What did you do detailing wise today?

[Britsdaddy]

Maybe not all today, but over the last couple of days I got a new MTM spray gun, lance, and nozzles. Those arrived in time for the 62F we had. I got both the cars rinsed out from the winter. Friday I got a nice box from Autopia in, and it rained all day. Today I did a rinseless in the garage, and used Beadmaker for the first time.
Now it`s snowing again. SPRING can`t come fast enough

 

[Civicclutch]

Maybe not all today, but over the last couple of days I got a new MTM spray gun, lance, and nozzles. Those arrived in time for the 62F we had. I got both the cars rinsed out from the winter. Friday I got a nice box from Autopia in, and it rained all day. Today I did a rinseless in the garage, and used Beadmaker for the first time.
Now it`s snowing again. SPRING can`t come fast enough

Sounds like my state of weather

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[wannafbody]

Removed some vinyl lettering with a rubber eraser wheel on a drill. Kind of a pain in the butt to do.

 

[Coatings=crack]

Cleaned vert top:

Coated:

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[irvs]

So I am not sure if this would count under “What did you do regarding detailing?” It seemed closest since I think the Show And Shine is only cars you have done.

Went to a local car show and took these shots - enjoy. Frankly I was a bit disappointed on most of the paint jobs - many had swirls and several needed a good #7 infusion.

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[Civicclutch]

Started this yesterday, customer bought and washed it, then saw all the swirls and asked what I could do to make it better. It has a small spot of clear coat failure on hood, and on driver door it has a run of thin to no paint. Doing the best I can doing a single step p ol lish with bf src compound with b&s yellow euro pads. The buffer trails were over the whole truck.

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[Nizmo]

First real wash of 2019!

For those that say foaming is useless, I added about 4oz of Bug Squash to the soap in the lance to aid in cleaning. Foaming alone got 80% of the crud off.

I didn`t even know I had black accented wheels...

(No the brake cleaner was not used on this, lol. Changed the oil in the truck earlier in the day and left it out...)

It`s going to need a lot of work when it warms up more; this winter was not kind at all!

 

[Bunky]

I finally got a chance to wash the wife`s car.

 

[Britsdaddy]

Thought about washing the cars yesterday, but ended up trading the wife`s 09 Altima in for a 19 Honda Accord Sport 2L, in Platinum white pearl.
I was adamant to the saleman to not wash or prep it. He said the he never heard someone ever ask for it not to be washed before pick up, but he was good about it. We drove it home with all the plastic still on the seats, stickers on the windows, and dirt all over it. I had to remove the foam guarding the doors from bumping into someone else, and everything I mentioned. I gave it a quick rinseless wash and Beadmaker. I need to make a plan for the car. It still needs to a decontamination, and inspection for swirls. I`m definitely going to coat it, but not sure if I also want to do the wheels and interior. Weathertechs will be ordered this weekend.

 

[PA DETAILER]

Finally getting somewhat decent here in PA. Normal wash on the ZR2. Got to use my normal products on the interior. And treated all the door weather stripping. Cleaned and dressed the engine. Moved all my products to the garage. Non related, freed a stuck hatch on her 12 Escape. Going to need a new actuator in the future. For now, sprayed the unit and connectors with silicon. Working for now. Really dumb design. Should have made it keyed entry.

 

[minerigger]

Wiped off excess McKees sio2 tire shine. 2 coats didn’t work on my truck tires. They outside is smooth so 1 coat it is. Need to clean interior and exterior glass. Missed 1 small spot on each mirror with wets so need to fix that to.


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[PA DETAILER]

Yet another nice day, so hit the exterior trim with McKess trim restorer. A job no one likes, and I was not looking forward to it. But it went ok. Trying to break this down over days so last thing I have to do is pick a LSP and coat the wheels. Time to do the trim is when it is new!

 

[Dan]

McKees 37 coating on the E. Love this stuff, it’s as easy to use as optiseal.

 

[bob m]

Well yesterday I cleaned my tires and wheels. Scenario I have winter wheels and tires as well as AS tires and wheels. Winter is over, the weather was cooperating so I took out my AS tires/wheels out of the garage and went to work. I cleaned the wheels with Nonalex Iron remover ad the tires with Eraser then scrubbed `em down with Tuf Shine Cleaner. It took me 3 applications of Tuf Shine Cleaner to get the tires clean enough (as per their recommendation/admonition) to apply 3 coats of their Tuf Shine Clearcoat.
After the cleaner my tires were absolutely as clean as new. The TS Coating goes on as easy as can be. Shine is a little higher than my preferred matt finish, but time will take care of that.
Now, my wheels were coated with Nanolex wheel coating 2 years ago and have held up wonderfully - brake dust comes of effortlessly but the wheel barrels were not coated - soooooooooooooo, I used some C Quartz plastic and wheel coating I had on hand for over a year. I also did a no-no and applied that CQ coating over the 2 y/o Nanolex wheel coating - figuring how bad could that be?
Anyhow, that`s another added benefit of having 2 sets of tires/wheels - you can absolutely get into every nook and cranny whereas not so easily of the wheels are already on the car.
Bottom line here is that I want to actually see real world results/protection/longevity of the Tuf Shine Wheel coating - when directions are followed to the T. Updates to follow.

 

[TheMeanGreen]

Today I laid a a foundation of old Essence on my trunk, "cured" it with a hair dryer. I then moved to divide the trunk into fourths, FK1000P, Meguiar`s Fast Finish, DPC ARMOR, and CMX. Then I "cured" them with the hair dryer. Are they really cured, no. I just accelerated the bonding process. We will see what durability looks like. Initial impressions, FK1000P sat on the Essence like it was nothing, Fast Finish was a bit streaky, DPC sweated a little bit, and CMX mimic`d Fast Finish and ARMOR.

 

[TheMeanGreen]

Here`s a preview of the first car that I will be coating. There is one polishing step left before coating.

 

[mnehls86]

A little spring cleaning on my daily driver. I usually pull the seats and plastics out of both cars once a year to get in nice and clean.

 

[BudgetPlan1]

They say ya never forget your first time although probably in reference to something other than the first car you used your favorite coating on...but still, gotta take what you can get, no?

Anyway, Kamikaze Miyabi + ISM, applied 10/2016 and maintained since then with Overcoat and occasional bit of Infinity Wax.

Stripped another winter off with Gyeon Foam and Gyeon Tar 2 weeks ago, a wash today with Kamikaze Anti-Aging shampoo, and a coat of Infinity Wax.

Albeit a lowly Honda Civic, still a nice way to spend the first warm Saturday of Spring. Still plenty of life left in the coating, gonna let it ride for another year.

 

[tropicsteve]

detailed a friend`s new hurricane 188 ss sun deck boat. mckee`s 37 360 on an orange lc pad and topped with mckee`s high def paint sealant. told him this was the only time i would work the entire underside of the hull too. now i remember why i haven`t done boats in awhile.h34r:

 

[mnehls86]

Worked on a 2013 Honda Accord on Saturday morning. Engine bay a little dirty after 48k miles & some coffee stains on the interior. Exterior was already pretty clean. BDX, CG Citrus Wash, Clay w/ ONR, LSP was Poorboys Blue Paste Wax & Solution Finish on the A-Pillars.