The Enforcer
New member
I've had a friend's car at the house since earlier in the week, and put about 13-14 hours into detailing it the best I could. I did a 2-step polish and acheived probably an 85% correction on it. The deeper scratches and swirls are still there, just less noticeable. Here's the process...
-degreased and washed with Dawn detergent to strip the wax
-all-purpose cleaner (APC) diluted 5:1 for the wheel wells
-APC diluted 10:1 for wheels, inner wheels, and lower parts of the car that had a lot of grime.
-clayed with an agressive Clay Magic bar to remove and fallout, and overspray that was on random parts of the car
-wiped down with IPA (rubbing alcohol mixed 50/50 with water) to make sure every bit of wax or silcone was off the car and the paint was as bare as possible for compounding.
-i used an Edge double-sided pad for all the polishing. wool on one side, white foam on the other
-compounded with M105 using wool......also picked up a new Makita buffer, this thing rocks.
-followed M105 with M205 and finishing pad
-same polishing process for taillights and center section
-IPA wipedowns were done between each step of polishing to make sure the oils from the previous polish were not left behind.
-all exterior plastics and rubber cleaned and protect for F303 Aerospace Protectant
-tires dressed in Blue Satin
-wheel lips polished with Mothers Mag polish, along with the corsa tips
-wax and protected with Mothers #26
Before pics
-degreased and washed with Dawn detergent to strip the wax
-all-purpose cleaner (APC) diluted 5:1 for the wheel wells
-APC diluted 10:1 for wheels, inner wheels, and lower parts of the car that had a lot of grime.
-clayed with an agressive Clay Magic bar to remove and fallout, and overspray that was on random parts of the car
-wiped down with IPA (rubbing alcohol mixed 50/50 with water) to make sure every bit of wax or silcone was off the car and the paint was as bare as possible for compounding.
-i used an Edge double-sided pad for all the polishing. wool on one side, white foam on the other
-compounded with M105 using wool......also picked up a new Makita buffer, this thing rocks.
-followed M105 with M205 and finishing pad
-same polishing process for taillights and center section
-IPA wipedowns were done between each step of polishing to make sure the oils from the previous polish were not left behind.
-all exterior plastics and rubber cleaned and protect for F303 Aerospace Protectant
-tires dressed in Blue Satin
-wheel lips polished with Mothers Mag polish, along with the corsa tips
-wax and protected with Mothers #26
Before pics
