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s1tl
04-06-2011, 10:49 AM
Last week my business card printer gave me a call and set an appointment for a detailing job to be done to her daily ride.

So i went down, diagnose the car and set the appointment date.

The day came, and this time i started abit late.

Today's prescription,
ONR NO Rinse wash
Meg's Gold Class wash
PG's detailing Claybar
Meg's M105 cutting compound
Optimum Hyper polish
Optimum quick wax
Optimum power clean
Meg's Ultimate quick detailer
Tools:
LC's yellow cutting pad
LC's white polishing pad
Brushes, and lots of MF towels

In Malaysia, it is a very common trend that when you purchase a 2nd hand used car, the car dealers normally respray a coat of clear coat to make the car paint look "New" overtime, rain, acid rain, sun, and not good paint jobs, the paint started to bubble up and eventually....pops and there u have, a brand new hole on ur front hood.

tadaaaa free hole from mother nature and a irresponsible shortcut car dealer
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0376.jpg

not only the dealers is responsible for these kind of damage...the owner also doesnt take care of the car...
dear car, how would u like some...."tree sap"
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0377.jpg

overview of a washed car...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0378.jpg

over here in malaysia, we have rm4 washes, or USD1.50 washes which they spray acid onto rims to clean the brake dust... in result..
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0374.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0382.jpg
After...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0394.jpg

unknown stain...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0397.jpg

without ONR no rinse wash, with Meg's gold class wash
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0392.jpg

now swirls all over the car like spider webs..
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0410.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0412.jpg

Then i started with M105 with 3 puff of ONR 1:8 as some moisturizing as the weather was very dry...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0420.jpg
i found out this technique gives me abit more working time and does not affect the performance of the M105 cutting compound..
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0421.jpg
before..
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0416.jpg
After...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0419.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0401.jpg
sheer clarify from beige paint
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0418.jpg
no more swirls
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0417.jpg

amazingly i just did a 1 pass on yellow cutting pad with M105 and all was almost flawless!

before if u remember there is a tree sap strain...
now...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0431.jpg
how i did it?
1500grid sand paper, hand buff off with M105 then 1 pass with LC yellow cutting pad. tadaaaa magic!

swirls on the taillights...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0428.jpg
regain gloss
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0445.jpg

then after fully compounding the car, i moved to polishing and wax and uqd. wipe n walk away
some particular shots of damages cleareed.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0444.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0443.jpg

now here we go, beige reflection!:love:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0446.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0448.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0450.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0452.jpg
curvesssss
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0456.jpg

here ends my work...
artistics shots before i close.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0449.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0455.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c100/joshuallai/Honda%20City%202004/DSC_0379.jpg

Regards,
Josh/s1tl/1st
Zero2Hero Auto Detailing

Klink10
04-06-2011, 03:58 PM
Very nice. Can't help but think back about someone else using baby lotion to assist in the working of 105.

s1tl
04-06-2011, 10:37 PM
waffak baby lotion!? did u try?

Klink10
04-07-2011, 08:55 AM
No I haven't, just that I read where someone had. The results were good. Do a search for "baby oil" and check it out.