Detailed: Blue 1995 Dodge Stealth

[wolfpacker92]

Let me start out by saying a huge Thank You to the folks on this forum. I am a newb to the forum and got some great advice/tips from reading everything here. I purchased a '95 Dodge Stealth about a month ago and although it had not been abused it was not babied like it will be now. Most notably there were a lot of swirl marks and some marring. Well last week I made a huge purchase on AG and Pinnacle's website and yesterday did a MASSIVE detail on the car. Here is what I did:
Wheels: DP Gel Wheel Cleaner, DP Gloss Tire Gel, and DP Wheel Glaze (applied with finger foam pad ~ GREAT product).

Windshield: Diamodite Glasswork Clay and Lubricant, Diamondite Glass restorer with mini orange buffing pad for cordless drill, and Glasswork Shield.

Rest of Glass inside and out: Stoners Invisible Glass

Wash: DP Auto Bath Shampoo with 2 bucket system and Chenile Microfibre mitt, Poorboys Bug Squash

All the following were applied with the PC 7424. I just purchased this with my order this week and it was my first time using it. All I can say is WOW. I had never used anything more than a buffer from the local Walmart before ~ Man was I missing out on something during all those years of detailing. I can thank the people on here for my step up to the PC 7424.

Paint Prep: I used the XMT series for light swirl remover and this product is everything Pinnacle and the people here claim it to be. It got out 90% of the problems on my Stealth and the ones it didn't probably either needed a yellow pad or XMT #3 or a combination of both. Well here is what I used:

1. XMT #2 Fine Swirl Remover with Orange Lake Country Pad
2. XMT #1 Ultra Fine Swirl Remover with White Lake Country Pad
3. XMT Finishing Glaze with Gray Lake Country Pad
I did all three of these steps to the ENTIRE car!

Wax: Sauveran Wax with a Gray Lake Country Pad. I had used Signature Series 2 before and loved it but MY GOD Sauveran is AMAZING!

All products were removed using Cobra Microfibre Towels. Hope the post wasn't too long but I was really excited about how everything turned out. The car looks incredible (especially considering that is 12 year old paint on it) and will continue to look like this. When my wife (who thinks running through a car wash makes a car look good) walked into the garage last night when I finished (after 8 hours!) the only thing she said was "WOW!" That said it all to me. Well thanks again to everyone here and here are some pics:

[wolfpacker92]

Since I am a newbie maybe someone can enlighten me on how to get my pics in my post bigger like everyone else seems to do.

[JoeD]

Sorry cant't help you with the pic sizes but you did a great job on the car and Good Right Up!.

[smsag04]

Check out the instructions here, the [img][/img] tags.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode

[alban61]

Originally Posted by wolfpacker92

Since I am a newbie maybe someone can enlighten me on how to get my pics in my post bigger like everyone else seems to do.

Create a free account at photobucket.com. Upload your pics there. You then copy/paste the img tags of the pictures, to your post. Photobucket automatically resizes them, to what you see on most of the forum pictures.
Hope it helps, and I'm not confusing you more.

[wolfpacker92]

^ Thanks I'll try to do that tonight so next time my pics will be like everyone else's.

[Gary Sword]

From what I can see it looks very good. Larger pictures next time would really help.

[Nica]

Nice vehicle, I like how the blue color looks.

Looking forward to the large pictures and don't be shy post lots of pictures, we (I) love pictures.

Thanks for sharing.

[wolfpacker92]

Here are some better pics of the Stealth.

[alban61]

Very nice!! I can see why she said, WOW! Great reflections! Looks nice and wet!
Glad that you finally got those pictures working!!