What did you do detailing wise today?

[The Guz]

Coated the leather seats in my 99 Grand Prix. The 20 year old leather had held up well.

Cleaned and re-coated the door sill trim

 

[PA DETAILER]

Freaky weather in PA today. 65 degrees!! Gave the truck a much needed bath and interior cleaning. Of course they are calling for rain tonight. Better than snow.

 

[SWETM]

Have not been able to wash my Kia since I topped it with PA High Gloss in early december. It has been raining today but at 3pm it stopped for a while. So drag out the Kärcher K7 and fill the 2 buckets. Decided to test out my new Turtle Wax Wash Broom with mf chenille material and extended pole. Also revisit the Angelwax Enigma Ceramic Infused Car Soap which is a great one if you want something extra added from the wash. TW wash pole worked great and where able to aggitate it in an ordinary rinse bucket with grit guard and the grit board. Have a bucket with another kind of grit guard in it designed to be used with wash poles. Feeled slick and had great control with the TW wash pole and the cleaning ability from it where great. My nerve damaged back thanked me LOL.

Of cause it got dark after the wash and started to sprinkle some drops of rain. But since I didn`t see exactly how clean I got the car. I decided to dry it with the leafblower. The performance from PA High Gloss after a prewash with 50/50 Bilt Hamber Surfex HD and the BH Auto-Foam in 1:1 of water in the foamcannon. The chemical mix setting on the foamcannon where in the middle and got that runny foam BH has. Also sprayed on some cold degreaser/ tar remover on the lower side panels and the back of the car. I usually have a lot of tar spots. But now it where the heavy mix of road salt and road film that desolved. So the Gyeon Wet Coat topped with PA High Gloss seems to be getting me an awesome self cleaning ability from it which I`m very satisfied with. Also looked cleaner than the Ford Focus I maintain with about the same time between the washes. Then the Kia cee`d have more mileage on it during this time too. Hopefully we don`t get a long winter and in a month or so being able to wash it again.

No pictures today on the finished results from the wash.

 

[Mary B]

Hi guys.
It’s been awhile, hope everyone is doing well.
I hope you made it through the holiday season the best you could, and are all happy.

Myself, I had to work straight through, glad it’s over.
Family get together is February.
Now, planning on taking some 3 day weekends to Detail.

Got my black 16 Malibu LS all cleaned, ready to polish off any remaining old protection. Get her free from swirls.
I bought a boat load of higher end products to apply.
But....While inspecting with a swirl finder light, I realized how tired I am of this lack of any color black.

So..I traded her off, for a 2020 Black cherry metallic Malibu premier.
It’s top of the line, all the bells and whistles were saying, take me home

Here she is, and all my best products will be going on this beauty.

The wheels are a darker gun metal color, 19” w/ thin rubber.

First up

Found out I must differentiate between the vinyl and leather, or there will be streaking

Fixed it with

A mixture of vinyl,plastics and leather.
Plus my old wheel cover has to go.

The dash will take some learning, like a rolling computer.

New wheel cover...much better !

Can’t wait to polish her and get some PA products on the paint. No coating, never ever.
Only the trim, rubber, wheels and glass will get a coating.

Thanks for lookin’

 

[Astouffer512]

Had my 2 boys outside after Naptime yesterday and noticed some weird dirt marks on the hood of our fusion. Got out my mix of N-914 waterless and cleaned the hood off good, then I decided to finally give the bottle of Beadmaker it had around a try. This stuff really does make the surface slick to all get out!


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[Astouffer512]

I`ve noticed my windshield is starting to not shed water like it had been. I had put CG`s Hydroslick on it back in late September, but with the onset of winter weather it was starting to fade....so I got home from work tonight and the boys were down at the grandparents until dark

Broke out the 3d glass cleaner

Wanted to give it a little scrub so I re purposed some CG`s V36 polish (I wasn`t impressed with it for paint at all...seems to be a normal consensus though) scrubbed the windshield with the V36, then IPA`d it down and coated it with the Hydroslick

When I had it on this fall I barely ever had to use my wipers...I do know from a lot of videos I have watched it doesn`t fair well with chemicals so I`m not surprised that using the washer fluid more in the past few weeks because of some PA wintery mixes it started to breakdown from the washer fluid...but I got it fairly cheap from G one time when there was a sale and I had a 25% off code. I only use 4 pea sized drops on each half of the window so the bottle will last me for a good while.

Should be good to go for a few more months, but calling for snow this weekend so I`ll see if it lasts or is negatively affected soon


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[Coatings=crack]

Polish glass with Griots fine glass polish. Funny how i thought my glass was relatively goid shape. Rheir was a film on their that was pretty thick that i did not notice till after polishing. You could see it in places you missed.

After polishing though every nick, scratch, and chip stuck out like a sore thumb.

Coated with griots glass sealant. Have Gtechniq glass coating but want to go over with ceriglass i bought to smooth out a coupl chips


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[Tc99m]

Finally started prepping the wife`s new VW for correction. First up is the wheels. Wow ! I have seen the pics of bleeding German wheels. But this is he most I have seen in person. Product used Nanoskin Iron Free.

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[PA DETAILER]

If you call 37 decent? But was dying to get outside and knock off a few weeks of abuse on the truck. Did a proper wash/interior this afternoon. Found out that 100` HF hose was leaking at a fitting already! Really? Took it back and got my cash back. I`ll get something better later.

 

[Mary B]

Getting reacquainted with my Detailing equipment, and beginning to assess my new car’s detail needs.

Some hand held lights to help, a Fenix and Scangrip ll.

This baby I really missed, a 100w led flood light.

Washed her first

The tires definitely have something on them from the dealership.

My Bigboi mini, he flips over. I’ll have to figure out what to do with him ....

Every square inch of my new car has light spider webs,
marred, and generally swirled to S##t !

Looks like some time off work, to Detail.
That paint job will look fantastic when polished out !!

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[Coatings=crack]

Washed wheels and coated 2 with Polish angel Supersport and the other two with M37 hydro blue.




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[Astouffer512]

Had a beautiful day today here in Central PA so I got out all the good and washed our 2 vehicles today

The Fusion
Washed with Adams Coat and Wash, put on first coat of Gyeon Wet Coat, dried with Beadmaker. Gyeon tire for the tires.

I really think I’m going to jump on the Adams BoGo and pick up some more of this coat and wash.

Now the Equinox Beater DD. Nothing to look at, but it’s clean.
CG Extreme Body wash and wax. Beadmaker to dry and CarPro Perl for the tires

All in all a good day.


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[PA DETAILER]

52 degrees out today, so good wash and interior.

 

[minerigger]

32 here today. Was calm but not 2bm time yet, nowhere for water to go as it’s ice and 12” of snow everywhere but the driveway. So took wife’s burb and my work truck to coin op and got them clean and put 303 touch less sealant on wife’s and finished bottle halfway around mine and then finished it off with hydro blue. I will say the hydro blue has more gloss and slickness but doesn’t last like the 303. Got almost 6 months last year out of the 303 and only topped with something 1 time and it was bread maker so not sure that counts


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[Mary B]

Worked on my new car wheels, 19” wide sport tires.
I know the dealership had something on the tires,
that I’d have to remove.

We have lift off...

I started with Tuf Shine

The browning stopped after 3 or 4 times scrubbed.

But, the product from the dealership was still there in spots. So Tarminator with a scratch pad and MF wipe off.

Better, I thought..

I’m trying to use higher end products on this vehicle, so to clean the wheels I used

Finished with a wash of CGs Diablo, wheel and tires.
New MF woolies, the knuckle guard is dumb. I removed it. Got in the way more then anything.
Also used the CGs as a clay towel lube that I lightly ran over the wheels.

I thought the PA wasn’t working even though I could see the brake disk was purple.

I had a sample of this to compare

I’m good. Time to dry her and add the coatings.

I really liked the wheel coating. My first. Will upgrade now that I’ve tried with something that is longevity challenged.

WG. Paintprep. wipe down of the wheels.
PBL, IGL green removal towels, 9” yellow 500gsm. AMZ towels. GTech. AP2 applicator (all were outstanding).

Last and the most frustrating. The tire coating.

I must not have removed all of the previous products.
The coating was very blotchy ! After all that work, to have the last step basically fail !
I was too upset and didn’t get a picture.
I mean I was Blazin’ up !!

Then I remembered I still had a half bottle of
GYEON TIRE,
so down went one very thick layer. No wipe off.
It saved me ! Covered all the unevenness, and will live to fight another day !

Thanks for lookin’

 

[Fishroes]

64 degrees today
rained til 1:00pm
got to wash the tundra when rain stopped
last wash was around 2 months ago
come on springtime

 

[Coatings=crack]

Worked on my new car wheels, 19” wide sport tires.
I know the dealership had something on the tires,
that I’d have to remove.

We have lift off...

I started with Tuf Shine

The browning stopped after 3 or 4 times scrubbed.

But, the product from the dealership was still there in spots. So Tarminator with a scratch pad and MF wipe off.

Better, I thought..

I’m trying to use higher end products on this vehicle, so to clean the wheels I used

Finished with a wash of CGs Diablo, wheel and tires.
New MF woolies, the knuckle guard is dumb. I removed it. Got in the way more then anything.
Also used the CGs as a clay towel lube that I lightly ran over the wheels.

I thought the PA wasn’t working even though I could see the brake disk was purple.

I had a sample of this to compare

I’m good. Time to dry her and add the coatings.

I really liked the wheel coating. My first. Will upgrade now that I’ve tried with something that is longevity challenged.

WG. Paintprep. wipe down of the wheels.
PBL, IGL green removal towels, 9” yellow 500gsm. AMZ towels. GTech. AP2 applicator (all were outstanding).

Last and the most frustrating. The tire coating.

I must not have removed all of the previous products.
The coating was very blotchy ! After all that work, to have the last step basically fail !
I was too upset and didn’t get a picture.
I mean I was Blazin’ up !!

Then I remembered I still had a half bottle of
GYEON TIRE,
so down went one very thick layer. No wipe off.
It saved me ! Covered all the unevenness, and will live to fight another day !

Thanks for lookin’

For tire coatings it was recommended i think by Nick for Mckee’s to clean wheels and put nothing on for a month if its had something in it. You have to clean till no browning (took me 6 times). Would recommend tuf shine, Mckees T&R rejuvenator or what i used 303 T&R.

If I remember correctly you have a Mighty mini? If so hit the tires with that and ine of the above or diluted APC to remove. Let them breath for a month and redo cleaning process and apply.


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[Mary B]

For tire coatings it was recommended i think by Nick for Mckee’s to clean wheels and put nothing on for a month if its had something in it. You have to clean till no browning (took me 6 times). Would recommend tuf shine, Mckees T&R rejuvenator or what i used 303 T&R.

If I remember correctly you have a Mighty mini? If so hit the tires with that and ine of the above or diluted APC to remove. Let them breath for a month and redo cleaning process and apply.


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HI Coatings=crack

Wow a month !? Makes sense. I have been letting my SUV tires go with just cleaning, no protection. I think I`ll try again with the PBL tire coat on the SUV.
I do like the Mckees T&R, I`ll probably pick up the 303 T&R tho. Thanks.

I did try the Mighty mini and the brush I have was a bit big for the thin wall on these tires, I couldn`t keep it on the rubber only and avoid the wheels.
I`ll look for a smaller diameter brush head. Maybe something to protect the wheels while I scrub the tires.

Now the DD SUV tires the Mighty will just rock ! I know the Gyeon tire wears off fast on the DD tires, so a coating would be a better option.

Thanks again, you`ve helped me understand more of what I was looking at.

 

[Astouffer512]

An Adam`s Haul today

2 mystery buckets and a few odds and ends when they had their BOGO sale last weeek....I need to quit spending money now

I should be set for the summer now for our 2 cars....other than soaps

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[Coatings=crack]

An Adam`s Haul today

2 mystery buckets and a few odds and ends when they had their BOGO sale last weeek....I need to quit spending money now

I should be set for the summer now for our 2 cars....other than soaps

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What is that ceramic product you recieved? Was it in mystery box?


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