2004 BMW M3. I had to wash down the hood and passenger side with QEW and Long Haul's Degreaser/Bug Remover because they fry food in the garage next to the M3 (I guess frying inside sets off the smoke detector) and the oily air settles on the car. Anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant and cleaned fryer vents knows what I am talking about.
Anyway, once it was clean, the paint was in pretty decent shape. Meguiars #80 with a Meguiars polishing pad and Poorboy's EX w/carnauba by hand. I just vacuumed the top and wiped down with a damp MF.
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2001 Acura MDX. I detail this one about every 6-8 months. The owner's wife only puts about 7000 miles a year on it so it stays pretty clean. Klasse AIO with a Meguiars polishing pad and Poorboy's EX-P by hand. The paint came out very wet looking on this one!
2003 Lexus LS430. Last waxed with Glanz Wax in early December and mid May, it was still beading, had some paint slickness still and looked pretty good. Very minimal spider swirling, so polished with 1Z Metallic Polish with a Meguiars polishing pad and applied Glanz Wax by hand. GW looks terrific on this color so why bother with something else? Besides, the customer says she likes how this wax looks the best.
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2004 Hummer H2. Weekly regular, paint in excellent condition. Last waxed in early January with Nattys. Still looked good, decent beading but minimal slickness. No deep polishing needed so just one stepped it with Long Haul's Polish/Wax with a white polishing pad (not sure of the brand, got it from Rick Springer).
Anyway I was really happy how it turned out just using an OTC one step product. Pretty good slickness and an appearance similar to EX w/carnauba, IMO.
1998 Harley Davidson Dyna-Glide. Just returned from a 2000 mile road trip, so it had a lot of bugs on it. Washed it with S100 Total Cycle Cleaner, polished the pipes first with Clearkote's Blue Moose to remove the melted boot marks, then all the paint and chrome with Vanilla Moose and a microfiber pad. Went back over the paint with Red Machine Glaze and a foam hand pad and sealed with PB's EX-P by hand. Meguiars Gold Class Leather Cleaner/Conditioner (the spray version) on the leather.
Thanks! I was really happy with how nice Long Haul looks on it.
Vernon-I only do mobile.
Rob-Thanks! Harleys are a blast to do because you can do most of the work sitting down! Just a word of advice-they take a lot longer to detail than you'd think. Plan for at least 2 hours for even a garage queen.
I charged him $75 for it, took a little over 2 hours. Road Kings can take time because you have to take off the saddle bags, windscreen, etc to get to everything-plus they usually see regular use.
If I had just been doing the bike, it would have been $85-100 but since he also had me detail his 740 (pics on the next roll of film) which was in excellent shape and he'd washed it a couple days prior, I figured I'd just roll it into a package deal.
I know exactly what you're talking about. I used to work in a hotel kitchen and I cleaned the vents once a month. I would wash them in the dish washing machine at over a 150 degrees and I'd still have to run them over again a few times to get all the crap off.
Glanz Wax on that color seems to give that car a glow I don't get with anything else. Holds up very well too and it is amazingly easy to use. Spread, wipe, done. :xyxthumbs
How hard was it to get the boot marks off of the pipes? My brother in law has burned on boot marks on his pipes and I have gotten most of them off but a couple of them just refuse to come off. I really like the paint scheme on that HD. That Lexus is very nice. THat paint is really glowing.
The Pep Boys by my carries their full line. Long Haul Polish/Wax is a tweaked version of Race Glaze's Polish/Sealant (the owners of each company used to be partners) and the QDs are exactly the same.
The P/W is definitely one of the best true cleaner/waxes I've used. Slickness seems to hang on very nicely.
Sullybob-Clearkote's Blue Moose and a MF applicator seems to work very well on the boot marks.
