Toyota Matrix

[mose]

This customer lives near Sacramento in Elk Grove where they have the hardest water in the world!! It`s horrible out there for people who care about their cars. He brought the car to me, to see if there was anything that could be done, and I clayed and polished a spot and all it did was make the spots shiny! I told him that the only other option was to try wetsanding. We tried a spot, polished it out and all the water spots were gone. He booked the detail and showed up the next weekend.



Process:

Wash w/Dawn

Clayed

wiped down w/IPA

wetsanded all the affected areas

Washed w/Dawn again

Had some trouble figuring out which polish to use. SIP wasn`t removing all of the sanding marks so I had to go with OC. Which of course meant a second stage of polishing.

Second stage was done with SSR1

Topped w/DG #105

AW x 2

Headlights were wetsanded and polished w/SIP



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Westanded

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Wetsanding polished out

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[joe_sun]

This is my Wife`s Matix and I found Mike using Autopia when he replied to a post asking for help. I can`t express how overjoyed with the results of his work. The pictures don`t do justice to the way the car looks and my wife`s pride of ownership has returned!



Mike put in a ton of work and probably didn`t charge me enough for this. He`s also been extremley helpful giving advise on the Matrix as well as my Civic Si which he`ll probably be doing sooner than later since my wife`s 5 year old Matrix now shines more than my 3 month old Si.



My only regret is not having him detail the interior along with the exterior. I`ve been meaning to do it myself but with a child on the way in less than 2 months I`ve been busy working on the house every weekend.



On a side note, I`m having sprinkler guards installed near our driveway so this won`t happen again!



Thanks Mike!!!!

[mose]

Hey joe_sun!!



It was my pleasure to take car of your car! After meeting you and your wife it made me want to work even harder. The interior probably wouldn`t take much work if you want to cruise it by one day! I will text you and we can try to figure it out.



Thanks for the kind words!! Glad that your HOA stepped up and took care of the sprinkler problem!!!

[oN3fastSS]

Nice turn around!!

[hellabad]

Are "Mose" and "Mr Ikon" the same person?



Somebody let me know.



Jay