imported_porta
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This car is owned by a friend of mine, and he?s don't care how he's cars looks like, but wanted me to give it a detail. So I expected the see a Lexus ?automatic wash swirl edition? but the car did only have some light swirls marks and some scuffmarks from parking lots and etc. Or else the car was in a decent condition.
We tried many different combinations and the one who gave us nice cut but also left a crispy glossy paint was, Scholl Concepts S17 with scholl black waffled finishing pads (5?) on rotary. The other combinations we tried was
3M extra fine cut, Menzerna PO106FF and etc. They left us with a glossy paint, but didn?t remove as much as S17. I know this isn?t fair since S17 is equivalent with let us say, Menzerna SIP, but I had forgot my bottle of SIP at home, so we couldnt test that combination
and I haven't got Powerfinish yet.
First wash
First we applied a petroleum based degreaser on the car, not on the horizontal surfaces. Let it soak for about 10 minutes, and then we applied a heavy alkalie degreaser(cut 1:25 with water). Left it to soak for another 10 minutes. Rinse with power washer. We still had some tar spots who we removed with a tar remover. Then the car was foamed Allbrites cherry foam via foam gun., let dwell and then rinsed with power washer After that I washed the car with 1 bucket(yes I use the 1bm but after this prepp it?s safe
)
Clay
The paint was pretty smooth but we gave it a quick clay with opti-clay and ONR as lube. Then the car was dried with mf-towels. Followed by a IPA wipe down.
Polish
Scholl Concepts S17 with black waffled finishing pads on AEG rotaries. Spread @ 900 rpm, up to 1800 rpm and then finished @ 900 rpm. Followed by another IPA wipedown.
Second wash
The car was soaked with PPS cleaner fluid, let dwell for 10 minutes, then rinsed with power washer. Dried with some mf-towels and follwed by a third IPA wipe down.
LSP
I used a coating, similar to Opti-coat. Applied it with a small make up pad and then left it to cure for about 1 hour. Front windows was coated with Res-Bonas nano glass. Rear windows got OOS. Seriuos sheeting
Interior
Vacumed, leather was cleaned with allbrites rug and upholstery, leather was feed by concept chemicals leather cream, tires where dressed with Concept Chemicals ? Contour tire dressing.
Now to the pictures, sorry I don?t have any befores but it was just light swirls, nothing spectacular.
Thanks for looking
We tried many different combinations and the one who gave us nice cut but also left a crispy glossy paint was, Scholl Concepts S17 with scholl black waffled finishing pads (5?) on rotary. The other combinations we tried was
3M extra fine cut, Menzerna PO106FF and etc. They left us with a glossy paint, but didn?t remove as much as S17. I know this isn?t fair since S17 is equivalent with let us say, Menzerna SIP, but I had forgot my bottle of SIP at home, so we couldnt test that combination
and I haven't got Powerfinish yet.First wash
First we applied a petroleum based degreaser on the car, not on the horizontal surfaces. Let it soak for about 10 minutes, and then we applied a heavy alkalie degreaser(cut 1:25 with water). Left it to soak for another 10 minutes. Rinse with power washer. We still had some tar spots who we removed with a tar remover. Then the car was foamed Allbrites cherry foam via foam gun., let dwell and then rinsed with power washer After that I washed the car with 1 bucket(yes I use the 1bm but after this prepp it?s safe
)Clay
The paint was pretty smooth but we gave it a quick clay with opti-clay and ONR as lube. Then the car was dried with mf-towels. Followed by a IPA wipe down.
Polish
Scholl Concepts S17 with black waffled finishing pads on AEG rotaries. Spread @ 900 rpm, up to 1800 rpm and then finished @ 900 rpm. Followed by another IPA wipedown.
Second wash
The car was soaked with PPS cleaner fluid, let dwell for 10 minutes, then rinsed with power washer. Dried with some mf-towels and follwed by a third IPA wipe down.
LSP
I used a coating, similar to Opti-coat. Applied it with a small make up pad and then left it to cure for about 1 hour. Front windows was coated with Res-Bonas nano glass. Rear windows got OOS. Seriuos sheeting
Interior
Vacumed, leather was cleaned with allbrites rug and upholstery, leather was feed by concept chemicals leather cream, tires where dressed with Concept Chemicals ? Contour tire dressing.
Now to the pictures, sorry I don?t have any befores but it was just light swirls, nothing spectacular.
Thanks for looking
