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This past weekend it was decided between my brother and I that it was time to polish his car. The car had previously had klasse sealant which was still sheeting ok after 7 1/2 months. The beading was not as tight. This time it was decided to go with all Meguiar's because I wanted to show him that he could achieve great results with what he had. In addition to that it was some hands on training since he picked up a harbor freight DA. This was an interior and exterior detail. We spent a total of about 11 hours spread out between Saturday and Sunday.
We also played around a little with M7 and it was my first time using it. Read up on how to apply it so I knew waht to expect. It went smooth and I had a good experience using it.
I didn't take a lot of photos because we wanted to get this done. This is what we used on the entire car.
Saturday the car was washed. It was clayed using a couple nanoskin autoscrub sponges along with D155 last touch as clay lube. While he was claying I was dressing the trim with wolfgang's trim sealant. We then proceeding onto a test spot with ultimate polish on a white lake country polishing pad. That gave us good results. So we proceeding to polishing the car with UP making sure it was cleaning up the light to moderate swirls on the car. My brother got the hang of using a DA after I gave him a brief how to. He did a great job for his first time. The hood and the passenger side fender had some deeper scratches that UP could not get out so I did some spot correcting using M105 (forgot my D300 at home) on a microfiber cutting pad. I followed that up with UP to remove DA haze. Once we were done polishing we applied NXT 2.0. We let it haze and did the swipe test to make sure it was ready to be removed. We let the car sit in the garage overnight and let NXT cure. Before removing NXT I clayed his wheels which I followed up with ultimate polish to make the silver really pop. I sealed the wheels with ultimate wax.
Sunday he cleaned up the interior. He vacuumed it. He used QID to lightly clean the interior rubber and plastics. He followed that up with ultimate protectant. Let that sit for a few min and then gave those areas a light buff to remove any excess product. On all leather he used Gold Class leather & vinyl cleaner followed by the sealer from the leather sealer system. While he was doing that I gave M7 a test spot followed by M26 to see how it looked. He liked the warm wet look so I proceeding on with glazing. He followed me with M26. We let that haze for about 15 min and used the swipe test to make sure it was ready to be removed. I dressed the tires and he cleaned up the exhaust tips. Once we were all done with the exterior he moved it out of the garage to use the new air refresher odor eliminator.
Not bad for a car that is 11 years old. After all this work it looks better than some of the newer cars
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Onto the photos.
Interior (no photos were taken)
Vacuumed
Quick interior detailer
Ultimate protectant
Gold Class Leather & Vinyl cleaner
Gold Class Leather sealer system sealer
Air Refresher Odor Eliminator
Exterior:
Exhaust Tips - Heavy cut metal polish
Wheels - D143, Clayed, ultimate polish, ultimate wax.
Tires - D143, Turtle wax's new jet black endure-shine tire coating. Not to be confused with the black tire coat. Testing this out.
Headlights - Polished with UP, IPA, Ultimate wax
Glass - clayed, mothers water spot remover along with a 4" lake country white polishing pad to remove water spots, sealed with D156
Exterior - Washed, clayed using nanoskin autoscrub sponge + D155 Last Touch as clay lube, ultimate polish, M105 + MF cutting pad (spot correction)
Exterior LSP - NXT 2.0, M7, M26 in this order
This was what we were up against on the entire car. There were some areas that could have used some compounding but UP did a nice job of making them look better.
Before
After
All done
Factory orange peel
Wheels and tires
Hope you can see the water spots
Before
After
We also played around a little with M7 and it was my first time using it. Read up on how to apply it so I knew waht to expect. It went smooth and I had a good experience using it.
I didn't take a lot of photos because we wanted to get this done. This is what we used on the entire car.
Saturday the car was washed. It was clayed using a couple nanoskin autoscrub sponges along with D155 last touch as clay lube. While he was claying I was dressing the trim with wolfgang's trim sealant. We then proceeding onto a test spot with ultimate polish on a white lake country polishing pad. That gave us good results. So we proceeding to polishing the car with UP making sure it was cleaning up the light to moderate swirls on the car. My brother got the hang of using a DA after I gave him a brief how to. He did a great job for his first time. The hood and the passenger side fender had some deeper scratches that UP could not get out so I did some spot correcting using M105 (forgot my D300 at home) on a microfiber cutting pad. I followed that up with UP to remove DA haze. Once we were done polishing we applied NXT 2.0. We let it haze and did the swipe test to make sure it was ready to be removed. We let the car sit in the garage overnight and let NXT cure. Before removing NXT I clayed his wheels which I followed up with ultimate polish to make the silver really pop. I sealed the wheels with ultimate wax.
Sunday he cleaned up the interior. He vacuumed it. He used QID to lightly clean the interior rubber and plastics. He followed that up with ultimate protectant. Let that sit for a few min and then gave those areas a light buff to remove any excess product. On all leather he used Gold Class leather & vinyl cleaner followed by the sealer from the leather sealer system. While he was doing that I gave M7 a test spot followed by M26 to see how it looked. He liked the warm wet look so I proceeding on with glazing. He followed me with M26. We let that haze for about 15 min and used the swipe test to make sure it was ready to be removed. I dressed the tires and he cleaned up the exhaust tips. Once we were all done with the exterior he moved it out of the garage to use the new air refresher odor eliminator.
Not bad for a car that is 11 years old. After all this work it looks better than some of the newer cars
. Onto the photos.
Interior (no photos were taken)
Vacuumed
Quick interior detailer
Ultimate protectant
Gold Class Leather & Vinyl cleaner
Gold Class Leather sealer system sealer
Air Refresher Odor Eliminator
Exterior:
Exhaust Tips - Heavy cut metal polish
Wheels - D143, Clayed, ultimate polish, ultimate wax.
Tires - D143, Turtle wax's new jet black endure-shine tire coating. Not to be confused with the black tire coat. Testing this out.
Headlights - Polished with UP, IPA, Ultimate wax
Glass - clayed, mothers water spot remover along with a 4" lake country white polishing pad to remove water spots, sealed with D156
Exterior - Washed, clayed using nanoskin autoscrub sponge + D155 Last Touch as clay lube, ultimate polish, M105 + MF cutting pad (spot correction)
Exterior LSP - NXT 2.0, M7, M26 in this order
This was what we were up against on the entire car. There were some areas that could have used some compounding but UP did a nice job of making them look better.
Before
After
All done
Factory orange peel
Wheels and tires
Hope you can see the water spots
Before
After
.
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