Questions before a detail...

[Zuke]

Tonight Im cleaning up a ladies Navigator before she trades it in. I plan on claying tonight, however I will only have it for 6 hours tonight. I have already looked @ the condition on the paint and its not too bad. Def needs to be clayed, swirls all over but not anything out of normal. She does have a few areas that need to be worked out with some M80 or even 105/205. I won't have time to apply any of them to the whole vehicle, and was wondering how many of you will simply wash/clay/wash/wax and only treat larger scratches rather than the whole vehicle. Input? Thanks!

[Murr1525]

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For a trade in, most dealers wont care about a few swirls, more about the heavier scratches. There would be nothing wrong with treating the scratches, then cleaner/waxing everything.

Frankly even the claying is kind of optional for a trade in.... tell her you will clay her new car.

[Hemin8r]

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Try some #66 if you have some. Should clean it up farely well. I agree with Murr1525 on the claying too.

[Michael Stoops]

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In 6 hours you should be able to make some pretty good headway with this process:

• Wash
• Clay just the horizontal surfaces
• Spot treat the worst scratches with ScratchX 2.0, Ultimate Compound or similar
• Go over entire vehicle with G110/W8207 and M66 or D151 for a good cleaning/waxing in one step

You obviously won't have a show car shine at that point, but you'll maximize your time with the vehicle and make it look better than probably 90% of those traded in.

[Zuke]

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Thanks for the tips.
I have the following...

M105/M205/M80/SwirlX/UC

Also I have a sample bottle of the cleaner wax...All this will be used with my G110

[Eddie6th]

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If it's a trade in,I wouldn't bother with the swirls.The dealers would have a cheek to say anything.They normaly create half of them.

[Tuck91]

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make sure to dress the trim and tires, makes it look new and not faded

[agp423]

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Unless the car is covered in grease and dirt inside and out, the dealer won't care at all. They only care what's going on under the hood.

[J. A. Michaels]

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I would go with a all in one. Saves time and like #151 has enough cut to remove moderate swirls. I have also had very good success with #66. Both work great.

[Zuke]

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Haha Tuck! The king on dressings! I've got ya covered there, I am starting to think a gallon of the D151 should have been on the ol ADS order....

[CieraSL]

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I'd try to cut down time spent on the interior, that way you can spend a little more time on the exterior. You could do something like Color X on the exterior and top it with NXT 2.0. Don't know if that's feasible for you or if you'll have the time for that. But that's what I would suggest, anyway.

[Zuke]

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Yeah well she has leather seats that need to be attended too so im afraid that might eat up some time. I think i will speed clay, touch up on the scratches, then use some cleaner wax i have. Dress tire with ASD and hope there are not too many fries in the seats hehe. Because this will be a trade in should I worry about the engine? Im only charging her $100, but want her to get her money's worth. The thing is kinda worse than i stated, hopefully pictures will be up tonight