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5 hours detailing my car (now with pics)

Postby Astroboysoup » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:58 pm

went to super cheap today and bough ALOT of cleaning products....

Steps I went through

1) Wash with Kitten car wash scrubbing car, tyres and wheels and then rinse

2) Repeat step 1

3) used a clay to remove impurities. Meguiar's clay ,Never did this before and it makes quite a difference. makes the surface very smooth.

4) AutoGlym paint renovator

5) Autoglym super resin polish using a buffer.

6) Meguiar's hitech yellow carnauba wax.

7) tyre shine stuff.

pics up tomorrow when the sun is up :)

my back hurts
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Postby Adam_NAclubman » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:19 pm

Can't go for a drive tomorrow for an hour or two but spent 5 hours cleaning your car :p


Interested to see pics, i need to do mine properly at some point :( Though i guess I should wait till the paint is all fixed first
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Postby SuperMazdaKart » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:22 pm

didn't you know Auto-Bahn had a big sale last night?

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Postby Astroboysoup » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:22 am

Adam_NAclubman wrote:Can't go for a drive tomorrow for an hour or two but spent 5 hours cleaning your car :p


i know i know
i wasted a day :oops: I actually did study while i was polishing... notes in one hand cloth in the other...

hopefully tomorrow i don't spend hours taking photos....

I was talking to someone on friday night about how to get the best shine out of a car and yeh... it had me inspired. just had to try it.
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Postby Astroboysoup » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:56 pm

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Postby ducktape69 » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:58 pm

very very nice....if only you had some decent rims...ur ride would look perfect :)

p.s. how did u find the clay treatment? and how long did it take? ive never really bothered with it before....
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Postby Astroboysoup » Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:05 pm

yeh the clay treatment was interesting.. but it does work.

the clay smoothed out areas where it felt a little rough e.g. bottom of front guards behind the wheels where crap gets srpayed on to and the rear bumper.

made a differences there.

i clayed the whole car and it took me about 45 minutes. cost me $30 or so. can't rem exactly.

worth doing i think to get the deep reflective shine. my car has never looked like this before.
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Postby Garry » Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:56 pm

5 hrs! It takes me that long just to give my car a \"quck\" wash. I spent 32 hours on my concours effort. :P And Charlie Brown still beat me for best NB8B :evil: :mrgreen:
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Postby green_comet » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:25 pm

I clayed my car when i got back from LA a couple weeks ago.. It is well worth it..

You can buy a meguiars clay kit at just about any car store. One way to feel the impurities on your paint, is to stick your hand inside a plastic bag, and run your hand over the surface of the car.. the clay gets rid of all those little bumps, it feels like glass when its done...
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Postby Astroboysoup » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:40 pm

32 hours??? no kidding!

hope it wasn't 32 hours straight!

what process you go through?

i did miss alot of spots when i went through it today for the photos.

see how i go next time!

can i see pics of a car that has had 32 hours of cleaning?
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Postby rodent » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:09 pm

Astroboysoup wrote:can i see pics of a car that has had 32 hours of cleaning?

I don't think that's possible - all you'd be able to see in the pic is a rather strange looking guy holding up a camera :lol:

Great job Astro, and even better pics to boot. :D
I'd been thinking about going the claybar route myself and now it looks like I'll have to do it for sure.

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Postby Astroboysoup » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:48 pm

how are my photos coming along...?

any comments on them???

they're still not WOW...

I don't think I get the right stuff for it....

like these photos WOW me

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what you guys think?
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Postby Garry » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:55 pm

The 32 hours was spread over 2 weeks and it went something like this.

High pressure water clean under car
Manual clean of inner guards and suspension components.
Clean wheels inside and out
Clean and polish engine bay
ScratchX the whole car
Polish whole car
Wax whole car
Quick detail whole car
Clean interior including the boot
Drive to the concours and quick detail again

Being black it looked nice till the end of the day after which it had a fine layer of dust and salt on it. Then you couldn't see where all my time had gone. :frown: But it did look good for a couple of minutes.
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Postby Bevan » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:09 pm

Astroboysoup wrote:how are my photos coming along...?

any comments on them???

they're still not WOW...

I don't think I get the right stuff for it....

like these photos WOW me
I'm no expert on photography, but IMO, the background in your pics is way too busy. Also, I think you should be perfectly parallel or perpendicular to something in the background. Also lighting and shadows are all over the shop.

The 200SX is parallel to the left hand railing of the car park so it kinda flows towards the building. It's also overcast so the lighting is dispersed evenly with no shadows.

The Honda is symmetrical in every way. :)

I've never been a photographer and don't even own a camera but these are just my thoughts. They're probably wrong. :mrgreen:
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Postby Astroboysoup » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:28 pm

good points... i'll note them down and keep it in mind next time i got for a photo shoot. see how it goes then..

I have no idea how im suppose to control the lighting... id like to bring with me a portable lighting thingy and some of those reflector panels....
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