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I realize lots of people here do detailing for a living or are involved with the industry in one way or the other. That’s fine, but for us weekenders who just want to get our vehicles looking good here are my observations (both good and bad) from my first attempt at a full detail of my wife’s Civic using the Meguiar’s G110;
- I started out washing the car with GC car shampoo. I really like this as it suds nicely and has a good aroma. I just use an ordinary twist to open/close home depot nozzle. It does its job of applying water to the car. I had read that to facilitate drying the car, to remove said nozzle and run water over the car to “sheet” the water off the car. Well, that means I have to go over to the facet and turn the water off to remove the nozzle then turn the water back on and then apply water to sheet it off. That didn’t work as well as I hoped. I think I had in on too much. I did come up with a gimmick for the “turn water off, take nozzle off, turn H2O on” issue. I used a ball valve that I poached from our hand garden sprinkler and installed the nozzle onto that, that way I can shut off the water at the hose.
- Clay, I used the classic clay bar kit and went through one of the small bars in the kit to get her car clean. Having seen the “how to” DVD for the P.C. helped to shape and hang on to the clay and I never dropped it. You want it sticky to your hand so you don’t drop it. If all you do is flip it over now your hand slides and you’ll probably drop it. So rather than doing that, I would knead it again to maintain a sticky side to my hand. As I finished claying an area, I would wipe the excess lube off w/ a MF. Once the whole car was done, I used last touch and a fresh MF to remove any residual clay, lube or dirt prior to applying the cleaner/polish.
- I'm crafty, but not good at crafts.
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