Getting a White car to shine like this..

[Yosheego]

I saw this video made by someone using Wolfgang products...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD73Zyi-8do&feature=youtu.be

Am I able to achieve this on my car? =D

[Shawn Devlin]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

Very nice work by the owner of that Mini. The notes state that Wolfgang Finishing Glaze was used prior to the sealant and wax, which is actually rebottled Menzerna 106FA (SuperFinish). 106FA is great finishing polish that I have used quite often, including on my non-metallic white daily driver and the gloss it provides is outstanding. I am willing to wager the paint in that video would look equally impressive if captured after the polishing step without any protection/LSP applied.

[STRIFE]

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I have 2 white cars myself...I can tell ya, both my white cars do look like that Mini.
I use pretty much Megs products (wash soap/ wax/ spray wax/detailer) and I really don't think the more $$$ you spend will get you better results. My 2005 G35, if you look pass the rock chips on the front bumper....you'd think the car just rolled off the dealership lot. (my G will be 7 yr old in a few months)

[Yosheego]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

Very nice work by the owner of that Mini. The notes state that Wolfgang Finishing Glaze was used prior to the sealant and wax, which is actually rebottled Menzerna 106FA (SuperFinish). 106FA is great finishing polish that I have used quite often, including on my non-metallic white daily driver and the gloss it provides is outstanding. I am willing to wager the paint in that video would look equally impressive if captured after the polishing step without any protection/LSP applied.

The Wolfgang Finishing Glaze...similiar to the #7?

[davey g-force]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

I saw this video made by someone using Wolfgang products...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD73Zyi-8do&feature=youtu.be

Am I able to achieve this on my car? =D

Of course you can!

Well, you haven't told us what condition your paint is in, but in general I'd say yes. Especially on a newer car like that Mini.

And Meguiars has all the products to achieve it..

[Mark58]

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As I was told by one of the best Professionals here and other sites that 99% is in prep work. Most of the pros would not be able to tell difference between $100. lsp or $20.00.

[SVT Lightning]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..



This is a silver forrester...all Megs.

[Yosheego]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

Of course you can!

Well, you haven't told us what condition your paint is in, but in general I'd say yes. Especially on a newer car like that Mini.

And Meguiars has all the products to achieve it..

hehe, my car is pretty new. about 6 months? has light scratches and swirls.

[Michael Stoops]

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Of course you can...... with the right technique. The best, most expensive products in the world won't get the job done on their own, and if a vehicle has a lot of swirls and other defects even a $6000 wax (yes, such a thing does exist) won't make it look like a full concours prep was done on it.

We did this white Chrysler Crossfire a couple of years ago in our garage here at work, with only 3 hours available to us! If we would have had all day we could have improved the final look even more, but with limited time you can only do so much.

[Bjkearns]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

Tomorrow my white paint is going to the next level

someone very well known is going to be coming over to the house and we are going to work the paint

[Yosheego]

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Looking forward to the results!

[Bjkearns]

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it should be real nice

[Bjkearns]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

They say white is boring
I say it is clean,classy, and always in style

This is a single stage white German paint on a car that is quickly approaching 2 decades old and has over 110,XXX



before any 21 was applied
sorry about the picture quality
hack with a point and shoot,cloudy day and dying camera battery

[mb911]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

White paint can look INCREDIBLE on a car with beautiful lines. It really shows off every curve.

The only time it doesn't look good is if a car's shape is really ugly (shows all those curves) or black primer is showing through from chips/scuffs.

Otherwise, it sure looks striking like these videos and images.


Bjkearns - Did you use microfiber pad with the compound? Did you use microfiber with the M205 too, or a foam pad?

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Getting a White car to shine like this..

Unfortunately, Joseph's pictures of his '93 BMW 3 Series don't really show the true shine of this car. He had asked me to take a look at the finish on his car and make some recommendations, but since he lives pretty close to me I offered to come by on Saturday and help him out. This is original, 1993 vintage, factory single stage white paint folks! For being 19 years old it not only looks really good, it is downright amazing. Yes, there are some deeper rids in this paint that would probably take some wet sanding to remove, but we weren't going to get that deep into this project. The car is, after all, a daily driver.

Close inspection of the paint revealed a lot of water spots and fine swirls down the sides of the vertical panels and some light swirling and oxidation throughout the finish. All in all, it looked fairly fantastic for it's age, but we knew it could look quite a bit better. Some quick experimentation showed that the DA Microfiber Correction System was going to be the ticket, at least for part of the job. D300 on the cutting disc removed the water spots and fine swirls, but it left a very noticeable haze to the paint. That haze cleaned up pretty easily, and since Joseph wanted to really take this paint up a big notch, we decided that he would D300 it with his DA and I would follow with M205 via rotary on a foam finishing pad. The result was fantastic, and in pretty short order, too.

So Joseph then says that he's recently acquired some M07 Show Car Glaze and was interested in using it on this car. Now, the general consensus is that pure polishes on very light colored cars don't really show a whole lot, but we decided to give it a bit of a go anyway. Besides, the paint felt pretty dry as we were working on it so this certainly wasn't going to hurt anything. We must say, however, that we were very pleasantly surprised at just how much more glow and shine the paint had following an application of M07! Finally topping it with M21 really sealed the deal (pun intended). Joseph, we're hoping you followed through and gave the car a second coat of M21 sometime on Sunday?????