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I'm in the mood to do a write up so figured I'd show some work done with my Griots and D151 and what it's capable of along with an engine detail and a little interior clean up.
This guy hired us to do this detail for his wife. We cut him a pretty good deal and delivered even better results.
Here is a list of products used.
Exterior:
Dawn soap (to strip old wax etc.)
Stanley electric pressure washer
Megs APC 5:1 (for tires)
Megs mild blue clay
Megs D151 Paint Reconditioning Cream (the pink stuff!)
GG DA polisher
LC Orange flat 5.5" pads
LC White flat 5.5" pads
Megs #20 paint sealant
Megs Hyperdressing (tires and engine)
Megs Degreaser 5:1
Interior:
Megs APC
LGM extractor
Megs Ultimate Protectant
So as the title states...the paint was metallic blue...and swirled all to hell...with a few water spots...and to add a little fun to the game it was a nice 107 degrees or so outside
Gotta love Arizona.
So here is a little peak of what we were looking at:
Along with a little of this:
And to top it off, some of this:
So....we washed it down with dawn...sprayed the tires with APC...pressure washed them clean and hit up under the wheel wells and then clayed it.
The tires were nasty...all kinds of stuff gets on them out in the desert, orange suds anyone?
A nice slow pressure washing of them after the APC was applied made them come out nice and clean...then applied Megs HD 2:1 to them and here is how they looked:
The paint was pretty heavily swirled...and was very apparent due to the color.
So i started with a LC white pad...primed it with the KB method and did a test spot.
It turned out well especially for a single pass...I used speed 5 and decent pressure..and here is how it looked before and after:
And after:
This is why i love D151....it really is a TRUE AIO...it cleans the paint...does decent correction and leaves a nice glossy (and smooth) surface. The wax finish is nice but I always top it with a sealant. It's a little extra time but i like to leave knowing i left my customer with some really GOOD and LONG TERM protection.
The drivers side passenger door was a bit more of a pain...i had to break out a LC orange pad to do it first and then go over it with the white. I know it was a 'single pass' job but it just wasn't correcting as much as I WANTED it to be..so it took some extra time but i felt better with the results.
here is the before:
As you can see the swirls are a bit DEEPER than the last photos...and thats why it took a little more of an aggressive approach to get it to presentable condition.
Here it is after:
As you can see a couple RIDS were leftover but the vast majority were removed...and the paint was really glossed up.
I ran into the same thing with the hood. A pass with the white pad didn't 'cut it'...literally...so back to the LC orange i went...
Nope...not pretty at all....but a couple passes later and here is how it turned out:
Again..a couple RIDS...but most of the swirls were removed...
Here is another nice shot of some swirls on the gas tank..
TIP: When taking photos for before and after...a 'marker' of some sort to show the exact spot of the swirls...and the EXACT spot AFTER the swirls are gone is really a big plus. I've seen posts where you see a close up of a spot of paint swirled and then a close up of a spot of paint swirl free...and thats all well and good...but i think showing EXACTLY the same spot really helps to depict the before and after transition that the person doing the detail...and the products/tools used are capable of..and how the final result showed up...
So in the pic above i used the window washing fluid sprayer as my 'marker'...this time I used the gas tank cut out:
Here you can see a ton of swirls...and if you look closely you can see a few deeper scratches too. THIS spot though, only took the white pad with D151 and a single pass to get pretty much full correction:
You can see it not only got rid of the swirls..but also got rid of that horrible hazy look that it had and left a nice bright finish
Now incase you forgot...we had some NICE water spot action going on at the passenger rear quarter panel. You see this community I was working in in Mesa,Az has a nice...lovely water system for the sprinklers. The community has man made lakes all over...and the water from the lakes is used for the ALL the sprinklers for the front yards of all the houses (since all front yards are kept by the HOA). Well this water loves to find ways onto cars lol...and leaves NASTY NASTY water spots. I've done window cleaning for a few people in there who had sprinklers hit their windows and the film left over was SO bad...they just had to replace the window...because the texture of the glass was like a brillo pad....well thats what THIS was:
Well once again...D151 did its job (and so did i if i say so myself ) and here is how it turned out
Water spots! We don't need no stinking water spots!
From water spots to looking like a nice cool pool of water...in the 107 degree heat...this image was a nice one i'll tell you that lol.
Speaking of cool images...the spare tire cover was swirled as well (come on you knew that though didn't you!)....looky looky
But the after shots were beauteous!
Check out the close up....
I call this...my Oasis in the Desert shot:
Cool blue palm tree in the reflection.
All in all the exterior turned out great..but had a sad ending...which i'll tell you about in the end...but for now....BEAUTY SHOTS!
The top gets love too...
Gotta do my pose lol
Hello down there...
Sweet sweet reflections:
This shot was pretty cool
Check out that gloss....from the right!
Slideeeeee to the left...now cha cha yall
(CONTINUED BELOW)...
I'm in the mood to do a write up so figured I'd show some work done with my Griots and D151 and what it's capable of along with an engine detail and a little interior clean up.
This guy hired us to do this detail for his wife. We cut him a pretty good deal and delivered even better results.
Here is a list of products used.
Exterior:
Dawn soap (to strip old wax etc.)
Stanley electric pressure washer
Megs APC 5:1 (for tires)
Megs mild blue clay
Megs D151 Paint Reconditioning Cream (the pink stuff!)
GG DA polisher
LC Orange flat 5.5" pads
LC White flat 5.5" pads
Megs #20 paint sealant
Megs Hyperdressing (tires and engine)
Megs Degreaser 5:1
Interior:
Megs APC
LGM extractor
Megs Ultimate Protectant
So as the title states...the paint was metallic blue...and swirled all to hell...with a few water spots...and to add a little fun to the game it was a nice 107 degrees or so outside
Gotta love Arizona. So here is a little peak of what we were looking at:
Along with a little of this:
And to top it off, some of this:
So....we washed it down with dawn...sprayed the tires with APC...pressure washed them clean and hit up under the wheel wells and then clayed it.
The tires were nasty...all kinds of stuff gets on them out in the desert, orange suds anyone?
A nice slow pressure washing of them after the APC was applied made them come out nice and clean...then applied Megs HD 2:1 to them and here is how they looked:
The paint was pretty heavily swirled...and was very apparent due to the color.
So i started with a LC white pad...primed it with the KB method and did a test spot.
It turned out well especially for a single pass...I used speed 5 and decent pressure..and here is how it looked before and after:
And after:
This is why i love D151....it really is a TRUE AIO...it cleans the paint...does decent correction and leaves a nice glossy (and smooth) surface. The wax finish is nice but I always top it with a sealant. It's a little extra time but i like to leave knowing i left my customer with some really GOOD and LONG TERM protection.
The drivers side passenger door was a bit more of a pain...i had to break out a LC orange pad to do it first and then go over it with the white. I know it was a 'single pass' job but it just wasn't correcting as much as I WANTED it to be..so it took some extra time but i felt better with the results.
here is the before:
As you can see the swirls are a bit DEEPER than the last photos...and thats why it took a little more of an aggressive approach to get it to presentable condition.
Here it is after:
As you can see a couple RIDS were leftover but the vast majority were removed...and the paint was really glossed up.
I ran into the same thing with the hood. A pass with the white pad didn't 'cut it'...literally...so back to the LC orange i went...
Nope...not pretty at all....but a couple passes later and here is how it turned out:
Again..a couple RIDS...but most of the swirls were removed...
Here is another nice shot of some swirls on the gas tank..
TIP: When taking photos for before and after...a 'marker' of some sort to show the exact spot of the swirls...and the EXACT spot AFTER the swirls are gone is really a big plus. I've seen posts where you see a close up of a spot of paint swirled and then a close up of a spot of paint swirl free...and thats all well and good...but i think showing EXACTLY the same spot really helps to depict the before and after transition that the person doing the detail...and the products/tools used are capable of..and how the final result showed up...
So in the pic above i used the window washing fluid sprayer as my 'marker'...this time I used the gas tank cut out:
Here you can see a ton of swirls...and if you look closely you can see a few deeper scratches too. THIS spot though, only took the white pad with D151 and a single pass to get pretty much full correction:
You can see it not only got rid of the swirls..but also got rid of that horrible hazy look that it had and left a nice bright finish
Now incase you forgot...we had some NICE water spot action going on at the passenger rear quarter panel. You see this community I was working in in Mesa,Az has a nice...lovely water system for the sprinklers. The community has man made lakes all over...and the water from the lakes is used for the ALL the sprinklers for the front yards of all the houses (since all front yards are kept by the HOA). Well this water loves to find ways onto cars lol...and leaves NASTY NASTY water spots. I've done window cleaning for a few people in there who had sprinklers hit their windows and the film left over was SO bad...they just had to replace the window...because the texture of the glass was like a brillo pad....well thats what THIS was:
Well once again...D151 did its job (and so did i if i say so myself
) and here is how it turned outWater spots! We don't need no stinking water spots!
From water spots to looking like a nice cool pool of water...in the 107 degree heat...this image was a nice one i'll tell you that lol.
Speaking of cool images...the spare tire cover was swirled as well (come on you knew that though didn't you!)....looky looky
But the after shots were beauteous!
Check out the close up....
I call this...my Oasis in the Desert shot:
Cool blue palm tree in the reflection.
All in all the exterior turned out great..but had a sad ending...which i'll tell you about in the end...but for now....BEAUTY SHOTS!
The top gets love too...
Gotta do my pose lol
Hello down there...
Sweet sweet reflections:
This shot was pretty cool
Check out that gloss....from the right!
Slideeeeee to the left...now cha cha yall
(CONTINUED BELOW)...
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