paintpro21
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Hey. This is my first post. I finished detailing my Dad's ACURA RL. He’s had it for over half a year but it’s never been waxed or anything and it goes on long road trips from SF to Vegas and LA all the time. So it had a lot of swirls and what not but nothing crazy.
I've had my porter cable almost a year now. I use it on my 5 series all the time but usually all I used it for was to apply waxes. And a few months ago I attempted a full polishing but soon noticed I was using a poor choice of products (both pad and polish).
So for His B-day I told him I would detail his car and here I am. Got the other parent to chip in and help buy ordering the Sonus pad kit, and all 4 poor boy’s SSR polishes.
First I washed and clayed the whole car.
Then since the car was relatively new and I didn't really feel like the car needed SSR2.5 all around I tried some SSR1 and SSR2 and neither really made the difference I wanted. After doing some testing. I decided to just use Maguire’s speed glaze on the back part of the car. (there are plenty of cars in the family that are more worthy of SSR use then this newer car) and for the front of the car because it had taken a good beating from the weather I found that I did need to use SSR2.5 with a Sonus cutting pad, then SSR1 with a polishing pad, and then did the speed glaze. So I did that to the hood front fenders and nose. Then I coated it all with NXT.
After doing it and putting it out into the sun I decided to take pics. So I don't have any before pics.
I also used the camera feature of the family video camera so it’s not really great and these are some of my first car pics. Excuse the dust on the car. I didn't brush off all the wax dust before I took pics and all the towels were pretty saturated so there are some of those streaks left on the car that will go away once I clean them.
So here they are.
I've had my porter cable almost a year now. I use it on my 5 series all the time but usually all I used it for was to apply waxes. And a few months ago I attempted a full polishing but soon noticed I was using a poor choice of products (both pad and polish).
So for His B-day I told him I would detail his car and here I am. Got the other parent to chip in and help buy ordering the Sonus pad kit, and all 4 poor boy’s SSR polishes.
First I washed and clayed the whole car.
Then since the car was relatively new and I didn't really feel like the car needed SSR2.5 all around I tried some SSR1 and SSR2 and neither really made the difference I wanted. After doing some testing. I decided to just use Maguire’s speed glaze on the back part of the car. (there are plenty of cars in the family that are more worthy of SSR use then this newer car) and for the front of the car because it had taken a good beating from the weather I found that I did need to use SSR2.5 with a Sonus cutting pad, then SSR1 with a polishing pad, and then did the speed glaze. So I did that to the hood front fenders and nose. Then I coated it all with NXT.
After doing it and putting it out into the sun I decided to take pics. So I don't have any before pics.
I also used the camera feature of the family video camera so it’s not really great and these are some of my first car pics. Excuse the dust on the car. I didn't brush off all the wax dust before I took pics and all the towels were pretty saturated so there are some of those streaks left on the car that will go away once I clean them.
So here they are.
