Probably been a good 18 months since I have really cleaned my interior, no sense doing anything in the summer besides vacuuming and a quick wipe-down because it won't stay clean with myself and my two sons using it to work out of. I finally got tired of how it looked, so the other day, I got busy.
I took some direct before and afters, it was getting late when I finished so the carpeting looks a lot darker than it actually was.
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After:
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I used my Woolite/water mix, vinyl dressed with Optimum Protectant Plus, leather with Leather Master's Leather Vital.
Few more afters:
The next day I washed it, and added a 4th layer (one each the last 4 weeks) of my 80/20 blend of Meguiars #16 and FK's Pink Wax.
1987 Rolls Royce Silver Spur. Just over 70,000 miles on it. Overall in decent shape for a nearly 20 year old car, definitely a lot of dead cows and trees involved in the interior! The focus was the exterior, so I just vacuumed the interior. There were some bird bomb etchings in the hood that wouldn't buff out completely but overall, the vast majority of the defects did come out, the paint was a bit softer than I expected.
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The left side is polished with Optimum Polish using green Propel lite cut Cyclo pads:
All polished:
Door before:
Optimum/Propel combo again:
Definitely single stage black!
I followed the Optimum/Propel combo with Optimum Poli-Seal using my PC and a white LC polishing pad and finished with Pinnacle Souveran.
1996 Ferrari 348 Spider. Last polished out July of last year. I've washed it a couple times, so has the dealer. Had some light swirling/marring on its pretty soft single stage red paint, soft enough that while Optimum Polish using green Propel lite cut Cyclo pads removed the defects, it also left light hazing! Typically, even on soft paint, Optimum Polish finishes down LSP ready. Anyway, same as with the Rolls, followed with Poli-Seal and Souveran.
Your 626 is stunning, the black is just sooo wet. I almost want to buy a black car but then I think about how bad my OCD is with silver... imagine black!
Oh and everything else is just as impressive as always :woot2:
Scott, I am always looking at your threads and I am always amazed by the amount of correction you do by PC/Cyclo and the how wet and perfect you make paint look. You are definetly one of the guys I look up to on here.
Wow, really got the luxury treatment on this one. That Rolls looks so stately and elegant when done up right, and a very noticable improvement in depth on the Ferrari. Are you going to be washing the Rolls on a regular basis?
Scott, I am always looking at your threads and I am always amazed by the amount of correction you do by PC/Cyclo and the how wet and perfect you make paint look. You are definetly one of the guys I look up to on here.
Thanks...but I am going to have to step up to a rotary in the near future. Too many Audis and new Mercedes, plus the occasional Corvette that just take too long via PC or even Cyclo.
Yal-make sure to get the carpet scrubber attachments for the Cyclo, makes a great machine even better!
Yes, Poli-Seal via PC and a polishing pad removed the light hazing.
DieselMDX-why 80/20? Because that is how it worked out with what I had on hand in open containers of each product-I figured it would be a way to stretch what little Pink Wax I had on hand, and maybe a way to extend my remaining two cans of #16 if it worked out good. I put them together in one tin, set it in a pan of hot water and let them melt together, then cool.
Kenney-I just used an MF applicator and worked it back and forth until OP cleared out.
Bigpoppa3346-I don't know how often I will see either the Rolls or the Ferrari, he doesn't drive either one very much. He has a black C6 Corvette as his daily beater!
