House of Wax
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Jobs are starting to roll in. This gentleman is a friend of my Uncle and is bringing me 3 vehicles over the course of a few weekends here. First up this past weekend was this gorgeous 03 Jaguar XK8. He recently purchased the car from an acquaintance with only a little over 32k miles on the clock. With the low miles and obvious care by the previous owner, it was overall in very good shape. The owner was comfortable just getting a cleanup with an AIO, so the product/process looked like this:
Rinseless Wash with UWW+
Decon with Nanoskin fine grade prep towel (UWW+ for lube)
Polished/protected with HD Speed using white Lake Country flat pads via Rupes 21
Tires cleaned with Tuff Shine tire cleaner
Wheels cleaned with 1Z Einszett Colortec wheel cleaner
Interior including seats cleaned with HD Total
Seats followed up with Meguiars Gold Class Leather Cleaner/Conditioner
Carpet and headliner wiped down with Folex
HD Dress on rubber seals and wheel wells
Tires dressed with Meguiars Endurance Tire Gel
On to the pictures....As I said before, the outside was in good shape, so no dramatic before/afters:
There was a lot of left over dried wax like this all over the car:
The interior looked decent from 10 ft. away, but once you got up close and the cleaning started, you could see how dirty it actually was. All the leather took a bit longer than I anticipated, but HD Total did a good job of getting things cleaned up:
50/50:
Better:
Cleanup of the tires and wheel wells made a huge difference
AIO of choice....good stuff:
Paint had some minor marring and swirls, but they were hit and miss and you had to really look for it
You can see in this picture it's cleaned up on the right light:
Rinseless Wash with UWW+
Decon with Nanoskin fine grade prep towel (UWW+ for lube)
Polished/protected with HD Speed using white Lake Country flat pads via Rupes 21
Tires cleaned with Tuff Shine tire cleaner
Wheels cleaned with 1Z Einszett Colortec wheel cleaner
Interior including seats cleaned with HD Total
Seats followed up with Meguiars Gold Class Leather Cleaner/Conditioner
Carpet and headliner wiped down with Folex
HD Dress on rubber seals and wheel wells
Tires dressed with Meguiars Endurance Tire Gel
On to the pictures....As I said before, the outside was in good shape, so no dramatic before/afters:
There was a lot of left over dried wax like this all over the car:
The interior looked decent from 10 ft. away, but once you got up close and the cleaning started, you could see how dirty it actually was. All the leather took a bit longer than I anticipated, but HD Total did a good job of getting things cleaned up:
50/50:
Better:
Cleanup of the tires and wheel wells made a huge difference
AIO of choice....good stuff:
Paint had some minor marring and swirls, but they were hit and miss and you had to really look for it
You can see in this picture it's cleaned up on the right light:
