Extreme conditions - Cars parked outdoors and detailing with constant sun exposure

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I have an unfortunate situation - I live and park my cars in NYC. My tiny driveway is position in the direct path of sunlight from dusk till dawn. I only have a few weeks of an open window for correction out of the entire year without extreme paint surface temperatures. I am currently using a Griots DA with Sonax line of polish and Collinite 845 as protection. These products seem to immediately flash given the hot surface.

I am looking for the best approach given the conditions for both productivity and long term protection. Moving the cars to a shaded location is not plausible in the foreseeable future.
 
Can you find a parking garage? Friend, neighbor, relative that has some covered space? I'd say get an Ozark 10x10 tent, but you'll have to move the car around to ensure it's always in shade (depending if you're facing east, west, north or south). Other thing w/ the Ozark tents is wind... one good gust will put it into your car or worse, it will fly away!

Here is Mike Phillips dampsanding and polishing a land yacht in a parking garage!

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Secondly, I'd ditch the 845... If you are concerned about long-term protection and low maintenance, I would suggest applying a coating (CQ, GTechniq, Gyeon, etc...)
Reason being, for summer you'll have good UV protection, for winter and rain, you'll have good protection against the elements.

It's going to be 119 here in Chandler AZ on Tuesday... It was near 100 when I fully detailed a vehicle the other day and applied CQUK and CQDlux. Flashed quickly, but if you do small tests, you'll get the timing. Problem here, is if you wait 5 minutes that technique can change, as our temps can literally go from 90 and 10 minutes later be 105.

That's my suggestion, I'm sure you'll get a dozen more... hope this helps!
 
look for products that you can use in direct sun (Poorboy) light. Look into a pop up tent like Paul suggested or maybe a lean to tarp.
 
I'm not in the City, but a couple hours east of you out on the Island.

My truck & wife's Jeep are 100% outside dwellers, and I have no access to a garage.

My solution is to pick a cooler/cloudier day (we've got plenty of them here in NY as you know), work earlier in the morning, or toward dusk, and also like Rsurfer said above, use products that are sun-friendly.
 
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