sftempest66
New member
Well this Toyota Highlander belongs to one of my teacher's at school, and she wanted a basic cleanup and wax. I gave her a little discount because she was my Chemistry teacher my sophmore year, and well, she was a great teacher! Now that I'm a senior in high school and getting ready to go off to school, I've been trying to get a lot of cars done so I can save up some money before I go off to UCF or UM :heelclick Anyways, here are the basics....
I washed the car with NXT, pressure cleaned the beast, and then I hit the whole car with a LC White pad and Werkstatt Prime, then followed up with AJT! Carpets were shampooed and pressure cleaned, leather was SCRUBBED, then conditioned with Pinnacle's leather conditioner, then I used some APC on the door panels and dressed them with Poorboys Trim Restorer, ETC ETC ETC :grinno:
FLAKE!!!
Closeup:
The interior needed some major work, this is where I spent most of my time!!!!
I cleaned and sealed my brothers car back in early Feburary, http://autopia.org/forum/click-brag...-corvette-stingray-lexus-suv-56k-warning.html , with two coats of Poliseal, and it's still holding up fairly well. He normally parks his car inside a garage, but it has been sitting outside lately and it's still beading well and maintaining its looks, as you can see
One of my brother's good friends that goes to UF came over, and his engine was in need of a cleaning, so I decided to try out a new product that I saw in walmart the other day. It was a can of Simple Green APC Foam, so I gave it a shot. As you can see, the motor was extremely dirty, the car has over 130,000 miles on the clock and the engine has probably never had a proper cleaning, so it was a great test subject.
Overall the Simple Green Foam was a pretty nice product. It didn't have that much cut to it, it seem's like my 5:1 Simple green mixture has way more grease cutting ability than the foam, but for a quick and dirty job, its a great product...it was also like, 2 bucks, so I think it was worth it, a few shots....
When the foam was pressure cleaned off, I foamed the motor over with Turtle Wax F21 Tire foam
Before:
The Product:
Me pressure cleaning the beast!
The Results:
We also did his headlights, they were a mess :hairpull
I washed the car with NXT, pressure cleaned the beast, and then I hit the whole car with a LC White pad and Werkstatt Prime, then followed up with AJT! Carpets were shampooed and pressure cleaned, leather was SCRUBBED, then conditioned with Pinnacle's leather conditioner, then I used some APC on the door panels and dressed them with Poorboys Trim Restorer, ETC ETC ETC :grinno:
FLAKE!!!
Closeup:
The interior needed some major work, this is where I spent most of my time!!!!
I cleaned and sealed my brothers car back in early Feburary, http://autopia.org/forum/click-brag...-corvette-stingray-lexus-suv-56k-warning.html , with two coats of Poliseal, and it's still holding up fairly well. He normally parks his car inside a garage, but it has been sitting outside lately and it's still beading well and maintaining its looks, as you can see
One of my brother's good friends that goes to UF came over, and his engine was in need of a cleaning, so I decided to try out a new product that I saw in walmart the other day. It was a can of Simple Green APC Foam, so I gave it a shot. As you can see, the motor was extremely dirty, the car has over 130,000 miles on the clock and the engine has probably never had a proper cleaning, so it was a great test subject.
Overall the Simple Green Foam was a pretty nice product. It didn't have that much cut to it, it seem's like my 5:1 Simple green mixture has way more grease cutting ability than the foam, but for a quick and dirty job, its a great product...it was also like, 2 bucks, so I think it was worth it, a few shots....
When the foam was pressure cleaned off, I foamed the motor over with Turtle Wax F21 Tire foam
Before:
The Product:
Me pressure cleaning the beast!
The Results:
We also did his headlights, they were a mess :hairpull