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Hi All,
A couple weekends ago, I spent the day detailing my father's TSX. The paint was in pretty bad condition with lots of RIDS and swirl marks all over. This was the first nice car our family bought, so I was glad I was able to do a decent job in restoring it's finish.
Here are the steps I took:
1. Wash with Megs Gold Class Wash
2. Clayed with the soapy water (was trying something new and it seemed to work pretty well)
3. Dried with Megs Water Magnet and misted some Mother's detailer to remove some water spots
4. Megs Ultimate Compound
5. Megs Ultimate Polish
6. Megs Ultimate Liquid Wax
One thing I would like to note is that the Ultimate Liquid Wax was really hard to wipe off. It seemed to have a "staining" effect if I left it to dry/haze (even for a few mins). When I was applying it, I pretty much treated it like Ultimate Polish where I would apply it with the DA then immediately wipe it off. If anyone could tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be much appreciated. Having said that, the results of my technique seemed to be pretty good
.
Here are some before pics (it has not been washed...the dirt and water spots are from the rain the day before):
Here are the afters:
You can see I missed a few spots near the tailight and the swirls are popping out...oh well.
Admittedly, the lighting in the after shots are a bit more favourable for taking nice pictures, but the correction should be quite obvious. Thanks for looking and any feedback is welcome!
A couple weekends ago, I spent the day detailing my father's TSX. The paint was in pretty bad condition with lots of RIDS and swirl marks all over. This was the first nice car our family bought, so I was glad I was able to do a decent job in restoring it's finish.
Here are the steps I took:
1. Wash with Megs Gold Class Wash
2. Clayed with the soapy water (was trying something new and it seemed to work pretty well)
3. Dried with Megs Water Magnet and misted some Mother's detailer to remove some water spots
4. Megs Ultimate Compound
5. Megs Ultimate Polish
6. Megs Ultimate Liquid Wax
One thing I would like to note is that the Ultimate Liquid Wax was really hard to wipe off. It seemed to have a "staining" effect if I left it to dry/haze (even for a few mins). When I was applying it, I pretty much treated it like Ultimate Polish where I would apply it with the DA then immediately wipe it off. If anyone could tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be much appreciated. Having said that, the results of my technique seemed to be pretty good
.Here are some before pics (it has not been washed...the dirt and water spots are from the rain the day before):
Here are the afters:
You can see I missed a few spots near the tailight and the swirls are popping out...oh well.
Admittedly, the lighting in the after shots are a bit more favourable for taking nice pictures, but the correction should be quite obvious. Thanks for looking and any feedback is welcome!
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