What did you do detailing wise today?
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4u2nvinmtl
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Over the winter I picked a second hand set of 20inch WK Jeep SRT8 wheels (with OEM tires), powder coated black. They are in near perfect condition aside from needing some minor paint correction (no chips or curb rash).
When I get home today (from work) I`m going to decontaminate, wash, compound, and polish out these wheels and use some kind of ceramic coating or FK1000p (still haven`t made up my mind, really depends on environmental factors).
I`ll use this as an opportunity to do my first write up of the year!
When I get home today (from work) I`m going to decontaminate, wash, compound, and polish out these wheels and use some kind of ceramic coating or FK1000p (still haven`t made up my mind, really depends on environmental factors).
I`ll use this as an opportunity to do my first write up of the year!
SYMAWD
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Quick wash in the hot sun. Used Adam`s Car Shampoo because it is perfectly safe to let dry on the paint. Then rinsed and sprayed down with Adam`s Detail Spray and dried. Auto Finesse Satin on the tires.
I just put fk1000 on my Scat Pack wheels Sunday. They look great, should make clean up easier, specially the barrels
Bunky
Detailing Gnosis
I started using the over and under method to coil extension cords and it does work. I found that cords that have been twisted they seem to fight the new coiling (heavier AWG or thicker jackets) but they uncoil without getting twisted up. You can just throw the cord and it will unfurl.
Angus
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Coated my summer rims with DLUX:
Also made a nice workstation for the job using a ladder and a set of saw horses:
Also made a nice workstation for the job using a ladder and a set of saw horses:
Mr. Slick
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Anyone know about these paint meters. I need to get one soon. I just booked two coating jobs and one of them has been painted about 6 months ago.
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I was looking at the HighLine one Autopia sells but never has in stock. Hmm.
I eventually need an affordable one as well
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Angus
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Whats the over and under method, Al? I like how this sounds.
BudgetPlan1
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Chuggin` along removing last year`s coating and prepping for this year`s choice. Wow, M205...where ya been all my life? Great with Flex and white Force pad.
Shame about the Subaru orange peel...
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Shame about the Subaru orange peel...
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kevincwelch
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Tomorrow: TW coating. 
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The Guz
Mike
Anyone know about these paint meters. I need to get one soon. I just booked two coating jobs and one of them has been painted about 6 months ago.
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This one is decent. You can actually find it pretty cheap.
https://www.amazon.com/Paint-Coatin...1492066229&sr=8-1&keywords=paint+gauge+DT+156
That`s the one I bought and returned. It would keep a zero and I tested spots on my car twice after calibration and they were way off from each other.
It also put little dents in the calibration disks so I can only imagine what it was doing to the paint.
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The Guz
Mike
Have not had an issue with the one I got. Seems to work fine for me.
Follow up to my post on page 427. I conducted a waterless wash on my truck. A heavy rain storm occurred a few days ago. Did some freeway driving. Never in my time of detailing vehicles has my truck been so dirty from rain and Hydro Blue. Usually when I waterless wash, I do not have to wait before I wipe. This time I had to wait for the layer of filth to be broke down for easy removal. The shine is still there. The next evaluation will be how well Hydro Blue can repell daily contaminants in the air.
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Nizmo
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First oil change on the GTI today at 1400 miles, so needed to spruce up the engine bay.
Decided the whole car deserved it. Its been outside for a couple weeks and was really dusty. Natty`s Blue really does look better after a couple of weeks.
Now to focus my attention on our newly acquired black Jeep.... Ugh.
Decided the whole car deserved it. Its been outside for a couple weeks and was really dusty. Natty`s Blue really does look better after a couple of weeks.
Now to focus my attention on our newly acquired black Jeep.... Ugh.