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I recall always helping my Dad "detail" the cars.
Typical wash, we did use car wash soap, no 2BM though and a sponge.
Always had some type of wheel cleaner for the local auto parts store.
About 3-4 times a year we would put on a coat of wax. I can recall using Nufinish, Blue Coral, and one Saturday we were watching the infomercial for Auri and my Dad picked that up. Our cars were always clean, Id like to see them through my eyes no and see how they REALLY looked. Either way we had fun doing it!
 
My first detail that I remember was our 1992 Ford Escort, white paint exposed all the imperfections near the door handles. At the time there was a commercial for a product that "removes" all that, which of course I used on the vehicle. I think those scratches were back soon after, and so was that product.
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My first ever detail was a on my e36 m3, I had a friend who detailed cars and detailed one of my friends car and he showed it to me, instead of me paying him to detail my car, I decided to tackle the project on my own, I actually found the autogeek website in 08 I think thats when it was just starting and ordered my first orbital polisher and polish. I did a good job on my first try even though i kept putting too much polish on the pads and it would slplatter to this day i still find white particles on the car. After I was done though the car looked amazing! and I remember showing pics to that friend and he was impressed as well.

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I used to be a body piercer at a local tattoo shop that was a few blocks from my house. It was a particularly slow day so I offered to wash and wax my boss's '87 Corvette. When asked how long it would take I told her about an hour to an hour and a half. 5 hours later I was getting a phone call wondering why I hadn't been back to work yet and what was wrong with the car. I replied that nothing was wrong it was just taking a little longer than usual for the wax to dry. What actually happened was that I had spread the wax a little too liberally and waited too long to wipe it off. I was using plain old liquid Turtle Wax and it dried to the consistency of concrete. Wash, dry, and wax application took about 45 minutes. The rest of the time was me trying like hell to get the stuff OFF the car.
 
When I was around 12 or 13 my parents had an '87 Suzuki Samurai. That thing was so small that it took no time to wash and dry at all. I remember washing it and then treating all the faded plastic trim with some stuff in a red bottle. It was made by Kiwi (the same company that makes shoe polish. That stuff worked great and even after it washed away the trim would be darker than it was before applying it. To an extent it restored the original color. I remember at one point my dad and I found a modle of the Samurai to make. We painted it in the garage and some over spray carried over to the hood of the Samurai. He and I spent about an hour using a cleaner wax to get it off the hood and on the rest of the body. I still have that model to this day

One day I remember being home from school and waxing it in the garage. I remember trying to use this buffer that my dad had in his cabinet that he never used. I figured out real quick why he didn't use it. It didn't work! Ended up doing it by hand with the best wax ever ( turtle wax:dblthumb2: ):laughing:
 
It was a very hot July that year.We lived in New York city, I was all of 12 my aunt came to visit my grandmother with her brand new jet black ford red interior, was truly a thing of beauty. My aunt asked me if I would like to make 5$ I think I was getting in there hair I was all yes,sure , ok, so off I went with my bucket of water and my Brillo pad Yes I did say Brillo!! Needless to say I never did get that 5 bucks AND nothing was ever said about that black ford . It's so funny because that was the beginning of my love for detailing cars. My aunt is now 85 and still looks at me with that did you really do that ? Well yes I did.
 
My dad and I bought a wrecked 2009 lancer ralliart last march. I was able to count my hours that I worked on it as extra credit in school. I did my first "detail" job on it three weeks ago.My avatar is a picture of it during my first detail job. I used megs smooth surface clay kit which helped a ton. I sweeped it out as good as I could and my mom worked some magic on the interior with a shampooer. I applied a coat of megs cleaner wax that came with the smooth surface kit. I'm now hooked on detailing thanks to u guys. ;) :)
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