ultrajim49
04-22-2003, 12:50 AM
I detailed my car,…
Nothing special, ‘cause that’s what we’re here for,right ?
Well, my car has a little history :
I bought it second hand in August 2001, the car was build in March 2001,and was « detailed » by the dealer.(I joined Autopia in November)
I joined Autopia in November 2001 and it wasn’t ‘till then that I learned that »simonizing » your car wasn’t the same as « detailing» your car,…
I experimented with Turtle Wax, Meguiars and finaly Zaino.
Prior to the first Z-treatmend I polished the car by hand with Meguiars Scratch & swirl Remover after I Clayed.
The car looked fine and shinier than most of the other cars around.
This time some things were diffrent :
In the mean time I had bought the ROB Makita BO6040.
During the Easter hollydays I cleaned the interior(vac.,wash & dress the plastics,clean windows,…)
So ,Thursday ,April17, in the evening I washed my MPV and only needed to clay the rocker panels(the baggy-test showed that it wasn’t needed to clay the rest).
Friday-morning the car was perfectly dry and ready for polishing.
I used the Makita with the yellow polishing pad from Meguiars and the 3MPIII Machine Polish.
Look at Pic1 (http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2116&papass=&sort=1)and see what I had to deal with,…
Remember that my wife crunched the side ?(see…http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=201&papass=&sort=1)
When I turned the car into the sun to check if those swirls were gone,I was in for a mayor surprise : they were NOT gone ! ! !.
One step up on the abrasive scale :a wool pad and the same polish
Lucky for me ,that did the job :let the pic(http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2115&papass=&sort=1)do the talking ,the flash can not hide any swirls :they would show if they were there ! ! !Mind you,this still is before Z !
Now I know why it is adviced to do a section at a time, imagine I ‘d done the whole car and then,after I-don’t-know-how-may-hours I ‘d find out that all my work was for nothing,…
I did the whole car with the wool pad and the 3M Machine polish and the results were simply amazing :I can honestly say that 95% of the swirls are gone.
What about those other 5% ?Well, either I learn to live with them or I tackle them at an other moment.
Eight hours later I was done polishing, only thing to be done was to Dawn wash prior to Zaino.
After those 8 hours, the Makita was not hot from the hard labour, just barely warm.After a couple of sections I cleaned the wool pad with a stiff brush (don’t have a spur) :works fine :thumbsup :
My neighbour realy looked with those funny eyes at me :who washes his car after a whole day of « simonizing » ? ? ?
Saturdaymorning was Z-time :first a Z6 QD and then Z5.
Then Z6 QD and then Z5 , then the 1oz of ZFX-Z5 was used.
Now there was a shiny MPV, back were the metalic sparckles(sp ? ? ?),back was that mirror-like shine, back was that slickier-then-eals-in-a-bucket-of-snot-feeling,…(Looking for a pic of that ?Well, you’ll have to wait a couple of days :stupidly forgot to take one right away and in the afternoon it started to rain,and now pollen-season has fully started so the car looks like ****)
Sure I didn’t forget the door sills (waxed them with Meguiars Gold Class Paste Wax).
Is the car done now ?
No, that work is never done, especialy on a daily driver.I need to rotate the wheels and when I do that I’ll wash and dress the inside and dress the wheel-wells.
And if only I could find the courage to realy detail the engine.The only thing I did’till now is with a moist (old) mf ,kinda like dust the engine bay.
Christiaan
Nothing special, ‘cause that’s what we’re here for,right ?
Well, my car has a little history :
I bought it second hand in August 2001, the car was build in March 2001,and was « detailed » by the dealer.(I joined Autopia in November)
I joined Autopia in November 2001 and it wasn’t ‘till then that I learned that »simonizing » your car wasn’t the same as « detailing» your car,…
I experimented with Turtle Wax, Meguiars and finaly Zaino.
Prior to the first Z-treatmend I polished the car by hand with Meguiars Scratch & swirl Remover after I Clayed.
The car looked fine and shinier than most of the other cars around.
This time some things were diffrent :
In the mean time I had bought the ROB Makita BO6040.
During the Easter hollydays I cleaned the interior(vac.,wash & dress the plastics,clean windows,…)
So ,Thursday ,April17, in the evening I washed my MPV and only needed to clay the rocker panels(the baggy-test showed that it wasn’t needed to clay the rest).
Friday-morning the car was perfectly dry and ready for polishing.
I used the Makita with the yellow polishing pad from Meguiars and the 3MPIII Machine Polish.
Look at Pic1 (http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2116&papass=&sort=1)and see what I had to deal with,…
Remember that my wife crunched the side ?(see…http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=201&papass=&sort=1)
When I turned the car into the sun to check if those swirls were gone,I was in for a mayor surprise : they were NOT gone ! ! !.
One step up on the abrasive scale :a wool pad and the same polish
Lucky for me ,that did the job :let the pic(http://www.autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2115&papass=&sort=1)do the talking ,the flash can not hide any swirls :they would show if they were there ! ! !Mind you,this still is before Z !
Now I know why it is adviced to do a section at a time, imagine I ‘d done the whole car and then,after I-don’t-know-how-may-hours I ‘d find out that all my work was for nothing,…
I did the whole car with the wool pad and the 3M Machine polish and the results were simply amazing :I can honestly say that 95% of the swirls are gone.
What about those other 5% ?Well, either I learn to live with them or I tackle them at an other moment.
Eight hours later I was done polishing, only thing to be done was to Dawn wash prior to Zaino.
After those 8 hours, the Makita was not hot from the hard labour, just barely warm.After a couple of sections I cleaned the wool pad with a stiff brush (don’t have a spur) :works fine :thumbsup :
My neighbour realy looked with those funny eyes at me :who washes his car after a whole day of « simonizing » ? ? ?
Saturdaymorning was Z-time :first a Z6 QD and then Z5.
Then Z6 QD and then Z5 , then the 1oz of ZFX-Z5 was used.
Now there was a shiny MPV, back were the metalic sparckles(sp ? ? ?),back was that mirror-like shine, back was that slickier-then-eals-in-a-bucket-of-snot-feeling,…(Looking for a pic of that ?Well, you’ll have to wait a couple of days :stupidly forgot to take one right away and in the afternoon it started to rain,and now pollen-season has fully started so the car looks like ****)
Sure I didn’t forget the door sills (waxed them with Meguiars Gold Class Paste Wax).
Is the car done now ?
No, that work is never done, especialy on a daily driver.I need to rotate the wheels and when I do that I’ll wash and dress the inside and dress the wheel-wells.
And if only I could find the courage to realy detail the engine.The only thing I did’till now is with a moist (old) mf ,kinda like dust the engine bay.
Christiaan