Bummer Detail.......

[former86camaro]

Depressed about a recent Detail. Black 2000 Tundra, just driven from Montana, hasn’t been washed since the trip 3 weeks ago. Owner a good friend does construction, Only washed it twice in the past year and once tossed Pinnacle Sovereign on it.





Begin Time 7PM

Dark 8PM

Stop Time 9PM





Clean the Wheels with Mothers, twice

Wash beginning from the top down, AGH

Clay, Yellow Clay turns BLACK as I use it, but much better off

Wash again

Orange Pad from Autogeek with the new Klasse AIO

AGH, still made it look okay, but EXPOSED swirl city. I mean Swirl City, looks like Sand Paper was taken to the car. At least surface is smooth and shines. Nice shiny swirls.



Now I am like AGH, light practically gone, but I press on.



I wash again because something does not look right and getting desperate because of limited time and light.



As I wash it Beads nicely, so I quickly top with DP sealant in hopes it will at least look a little better. Here is where I wish I had a filler that just filled and was full of oils so at least it looked good when it left.



I now vacuum it, I wipe down again but I am still not happy. I call my buddy and let him know I am not happy at all and feel washing it just made it worse in my opinion and we really need to use my DP super Swirl, My Medium Swirl then Light Cut, then polish… A true detail!!!!



I clean a few windows and Armor All yes Armor all since the tires were still GRAY after all the cleaning and did not feel Meguiars hot shine was worth it at this time since a true detail is just days away I hope.



I guess, I just need a little at least it looked better than before and you did not have enough time to begin with, and it was nice what you did since it was free and was on your time after a rough day of work. My wife is amazed since even after washing it was still a milky black and now it shines. She is like you only had a little light what could you do.



Agh being a perfectionist.

 

[mikebai1990]

Considering you only used 2 hours, I'm fairly impressed by the amount of work you did. For me, just claying and washing my MPV minivan would take at least 2 hours!! Naturally, if you allocated more time, you would definitely have been able to do a full detail (polish, remove swirls, etc...)



We're all perfectionists, but you have to realize that 2 hours is very hard to do a good detail Better luck next time!

 

[former86camaro]

I know, just bummed how it looks, was hoping it was not as bad as it looked, but it was bad. 1 year and two washes from him and he works construction. What could I really hope for.

 

[imported_themightytimmah]

That's damn good for 2 hours - most people don't even "see" swirls unless you point them out and explain that they're not a normal part of a paintjob. In the future, if you're short on time, ClearKote products are great for hiding marring, 50:50 Vanilla Moose and Red Moose Glaze on a PC and polishing pad followed by any heavy carnuba will make it shade-perfect, and significant improvement in the sun.