:47

1999 Harley Davidson Road King. Real nice bike, he has me detail it about once a year, usually in the spring. The weather has been dry and warm though so he wanted it cleaned early this time.

He moved from his house to a loft in downtown Dallas so the only place I could work on it was in the parking garage. Anyway, I washed it with QEW, scrubbed the whitewalls with Orange Blast Degreaser, polished all the chrome with Vanilla Moose and use Prime and Acrylic Jett on the paint. All by hand.

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2004 Chevy Tahoe. Her boss was buying and he also wanted me to wash his Porsche (you can see it behind the Tahoe in the first pic) and since I couldn't start on either until noon, I had to one step the exterior. I hadn't used Meguiars #20 Polymer Sealant in a while and while I might normally have used NXT, it just isn't a true cleaner wax product. #20 seems to have cleaning ability on par with Klasse AIO and gives an easy 3-4 months of protection.

Additionally, the owner of the Tahoe said the local car wash in Rockwall had detailed it a while back and she told me not to worry about the spots on the transmission hump between the front seats because they had assured her those stains wouldn't come out. Oh really?

(excuse the 0.3 megapixel camera phone pic quality)

Water/Woolite mixture, small scrub brush, clean towel and less than a minute:

Looks like a certain car wash *cough* Horizon *cough* was wrong. Honestly, I don't think they even attempted to clean it, normally cleaning improperly will set the stain. Came right up for me. Her boss, the owner of the Porsche has already informed that car wash they have been fired. The manager told him they were getting heat from above about the time they were spending on the details.

As long as they simply don't get it, those of us who do care about the job we do will continue to grow our businesses.

Anyway, exterior shots. Meguiars #20 with a Meguiars polishing pad. Honestly, I had forgotten how nice #20 looks.

The paint is a grey metallic, too close to sunset to get pics of it but I had an H2 to detail the next morning at the same office and took a couple full sun pics. Next roll of film though, sorry.

Scottwax · 01-20-06, 07:52

I've been layering on carnaubas on my car.

Polished only (Menzerna 106FF, Vanilla Moose, Pink Moose)

After Carnauba Moose, Werkstatt's Carnauba Jett and Natty's Blue (applied about 2 days apart with a No-Rinse Wash in between coats). I took both pics around the same time of day, approximately 5 PM.

A couple more pics:

Sludge · 01-20-06, 08:16

Scottwax,

Your car is the most impressive of the group. Thats an incredibly deep shine. Almost makes me consider a black car.

SilverLexus · 01-20-06, 08:32

I like the reflections in the Cayenne hood. Very wet...

BlackSunshine · 01-20-06, 08:35

Scott, that second picture of your car looks perfect. Are you spit shining the carnaubas or just layering? I was under the impression that the newest layer of carnauba would either a) dissolve the previous layer, even if the new layer is a pure carnauba b/c it still has solvents or b) the new layer would simply be "pushing around" the previous layer. I must say, your pictures speak for themselves, but how much good do you think a layer of CMW and Jeff's Carnauba Jett does under Natty's Blue? I wonder what percentage of the final result is from the newest wax vs. the percentage from the previous layers.

1 Clean WS6 · 01-20-06, 09:15

You know...a few years back when I first detailed a new client's C5 her exhaust tips were tarnished and filthy. Her local wash/detail shop said they wouldn't brighten...it was just "age" that made them look like that. Five minutes with some Eagle One Never Dull and I have been cleaning that C5 once a week for 3 years!!! I'll never understand why some of these shops don't give even an ounce worth of effort??

Another round of gorgeous details Scott!! While not teh hotness of today or even two years ago...#20 really is a fantastic product. Easy on...easy off...great reflections and super gloss!

Scottwax · 01-20-06, 10:08

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Originally Posted by BlackSunshine

Scott, that second picture of your car looks perfect. Are you spit shining the carnaubas or just layering? I was under the impression that the newest layer of carnauba would either a) dissolve the previous layer, even if the new layer is a pure carnauba b/c it still has solvents or b) the new layer would simply be "pushing around" the previous layer. I must say, your pictures speak for themselves, but how much good do you think a layer of CMW and Jeff's Carnauba Jett does under Natty's Blue? I wonder what percentage of the final result is from the newest wax vs. the percentage from the previous layers.

No spit shining. I never really have time.

If you apply carnaubas right over each other without waiting, you'd be right about 'pushing' around or smearing the previous layer. However, if you wait a couple days and wash your car before adding another coat, it seems to work fine. I used CMW as a base since I have been getting very good durability from it, plus since it is liquid and petroleum based, it is the most likely to remove some, if not all the previous carnauba. Carnauba Jett is supposed to be water based and truely layerable (but how are you really going to measure it?) and gives the paint a darker look. I finished a few days later with Natty's Blue to get the wettest look possible. Now I will maintain with Quikshine for several weeks then again use Carnauba Jett and top with NB or Souveran.

gmblack3a · 01-20-06, 10:22

Except for the bike you had a good amount of black paint to deal with.

I too think your car looks the best, but the Porsche is not bad either.

Pats300zx · 01-21-06, 03:26

Awesome work as always Scott. The black on your car looks liquid.

G35stilez · 01-21-06, 05:24

That Cayenne is Killer! So is the house behind it

Scottwax · 01-21-06, 05:56

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Originally Posted by GSRstilez

That Cayenne is Killer! So is the house behind it

11,000 square feet! The house on the other end (you can see in the background of the front shots) is his guest house with the wood paneled garage. And yes, it is as far away as it seems!

gmblack3a-nearly 40% of the vehicles I clean each month are black.

Pat-thanks! It has taken me nearly a couple years to get it to that point though since the paint was so bad when I got the car. Too bad not an hour after I took those pics, some moronic apartment complex was watering their brown grass and flooded the street and there was too much traffic to change lanes and avoid the water.

Mike-I hear ya. I don't get it either. Good for me though, assuming their unhappy customers don't think we all perform like that!

I was also quite pleased with how nice #20 performed, I hadn't used it in probably a year. Now I remember why I still carry it with me!