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After a little detailing the roadster of my girlfriend and good results, I wanted to try out my new Meguiars products on my 2 1/2 years old Vauxhall Astra Turbo. It was a weekend job since saturday until right now... a lot of hours, but it was it worth! ;-)
Used items:
Firts I washed the car and then I tried out the Quik detailer with 2 kinds of clay (from toy shop! lol). There where no results, I believe it was the reason of a useless clay, next time I will order quik clay. After that, I worked in the deep crystal paint cleaner and cleaned with special polishing "1-way" sheets. I got crazy as I saw that the old road dirt, mainly on the sideskirts etc, was not cleaned through the paint cleaner. Next step was the usage of Scratch-X on swirls (only a few) and resistant dirt and burnt in bugs. The dirt (mostly tar I believe) was again resistable, like you can see on 1 picture of my sideskirts below. I must live with this fact - its only a "non viewable" place. At least I cleaned my interior with quik interior detailer and my slide lock brush, which worked excellent. The first detailing day went to the end, and my fitness also! ;-)
On day two, today, I started to use the deep crystal polish. This time I used my terry towel to wipe away, worked also good but the terry towel is still linting extremely, also after washing. In this case I´m absolutely not satisfied with the product, but result and usage is still perfect. After polishing and 30 minutes of resting, I started the last step: My NXT wax which was already in use at my girlfiriends roadster. Also I used again the terry towel to polish the surface. Result was perfect. At least I used my slide lock brush to get lost of all polishing rests in any edges and curves of the car surface. I think the result is great, one bad touch is the surface contermination with a lot of spots of "anything" like tar or whatever. I think here could only help a special treatman from a specialist or the use of a machine... Overall, I´m happy to spend a lot of money (in germany around 2 times more expensive than in USA!) because the result is it worth. If the wax etc lasts long, I´m much more happy - but we will see! ;-)
Here are the pics of day 1:
The bad contermination on sideskirts:
And the final day 2 with polish:
And at least with the NXT wax:
1 interior pic:
Used items:
- Ultimate was mitt
- NXT Shampoo
- Scratch-X
- Quik Detailer with regular clay
- Ultra safe wheel brush
- Versa-Angle wheel brush
- Microfiber towel
- Super terry towel
- Different applicator pads
- Slide lock detail brush
- Water magnet towel
- Deep Crystal paint cleaner
- Deep crystal polish
- NXT Tech wax
- Gold class shampoo (only for wheel clean)
- Quik detailer interior
Firts I washed the car and then I tried out the Quik detailer with 2 kinds of clay (from toy shop! lol). There where no results, I believe it was the reason of a useless clay, next time I will order quik clay. After that, I worked in the deep crystal paint cleaner and cleaned with special polishing "1-way" sheets. I got crazy as I saw that the old road dirt, mainly on the sideskirts etc, was not cleaned through the paint cleaner. Next step was the usage of Scratch-X on swirls (only a few) and resistant dirt and burnt in bugs. The dirt (mostly tar I believe) was again resistable, like you can see on 1 picture of my sideskirts below. I must live with this fact - its only a "non viewable" place. At least I cleaned my interior with quik interior detailer and my slide lock brush, which worked excellent. The first detailing day went to the end, and my fitness also! ;-)
On day two, today, I started to use the deep crystal polish. This time I used my terry towel to wipe away, worked also good but the terry towel is still linting extremely, also after washing. In this case I´m absolutely not satisfied with the product, but result and usage is still perfect. After polishing and 30 minutes of resting, I started the last step: My NXT wax which was already in use at my girlfiriends roadster. Also I used again the terry towel to polish the surface. Result was perfect. At least I used my slide lock brush to get lost of all polishing rests in any edges and curves of the car surface. I think the result is great, one bad touch is the surface contermination with a lot of spots of "anything" like tar or whatever. I think here could only help a special treatman from a specialist or the use of a machine... Overall, I´m happy to spend a lot of money (in germany around 2 times more expensive than in USA!) because the result is it worth. If the wax etc lasts long, I´m much more happy - but we will see! ;-)
Here are the pics of day 1:
The bad contermination on sideskirts:
And the final day 2 with polish:
And at least with the NXT wax:
1 interior pic:
I really like the color of your car.
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