Latest detailsâ„¢ v. 200 mile round trip to do yet another Jeep plus an Audi TT

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Scottwax

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A member on another board contacted me to see if he paid me for the drive, would I come down to Waco to detail his cars. Told him that would be fine but I could only do it on a Sunday. Just a side note, he and I are polar opposites politically and we've had a few knock down drag-outs in the political forum on the other board. However, it stayed civil and neither of us take political disagreements personally.



Anyway, I get up bright and early on Sunday and head on down to Waco. Nice drive, all freeway. Beautiful mid fall day in north Texas, sunny and around 80. Perfect detailing weather!



I started with his 2003 Jeep Wrangler (Sahara edition). Pretty decent shape, the interior was about as clean as I've ever seen a Jeep. Looks like it has been regularly washed too. Had some minor swirling and a few bug etchings in the front end.



I used Vanilla Moose with a Meguiars polishing pad and sealed with Poorboy's EX w/carnauba. Tires and fenderwells got Armor All and the hard top was dressed with Meguiars Natural Shine Rubber/Vinyl Protectant.



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On to his 2003 Audi TT. Had some light to moderate swirling, interior was excellent like the Jeep. Audi's have pretty hard paint, so I used Optimum Compound with a Meguiars polishing pad, then Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze with another Meg's polishing pad and topped with Collinite 845 Insulator Wax.



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2002 Volkswagen Jetta. Just did a QEW wash and then went over it with Zaino Z8 Sealant Spray. Not sure when it was last waxed but her boyfriend only payed for a wash and QD.



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2001 Toyota RAV4. This was a fun one. The owner has two dog but apparently no vacuum. At least I was warned ahead of time about the dog hair. Took a lot of vacuuming, scrubbing and re-vacuuming to remove it all. Otherwise, the interior wasn't too bad, no spills to speak of. The exterior appeared not to have been washed for a long time and brake dust has long since etched through the clear, especially on the front wheels. What you see is as correctible as they would come. The rear mud flaps had seem to have been painted at some point and not very well as the paint was pretty much gone on the bottom half. Suprisingly, the paint had only light swirling. I used Vanilla Moose with a Meguiars polishing pad and topped with 845. The owner kept coming out to look at it and run her fingers across the paint with a big grin on her face. :)



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Man, all amazing as usual. That was a long drive! What are you democrat or republican? I would have to guess that he's republican because of his vehicle, doubt a democrat would drive a jeep. lol



You really keep busy! Must make a good living by detailing so many cars and at your quality. ;)
 
Pontman43 said:
Man, all amazing as usual. That was a long drive! What are you democrat or republican? I would have to guess that he's republican because of his vehicle, doubt a democrat would drive a jeep. lol
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I'm the conservative, he is the liberal.



Lorne-Unless specified, I use Armor All on tires. Whatever they did when they reformulated it a while back they got really right. :)
 
I wonder if his Green Peace buddies would approve of him driving that gas guzzling and environment destroying Jeep?!?!?!?!?! :nono ;)



Beautiful work Scott.
 
Just amazing the look of your details, just wet .



I loved the look of the Audi TT , tell me, how much time did u spent with each one???
 
It's nice to see that conservatives and liberals can set aside their differences for a bipartisan day of detailing! :D ;)
 
Pontman43 said:
I would have to guess that he's republican because of his vehicle, doubt a democrat would drive a jeep. lol
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Hah, I was going to say there is no way a republican would drive a girly-german-coupe. :)



Nice job Scott - those TT's have some tough paint.
 
Scottwax said:
The exterior appeared not to have been washed for a long time...Suprisingly, the paint had only light swirling.
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Well, many here are fond of pointing out that most marring is induced during washing...so perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that an infrequently washed vehicle has minimal swirling.
 
SCOTTWAX said:
The owner kept coming out to look at it and run her fingers across the paint with a big grin on her face.
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you dog you...getting the girls even when your working ....haha... :xyxthumbs :xyxthumbs :xyxthumbs :xyxthumbs :dance :woot:



-Justin
 
I'm drowning in the Jeep and the TT! Question for you - Volkswagon Audi Group paint is quite hard (I have a Seat, part of the same group), but I've been a bit afraid to go too aggressive on it. Does Optimum Compound leave much hazing? Just wondering, because I'd like to know in advance - if I expect hazing then I won't crap myself when I see it after a few passes. I'm getting more and more confident with my PC but the word 'compound' fills me with fear!
 
ScottWax- I too have a Q about the Optimum Compound on the Audi clear- how much correction did it do? I know from experience that the #80 will only correct *VERY* minor stuff, and really hides far more than it corrects on that paint, so I'm wondering just what the OCC did and how well it worked. I keep thinking that one of these days even *you* are gonna need a rotary for one of those cars with the Spies Hecker paint ;)
 
1 Clean WS6 said:
I wonder if his Green Peace buddies would approve of him driving that gas guzzling and environment destroying Jeep?!?!?!?!?! :nono ;)



Beautiful work Scott.
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Remember, he is a Texas Democrat, on the whole probably no more liberal than a northeast Republican. He seems to have developed a Libertarian streak over the last couple of years anyway.



RRacer-I believe the total time was just shy of 8 hours. It really helped that neither vehicle is very large and he obviously takes excellent care of his cars.
 
4830Deuce said:
you dog you...getting the girls even when your working ....haha... :xyxthumbs :xyxthumbs :xyxthumbs :xyxthumbs :dance :woot:



-Justin
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Actually, I am not the right sex for these girls. Still, the one who owned the RAV4 came out and talked to me several times. Told her girlfriend I was interesting. :nixweiss



WX51 TXR and George-I've done 2 TT's using Optimum's Compound. A red one and this black one. Using it with a Meguiars burgandy pad worked great on the red one, I got some light hazing on the black one and that is why I ended up using the polishing pad instead. I knew I'd be out of daylight in about 90 minutes so I didn't want to end up with hazing I didn't completely remove because I couldn't see. The black TT didn't have as bad swirls as the red one did and the combination of OC and the polishing pad seemed to work well using some very slow passes with the speed on 6. I followed with #80 because it looks really deep and wet on black.



Yeah, I may have to eventually break down and get a rotary for Audis and Mercedes with the CeramiClear paints. Definitely would speed the process up.
 
RCBuddha said:
Scott,



When you applied the Armor All to the Jeep's tires, do you spray then wipe? Or do you use an applicator?
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I spray it into the tread on the sides of the tires then use an Eagle One Tire Swipe to cover the rest of the tire.
 
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