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Black Mercedes CL 550 - M205 + M20
This wasn't a full detail like I usually do, but instead the owner had some scuffs and deep scratches taken care of, and then a light polish to add some gloss and seal it up.
The paint had quite a few swirls and was filthy when I got started. I didn't get any pictures of the dirt worth posting, but who cares...anyone can wash a car
Here are some before shots on the swirls:
Here are the nasty scuffs as found in my chip repair thread :
Here is a pretty nasty scuff/scratch that I wasn't so sure would buff out (could feel it with your nail to a degree), but with rotary + 4 inch LC orange + Meg's M105 (new formula) it was gone in 2 passes.
I did not get a specific shot of that location afterward, but you will have to trust me it was 100% gone
Here is a minor scuff- nothing major, buffed out with M205 only.
General after shots. By the time I finished it was 6:00 PM and no matter what I did I could not get an angle with true, direct sun. To be honest, it still had some swirls..but the pictures do a good job (true) of showing what it would look like in anything but absolute direct short sun...the swirls were all but gone (Not bad for M205 on the FLEX for a single pass with Lake Country white pads)
In the end I sealed her up with a single pass of Meguiar's M20 cleaner polymer wax- easily my favorite cleaner wax ever in the history of the world. It goes on and comes off SOOOO easily. After a long, hard detail- it's just what the doctor ordered.
I applied the M20 with a G110 and a 7 inch black finishing 2.0 pad. (All my other Meguiar's finishing pads were dirty, so that's why I had to save this for the wax, and use a Lake Country white pad for the M205 polishing...)
The paint had quite a few swirls and was filthy when I got started. I didn't get any pictures of the dirt worth posting, but who cares...anyone can wash a car
Here are some before shots on the swirls:
Here are the nasty scuffs as found in my chip repair thread :
Here is a pretty nasty scuff/scratch that I wasn't so sure would buff out (could feel it with your nail to a degree), but with rotary + 4 inch LC orange + Meg's M105 (new formula) it was gone in 2 passes.
I did not get a specific shot of that location afterward, but you will have to trust me it was 100% gone
Here is a minor scuff- nothing major, buffed out with M205 only.
General after shots. By the time I finished it was 6:00 PM and no matter what I did I could not get an angle with true, direct sun. To be honest, it still had some swirls..but the pictures do a good job (true) of showing what it would look like in anything but absolute direct short sun...the swirls were all but gone (Not bad for M205 on the FLEX for a single pass with Lake Country white pads)
In the end I sealed her up with a single pass of Meguiar's M20 cleaner polymer wax- easily my favorite cleaner wax ever in the history of the world. It goes on and comes off SOOOO easily. After a long, hard detail- it's just what the doctor ordered.
I applied the M20 with a G110 and a 7 inch black finishing 2.0 pad. (All my other Meguiar's finishing pads were dirty, so that's why I had to save this for the wax, and use a Lake Country white pad for the M205 polishing...)
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