What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

BSoares said:
I had new tires installed this week so during my wash today I spent about 1.5 hours just on them. Removed the nibs, cleaned first with Tarminator to remove lube and heavy blooming, then cleaned as usual with McKee’s 37 Tire and Rubber Rejuvenator. Dressed with Perl.
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What tires did you put on?

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Wash day for the XR8, gave my new CarPro wash mitt a whirl.





Foamed and washed with NV Snow, also had time to dress the rear bumper insert with 303 and re-coat the tires with Gyeon Q2 Tire.



Three clean cars, bliss! :awesome:
 
DFB said:
Wash day for the XR8, gave my new CarPro wash mitt a whirl.





Foamed and washed with NV Snow, also had time to dress the rear bumper insert with 303 and re-coat the tires with Gyeon Q2 Tire.



Three clean cars, bliss! :awesome:
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Wait, wait, WAIT....XR8 and that's the only pic, are you kidding us here

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A week away from my yearly trip to Tennessee for The Tail of the Dragon, so I'm protecting the wheels because they get pummeled down there, Sonax Wheel Shield has never let me down and although the paint doesn't need anything, a 1500+ round trip can throw anything at your car, so I'm going to be prepared and besides, winter will be here before you know it
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Klasse Act said:
Wait, wait, WAIT....XR8 and that's the only pic, are you kidding us here

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Just building the suspense :laughing:

Just for you Klasse Act......



 
BSoares said:
Michelin Pilot Sport AS/3+
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I had the original version of those tires on my old Abarth but didn't use them for winter use, so I can't comment on snow performance but they did just fine everywhere else, maybe the newer versions are better. That said, Continental DWS tires I do know work great in the snow, good luck to you, hope the SEMI winter isn't too bad this year

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I have a cheap 21mm knockoff polisher that is building up heat very high if you push it and don't let it cool off. The last correction though I got some dripping grease on to the top of the backing plate. So a couple of days ago I went in and took it apart to change the grease to CRC High Temp Grease. Q-tips and mf towel and brake pad cleaner to get all of the old grease out of it. And even if I have not done so many corrections with the polisher. There where that greyish looking grease mostly around the the gear into the electric motor. That's a tell of worn metall from the gears. And also the light yellow colored grease had been burned on the gear houseing that face down to the backing plate. So clearly this what not a quality grease in there and not so expected either LOL. Cleaned up nicely and the brake cleaners is awesome for desolving grease and oils very good. Repacked with the new lithium high temp resistant grease from CRC. Just filled it up to around half of the gear that goes inside to the electric motor. Put it together again.

Started the polisher on the lowest speed setting and had it there for a couple of minutes. And holded the polisher in different angles at this time too. Slowly highered the speed setting. And WOW it's a new polisher in my hands! Most of the sharp clinging noice is absolute gone and just a couple of times noticeble you know that sound most DA has. Like the cracking noice or how to describe it. Now it where with no pad on it so will see when I test to put a pad and some polish on it and start to polishing with it how it sounds. Had it on for around 20 minutes mostly on the highest speed setting and variered it. And under no pressure on it the heat build up was almost not noticeble. Awesome and looking forward to do some polishing again with it. Thought it feeled like and sounded like it was more easy running the electric motor too. Will see if it's as noticeble when I polishing with it next time and how the heat build up gets from it. Very satisfied with the results so long and it where well worth it.

Apex Detailing Channel on Youtube always switch to a high temp resistant grease based on lithium in his polishers. Just to be knowing it's a quality grease in the gear house of the polisher. I chuckled when I saw GG G9 description mentioned it has Mobile 1 grease in it LOL. Have not seen any polisher description mentioned this before. The power of social media and also that these Youtube testers and reviews they do. Puch the brands to be better when doing new products. So a big win for us consumers and also the brands to get higher quality products out there.

See if I take my 3" mini polisher down and change the grease in that too. Just remember that you can woid the warranty of your polisher if you do this. So it's on you if something happens to it in the future. For me even with 5 years warranty on my 21mm longthrow polisher it was worth it to change the grease in it. Even if it where going brake on me. It's such a low price for being a polisher at around $80. So just gets me the opertunity to invest in a higher quality one LOL.

Not working to upload pictures through Firefox any longer. But if someone is interested to see how the burned and worned greased looked like I can upload pictures through Tapatalk. I think that it's good to upload to my gallery here instead of the Tapatalk app as it's easier to find old pictures uploaded to the gallery.

/ Tony
 
Klasse Act said:
I had the original version of those tires on my old Abarth but didn't use them for winter use, so I can't comment on snow performance but they did just fine everywhere else, maybe the newer versions are better. That said, Continental DWS tires I do know work great in the snow, good luck to you, hope the SEMI winter isn't too bad this year

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I had the DWS before and although traction was great, the super soft side walls made me not like the tires at all. I had to add a lot more air in the tires to attempt making them feel normal again and it still felt like i was driving on marshmallows. The Pilot Sport has better rated traction on dry and just slightly behind the DWS on wet and snow. But they feel so much nicer/sportier in handling. I hope they’ll work well on the long run, it cost me about $250 more than DWS would have as there was a sale on those.
 
Well, when you spend $250 more for tires you have a commitment and based off of your needs you bought the right tire, conviction, nothing wrong with that. That's how I am with winter tires, sure everybody else generally doesn't have them but I feel better knowing I have tires made specifically to deal with the weather, even though I got by with DWS' my first couple winters here in Chicagoland

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My friend picked up a Scout recently and the paint was lifeless. He kept asking if I thought I could make it look better. I was finally able to get up to his house today and gave this old SS paint some gloss.
Decon’d w/ IronX and Brown Royal. Then bucket washed with strong concentration of Reset. Followed that up with Griots clay mitt.
To mow down the majority of the oxidation I used Menz 3in1 on Duetto with Meg’s burgundy pad. To brighten the paint some more I used Essence+ on orange SDO. LSP w/ McKee’s high def sealant. Not perfect by any means, but definitely has plenty of shine.

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So I did change out the grease in my 3" mini polisher 12mm throw. But man what a difference between the quality of materials between my 3" mini polisher and the 21mm longthrow polisher knockoff. With the higher quality going to the 3" polisher. Have had my thought on getting a 15mm longthrow polisher with a higher quality than the 21mm I have now. Will see if I can get a great price on the Rupes 15 MKIII during black friday. Or the same brand that my 3" mini polisher is but the 15mm longthrow polisher as I was impressed with the building quality of it. And have one other 15mm with a 1000W electric motor in it and a very good price for it here in Sweden.

Did test with a 5" backing plate on the 3" mini polisher as it's basicly the same polisher like a Duetto. But man that didn't go well LOL. The different counter balance weight does a lot of getting it balanced right. So that didn't work out as the vibrations got extremly high LOL. But thinking about getting a counter weight from the Duetto copy in the same brand as the 3" mini polisher is. So I have another option of 5" polisher if wanted to. And it's easy to just remove with 3 screws and switch the counter weight and the backing plate.

Here comes the pictures of how the grease looked from only some full corrections with the 21mm longthrow polisher. Burned grease and the greyish dirt is worned off metall from the gears.

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Cleaned up nicely with brake cleaner that's is very good on desolving grease and oils. But use with caution!

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Here's the 3" mini polisher and looked much nicer and not far from the same use as the 21mm longthrow polisher. You also see the quality difference in the pictures between them. And liked what I saw in the 3" polisher. But cleaned out the oem grease and replaced it with the CRC High Temp Grease. So I know I have a quality grease in it. And it where much less noice levels from it and runned smoothly with the 3" backing plate on LOL.

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/ Tony
 
Good cleaning on the ZR2. And 2 more coats of the BF spray sealant. Getting close here in PA where my driveway washes and details will be a thing of the past. Thanks to colder temps and WINTER.
 
For the first time I used undercarriage spray on the frame rails and exposed suspension parts of my truck. I was dubious but initial reaction is that it looks real nice. It returned everything to a dark, flat black. I don't know what to expect for longevity but I'm happy for now.
 
Eldorado2k said:
Yea but the only thing is the trim coating doesn’t last anywhere near as long as the tire coating does when it comes to tires... Ive used the trim coating as a topper before, but I’ve never tried using the trim coating as the base, so we’ll see how it goes. I hope I didn’t screw up because I put alot of elbow grease into the prep. Lol.
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spazzz said:
Now we are getting somewhere.

I remember you saying it doesn't last as long. I hope you run them for a bit to check it out.
Cuz it sure is a mess on trim
I only have 2 bottles of the tire coating left. Then I have to spend bigger money to get something that I hope I am happy with.
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Update: Using the Endura Trim Coating as the base layer resulted in an epic fail... The poor results happened fairly quik, within days the outer parts of the sidewalls near the tread had begun to strip off after the lightest possible driving.

The rest of the sidewall looked splotchy and uneven within the 1st week.. I my OCD told me not to mess with it in hopes that maybe they were just “dirty” and would return to their coated glory after a quik spray & rinse with Megs D114, but that wasn’t the case.

A few days later I went ahead and cleaned the tires with Megs D143 and it just about completely obliterated any sign of them being “coated”.

This is how they look right now. They’ve been bare for over a week and I have to start all over. [yes I know the wheel wells look like crap right now]lol.

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Moral of the story: Endura Trim Coating can’t substitute for the now extinct Endura Tire Coating.
Turtle Wax are morons for discontinuing the tire coating!lol.
 
Ric, check out OPT tire coating or Black Pearl

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