bryansbestwax vs an accord with 350 000 + kms

[bryan]

This was one of the hardest cars to work both inside and out. I will let the pictures do the talking and please refrain from eating while reading this, you may make a mess on your computer.



The Process

The Interior

The interior was first cleaned out, many garbage bags worth of stuff was taken out.

The interior was then vacuumed and blown out with compressed air

Many of the stains were pretreated with AM 777 at 5 to 1 and Proshield Punch at 10 to 1

The drivers side had a huge build up of salt that was pretreated 8 times with Bocar Salt Remover

The driver side was scrubbed vigorously with a carpet brush trying to bring up all the dirt and grime that was in the carpets.

The center console was then cleaned with AM 777 at 5 to 1 and Laquer thinner to get out the nail polish that had toppled over many years ago

The rest of the vinyl was scrubbed with a toothbrush and other various brushes trying to get all the crap out of the cracks.

The carpets and upholstery was then pretreated with AM Carpet and upholstery Cleaner and scrubbed into the fibers.

The car was then extracted with an Aztec Hot rod thoroughly, I used 6 tanks full of water when I normally use 2 for a car.

Some of the Before

And I found this little treat under the seat

Read the expiration date

Here is an inprocess shot of cleaning the cloth seats

 

[bryan]

This is the final result of the interior

Remember the gross salt build up on the drivers side, gone!

And that’s the interior all done, now you get a chance to see the exterior, yikes!

 

[bryan]

This is the before shots of the exterior of the accord with the lovely interior. My first thought was a black wool edge pad and Malco Tru Grit compound and then follow up with a polish on a rotary. I first checked the paint reading to see if this route was going to work. I got readings around 120 microns, not bad. Then I went to the doors at that when my plan went out the door. The readings were 102, 100, 97, a little low to compound the doors. So I had to rethink my plan of attack. I decided on trying out UCCL on my PC XP on a Gloss it Yellow pad. The results of 2 Passes were pretty remarkable.

The Before

Some beautiful scratches in the door

Another shot of some more scratches

Here are the 50/50 shots

And on to some of the final shots. Th e tire got AutoValet Enchanter and so did the wheel wells. I put a coat of Werkstat Prime Acrylic via my pc and a Red Gi pad. Wiped off with Cookie monsters.

In total this car took a little over 14 hours to complete. I swear I used every brush, cleaner ect somewhere in this car. It was a chore and I hope the owner likes the results. Thanks for looking.

 

[JohnKleven]

Looks great. That thing was a toilet.

 

[sacdetailing]

Wow very nice!