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finally got round to giving the car a full detail after my dad chucked a dirt filled car cover over my car a while back during a hailstorm which caused some serious clear coat scratches.

heres the finished result:





Reflection Pics:
















Cheers,
Sam

WOW.

Very nice...great job.
What did you use?

Makes me want to go and wash mine...

wow looks stunning!

this is what i used:

1. car wash with dishwashing liquid to remove old wax
2. meguiars clay bar
3. meguiars fine cut cleaner (with orbital polisher) to remove swirls/scratches- i dont like this product; leaves too much splatter and doesnt give the best results.
4. kitten polish - any polish will do i reckon.
5. meguiars NXT liquid wax - do 3 coats over 3 days and put it in the sun after each coat - i actually prefer this in paste form to give a more even application.

took about 1.5 days...but it was worth it...the products dont really matter. step 3 is the most important to remove the swirls/scracthes on any black car. ive gotten quite good at using the orbital polisher now

Nice job.

When are you coming over to do my car? I haven't polished my car since I won my class in the 2004 concours and the paint looks like I wash it with a scourer.

haha garry. i tell ya what, ive really given up on trying to REMOVE the swirls on black... ive found swirls are a fact of life with black cars no matter how carefully you look after the paint....

ive been experimenting with diferent waxes that hide swirl marks between full details like this

so far, the meguiars CLEANER WAX paste works the best...

damn that's nice. Tyra will never look that good. (unless I bribe Dodgy Steve over with donuts and coffee...)

thanks for the feedback guys...
would be cool to see some of everyone elses detailed pics....so post em up

Very nice indeed. I'm looking forward to doing that to my car. Don't know when I'll get around to it (it depends on my mate wanting to do his car too, considering it's his kit and all. Although I do get some rights to use it considering I bought it for him ) but it should be interesting. I'm sure after the first few goes it'll become second nature using the buffer.

ducktape69 wrote:this is what i used:

1. car wash with dishwashing liquid to remove old wax
2. meguiars clay bar
3. meguiars fine cut cleaner (with orbital polisher) to remove swirls/scratches- i dont like this product; leaves too much splatter and doesnt give the best results.
4. kitten polish - any polish will do i reckon.
5. meguiars NXT liquid wax - do 3 coats over 3 days and put it in the sun after each coat - i actually prefer this in paste form to give a more even application.

Did you use the clay bar all over the car or only on certain spots where it was needed?

i done it all over...
even on my rims and glass...removes all stuck on crap....

ducktape69 wrote:thanks for the feedback guys...
would be cool to see some of everyone elses detailed pics....so post em up

Looks brilliant. I had a pictue of my car all shined up, but white never gives the same sort of reflections as black ;)

hmmm i done my mates white Type S recently....certain waxes make lighter colours really look deeper and richer...
almost gave it a deep pearly effect.