Show N’ Shine Contest (December)

[mixxer]

work done with PC

MENZERNA 106 polish[orange pad] ,klasse AIO[white pad],Surf City Garage Barrier Reef Carnauba Wax[by hand]


AFTER

[mixxer]

wash,clay, PC polish orange pad menzerna 106ff,klasse AIO white pad,sealed FK1 2180,final wipe down with quickshine,surf city tire shine,AIO wheels,trim restorer inside.
BEFORE



AFTER

[blkexcoupe]

I rarely take pictures of my details, but my friend snapped a few pictures the first time he was teaching me how to use the rotary.

Hitachi Rotary, Meguiars DACP, and Lake country yellow cutting pad.

[wolfpacker92]

Alright this will be my first Show and Shine contest so here goes:

Products and Process:

Paint Correction

• Menzerna Power Gloss via PC with LC orange pad @ speed 5.5, the truck bed got Power Gloss via PC with LC yellow pad @ speed 5.5.
• 1z Einszett Pro Line High Gloss Polish with LC lo pro white pad via Hitachi rotary @ speed 900 rpms.

LSP

• Liquid Souveran via PC @ speed 3 with LC CCS red pad.

Misc

• Tires dressed with DP Tire Gloss
• Wheels cleaned with Surf City Beyond Steel
• Wells dressed with Stoners Trim Shine
• Windows done with Surf City Clearly Better
• Trim got Poorboys Trim Restorer

Here are some correction shots:








Some before and after full shots:








Good luck to everyone but man I sure would like to win!

[richy]

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring as well. Here is a job I was very pleased with, especially with the reflectivity of the paint. It was originally shown in S & S ('04 Saab..1st engine detail & lots of pics)
This car was scratched up pretty good from being abused by automatic car washes. The paint was corrected using UCCL/wool pad/rotary followed by 106ff/white CCS/rotary then RMG/gray CCS/UDM and sealed with 476S. The tires were done with DG (will never use anything else!), interior cleaned woolite/water 1:10, and treated with 303 Aerospace; glass with IG. ARO was used heavily in this case: for the wheels, convertible top and engine (which was dressed with 303).

BEFORES:









Look at the lack of depth in this photo:


AFTERS: (REFLECTION SHOTS)




WET SHINE:



MISC:





One last shot of a 2000 BMW 7 series hood..the car was done with UCC/wool/rotary;Micro/blue CCS/rotary;RMG/gray CCS/rotary;Collinite 476S

[pt91]

Single stage paint. What a mess. Not one panel matched because of the oxidation and one section was recently repainted. Lots of defects as you can see.






Compounding stage with wool and rotary

Foam via flex with SIP

Final polishing prior to LSP

Some of the arsenal used (spoiler, etc were done by hand)

Afters (next morning)

[6LS2]

Before








After








Before






After






Before








After

[beavslu01]

Process:
Wash: 3X wash with Megs. soap and 2 bucket method with uni-mitt.
Wheels: DP wheel gel with EZ bruch.
Clay: Mothers clay with DP Waterless Wash as lube.
Polish: Porter Cable with Mez. Power Gloss Compound with 6in. Orange Edge, and PB SSR1 with 6in. green Edge pad.
Wax: Pinnicale Souveran
Trim: Pinnicale Souveran
Wheel: Megs Hot Shine

Before:













After:

[cmarider]

shine on!

[fast01gt]

1999 Ford Lightning
Guy is in the military and had left it as his dad's place for over a year, thought it was in a garage, turned out it was outside the whole time.

I used
Duragloss 901
Portor Cable /W
Lake Country Orange, white, blue, and black pad.

For Paint Correction used

Meguiar's #83
Menzenra IP
Menzenra FP
Meguires High Tech Yellow #26

Customer did not want tires or wheels touched as he was buying new ones the following week.

Here are some pics

In the first Pic you can kinda see the oxidation on the middle of the hood and on the roof.

Second and Third Pics are of the hood before, the third is the roofbefore, white portion is oxidation that became more visiable as the vehicle dried..

The fifth picture is the hood after, kinda hard to see because it was dusk but those are cloud reflections.

last the finished product.