Newbie from SLC, Utah

[zeroordie881]

Hey guys, newbie from SLC here. Found this place from a guy who lives a few streets down that detailed one of my cars. His name is Anthony, and runs OCDetails. I had him detail my Subaru so I could pick his brains as much as I could, and he introduced me to a whole new world of things and products I had no idea existed. Can't thank him enough for that!

I started caring for my cars appearance when I got my second MR2 turbo. It had really oxidized paint and one of my buddies briefly showed me how to remove the oxidation. I did some experimentation on this car and made quite a few mistakes, but learned a lot in the process.

Here is what it looked like when I first got it.



And this is one of the pics I took during my first attempt at wet sanding(made a lot of mistakes here...)


This was after my first attempt. I wet sanded it, hit it with Meguires swirl remover, then Meguires cleaner wax.


After that I started experimenting with stuff that was still just off the shelf at my local parts houses because I wasn't aware that anything else existed at the time. I hit it with cleaner wax again cause the oxidation kept coming back, then used the NXT Tech Wax 2.0 on it after.(All of this was done by hand, I didn't own any form of buffer at the time)



And this was it right before I sold it. I had gotten some new wheels and changed up the suspension a bit by this point.


It looked a LOT better, and from that point I fell in love with making any car I had look better than when I got it. I'm still learning new stuff every time I go and tinker with my car, and enjoy(almost) every minute of it!

I now have a 95 Honda Del Slow that I use as an experiment car. Its my beater and I don't expect it to look perfect all of the time.


And a 2008 STI, which I'm a bit more hesitant to try things on lol


I've already found some useful information, and I'm sure I'm going to find a whole lot more. Glad to find such an awesome site for this kind of stuff!

[Pureshine]

Welcome to AGO

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Welcome to AGO.

[sproketser]

Welcome aboard . Great job on the MR2 buddy !

[zeroordie881]

Welcome aboard . Great job on the MR2 buddy !

Thanks! Was a fun project!

[Edse30]

Welcome, I'm in Utah county if you ever need some hands-on help or want to try some products before ordering let me know. Pm me for my #

[zeroordie881]

Welcome, I'm in Utah county if you ever need some hands-on help or want to try some products before ordering let me know. Pm me for my #

That'd be way awesome! Wouldn't mind geeking out and figuring out some new stuff

[xseveredveganx]

Welcome! More Utahns!!!

[vet]

Welcome!

[GS2011]