I had some free time on my hands so I cleaned up my dad's car and finished up mine for the weekend. I have a potential client to see on Sunday, so i figured I'd spruce up my car a bit.
So I washed the car with the PB Low foam sample. Very nice stuff. It does creat a lot of suds initially, but then the suds die down a lot. After i did the car, I tried it on the wheels and tires. A little agitation with a wash mitt, and the wheels were pretty good to go. Finished off with some BNB diluted 50/50.
Next, i decided to clean up the trim a little. I got some polish and wax on the trim when I was messing with the car earlier this week. Got the Mr Clean Magic Eraser to take care of the mess real good. This is before the eraser.
This is after the eraser
A better idea of it's capabilities. The residue you see has been on the car for almost more than a year now, but it came right off. One warning though about this product- do not let it touch the paint as it will scratch it. Either cut a small piece of the eraser to use, or tape off the painted surfaces.
Feeling a little better about the way the car was looking, I decided to try something new. Earlier this week, I did the hood, as well as the rest of the car. However i did not get as crazy on the side panels as I did the hood. For the left side I did ssr1, pwc, and EX. On the right side, i did just pwc, and Ex. i did this primarily to get an idea of how each looked. The left side did llook a bit slicker while the right side looked a bit darker. Today I topped the entire car with cmw.
I should have known something was wrong when i started with cmw on the roof. The roof was the only part of the car that got minimal attention for the week, so i expected it to be grimey. Although, cmw is not suppossed to have any cleaning ability, it managed to pull a lot of gunk off the roof. And it did not apply smoothly. Just like EX I found myself varying the amount of product to help make application easier. Theonly thing that seemed to work ok was applying a lot. This helped go on better. Aplication was also bad on the rest of the car as well. Usually wit WG, it takes me about 20 minutes to do the entire car by hand. CMW took almost twice as long.
While I was putting the cmw on, UPS came by and dropped this off for me
Since I wanted the wax to haze (and my arms were a bit tired), I decided to give my new vac a try. In all honesty, I have to say that I really do like it. Now I know i read somewhere that it could be used as a blower, but I did not see anywhere that this would be possible. No biggie since I rally never tried blow drying my car. This thing is also very quiet- a lot quieter than the Ridgid 4 gallon I had previously. I also found the suction action of this machine to be a lot stronger, which was another plus. But then it got me thinking about the Ridgid. See the Ridgid is reported to have a static lift of 55' through a 1 7/8 hose. The Fein model I have has static lift of 90' through a 1 1/4 hose. I could be wrong, but if one were able to neck down the HOse on the Ridgid to accomodate a 1 1/4 hose, it may be able to equal or exceed the suction power of the Fein. Loudness of the Ridgid would be the real compromise, but if you can live with it, it might be the more cost effective solution. Also, be advised that Ridgid is phasing out just selling the 4 gallon by itself- you;ll have to pay for the wall mout kit, which raises the price. If you can locate the vac and it's accessories by itself, then jump on it. And then when you have time, see about getting an adapter to allow you to neck down to the 1 1/4 hose size ( as it turns out, the 1 7/8 hose size is not a very popluar size, and there are not nearly as many accessories available for this size as there are the 1 1/4 or 2 1/4 hose sizes).
Finally, the wall mount kit has the sound deadener (yeah, right) bolted onto the vac, so you'll need to get a small hex key to remove that peice if you want to use the vac as a blower.
As for me, I too tired to make any more exhchanges, so I plan to stick with the Fein. It's small, quiet, and still provides good vacuuming power for it's size.
After I did a little playing around with the vac. I wiped down the car. The pic doesn't show it, but in the light, it was looking mighy good. During my trip back to Home Cheapo to return the 4gal, I took a another look at the car under the store lighting. It looked real nice and wet. I even got some nods of approval from some of the folks at the store. Unfortunately, I did not have any cards to give out. And i did not think to bring the camera with me to take any shots under the store lighting
And then Night fell......
I figured I had to get a few shots of the car at night, so I headed for a large parking lot in my area. The lighting was not nearly as harsh as the lighting elsewhere which makes what I show next bizzare. In any case, while I took the pics, i noticed that the car seemed to have some hazing in spots. As I got closer, it began to look more and more like nasty swirls. But when I touched the paint, I could see some smearing...
WTF?
In this pic, what you are seeing is hazing from the wax. I coulda sworn I wiped it all off. In every kind of light, even in direct sunlight, I didn't see anything like this ..
In this pic, you can see the residue along the lights a little closer.
My nasty hood with all that stuff just floating on the paint. The specks are some of the metallic flake coming through.
Now, I've used cmw before, and I can't recall ever seeing anything like this before, even when the wax was applied heavy. I am now wondering if maybe I did not allow for enough time for the EX to cure, or maybe there is some incompatability there.
Saturday night, when I have time, I am going to go over the car again and see if I can correct this.
So I washed the car with the PB Low foam sample. Very nice stuff. It does creat a lot of suds initially, but then the suds die down a lot. After i did the car, I tried it on the wheels and tires. A little agitation with a wash mitt, and the wheels were pretty good to go. Finished off with some BNB diluted 50/50.
Next, i decided to clean up the trim a little. I got some polish and wax on the trim when I was messing with the car earlier this week. Got the Mr Clean Magic Eraser to take care of the mess real good. This is before the eraser.
This is after the eraser
A better idea of it's capabilities. The residue you see has been on the car for almost more than a year now, but it came right off. One warning though about this product- do not let it touch the paint as it will scratch it. Either cut a small piece of the eraser to use, or tape off the painted surfaces.
Feeling a little better about the way the car was looking, I decided to try something new. Earlier this week, I did the hood, as well as the rest of the car. However i did not get as crazy on the side panels as I did the hood. For the left side I did ssr1, pwc, and EX. On the right side, i did just pwc, and Ex. i did this primarily to get an idea of how each looked. The left side did llook a bit slicker while the right side looked a bit darker. Today I topped the entire car with cmw.
I should have known something was wrong when i started with cmw on the roof. The roof was the only part of the car that got minimal attention for the week, so i expected it to be grimey. Although, cmw is not suppossed to have any cleaning ability, it managed to pull a lot of gunk off the roof. And it did not apply smoothly. Just like EX I found myself varying the amount of product to help make application easier. Theonly thing that seemed to work ok was applying a lot. This helped go on better. Aplication was also bad on the rest of the car as well. Usually wit WG, it takes me about 20 minutes to do the entire car by hand. CMW took almost twice as long.
While I was putting the cmw on, UPS came by and dropped this off for me
Since I wanted the wax to haze (and my arms were a bit tired), I decided to give my new vac a try. In all honesty, I have to say that I really do like it. Now I know i read somewhere that it could be used as a blower, but I did not see anywhere that this would be possible. No biggie since I rally never tried blow drying my car. This thing is also very quiet- a lot quieter than the Ridgid 4 gallon I had previously. I also found the suction action of this machine to be a lot stronger, which was another plus. But then it got me thinking about the Ridgid. See the Ridgid is reported to have a static lift of 55' through a 1 7/8 hose. The Fein model I have has static lift of 90' through a 1 1/4 hose. I could be wrong, but if one were able to neck down the HOse on the Ridgid to accomodate a 1 1/4 hose, it may be able to equal or exceed the suction power of the Fein. Loudness of the Ridgid would be the real compromise, but if you can live with it, it might be the more cost effective solution. Also, be advised that Ridgid is phasing out just selling the 4 gallon by itself- you;ll have to pay for the wall mout kit, which raises the price. If you can locate the vac and it's accessories by itself, then jump on it. And then when you have time, see about getting an adapter to allow you to neck down to the 1 1/4 hose size ( as it turns out, the 1 7/8 hose size is not a very popluar size, and there are not nearly as many accessories available for this size as there are the 1 1/4 or 2 1/4 hose sizes).
Finally, the wall mount kit has the sound deadener (yeah, right) bolted onto the vac, so you'll need to get a small hex key to remove that peice if you want to use the vac as a blower.
As for me, I too tired to make any more exhchanges, so I plan to stick with the Fein. It's small, quiet, and still provides good vacuuming power for it's size.
After I did a little playing around with the vac. I wiped down the car. The pic doesn't show it, but in the light, it was looking mighy good. During my trip back to Home Cheapo to return the 4gal, I took a another look at the car under the store lighting. It looked real nice and wet. I even got some nods of approval from some of the folks at the store. Unfortunately, I did not have any cards to give out. And i did not think to bring the camera with me to take any shots under the store lighting
And then Night fell......
I figured I had to get a few shots of the car at night, so I headed for a large parking lot in my area. The lighting was not nearly as harsh as the lighting elsewhere which makes what I show next bizzare. In any case, while I took the pics, i noticed that the car seemed to have some hazing in spots. As I got closer, it began to look more and more like nasty swirls. But when I touched the paint, I could see some smearing...
WTF?
In this pic, what you are seeing is hazing from the wax. I coulda sworn I wiped it all off. In every kind of light, even in direct sunlight, I didn't see anything like this ..
In this pic, you can see the residue along the lights a little closer.
My nasty hood with all that stuff just floating on the paint. The specks are some of the metallic flake coming through.
Now, I've used cmw before, and I can't recall ever seeing anything like this before, even when the wax was applied heavy. I am now wondering if maybe I did not allow for enough time for the EX to cure, or maybe there is some incompatability there.
Saturday night, when I have time, I am going to go over the car again and see if I can correct this.
