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So as I was saying in the detailing by hand forum, I am doing my wifes black Focus and as of right now it's kicking my rear end! I washed and clayed it almost a month ago and did a test on the Ultimate Compound. It did diminish the swirls a good deal but there were still some staring back at me with a cheese eatn' grin 
Since it's nice out today I decided to try to finish it off. I got off to a late start since we had running around to do. After taking a trip to the carwah....my only resource at this point.....I pulled my car under some nice shade...a tree...with bored birds
and I began the daunting task to rid this car of the swirls, RIDS, scratches, and........
if ya know what I mean!!
My method to the madness was this;
Ultimate Compound, 3 passess with plenty of passion....only 3 'cause I didn't want to burn myself out. DEFINATELY a noticible difference but there are still scratches and swirls.
M07, 2 thin passess, light pressure. again a big improvment and it seems to have knocked out a few more swirls.
NXT 2.0 liquid, 2 more passes about 45 minutes apart. In the shade it's dang near mirror perfect......but not professional perfect.
I only was able to complete the front right fender and right door completely. Started at 2 and finished at 7:30....pregnant wife wanted ice cream.....pregnant wife gets ice cream!
Here are the pics!
I needed my wings....plus some jets for my wings....and you can't go wrong with some H2O.
I messed around with the bumper a bit with UC x3 passes. Befores and 50/50's
NASTY!!!
Practice makes perfect!.....Gotta keep practicing!
My enemies!
50/50's..ish
Fender swirls greatly reduced.
Up close.
Sweet reflections!
Knocking it out!
In the sun.
Yeah I got a little careless..
Fixed it! Gotta love GC Trim Detailer!
This was a sign that it was time to call it quits for the night. They tore the car up....at least 10 impacts and then this....
Tomarrow I'm gonna try to take a crack at the hood and knock out whats left on the right side....and start on the left side if there's any time left.
Here's the current condition of the hood.
Well that's it for tonight.
I'll update again tomarrow!
Since it's nice out today I decided to try to finish it off. I got off to a late start since we had running around to do. After taking a trip to the carwah....my only resource at this point.....I pulled my car under some nice shade...a tree...with bored birds
and I began the daunting task to rid this car of the swirls, RIDS, scratches, and........ if ya know what I mean!!My method to the madness was this;
Ultimate Compound, 3 passess with plenty of passion....only 3 'cause I didn't want to burn myself out. DEFINATELY a noticible difference but there are still scratches and swirls.
M07, 2 thin passess, light pressure. again a big improvment and it seems to have knocked out a few more swirls.
NXT 2.0 liquid, 2 more passes about 45 minutes apart. In the shade it's dang near mirror perfect......but not professional perfect.
I only was able to complete the front right fender and right door completely. Started at 2 and finished at 7:30....pregnant wife wanted ice cream.....pregnant wife gets ice cream!
Here are the pics!
I needed my wings....plus some jets for my wings....and you can't go wrong with some H2O.
I messed around with the bumper a bit with UC x3 passes. Befores and 50/50's
NASTY!!!
Practice makes perfect!.....Gotta keep practicing!
My enemies!
50/50's..ish
Fender swirls greatly reduced.
Up close.
Sweet reflections!
Knocking it out!
In the sun.
Yeah I got a little careless..
Fixed it! Gotta love GC Trim Detailer!
This was a sign that it was time to call it quits for the night. They tore the car up....at least 10 impacts and then this....
Tomarrow I'm gonna try to take a crack at the hood and knock out whats left on the right side....and start on the left side if there's any time left.
Here's the current condition of the hood.
Well that's it for tonight.
I'll update again tomarrow!
So far I think things are going smooth for me, no real problems except the front bumper is shot, it's pitted everywhere from bugs, stones, rocks and whatever else has been thrown at it.
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