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The lower right section is after using Ultimate Compound on a yellow polishing pad with the G110v2 buffer, the upper left is how this car, a 1987 BMW 325i convertible, was presented to us. This is single stage white paint so it's fairly hard, but it's also suffering from plenty of embedded dirt accumulated over the years. A quick go of UC brings back the brilliant white that this car should have.
That was a compound though.... what about our new White Wax? It's a cleaner wax that utilizes a SMAT abrasive, closely related to the abrasives found in UC. Would this make for a worthy one step on this car? Let's see.
We're using the yellow foam pad to get a bit more cut, and we're running at speed 5. Normally you'd apply wax with a finishing pad at speed 3, but this is a fairly potent cleaner wax so we wanted to see if we could maximize the cleaning ability of it.
This time the upper left is the after, the lower right the before. Remember, this was done with just a cleaner wax!
This picture tells the story a bit better - the brighter areas toward the nose of the car are after using White Wax, while the darker, duller areas are untouched.
It looks like 1980s German Car Night in our Training Garage!
And in the parking lot, too!
Once we sorted a process for cleaning up the BMW, we made sure the owner, Jess, had his technique dialed in so that he could go home and finish the job.
This gorgeous Porsche 911 is completely original and looks absolutely stunning. The owner has been using Meguiar's products on it for years, but the hood has been showing the signs of debris impact over the years. The car has over 100,000 miles on it, so it's been exposed to a fair bit of road debris, and the soft single stage paint has paid the price. The camera couldn't really capture the full extent of the damage, nor the level of correction we achieved, but the owner was pleased to see that he could actually improve the appearance and bring it more in line with the rest of the car.
A 2006 GTO with plenty of water spots, swirls, scratches and other problems.
Swirls!!!
After some M105 on the DA the swirls, water spots, etc are gone and the metallic really comes through.
Too dirty for just Quik Detailer to handle, this 2013 Camaro needed a bit of cleaning up before we could inspect the paint. But since we really can't wash in our parking lot, we did the next best thing - D114 Rinse Free Express Wash.
Using Garry Dean's wash method of sinking some folded microfiber towels in a bucket with a prepared solution of product, we set about washing the Camaro.
Just squeeze some of the excess water out of the towel, don't wring it out fully. And NEVER place a used towel back in this bucket!! Clean, unused towels only or you risk contaminating your wash water.
The first pass on this side of the roof. Notice how the towel is flat against the paint.
With the towel flat on the paint we pick up a line of dirt along the leading edge of the towel.
The second wipe, right next to the first, and the leading edge of the towel is now lifted off the paint. This keeps that dirt stripe from coming back in contact with the paint.
Here you can clearly see that dirt stripe from the second pass, with the initial dirt stripe still visible at the leading edge of the towel.
Pass three and the towel is picked up even further, revealing the two dirt stripes from the previous passes. More importantly, this method keeps those dirt stripes off the paint.
Now it's just a matter of drying the freshly cleaned panel with a clean, dry Water Magnet drying towel.
That was a compound though.... what about our new White Wax? It's a cleaner wax that utilizes a SMAT abrasive, closely related to the abrasives found in UC. Would this make for a worthy one step on this car? Let's see.
We're using the yellow foam pad to get a bit more cut, and we're running at speed 5. Normally you'd apply wax with a finishing pad at speed 3, but this is a fairly potent cleaner wax so we wanted to see if we could maximize the cleaning ability of it.
This time the upper left is the after, the lower right the before. Remember, this was done with just a cleaner wax!
This picture tells the story a bit better - the brighter areas toward the nose of the car are after using White Wax, while the darker, duller areas are untouched.
It looks like 1980s German Car Night in our Training Garage!
And in the parking lot, too!
Once we sorted a process for cleaning up the BMW, we made sure the owner, Jess, had his technique dialed in so that he could go home and finish the job.
This gorgeous Porsche 911 is completely original and looks absolutely stunning. The owner has been using Meguiar's products on it for years, but the hood has been showing the signs of debris impact over the years. The car has over 100,000 miles on it, so it's been exposed to a fair bit of road debris, and the soft single stage paint has paid the price. The camera couldn't really capture the full extent of the damage, nor the level of correction we achieved, but the owner was pleased to see that he could actually improve the appearance and bring it more in line with the rest of the car.
A 2006 GTO with plenty of water spots, swirls, scratches and other problems.
Swirls!!!
After some M105 on the DA the swirls, water spots, etc are gone and the metallic really comes through.
Too dirty for just Quik Detailer to handle, this 2013 Camaro needed a bit of cleaning up before we could inspect the paint. But since we really can't wash in our parking lot, we did the next best thing - D114 Rinse Free Express Wash.
Using Garry Dean's wash method of sinking some folded microfiber towels in a bucket with a prepared solution of product, we set about washing the Camaro.
Just squeeze some of the excess water out of the towel, don't wring it out fully. And NEVER place a used towel back in this bucket!! Clean, unused towels only or you risk contaminating your wash water.
The first pass on this side of the roof. Notice how the towel is flat against the paint.
With the towel flat on the paint we pick up a line of dirt along the leading edge of the towel.
The second wipe, right next to the first, and the leading edge of the towel is now lifted off the paint. This keeps that dirt stripe from coming back in contact with the paint.
Here you can clearly see that dirt stripe from the second pass, with the initial dirt stripe still visible at the leading edge of the towel.
Pass three and the towel is picked up even further, revealing the two dirt stripes from the previous passes. More importantly, this method keeps those dirt stripes off the paint.
Now it's just a matter of drying the freshly cleaned panel with a clean, dry Water Magnet drying towel.
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