Today I did my first real "detail" on an 11 year old Nissan Micra..
The car belongs to a girlfriend and has severe damage, paint was rough as sandpaper, on the hood there was some "sticker residu", scuff marks on the driver side door and roof and hood were as dull as red paint can be...
Before :
First I washed, washed and washed again using Zymol autoshampoo, wool was mitt, MC2 orange clean, OXO brushes...
Then I clayed (x2) with Swissol Clay bar and QD, after 5 minutes I changed that to water+soap because the bottle QD was emptying at high rate !!
I used my FLEX rotary polisher, together with the SONUS DAS pad kit and SFX 1-2-3...
In the beginning, the paint was so rough that the polisher skipped and hopped all the way but after a few passes things became much easier.
This was also my first real polsh with the rotary, still need some things to learn tough, because the SFX 2 dried too fast and leaves a bubble gum residu.
After trying several combo's of pads and polish it worked much better.
Then sealed off with Turtle wax carnauba wax and did all black plastics with Autoglym bumper care.
Cleaned and de-water-spotted the windows woth vinegar and window-clean spray.
After :
The car belongs to a girlfriend and has severe damage, paint was rough as sandpaper, on the hood there was some "sticker residu", scuff marks on the driver side door and roof and hood were as dull as red paint can be...
Before :
First I washed, washed and washed again using Zymol autoshampoo, wool was mitt, MC2 orange clean, OXO brushes...
Then I clayed (x2) with Swissol Clay bar and QD, after 5 minutes I changed that to water+soap because the bottle QD was emptying at high rate !!
I used my FLEX rotary polisher, together with the SONUS DAS pad kit and SFX 1-2-3...
In the beginning, the paint was so rough that the polisher skipped and hopped all the way but after a few passes things became much easier.
This was also my first real polsh with the rotary, still need some things to learn tough, because the SFX 2 dried too fast and leaves a bubble gum residu.
After trying several combo's of pads and polish it worked much better.
Then sealed off with Turtle wax carnauba wax and did all black plastics with Autoglym bumper care.
Cleaned and de-water-spotted the windows woth vinegar and window-clean spray.
After :