2008 Lexus ES350. He gave his Nissan Titan to his wife and his '06 Accord to one of his sons and bought this ES350. Says it should stay a lot cleaner than the previous two now that 2 of his kids have their own cars. He got black because he trusts me to keep it looking good.
The car had been on the dealer's lot a couple of months and one of their detail monkees left a few holograms on the car. One on the hood and a couple lighter ones on the trunk lid. I guess it could have been worse...
Optimum Polish via UDM using a yellow
Meguiars polishing pad.
After polishing, I sealed the car using Clearkote's Carnauba Moose.
I'm a bit partial to this shot....
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2000 Mercedes C320. I was warned in advance it needed a lot of work, especially the interior. Honestly though, it wasn't any worse than most other mom-mobiles. Should have taken some before and afters though, turned out pretty decent. Anyway, when I washed and clayed the car, I was stunned to see how bad the paint was. Spider swirls, scuffs, paint transfers, etc. I was more stunned to hear it was detailed by the dealer in May. No way, that was 4 months ago! It looked like the paint hadn't ever been polished. I pointed this all out to her while there was still some sun hitting the car and she said she never really noticed all that until I pointed it out to her.
Anyway, I told her full correction (as good as I could get it) would take around 3 hours of polishing. She said to pay more attention to the interior this time, since she was so upset with the job the dealer had done (her kid's footprints were still on the back of the front seats when she picked it up) and she was going to need the car by 7 PM (I got there around 2 PM). I ended up going with
Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze using my UDM and a yellow
Meguiars polishing pad. I was able to get some pretty good correction with #80 since this was a non-ceramicleared Mercedes. Not perfect but the owner was really happy how much blacker her car was. She said she will start calling me out every couple of months and next time to focus more on the paint.
I finished it off with a test sample of a
Meguiars LSP. No idea if it is fully synthetic, a carnauba blend or what. It smells like
NXT. Looks amazing on black! By the time I finished, it was nearly 7 PM and the sun was getting low.
Oh yeah, you can see in a few of the pics the PT Cruiser I rented while my Mazda was in the shop getting the timing belt/water pump/tensioner, etc changed. If you absolutely HATE acceleration, a PT Cruiser with the n/a 4 cylinder and automatic is your dream car.
! what kind of durability are you getting with carnauba moose wax?
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