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06-14-2022, 09:23 PM
#8671
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
So after a bad storm that blew through last night (3 tornado sirens) the EN was trashed! Then today came, 98 degrees and M U G G Y, so I decided after I put my daughter to bed I was going to wash the EN...I mean when I started @8 p.m. it had cooled down to 92
I decided to do a RW since I hadn't done one in a while, plus I just wanted to do a contact wash but wanted to get down a little quicker. Before that I cleaned the tires/wheels with a mix or Auto-Fanatic foaming wheel cleaner mixed w/ TWHS Hyper Foam Tire and Wheel cleaner in the smaller IK Foamer and it came out great!
I then mixed 3 oz of Griot's Garage Brillant Shine rinseless wash and .5 oz of Feynlab RW in a bucket with 3.5 gallons of water and an Adam's version of the BRS. I also half filled up a 2nd bucket to rinse the sponge properly. I certainly pre-treated all panels and went a section at a time, drying each panel as I moved along with a Gauntlet towel, came out
I dried the jams, tires & wheels, vac'd out my floormat and Kendall's and finished by applying a cost of TWHS graphene spray tire dressing and now I'm done, took a little over an hour...time to hit the shower
Tomorrow it's going to be only 95 degrees, LOL
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06-15-2022, 09:52 AM
#8672
Super Member
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Originally Posted by MisterSnoop
1 - I got one of these at Lowe's because of that
Now I can use the hose and pressure washer
3 - didn't use a rinse bucket?
4 - even with a hose, I fill the bucket most of the way, then add Hyperwash, then foam it up
Yeah, these are things I definitely didn't think of. I had connected the hose to the pressure washer first, so I didn't want to disconnect it to fill the bucket up most of the way, which would have been way better. I'll be getting a splitter like the one above as well with a smaller secondary hose. And some quick-connect fittings too.
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06-15-2022, 04:37 PM
#8673
Regular Member
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Bike is back together. Front of engine is looking quite spiffy. Sanded/polished some sand damage to the front of the headers.
Before...
After:
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06-16-2022, 12:25 AM
#8674
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Tested out Griot's 3 in one on a panel of my hunting rig.
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06-17-2022, 01:57 PM
#8675
Super Member
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
OMG what a nightmare.
Wife's CX-5 was fixed up in January due to a fender bender. It occured to me today as I started around the vehicle that the car likely had zero protection on it, since the whole back end was repainted. You can't be putting protection on a repainted surface due to curing issues, correct? So I walked into 5 solid months of grime, bugs, and tar today when I decided it needed to be cleaned up. Sprayed the front bumper with bug & tar stuff, waited 5 mins...and nothing. Not even a dent. MF mitt wasn't even taking the grime off, so this ended up being a clay job more than a wash.
It's the stuff you see on YouTube...a couple of swipes of the clay bar and it was FILTHY. I hung my head in shame that I hadn't gotten around to it sooner.
After the car was cleaned I went over it with HCW (applied to a dry surface, of course) - 1000% better. I took pictures but they always come out like trash when I try uploading them on Tapatalk.
I'm thankful I got the claying out of the way today, because this thing is headed for a coating within a month. There's NO WAY I'm going through this again.
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06-17-2022, 03:37 PM
#8676
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06-17-2022, 08:12 PM
#8677
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Originally Posted by TTQ B4U
So this mid-week detail work involved restoring some faded and sun-bleached plastics that are part of a Jet Ski that a friend and customer asked to have brought back to life.
Here I used Polytrol Oil to bring them back. Polytrol is a penetrating oil that restores the original color and appearance of dull or tarnished plastics, gelcoats, metals and other surfaces. It works by penetrating the surface and reactivinging the pigments and thus the color and luster. What's nice about it is that it goes on clear and works with just about any color and again, even works on metals (think Jeeps and SUV Bumpers like the one shown here that I did last fall)
Once restored, wiped and fully dry, I applied some CarPro Dlux to help serve as a protective layer and lock in the restoration work. Here are the results on this trim work. Many Thanks, to Matt for the continued trust in my work.
WOW! That is some impressive stuff! Great job!
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06-17-2022, 10:39 PM
#8678
Super Member
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Blew off this nasty thing after work. Looked like powdered sugar on the window trim lol
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06-18-2022, 02:37 AM
#8679
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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06-18-2022, 07:11 AM
#8680
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Now that’s some dust!
Side note, my Jeep looks similar sometimes. But it’s kind of the same color as the dust.
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