Recent Details - v. Overcoming Arachnophobia x 2 and a Horse Trailer

[stilez]

First up, 2001 VW New Beetle. This car had more swirling than I`d like to see for a vehicle that age but it had to be dealt with. Never did I think such a little car would take soo much time (~6 hours). The engine and interior only took 2 hours total so the exterior topped out around 4 hours. Anyways, no befores on the interior or engine as they were pretty mild, so here were the processes:





Engine

-Rinsed and Degreased with Costco APC full strength

-Agitated with a Meguiar`s Wheel Brush as well as a spoke brush too for the tight areas

-Rinse and let car idle for 10 mins

-Meguiar`s Hyper Dressing cut 3:1 on everything

-After soaking in for 4 hours, wiped down, and everything painted got Race Glaze Gloss Highlighter



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Interior

-Vaccum and dust out everything

-Costco APC cut 10:1 to clean leather, vinyl, rubber, and plastic

-Carpets pretreated with Folex, scrubbed with Costco APC cut 10:1, then extracted

-Adam`s VRT on vinyl, rubber, and plastic

-4* Leather Conditioner on seating

-Meguiar`s NXT Glass Cleaner on glass and clear plastic

-Pinnacle Liquid Souveran on painted door pieces

-Race Glaze Gloss Highlighter in jams after being degreased with APC cut 10:1



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The fun part was the exterior :). Heavy swirling throughout which lead to an overall dull appearance at certain angles as well as a decent amount of bonded contaminants. Final processes:





-Meguiars` NXT Wash

-Poorboy`s Clay with NXT Wash as lube

-Menzerna Powergloss via rotary and Lake Country Cutting Pad @ 1500 rpm (x2 on the hood)

-NXT Wash to clean the surface

-Menzerna Final Polish II via rotary and Lake Country Polishing Pad @ 1500 rpm

-Pinnacle Liquid Souveran by hand

-Race Glaze Gloss Highlighter before pics (to remove pollen)





-Rims cleaned with wheel acid cut 50/50, then NXT wash, finally topped off with Liquid Souveran

-APC cut 4:1 to clean tires and wells

-Meguiar`s Hyper Dressing cut 3:1 for wells

-Poorboy`s Bold N Bright on tires

-Meguiar`s Trim Detailer on any plastic trim

-Meguiar`s NXT Glass Cleaner on Glass







Before

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After

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[stilez]

Before :shocked

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/kappapsi497/2005/DSC05531.jpg





After

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/kappapsi497/2005/DSC05536.jpg





http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/kappapsi497/2005/DSC05551.jpg

Liquid Souveran really brought out the purple hue

[stilez]

Onto the winner of the year so far for dirtiest and most abused, a Mitsubishi Eclipse.





To give you an idea of the paint condition...After washing the clay moved over the surface as if you drove down a muddy road, let it dry, then took clay right to the car, no wash. I couldn`t believe it. Next, swirls out the wazoo! R.I.D.S (Random Isolated Deep Scratches) EVERYWHERE. The roof was very oxidized and the hood/trunk were mildy oxidized. I certainly had my work cut out for me and the final processes were:





-NXT Wash

-Acid Wash (still working on this, more when I try it out more)

-NXT Wash

-Poorboy`s Clay with NXT Wash

-Menzerna Power Gloss via rotary and LC Cutting Pad @ 1700 rpm (x 2 in many areas)

-Meguiar`s # 66 via rotary and LC Polishing Pad @ 1500 rpm

-Menzerna Final Polish II via rotary and LC Polishing Pad @ 1500 rpm

-Banana Wax by hand

-Optimum Car Wax by hand





-Rims got cleaned with Acid cut 50/50, then NXT wash, then topped off with Banana Wax and OCW

-Tires and wells were cleaned with APC 4:1

-Wells dressed with Hyper Dressing cut 3:1

-Tires dressed with BnB

-#66/Banana Wax on lighting and exhaust

-NXT Glass Cleaner on all glass





Before

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After

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Before

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After

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Before

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After

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[stilez]

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/kappapsi497/2005/DSC05561.jpg



After

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Total Work Time - 3.5 hours







Horse trailer is next :)

[stilez]

Lastly, the horse trailer. What a big job it was! It was ~20 ft long and VERY tall. The staining did NOT come off with the wash and was on there very good. I tried a bunch of different polishes before deciding on the Detailer`s Pride. It proved to have the strongest combo of light cut and heavy chemical cleaning. Washing and degreasing took about a full hour and polishing/sealing took just under 4 hours. Final processes:





-NXT and APC Wash

-Roof and Stainless Steel soaked with Eagle 1 Wheel Cleaner before agitating

-Detailer`s Pride Final Finishing Polish via rotary and LC Polishing Pad @ 1500 rpm (cleaned pad after every panel)

-Meguiar`s # 20 Polymer Sealant via rotary and LC Finishing Pad @ 1000 rpm

-Optimum Car Wax by hand





Before

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After

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Before

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After

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Before

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After

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Enjoy!

[Beason]

Nice work as always. What type of Rotary are you using?

[hirosh]

at first i was going to ask you about the spiders but then it hit me: spiderwebs. ah. awesome details. the beetle`s color is trippy: at different angles it can look either blue, purple, or black.

[holland_patrick]

well I`m glad you got to use everything i given ya. You as always do amzing work and that dude will rot in hell for being a butthole. Anyways they came out looking realy good and that banana wax is great isn`t it.

[Thomas Dekany]

:bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow



How can that guy not be satisfied with the Eclipse??? Looks awesome!





You are very gifted.!!!!

[Thomas Dekany]

Originally posted by Beason

Nice work as always. What type of Rotary are you using?



makita 9227

[ScubaStevo]

Nice work!

[stilez]

Thank you :).





Yup, the Makita 9227C.

[holland_patrick]

Look sean.. my avatar is the BIG O

[EBPcivicsi]

Everything looks top notch.



You really "paid some dues" on this round. At least that is how I like to look at things when I get a "beater." :D



How the hell did you book a horse trailer? Referral???? :D

[DrSauekraut]

Sean . . . you’re truly a master of swirl removal. First sight of those ‘before’ pics made me cringe. Fantastic work as always :bow