Scottwax
06-16-2006, 11:24 PM
I have a total of 11 cars to detail for a law firm every summer, no shade except early morning and late afternoon, between 9:30 am and 3:30 pm, unless it is cloudy, we are working in the full sun. We finished 8 this week (already posted 3) and I have 3 more next week. I`m glad we are doing them in June this year instead of July like last year because the humidity is lower this time of year. Mid 90s to around 100, but afternoon humitidy has been in the 25% range during the heat of the day.
Lucky for me and my boys, the combination of Clearkote, Poorboy`s, Gatorade and gallons of cold water get us through this each year. :)
We used Clearkote`s Vanilla Moose using the Cyclo and white Cylco polishing pads followed by Poorboy`s EX w/carnauba on the Altima, DTS and RX300, sustituting `Pink` Moose (50/50 mix of Vanilla Moose and Red Machine Glaze) on the LS430 and Sienna. VM works great in the sun but it was smearing slightly on removal-maybe using too much with the switch to the Cyclo, Pink Moose seems better in this regard. A bit deeper looking too.
The interiors were cleaned with Woolite/water mixture and protected with Optimum`s Protectant Plus. The Cyclo with the brush attachment was used on all the mats, really does an amazing job deep cleaning them and it is very fast too!
2001 Lexus RX300:
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_Lexus_RX300_frontend.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_Lexus_RX300_rear1.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_Lexus_RX300_interior.jpg
2002 Cadillac DTS. This car really needed a bit more polishing but I give a flat rate for all the vehicles since they give me so many to do, any extra polishing is up to the owner of the car and she opted to go with what the company was paying for since she is probably going to trade this one in anyway. Still, VM got about 90% of the swirls out of the paint-seemed a bit softer than most GM paint since I started with the green Cyclo pad first but it left some light hazing-switched to the white pad and it worked great. Turned out better than I expected, although not as good as it could have had she`d been willing to pay for deeper polishing-the important thing was she was thrilled how it turned out.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_rear.JPG
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_front.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_frontend.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_interior1.jpg
Lucky for me and my boys, the combination of Clearkote, Poorboy`s, Gatorade and gallons of cold water get us through this each year. :)
We used Clearkote`s Vanilla Moose using the Cyclo and white Cylco polishing pads followed by Poorboy`s EX w/carnauba on the Altima, DTS and RX300, sustituting `Pink` Moose (50/50 mix of Vanilla Moose and Red Machine Glaze) on the LS430 and Sienna. VM works great in the sun but it was smearing slightly on removal-maybe using too much with the switch to the Cyclo, Pink Moose seems better in this regard. A bit deeper looking too.
The interiors were cleaned with Woolite/water mixture and protected with Optimum`s Protectant Plus. The Cyclo with the brush attachment was used on all the mats, really does an amazing job deep cleaning them and it is very fast too!
2001 Lexus RX300:
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_Lexus_RX300_frontend.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_Lexus_RX300_rear1.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_Lexus_RX300_interior.jpg
2002 Cadillac DTS. This car really needed a bit more polishing but I give a flat rate for all the vehicles since they give me so many to do, any extra polishing is up to the owner of the car and she opted to go with what the company was paying for since she is probably going to trade this one in anyway. Still, VM got about 90% of the swirls out of the paint-seemed a bit softer than most GM paint since I started with the green Cyclo pad first but it left some light hazing-switched to the white pad and it worked great. Turned out better than I expected, although not as good as it could have had she`d been willing to pay for deeper polishing-the important thing was she was thrilled how it turned out.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_rear.JPG
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_front.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_frontend.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2002_Cadillac_DTS_interior1.jpg