Spent Thanksgiving day detailing some cars with my dad...
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Spent Thanksgiving day detailing some cars with my dad...
I rarely wash my truck and haven't put any wax on it in nearly 2 years. It's my daily driver and it sits outside 100% of the time. We used Meguiar's paint cleaner w/ a synthetic wool pad on a random orbital 10" and then followed up with Rejex on everything (glass and lights and chrome included). Nothing fancy, but the truck really came out nice for such little upkeep.
For the interior I took the seats out to tackle an area of spilled orange juice and detailed the carpets. Cleaned the trim w/ window cleaner then followed up with Adam's VRT. Also hit all the weather stripping with VRT.
Looks pretty nice for a 2004 w/ nearly 70k on it that doesn't get taken care of cosmetically. Also detailed my mother's CLS550 Mercedes, but she's out doing the Black Friday thing so no pics. It's the first time I've ever detailed on a white car... talk about easy. The tan interior took some time w/ all the smudges, but it looked nice in the end.... at least it has black floormats.
For the interior I took the seats out to tackle an area of spilled orange juice and detailed the carpets. Cleaned the trim w/ window cleaner then followed up with Adam's VRT. Also hit all the weather stripping with VRT.
Looks pretty nice for a 2004 w/ nearly 70k on it that doesn't get taken care of cosmetically. Also detailed my mother's CLS550 Mercedes, but she's out doing the Black Friday thing so no pics. It's the first time I've ever detailed on a white car... talk about easy. The tan interior took some time w/ all the smudges, but it looked nice in the end.... at least it has black floormats.
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Re: Spent Thanksgiving day detailing some cars with my dad...
There's a lot to be said for NOT washing a car that often. Improper (normal) washing creates most of the micro marring you see on dark vehicles. If you don't wash it very often, you avoid a lot of that.
This is inspiring me though, I need to give the S2000 another serious detail, it's been over 2 years since I've fully detailed it.
This is inspiring me though, I need to give the S2000 another serious detail, it's been over 2 years since I've fully detailed it.
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Re: Spent Thanksgiving day detailing some cars with my dad...
@Flite - yeah I know what you mean about not washing... over washing does create more swirls unless you go nuts w/ the pre-wash foam and double bucket method etc. etc.
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