Underdawg736GTC
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What's going on folks? Here is a brief write up on the Mrs metallic silver Saturn. A quick Hx on this car, it was originally my, car, bought in 07 w/24k on the clock. Since the birth of my daughter, I had to give it up for the '04 ZX3 Focus as it was ahem....too cramped for Mrs Underdawgs taste. Let's just say that this car was in pristine shape when I was forced to hand over the keys......not so much now!
Anyways, the Friday before I had contacted Barry for some more HD products as I have been nothing short of impressed so far by the HD line. Initally I was planning on using these products to do an intense detail on the Focus as I've really have neglected the car.....well both actually since my little boo was born. Plans changed and I ended up giving the rest of Mrs Undrdawgs Mother's Day present on Father's Day.....go figure!
All right back on track. Early in May I planned on detailing the car, started but got interrupted by pop up family plans. I absobleepinlutely hate not being able to finish what I start and it will suck all motivation quicker then...well you know! I had tried out Meg's Ultimate Polish at the time and was for the most part pleased with the results, being silver metallic and driven by someone what definitely doesn't have the "passion", I wasn't gonna break my back to get it looking it's best only to have it trashed in a few days.....and it WILL be trashed.
So I started out the day before by taking it to the coin op and washing her down with their power washer. The outside wasn't terribly bad but I needed all the time I needed the next day. During this time I cleaned out the interior w/Lysol wipes and following up w/Meg's M40. Didn't take many pics in there due to it being a royal hot mess!
Father's Day comes around and once Mrs Underdawg enters the house from work, my arse heads out! Pull the car into my grassy man shade.....that's right I don't have a man cave but a MAN SHADE!
Alight, long story short. Everything under the sun came up and took a very large chunk out of my polishing time. Between NPT'n the car, the wife and kid and neighbors bbq'n, I started polishing at 5 pm instead of 2 pm as I was originally shooting for. I wanted to try out Uno but that got cut of the process, so I went straight to Polish on a HD green pad alternating between 5 and 6. Since I was in a race against the sun I opened up the work area to between 3x3 and 4x4 max while cutting down the polishing time to between 1 and 2 minutes per section. Being a GM car, the paint does lean on the harder side but with the situation I was faced, Polish on it's own was able to cut down about 60% of the defects without any issues. 3 dots of polish on a primed pad I know I could've achieved near perfection if time wasn't an issue.
I did test out Uno on a HD yellow pad for the headlights and a particularly nasty set of scratches on the left rear quarter panel. It diminished these scratches but they were too deep to fully correct. Headlights had a yellow haze to them, now they look brand spankin new!
About 3 quarters thru the polishing step, the ole g110v1 started exhibiting the signs that the cord was acting up again. Not wanting to take any chances I called it quits with the polishing, leaving the trunk lid and R/S quarter panel and doors unfinished. Applied poxy by hand and before I knew it, light was fading fast. Removed Poxy with ease and called it a day!
My apologies for the pics, no 50/50's as I was in too much of a rush, It rained the next day and I haven't got around to taking in the sun pics yet.
Befores:
Headlights:
Headlights after Uno/Polish = AWSOME! Even using the 105/205 combo would still leave a slight yellowish haze around the edges of the light housing, not with Uno/Polish, took it all out with relative ease!
Afters:
Afterthoughts: I'm loving how HD Polish brought out the gloss and flakes with relatively easy effort. Swirl removal was impressive with the time crunch I was on, being metallic, it hides them very well to begin with in most light and angles. If I had more time to concentrate on the RIDS, I know they could've gone bye bye too. I knew the g110 days were numbered and as soon as it started acting up I immediately took it off line. I'm glad it went when it did as if I was working with Uno when it quite, the outcome of this detail may have been different. With the weather in the mid 70's with low humidity, I didn't run into any temperature related problems. All in all I'm very happy with the results and Polish is gonna stay in my front line bag!
Thanks for looking and any comments, gripes, advice is always greatly appreciated.
Sean
Anyways, the Friday before I had contacted Barry for some more HD products as I have been nothing short of impressed so far by the HD line. Initally I was planning on using these products to do an intense detail on the Focus as I've really have neglected the car.....well both actually since my little boo was born. Plans changed and I ended up giving the rest of Mrs Undrdawgs Mother's Day present on Father's Day.....go figure!
All right back on track. Early in May I planned on detailing the car, started but got interrupted by pop up family plans. I absobleepinlutely hate not being able to finish what I start and it will suck all motivation quicker then...well you know! I had tried out Meg's Ultimate Polish at the time and was for the most part pleased with the results, being silver metallic and driven by someone what definitely doesn't have the "passion", I wasn't gonna break my back to get it looking it's best only to have it trashed in a few days.....and it WILL be trashed.
So I started out the day before by taking it to the coin op and washing her down with their power washer. The outside wasn't terribly bad but I needed all the time I needed the next day. During this time I cleaned out the interior w/Lysol wipes and following up w/Meg's M40. Didn't take many pics in there due to it being a royal hot mess!
Father's Day comes around and once Mrs Underdawg enters the house from work, my arse heads out! Pull the car into my grassy man shade.....that's right I don't have a man cave but a MAN SHADE!
Alight, long story short. Everything under the sun came up and took a very large chunk out of my polishing time. Between NPT'n the car, the wife and kid and neighbors bbq'n, I started polishing at 5 pm instead of 2 pm as I was originally shooting for. I wanted to try out Uno but that got cut of the process, so I went straight to Polish on a HD green pad alternating between 5 and 6. Since I was in a race against the sun I opened up the work area to between 3x3 and 4x4 max while cutting down the polishing time to between 1 and 2 minutes per section. Being a GM car, the paint does lean on the harder side but with the situation I was faced, Polish on it's own was able to cut down about 60% of the defects without any issues. 3 dots of polish on a primed pad I know I could've achieved near perfection if time wasn't an issue.
I did test out Uno on a HD yellow pad for the headlights and a particularly nasty set of scratches on the left rear quarter panel. It diminished these scratches but they were too deep to fully correct. Headlights had a yellow haze to them, now they look brand spankin new!
About 3 quarters thru the polishing step, the ole g110v1 started exhibiting the signs that the cord was acting up again. Not wanting to take any chances I called it quits with the polishing, leaving the trunk lid and R/S quarter panel and doors unfinished. Applied poxy by hand and before I knew it, light was fading fast. Removed Poxy with ease and called it a day!
My apologies for the pics, no 50/50's as I was in too much of a rush, It rained the next day and I haven't got around to taking in the sun pics yet.
Befores:
Headlights:
Headlights after Uno/Polish = AWSOME! Even using the 105/205 combo would still leave a slight yellowish haze around the edges of the light housing, not with Uno/Polish, took it all out with relative ease!
Afters:
Afterthoughts: I'm loving how HD Polish brought out the gloss and flakes with relatively easy effort. Swirl removal was impressive with the time crunch I was on, being metallic, it hides them very well to begin with in most light and angles. If I had more time to concentrate on the RIDS, I know they could've gone bye bye too. I knew the g110 days were numbered and as soon as it started acting up I immediately took it off line. I'm glad it went when it did as if I was working with Uno when it quite, the outcome of this detail may have been different. With the weather in the mid 70's with low humidity, I didn't run into any temperature related problems. All in all I'm very happy with the results and Polish is gonna stay in my front line bag!
Thanks for looking and any comments, gripes, advice is always greatly appreciated.
Sean