2004 Mini Cooper S
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Nice work Nita, another reason why I am going to get a rotary!!!
Nica
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alban61 - Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it. I had fun detailing that vehicle. I don't know if I can compare to Paul Dalton but thank you.
sparkie - hey it's the sparkenator, how are you bro? Gosh, thank you for the kind words sparkie but I'm no pro just trying to keep up with all of you. I'm glad you enjoy the pictures and process, what can I say I have learned from the best...all of AG members. Glad you liked it sparkie and thank you for the kind words.
Bobjones - you will love the rotary, it's actually quite simple...heck if I can do it anyone can do it. Glad you enjoyed it.
sparkie - hey it's the sparkenator, how are you bro? Gosh, thank you for the kind words sparkie but I'm no pro just trying to keep up with all of you. I'm glad you enjoy the pictures and process, what can I say I have learned from the best...all of AG members. Glad you liked it sparkie and thank you for the kind words.
Bobjones - you will love the rotary, it's actually quite simple...heck if I can do it anyone can do it. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Nica,
Beautiful turnaround, especially engine bay!
How are you liking the Stoners Trim Shine? I found a place closing it out at 2.50 a can, but I'm wondering how safe it is for regular engine dressing. I see a lot of people using aerosol products as engine bay dressings, (especially AA Tire Foam) and I'm worried about them being flammable. They are a lot cheaper than the water-based dressings like 303 and OPT Protectant, but I'm sure they won't last as long.
Any thoughts?
Pete
Beautiful turnaround, especially engine bay!
How are you liking the Stoners Trim Shine? I found a place closing it out at 2.50 a can, but I'm wondering how safe it is for regular engine dressing. I see a lot of people using aerosol products as engine bay dressings, (especially AA Tire Foam) and I'm worried about them being flammable. They are a lot cheaper than the water-based dressings like 303 and OPT Protectant, but I'm sure they won't last as long.
Any thoughts?
Pete
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Han (Pete),
First of all thank you for the kind words. Now for your question and Stoners Trim shine, well the product works great and I love it but I don't think I'll be using it on the engine compartment for much longer. I'm actually waiting for my OPT Protectant to arrive once I have that then that's what I'm going to be using. The reason I used it on this vehicle and the Porche is because both vehicles sat in my garage for about a week. So here is what I do and I spoke to a friend of mine who is a mechanic and knows best and here is what he recomended. If you use such aerosol products as engine bay dressings once you spray the product on to the engine let it sit for a day or two and let it completely dry up once it's dried up whipe it down and that should be good. My friend told me that the chance of the product actually catching fire are rare but better to be safe then sorry. He also told me that the aerosol is most potent when it has been just recently applied and if you turn the engine on right away after you have applied it that's when you could get in trouble. So what I did on the Mini Cooper and the Porche I would start by washing the engine bay really good blow dry it then apply the Stoners Trim shine, close the hood then wash the rims then the rest of the vehicle. I then clayed the vehicle and worked on the interior and that would be it for that day. Now since this is a good friend of mine and he has lots of other vehicles and the fact that he was on holidays for three weeks I kept the vehicle in my garage for about a week then come Friday I would go back out to the garage and do all the polishing/correction and when I was all done then I would go back to the engine compartment blow dry everything to make sure that everything is completely dry and give it a whipe down.
Now please don't think that what I have done is fool proof but it's what I think is safe and what my friend who is a mechanic said would not give me any problems such as the engine catching fire. It's worked for me but I'm always very cautious about the products being flammable that's why I'm going with OPT Protectant, hopefully I'll be receiving my large container soon.
I hope this helps and I hope it explains why I use the Stoners Trim Shine or any other aerosol products in the engine bay.
Any feed back on this would be great.
First of all thank you for the kind words. Now for your question and Stoners Trim shine, well the product works great and I love it but I don't think I'll be using it on the engine compartment for much longer. I'm actually waiting for my OPT Protectant to arrive once I have that then that's what I'm going to be using. The reason I used it on this vehicle and the Porche is because both vehicles sat in my garage for about a week. So here is what I do and I spoke to a friend of mine who is a mechanic and knows best and here is what he recomended. If you use such aerosol products as engine bay dressings once you spray the product on to the engine let it sit for a day or two and let it completely dry up once it's dried up whipe it down and that should be good. My friend told me that the chance of the product actually catching fire are rare but better to be safe then sorry. He also told me that the aerosol is most potent when it has been just recently applied and if you turn the engine on right away after you have applied it that's when you could get in trouble. So what I did on the Mini Cooper and the Porche I would start by washing the engine bay really good blow dry it then apply the Stoners Trim shine, close the hood then wash the rims then the rest of the vehicle. I then clayed the vehicle and worked on the interior and that would be it for that day. Now since this is a good friend of mine and he has lots of other vehicles and the fact that he was on holidays for three weeks I kept the vehicle in my garage for about a week then come Friday I would go back out to the garage and do all the polishing/correction and when I was all done then I would go back to the engine compartment blow dry everything to make sure that everything is completely dry and give it a whipe down.
Now please don't think that what I have done is fool proof but it's what I think is safe and what my friend who is a mechanic said would not give me any problems such as the engine catching fire. It's worked for me but I'm always very cautious about the products being flammable that's why I'm going with OPT Protectant, hopefully I'll be receiving my large container soon.
I hope this helps and I hope it explains why I use the Stoners Trim Shine or any other aerosol products in the engine bay.
Any feed back on this would be great.
Nica
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Reddwarf - Thank you for the compliments my friend. You will probably beleave but I actually do have more pictures 
hahahaha. As for wet sanding, it's really easy you just have to be carefull and inspect your work, it's like polishing exept with more correction power and well no shiny looking hahahahah hard to describe the experiance of wet sanding but it's cool wet sanding :righton:
Hand, hahahaha sorry about the long winded response but just wanted to make sure I don't steer you in the wrong direction, water based products are always best as others have pinted out. Glad I could help some.
hahahaha. As for wet sanding, it's really easy you just have to be carefull and inspect your work, it's like polishing exept with more correction power and well no shiny looking hahahahah hard to describe the experiance of wet sanding but it's cool wet sanding :righton:Hand, hahahaha sorry about the long winded response but just wanted to make sure I don't steer you in the wrong direction, water based products are always best as others have pinted out. Glad I could help some.
