Vanity Detailing - 1995 Mercury Grand Marquis

[VanityDetailing]

Process:

Wash with Meguiar`s NXT Shampoo

Meguiar`s Mirror Glaze Aggressive Claybar

Meguiar`s Unigrit 2500grit wetsand paper

Meguiar`s M85 Diamond Cut Compound 2.0, Meguiar`s W4000 wool cutting pad, Makita 9227C @ 2000rpms

Meguiar`s Ultimate Compound, Meguiar`s W7000 foam cutting pad, Makita 9227C @ 1750rpms

Meguiar`s SwirlX, Meguiar`s W8006 foam polishing pad, Meguiar`s G110 D/A @ speed 6

Meguiar`s M7 Show Car Glaze, Meguiar`s W9006 foam finishing pad, Meguiar`s G110 D/A @ speed 5

Meguiar`s NXT Tech Wax 2.0, Meguiar`s W9006 foam finishing pad, Meguiar`s G110 D/A @ speed 3 (x2)

Meguiar`s Flagship Marine Wax, Meguiar`s W9006 foam finishing pad, Meguiar`s G110 D/A @ speed 3

Meguiar`s Ultimate Quick Detailer

Meguiar`s Ultimate Quick Wax

Meguiar`s NXT Insane Shine Tire Spray (for tires and all exterior trim)

Meguiar`s Hot Rims All Wheel Cleaner

Simple Green diluted 2:1 to clean engine bay

WD-40 to dress wheelwells and engine bay





Full album is here... (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=54685&id=1535958037)





Before... heavy scratches, swirling, spiderwebbing, and general clearcoat failure...



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Brand new claybar, trashed...



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After wetsanding...



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After full correction...



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[sacdetailing]

lol wetsanding, no offence its not the right way to do it.

[sacdetailing]

but over all good results with polshin, props man

[DRT]

Interesting, ive never heard of using wd-40 as a dressing....

[imported_reeeko99]

Was / Is that clear coat failure in Pic 5 ?





Nice turn around.

[imported_JoshVette]

Nice job.



Sanding marks are kind of.... umm..... well......... :LOLOL



So are you a Megs` sponsor or vendor or something??.....

[VanityDetailing]

Interesting, ive never heard of using wd-40 as a dressing....



I picked that up from an old guy at the Goodguys Car Show in Jacksonville, FL. He`s been detailing for 30+ years, and basically said, "if you`re gonna be washing these newer cars with all them eee-lec-tron-ics, you`re gonna need something to wick the water away from them sensors. It works good on fenderwells too... helps keep tar and sh*t from stickin`."




Was / Is that clear coat failure in Pic 5 ?





Nice turn around.



Yes, and thanks!




lol wetsanding, no offence its not the right way to do it. but over all good results with polshin, props man



Everybody has their ways of doing things. That`s the way I was taught how to do it, and it`s never failed me yet. Thanks for the props, though.

[VanityDetailing]

Nice job.



Sanding marks are kind of.... umm..... well......... :LOLOL



So are you a Megs` sponsor or vendor or something??.....



No, but it`s all I use.

[MrCLRider]

Do you have a paint thickness guage? I get scared everytime I wetsand even with a guage.

[imported_JoshVette]

No, but it`s all I use.



If you`re doing this as a business there`s definitely some better products out there that might speed things up for you or just get you better results.... just saying.



Meg`s has plenty of great products don`t get me wrong.



Josh

[shaunls1]

when i wet sand i make shure i have an even compleate coverage.

[WRXedUSA]

Interesting, ive never heard of using wd-40 as a dressing....



Works great.



For my personal car, I use a 1/3-2/3 mixture of ATF and CRC Power lube and put it in a spray bottle. Wait for a non breezy day, hit all the undersides, struts, linkages, diffs, ABS vacuum boxes, CV joints (everythiing but the brakes of course). Adds a shine, keeps salt, worms and other junk from bonding to your underbody parts for the winter. Over time, it creates kinda like a dirty "dust shield" on the underbody.



An old rally car trick is to spray Pam on your fenders to keep the mud-snow from sticking. Might work too, and you might smell like a bacon egg and pancake breakfast too drving down the road.

[VanityDetailing]

Do you have a paint thickness guage? I get scared everytime I wetsand even with a guage.



Yes. Mine is the magnetic one, ProGauge II.




If you`re doing this as a business there`s definitely some better products out there that might speed things up for you or just get you better results.... just saying.



Meg`s has plenty of great products don`t get me wrong.



Josh



You`re probably right, but I`m more of a brand-loyalist than anything else.





Hell, it took me 5 years to pull the trigger to order a quart of ONR, two days ago.