Scottwax
07-14-2006, 12:32 AM
For those wondering about the cleaning ability of Optimum No Rinse....
This Excursion is owned by a regular, last waxed about 7 weeks ago with Optimum Car Wax and it was just back from a road trip to Colorado and back. Single bucket method, just changed out the water/ONR halfway through because of how dirty the Excursion was.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/ONR1.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/ONR2.jpg
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My sons and I detailed 11 cars for a law firm back in June, got an e-mail from them a couple weeks ago asking we come out and detail 8 more, so here are the first two.
2006 Nissan Maxima. Less than a year old and in excellent condition. Went over it with Clearkote`s Vanilla Moose mixed 50/50 with Red Machine Glaze, aka Pink Moose and white Cyclo finishing pads and topped with Poorboy`s EX w/carnauba.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2006_Nissan_Maxima_front.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2006_Nissan_Maxima_rear.jpg
2001 Volkswagen Passat. Definitely not in as nice shape as the Maxima, numerous scratches all over the hood and trunk lid, interior was pretty bad too, starting a trend that continued the next two days (horrible Kia Spectra and Saturn-ugh). I guess we did all the higher-ups cars in June and now we get the regular employees who apparently do good enough work to warrant a free detail but also don`t take very good care of their cars.
Anyway, back to the Passat. The Maxima was such a blow-off to do, so that despite us doing the details at a set price and only two steps on the paint, I did an extra step on the hood and trunk lid. I started with Optimum`s Hyper Compound and orange Cyclo cutting pads and made several slow passes and got out about 85% of the scratches and spider swirls. Not even worth taking sun shots on white paint, they totally wash out with my camera. Some of the deeper stuff wasn`t coming out even with wetsanding anyway so I went ahead and did the whole car with Optimum Polish and green Propel lite cut Cyclo pads (much better, IMO than the green Cyclo pads) and topped with Poorboy`s EX w/carnauba.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_VW_Passat_rear.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_VW_Passat_front.jpg
This Excursion is owned by a regular, last waxed about 7 weeks ago with Optimum Car Wax and it was just back from a road trip to Colorado and back. Single bucket method, just changed out the water/ONR halfway through because of how dirty the Excursion was.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/ONR1.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/ONR2.jpg
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My sons and I detailed 11 cars for a law firm back in June, got an e-mail from them a couple weeks ago asking we come out and detail 8 more, so here are the first two.
2006 Nissan Maxima. Less than a year old and in excellent condition. Went over it with Clearkote`s Vanilla Moose mixed 50/50 with Red Machine Glaze, aka Pink Moose and white Cyclo finishing pads and topped with Poorboy`s EX w/carnauba.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2006_Nissan_Maxima_front.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2006_Nissan_Maxima_rear.jpg
2001 Volkswagen Passat. Definitely not in as nice shape as the Maxima, numerous scratches all over the hood and trunk lid, interior was pretty bad too, starting a trend that continued the next two days (horrible Kia Spectra and Saturn-ugh). I guess we did all the higher-ups cars in June and now we get the regular employees who apparently do good enough work to warrant a free detail but also don`t take very good care of their cars.
Anyway, back to the Passat. The Maxima was such a blow-off to do, so that despite us doing the details at a set price and only two steps on the paint, I did an extra step on the hood and trunk lid. I started with Optimum`s Hyper Compound and orange Cyclo cutting pads and made several slow passes and got out about 85% of the scratches and spider swirls. Not even worth taking sun shots on white paint, they totally wash out with my camera. Some of the deeper stuff wasn`t coming out even with wetsanding anyway so I went ahead and did the whole car with Optimum Polish and green Propel lite cut Cyclo pads (much better, IMO than the green Cyclo pads) and topped with Poorboy`s EX w/carnauba.
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_VW_Passat_rear.jpg
http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2001_VW_Passat_front.jpg