UPDATE ON PAGE 3
First up, the ones to be sold.
The owner told me they were pretty dirty and definately needed work. Definately had to agree with that statement, whole heartedly. I do appreciate the honesty of customers like that though. Most would just say, "Oh they're not too bad, just need a good coat of wax". He didn't want clay or intensive polishing, just a solid spruce up.
Anyways, the first up was a 99/00 (not exactly sure) Accord Coupe in V6 trim with leather and the whole 9. Its lowered with a lip kit and some other tasteful mods. The whole front nose was in an accident early on and had a bad repaint. The clear on the hood and a-pillars was checking pretty bad and the front bumper was sandblasted to high hell. The paint in general was filthy. Lots of swirls, water spots, sap and tar deposits, oxidation, and everything in between. I didn't get any post washing/pre polishing pics, but when I washed it, the car didn't look much better than the before pics. I had my work cut out for me on this one.
Note: I made a custom mix for the leather, vinyl, rubber, and plastic... I had a few products that I was running out of so I combined them all in hopes they'd do the trick. This mix was successful and I was happy. It left a soft sheen, soft feel, and completely dry to the touch. The mix is: 4 parts Optimum Tire Dressing (new build), 2 parts Poorboy's Bold n Bright , and 1 part Adam's VRT. Let's called it 'OptiBright VRT'.
Interior was pretty simple and the final processes were:
-Folex to clean vinyl, plastic, rubber, leather, and carpets
-OptiBright VRT on vinyl, plastic, rubber, and leather
-APC to degrease jams, then QD'd
-Klasse AIO on wood
Exterior final processes:
-NXT wash mixed with 4 oz of Costco APC
-Meguiar's Wheel Brightener to clean wheels, tires, and wells
-Wheels got OCW
-Tires got OptiBright VRT
-Wells got Optimum Tire Dressing cut 50/50
-Klasse AIO/Optimum via rotary and LC Polishing Pad @ 1500 rpm (laid 2 equal beads next to each other and buffed. This was done to mix cleaning and polishing abilities.)
-OCW x 2 by hand
Before
After
Before
After
First up, the ones to be sold.
The owner told me they were pretty dirty and definately needed work. Definately had to agree with that statement, whole heartedly. I do appreciate the honesty of customers like that though. Most would just say, "Oh they're not too bad, just need a good coat of wax". He didn't want clay or intensive polishing, just a solid spruce up.
Anyways, the first up was a 99/00 (not exactly sure) Accord Coupe in V6 trim with leather and the whole 9. Its lowered with a lip kit and some other tasteful mods. The whole front nose was in an accident early on and had a bad repaint. The clear on the hood and a-pillars was checking pretty bad and the front bumper was sandblasted to high hell. The paint in general was filthy. Lots of swirls, water spots, sap and tar deposits, oxidation, and everything in between. I didn't get any post washing/pre polishing pics, but when I washed it, the car didn't look much better than the before pics. I had my work cut out for me on this one.
Note: I made a custom mix for the leather, vinyl, rubber, and plastic... I had a few products that I was running out of so I combined them all in hopes they'd do the trick. This mix was successful and I was happy. It left a soft sheen, soft feel, and completely dry to the touch. The mix is: 4 parts Optimum Tire Dressing (new build), 2 parts Poorboy's Bold n Bright , and 1 part Adam's VRT. Let's called it 'OptiBright VRT'.
Interior was pretty simple and the final processes were:
-Folex to clean vinyl, plastic, rubber, leather, and carpets
-OptiBright VRT on vinyl, plastic, rubber, and leather
-APC to degrease jams, then QD'd
-Klasse AIO on wood
Exterior final processes:
-NXT wash mixed with 4 oz of Costco APC
-Meguiar's Wheel Brightener to clean wheels, tires, and wells
-Wheels got OCW
-Tires got OptiBright VRT
-Wells got Optimum Tire Dressing cut 50/50
-Klasse AIO/Optimum via rotary and LC Polishing Pad @ 1500 rpm (laid 2 equal beads next to each other and buffed. This was done to mix cleaning and polishing abilities.)
-OCW x 2 by hand
Before
After
Before
After
. Even moreso, there was plenty of damage on the body and interior, oh well.
. Finals:
but nice job!