Detail with good UV protection before temps go to 120!

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Not one of my more over-the-top show N' shine posts, but our little Honda Fit (the dog car) has been a little trooper for the past 5 years and 60K miles. She got us from NH all the way to AZ. She was a mess and needed a good detail, and quite frankly with it being 100-107 degrees, I wasn't up for it. But the other day, we caught a break and had a very cool 96 degree day (anything under 100 is cool) and I went to work.

Won't go into all the details because this isn't a customer car and it's not a exotic... It got the aggressive wash
- Typical engine cleaning
- wheels
- tarminator on the front to get the dead bugs and road debris off.
- rinse
- iron-x
- wash
- dry
- clay
- Griot's G15 w/ Orange Boss Pads and GG Fast Correcting Cream
- Erasure
- CQUK and DLUX on the trim.

The dark window tint was recently done by my good friends Danni and Wills at Windows and Wheels just up the street from me :)

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The after, also did a little Dr. Colorchip on the hood and it's good as new!:

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Figured. Lol. North Phoenix here. Just moved here so this is my first summer. Wonder if there is a good phx detailing enthusiasts to create a meet up or something


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gr8almty1 said:
Figured. Lol. North Phoenix here. Just moved here so this is my first summer. Wonder if there is a good phx detailing enthusiasts to create a meet up or something


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Same here... just moved here two months ago (april 2017) from New Hampshire. You picked a great time to get here! Welcome to the Valley of the Sun.
Yes, there are many forum members right here locally. Once Scottie Brown and another gentlemen who actually lives a few blocks up. We also have Danni & Wills from Windows and Wheels who are contributors to this forum (when they have time) as their shop is pretty busy.

Where did you move here from?
 
Moved from Ohio. I'm a decent enthusiast but always like to see what others are using and/or methods in real life. Right now my truck is too big for the garage but I'm fixing that :). Garage not the truck.


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LSNAutoDetailing said:
Welcome to the Valley of the Sun.


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It is "Valley of the Sun" for maybe 6 Months. The rest is the "Surface of the Sun". But it is a dry heat...........that's why we all look like Prunes.

Dave
 
Just got my EXO today excited to try it but way to hot to do anything. Even in a garage.
 
Nice work on the Fit and welcome to AZ only 4 miles north of Hell. Been here 25+ years and better than 95 with a 95% humidity
 
klix58 said:
Nice work on the Fit and welcome to AZ only 4 miles north of Hell. Been here 25+ years and better than 95 with a 95% humidity
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Yeah, I just walked outside here in Tampa, and the rainy season has started and I live on a cypress preserve (swamp), you can cut the air with a knife.

It's 9:00am and 83 already.
 
I can't imagine living in AZ with the temps you have coupled with the humidity we have here in south GA, it's bad enough here when temps get in the upper 90's.
 
I been wanting to give my wife's Jetta a quick polish with HD Speed, but with her car being black and the temps we have it is prolly gonna have to wait til fall....same goes for coating the z06....right now it's just trying to keep them clean and protected enough to get through the heat and monsoons.

I "compare" the summers here like the winters of the Midwest /Northeast, where u don't do much detailing....it's more like survival lol and getting through the weather with as little damage as possible.
 
SeanChav said:
I been wanting to give my wife's Jetta a quick polish with HD Speed, but with her car being black and the temps we have it is prolly gonna have to wait til fall....same goes for coating the z06....right now it's just trying to keep them clean and protected enough to get through the heat and monsoons.

I "compare" the summers here like the winters of the Midwest /Northeast, where u don't do much detailing....it's more like survival lol and getting through the weather with as little damage as possible.
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And that's a really good point. I used 6 Orange pads, typically for a little car like the Fit, 4 would have been normal. I went through pads like crazy because the product dried up... I actually had to bust out my pad-conditioner and give a little spritz here and there.


Out here, UV protection (Both for cars and humans, dogs, etc...) is essential. I no longer care how long a product beads, (because it doesn't rain) but now I care about UV protection.
 
LSNAutoDetailing said:
Out here, UV protection (Both for cars and humans, dogs, etc...) is essential. I no longer care how long a product beads, (because it doesn't rain) but now I care about UV protection.
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Exactly why I now do an Optimum Car Wax once in a while and do Optimum No Rinse and Wax. My main QD is now a mix of Optimum No Rinse and Wax also.

Dave
 
yup it's brutal out here in the summer, which was why I completely shyed away from carnuba products....all synthetic/polycharged stuff for this guy....plus I like the hard candy glass look they give.

we definitely need to get a detail meet here this fall/winter.
 
Had 2 simple wash and waxes today.Had one T-shirt and one bottle of water.I think there is no place hotter than south fla and kick in the humidity and it sucks.Summer of hell is here careful guys.
 
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