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My 2007 Honda S2000
My victim: my 2007 black Honda S2000, affectionately named "Luthien." Readers of the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien will recognize the name.
I attended to the interior detail during the week preceding. Products used:
M40 Vinyl & Rubber Cleaner/Conditioner
Gold Class Leather & Conditioner
Shin-Etsu silicone grease (for the rubber body seals)
Quick Interior Detailer
The exterior detail, executed this weekend, did not go quite as planned. I had hoped that I would be able to do a full exterior detail, including paint correction with my D/A polisher, attempting to employ everything I have learned from MOL. Unfortunately, my new polisher died within the first five minutes of polishing, so I had to move to plan B. But I had no plan B. What a bummer!
After I got over the misery and depression, I decided that I would finally try the M07 polish that's been sitting on my shelf the past two months.
Products used:
Turtle Ice Car Wash
Raggtopp Fabric/Vinyl Cleaner (for the vinyl convertible top)
Gold Class All Wheel Cleaner
Hot Rims Chrome Polish (for the exhaust tips)
Meguiar's Detailing Clay (consumer line)
M105 (attempted spot scratch and mar removal, applied by hand)
M07 Show Car Glaze
PlastX (front and rear lights)
NXT Generation Tech Wax 2.0 (two coats)
Gold Class Trim Detailer
Stoner's Invisible Glass
Hot Shine Tire Gel
I must say that I really enjoyed #7. I had been hesitant to use it, after reading of the difficulties some have experienced in removing it; but I had no problems, thanks largely to the instruction given by Mike Phillips in an Autopia article.
Even without the machine polishing, I spent at least ten hours on the exterior detail. I do not know if the results meet up to MOL standards, but I am certainly happy. I confess that I simply enjoy the process of detailing. Someone here on MOL described detailing as his zen experience. I agree. Perhaps someone should write a book on detailing spirituality.
Please take a look at the pics. I regret I was not able to attempt the removal of the many swirls ... but alas, it was not to be. But I did as well as I could. I welcome all suggestions for improvement! --Al
I attended to the interior detail during the week preceding. Products used:
M40 Vinyl & Rubber Cleaner/Conditioner
Gold Class Leather & Conditioner
Shin-Etsu silicone grease (for the rubber body seals)
Quick Interior Detailer
The exterior detail, executed this weekend, did not go quite as planned. I had hoped that I would be able to do a full exterior detail, including paint correction with my D/A polisher, attempting to employ everything I have learned from MOL. Unfortunately, my new polisher died within the first five minutes of polishing, so I had to move to plan B. But I had no plan B. What a bummer!
After I got over the misery and depression, I decided that I would finally try the M07 polish that's been sitting on my shelf the past two months.
Products used:
Turtle Ice Car Wash
Raggtopp Fabric/Vinyl Cleaner (for the vinyl convertible top)
Gold Class All Wheel Cleaner
Hot Rims Chrome Polish (for the exhaust tips)
Meguiar's Detailing Clay (consumer line)
M105 (attempted spot scratch and mar removal, applied by hand)
M07 Show Car Glaze
PlastX (front and rear lights)
NXT Generation Tech Wax 2.0 (two coats)
Gold Class Trim Detailer
Stoner's Invisible Glass
Hot Shine Tire Gel
I must say that I really enjoyed #7. I had been hesitant to use it, after reading of the difficulties some have experienced in removing it; but I had no problems, thanks largely to the instruction given by Mike Phillips in an Autopia article.
Even without the machine polishing, I spent at least ten hours on the exterior detail. I do not know if the results meet up to MOL standards, but I am certainly happy. I confess that I simply enjoy the process of detailing. Someone here on MOL described detailing as his zen experience. I agree. Perhaps someone should write a book on detailing spirituality.
Please take a look at the pics. I regret I was not able to attempt the removal of the many swirls ... but alas, it was not to be. But I did as well as I could. I welcome all suggestions for improvement! --Al
If only we could mass produce a tool named "Akimel" we would have a winner on our hands! 
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