2010 Acura TL - Days of sweat

[jyu1210]

I have been a lurker here for the past few years and this will be my first post with PICTURES!

Purchased a 2010 Acura TL in Crystal Black Pearl, now I understand that black car owners are truly a different breed of owners. My previous car was a white Prelude and it was easy to hide swirls. Now it's a different story.. Black paint will literally make your jaws drop when kept in prestine condition. But then again, the swirls under sunlight will get you to shake your heads in disappointment. After owning the car for 2 months now, I must have taken out the DA for swirl killing duties multiple times due to folks touching the glossiness of the paint and such..

On to the detail... When I first picked up the car, it was heavily swirled in every panel of the body as well as a slight haziness to it in sunlight. Didn't take any before shots.... though I regret it but believe me, it was horrible and a nightmare!
I spent probably about 2 weeks of detailing, a few 6 hour days, few 2 hours after work, etc..

Products used -

LC HT Pads
LC CCS Pads
Porter Cable 7424XP
Brinkmann Swirl Finger Spot Light
Invisible Glass
Natural Sea Sponge
2 Buckets with Grit Guards
Optimum Car Wash
Pinnacle Ultra Poly Clay
ONR - as clay lube, Engine Bay and door jambs
Meguiars M105
Menzerna SF4500
P21S Paintwork Cleansing Lotion
Menzerna Power Lock - 2 coats
BF BlackIce Hybrid Montan Wax - 2 coats
Cobra Guzzlers
Gold Plush Microfibers
Supreme 530 Microfibers
303 Aerospace Protectant - Engine Bay
Meguiars #40 Vinyl & Rubber - Interior
Meguiars Hyper Dressing - Tires
Leatherique - 2 step cleansing on all interior Leather surfaces

[jamesboyy]

Welcome to autogeek. amazing work nice product choices too I like that your deitcated to keeping your ride in tip top shape.

[jyu1210]

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[jyu1210]

Welcome to autogeek. amazing work nice product choices too I like that your deitcated to keeping your ride in tip top shape.

Thanks, been into the detailing game as a hobby for 3 years now, took a while to acquire the current arsenal I have now.. but still slowly increasing due to AG's sales

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Looking good! I agree, nothing looks better than black when done properly.

[Pureshine]

Great work Ya black is my favorite color to work on!

[shagnat]

That is one fantastic detailing job! Congratulations. I hope I can get my first detailing job half as nice....... but, mine is a titanium gray metallic metal flake which of course will never "pop" like your black.

What did you do to the inside and what did you use?

[fly07sti]

Jyu1210,
By the looks of it, would you happen to be in the City?

[jyu1210]

Looking good! I agree, nothing looks better than black when done properly.

Agreed! Learning first hand that keeping it in tip top shape when the vehicle is my DD is driving me insane!

[jyu1210]

Jyu1210,
By the looks of it, would you happen to be in the City?

fly07sti - Yes, good catch! I'm in San Francisco, easy to tell from how the buildings haha