norahcrv
I wish . . .
As many of you already saw, http://www.detailcity.org/forums/al.../18510-plastic-still-new-car-please-help.html my son bought his first NEW car on Wednesday & took delivery with the plastic intact. His plan was to have Mom detail it for him this weekend, MY plan was to teach him to detail it this weekend! 
Still on the dealer lot with EXPLICIT instructions . . .
. . . which apparently were not quite EXPLICIT enough
Home in the garage before the first wash
Saturday was a busy day, doing the final cleaning of & turning the 1985 Honda Civic Wagon over to his new owner – here’s a shot of him just before he left home.
That is all original paint, he has never seen the inside of a body shop & the only insurance claim was for a new windshield when the old one got hit by a ricocheting bullet in 2000. Needless to say, the new owner (who made a FULL price offer with no bargaining
) was really pleased with the condition of the car.
Sunday morning, when we started work, the garage was only 92 & we had fans blowing to keep the air moving & use our individual built-in “evaporative cooling systems”.
We had washed the car on Wednesday p.m. (actually @ 1 a.m. Thursday) using the foam gun & PB’s SS’nS. I did remove most of the plastic from the hood on Saturday, but there was still plenty to be done. We went to work removing the remainder of the plastic. Thanks for all your tips & suggestions. It peeled off quite easily (kind of like a very thin layer of Saran Wrap), & the remnants about the edges were removed with PB’s Bug Squash & a plush microfiber. Then I went about the car “feeling” the paint with my hand in a baggie. Even to my bare hand, I could feel no roughness or imbedded contaminants whatsoever, so decided to forego claying at this time.
Given that this car came off the line in Japan @ 04/18 & the horror stories I have heard about Honda’s now having a very soft paint, I wanted to be as gentle with the paint as possible, while still maximizing the results & giving it some protection.
It was also an opportunity to try out my new Edge Pads & adaptor. I’ll admit, that it took me a while to figure out how to remove the pad from the adaptor (ok, I had to ask Bryce to help me!), but fortunately it was a “dry” practice & once he showed me that the trick was to push down on the center of the adaptor through the hole in the pad, I was set to go with my white pads . . .
Still on the dealer lot with EXPLICIT instructions . . .
. . . which apparently were not quite EXPLICIT enough
Home in the garage before the first wash
Saturday was a busy day, doing the final cleaning of & turning the 1985 Honda Civic Wagon over to his new owner – here’s a shot of him just before he left home.
That is all original paint, he has never seen the inside of a body shop & the only insurance claim was for a new windshield when the old one got hit by a ricocheting bullet in 2000. Needless to say, the new owner (who made a FULL price offer with no bargaining
) was really pleased with the condition of the car.Sunday morning, when we started work, the garage was only 92 & we had fans blowing to keep the air moving & use our individual built-in “evaporative cooling systems”.
We had washed the car on Wednesday p.m. (actually @ 1 a.m. Thursday) using the foam gun & PB’s SS’nS. I did remove most of the plastic from the hood on Saturday, but there was still plenty to be done. We went to work removing the remainder of the plastic. Thanks for all your tips & suggestions. It peeled off quite easily (kind of like a very thin layer of Saran Wrap), & the remnants about the edges were removed with PB’s Bug Squash & a plush microfiber. Then I went about the car “feeling” the paint with my hand in a baggie. Even to my bare hand, I could feel no roughness or imbedded contaminants whatsoever, so decided to forego claying at this time.
Given that this car came off the line in Japan @ 04/18 & the horror stories I have heard about Honda’s now having a very soft paint, I wanted to be as gentle with the paint as possible, while still maximizing the results & giving it some protection.
It was also an opportunity to try out my new Edge Pads & adaptor. I’ll admit, that it took me a while to figure out how to remove the pad from the adaptor (ok, I had to ask Bryce to help me!), but fortunately it was a “dry” practice & once he showed me that the trick was to push down on the center of the adaptor through the hole in the pad, I was set to go with my white pads . . .
