1. Carefully and methodically wash the car starting with the wheels and tires first and then working from the top down. Like I teach in my how-to book.
Detailing How-To Book and Detailing How-To E-book by Mike Phillips
The first wash would include machine scrubbing the tires to prep them for TUF Shine Tire Clearcoat. The body would be washed using the Autogeek Foam Gun and Detailer's Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo and a Microfiber Chenille Wash Mitt.
After the initial wash, I would spray the paint down with Iron X to make 100% sure there was no iron contamination in the paint. Then re-wash and rinse again using the Autogeek Foam Gun and Detailer's Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo and a Microfiber Chenille Wash Mitt.
2. Dry the car, probably using a simple Guzzler Waffle Weave drying towel and a Metro-Vac Sidekick to blow water out of all the cracks and crevices.
3. Inspect the paint using bright overhead sunlight and some time of swirl finder light. The new
Flex Swirl Finder Light works great for this.
4. Feel the paint with my bare hand, (clean of course), and then feel the paint using The Baggie Test. If I discovered any type of bonded contaminants on the paint I would mechanically decontaminate the paint using a Nanoskin Autoscrub Pad, both 4" and 6" on dual action polishers like the Rupes Mini 12 and the Porter Cable 7424XP.
5. Machine polish the paint to remove any marring inflicted by the mechanical decontamination process. For this I would follow the least aggressive approach best practice and test to see if Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish with either a foam polishing pad or a foam finishing pad on a dual action polisher would do the job.
Chemically strip my test spot to make sure the results I'm seeing are the results I'm getting. Once I've proved my system, continue around the car.
6. Chemically strip the paint to remove the polishing oils using the Black Label Surface Cleansing Polish, (just like I did to this Stingray).
7. Hand apply the Black Label Diamond Paint Coating.
8. Apply 2-3 applications of the TUF Shine Tire Clearcoat.
9. Apply the Black Label Diamond Glass Coating to all the glass.
10. Apply the Black Label Diamond Wheel Coating to the rims.
11. Apply the Black Label Diamond Surface Coating to the exterior hard plastic and anything else that was smooth on the outside.
12. I'd probably wipe down all the door jambs, trunk and engine compartment jambs, etc.
13. Next day I'd detail the interior using the Black Label line.
14. At some point, detail the engine compartment using the Black Label line.