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Shane.belzers

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My jeweler wants me to do his cars asap at his place of business. I know my way around a car but am used to a completely different setting than doing a parking lot mobile detail. Looking for some of you mobile pros to give me any pointer or tips i.e. scottwax ;)



So he has two Mercedes one is a sedan the other a suv i don't know model or color i have to give him a jingle and get details and talk prices. From talking with him briefly the other day he seems to want the full detail on his sedan and more of an interior love on his wifes SUV. Im assuming both are black btw.



Some things im concerned about. I have ONRWW and love it. My concern is im used to a full wash bay where i can soap and scrub smaller crevices/ areas. With ONR how does one clean these area's? I have the wheel woolies and pretty much every other detail brush you can think of ( im a brush whore ;) ) Also since i probably wont have water how does one go about engine and wheels... Ill have OPC and ONR as well as my other chemicals from auto magic.



Also on his im going to most likely be doing an AIO on the exterior or selling him a 1-step then premium LSP like poxy or opti-seal. Which would you guys go for for better correcting AIO, speed or GPS i have both, If he goes for the 1 step, i have HD polish, OPT hyper polish, and finish polish. and i have UNO so im good there if he goes that route.



Lastly, and sorry for the rant i sound like a newb. But for prepping for polish or wax do you guys ONR>clay>ONR or what? Im used to my speedy prep mitt in the wash bay so.. Im assuming i could ONR then clay and be good right.
 
i could do that as well, but the way we use that is in a full wash bay. Im only bringing ONR with so doing a full exterior with just that is out of my comfort zone. Thats why i was curious how others using ONR work they're prep stage in?
 
My normal process for this thing is:



Onr wash

nano skin medium grade towel (optimum fine grade sponge if the paint is in great shape

polish

dress wheel wells, tires

seal or wax

windows





I just use the ONR to clean the wheels/wheel wells after the wash.



If the wheels are really bad you can use APC/wheel cleaner, then rinse off with the ONR solution.



Hopefully this helps
 
My usual process is something like this for a car in decent condition:



ONR wash

While it's still wet spray with ONR in lube dilution and clay (panel by panel if it's hot out, whole car if it's cool out)

Door, hood and trunk jambs with ONR.

Wheel wells with APC and dress.

Wheels with APC or just ONR if not too bad.

Dress tires

Polish (or AIO)

Windows

LSP



And a few other things that may be needed for a particular car like metal polish, tree sap removal or whatever thrown in there somewhere.



When I'm doing polish/lsp, I will do the windows after polish and before LSP. If doing AIO, I do windows first. This way if I get window cleaner on the paint there's no worry about it taking off the LSP. But if I get some AIO on a clean window it wipes right off.
 
Thanks guys, not that i dont have my methods this would just be my first ONR on site type of detail so there were some grey areas for me.



So richard, when you say still wet you mean after you wipe the panel with your ONR soaked MF or hand mitt? and before you would dry correct.



I will have my other stuff with, solvents, tree sap remover, OPT metal polish.
 
Shane.belzers said:
Thanks guys, not that i dont have my methods this would just be my first ONR on site type of detail so there were some grey areas for me.



So richard, when you say still wet you mean after you wipe the panel with your ONR soaked MF or hand mitt? and before you would dry correct.



I will have my other stuff with, solvents, tree sap remover, OPT metal polish.
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I use a MF soaked in ONR, clean the panel and then go over it again with another ONR wetted MF to make sure there's no grit to get stuck in the clay and cause scratches, then spray it down with ONR in lube dilution and clay the panel without drying in between. Much more efficient than drying the panel, wetting it again to clay it, then drying again. But if it's something where I need to be 120% sure there's no dirt left on the surface before I clay like if the car is really dirty with caked on crud, then I will dry the panel before I lube and clay it.
 
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