Recent content by dochawk

Thanks. We're retired ridiculously early, but she's wanted a little truck for 40 years, ever since her mother would cosign for the Escort, but not the ranger. She's quite happy with it. So now I want to keep it nice for her.

polish it is! but it won't be for a week :(; I head out to my parents for a week in the morning. I'm thinking to skip the clay. But is there anything I should do to remove any residual rinseless wash (given that we have insanely hard water, second highest in the US, and more than three times...

No, in order I It's a brand new vehicle. Hand-washed with water only by the dealer before 1) Washed with Meguiar's rinseles Express Wash to get dust off (this is the desert!). 2) Washed again with same and clean microfiber. 3) used meguiar Quick Mist & Wipe detailing spray as clay bar...

Ford finally released my wife's new maverick from our personal hostage crisis. Velocity blue: I started with the ceramic coat today. Showing that I have learned something over the years, I settled on the 1" strip behind the wear window, above the bed coating as the least visible. I...

Blackfire's paint prep is happily part of the bundle I ordered! [which now, it seems, will get here long before I get the Maverick. This is day 9 in town, and ford's estimate is now 2-2.5 weeks before delivery to the dealer!]:mad:

\me looks suspiciously at his cabinet full of dishes

clay bars. I use the detailing spray as the super-slick lubrication. in the past, it's been the step before polish, though, so I assume I should do the rinseless wash again after the bar.

I was going to say twenty years ago, but I guess it's more than thirty-five . . . Anyway, I used to get this wonderful foaming spray in a blue and white can. Spray on windshield, and wipe with paper towel, cloth, whatever, and it cleaned it now matter how dirty and streaked. Then it became...

Sometime in the next couple of days (probably Thursday), we pick up the brand new Maverick for my wife. It was built about two weeks ago. I intend to give it a ceramic coat right away; we live in the desert (Las Vegas) with brutal sun much of the year. My (amateurish) intended approach is to...

Or the bottle gets knocked over. Or left in the sun. Or it congeals. Or . . . It's very much against my nature to not get the better deal, but I'm getting better at retraining myself when I can't figure out when I would possibly finish the big one.

partially answering my own question . . . while doing more searches, somebody answering a troll on some forum or another quipped that he was pretty sure that some rando dude on YouTube didn't know as much as mike phillips--which led me to think of searching for mike phillips detailing uv...

I assumed that it would be easy to find, was foiled, and finally thought to come here--where I assumed, again incorrectly, that there would be a sticky thread on it. My wife's new special ordered Maverick will be ready for pickup in a couple of days; it's in town at the yard where the train...

As I worked on the hood with clay, I was surprised to see the detail fluid turning the color from the iron decontamination pictures. Then I noticed I was bleeding :doh: Coming back after I stopped . . . the clay was *definitely* much easier than the effort with just polish. And from the feel...

Definitely two layers, but I'd never been clear on whether the top one was paint or plastic . . . In our sun, the *bottom* layer of tricoat takes a beating :(, but wax seems to be an effective sacrifice. I don't think I'll need the baggie to know this --I could feel the resistance right...

LSP? Given the amount of surface space on this thing, I guess I'll use clay on the rest, and then redo the top. If it matters, the manual says there is a clearcoat or something similar over the solid color paint. And given that that layer is some kind of plastic, is the iron remover still in...