dennisi01
09-22-2010, 08:16 AM
Hey all, I'm majorly new to this whole thing (actually trying to take good care of my vehicles:), and I was hoping to get some feedback/questions answered regarding my plans on protecting our cars for winter (red tacoma and silver forester). Any help is much appreciated! This would also turn into a little side-by-side durability test, since i plan on doing the wife's forester different than my truck.
The tacoma is new, but has some slight swirl marks (either from me, or the people who cleaned it before I got it) but they arent numerous and can only be seen in direct sunlight. I currently do not have a PC, and was wondering what would be a good product to use to address these by hand? Heres my plan for the tacoma:
My Truck:
Wash: Duragloss spiked with a dash of ONR
clay: meguiars clay kit, using ONR as a clay lube
polish: not sure, poli-seal? wolfgangs? anybody have any recommendations for a good polish for light swirls?
wax/sealant: I have a WGDGPS sample, and I was thinking of doing a coat (or 2?) of that, with collinite 476s/885 (1 coat? 2?), topped a week later by 845(1 or 2?). I suppose my real question is does anybody think that the collinite wouldnt play nice with the WGDGPS?
Wife's forester:
wash: duragloss spiked with onr
clay: meguiars
polish: same situation, her car is silver so its hard to make out any blemishes, even after a year, looking for a good reco on this also
wax/sealant: klass AIO, followed by 2+ coats of KSG. I was planing to apply the KSG with a spritz bottle, mixed in a 3:1 ratio with sonus acrylic glanz, applied with a MF pad. does anybody know a better way, or have any suggestions? I've never applied KSG, or collinite for that matter).
I also have a bottle of meguiars #7, which i bought not knowing it was more for single stage paints, is this worth using anywhere in this mixup?
Thank you for reading what turned out to be a much longer post than I expected, and will very much appreciate any feedback/comments/criticizms!!!!
Feed back please
The tacoma is new, but has some slight swirl marks (either from me, or the people who cleaned it before I got it) but they arent numerous and can only be seen in direct sunlight. I currently do not have a PC, and was wondering what would be a good product to use to address these by hand? Heres my plan for the tacoma:
My Truck:
Wash: Duragloss spiked with a dash of ONR
clay: meguiars clay kit, using ONR as a clay lube
polish: not sure, poli-seal? wolfgangs? anybody have any recommendations for a good polish for light swirls?
wax/sealant: I have a WGDGPS sample, and I was thinking of doing a coat (or 2?) of that, with collinite 476s/885 (1 coat? 2?), topped a week later by 845(1 or 2?). I suppose my real question is does anybody think that the collinite wouldnt play nice with the WGDGPS?
Wife's forester:
wash: duragloss spiked with onr
clay: meguiars
polish: same situation, her car is silver so its hard to make out any blemishes, even after a year, looking for a good reco on this also
wax/sealant: klass AIO, followed by 2+ coats of KSG. I was planing to apply the KSG with a spritz bottle, mixed in a 3:1 ratio with sonus acrylic glanz, applied with a MF pad. does anybody know a better way, or have any suggestions? I've never applied KSG, or collinite for that matter).
I also have a bottle of meguiars #7, which i bought not knowing it was more for single stage paints, is this worth using anywhere in this mixup?
Thank you for reading what turned out to be a much longer post than I expected, and will very much appreciate any feedback/comments/criticizms!!!!
Feed back please