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RyeLou

RyeLou

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Went down south with my girlfriend for spring break. We stayed with her brother who is a car detailing god and happens to be a member on these forums. I must admit before this past week I used to run my car through a car wash or more often than not use the spray bays but use their soap/brush as well (I know, how terrible) My car has a little over 58k not-too-easily driven miles. It had swirls and small scratches and door dings all over the place. I didn't get my hopes up on the outcome, but the results were amazing in my opinion. We used quite a bit of product on the car to get it looking the way it does, but I think it looks great. I owe it all to one of your fellow members too. He more or less showed me how to do everything along the way too so I can maintain the look of my car and possibly work on a few other cars now that I'm back home. Anyhow, here is a list of products we used and some pictures:

PAINT
PC orange lc pad - Poorboy's ssr3
PC orange lc pad - XMT 2
PC white lc pad - Poorboy's PWS
By hand - Duragloss 601 PBA
By hand on top of 601 - Duragloss 105 (left on car for 1 hour)
The next day 2 wipedowns with - Duragloss Aquawax

WHEELS
DP wheel glaze
Duragloss AW x1
4* tire gel
No touch tire protectant inside wheelwells

GLASS
Inside - Sprayway glass cleaner
Outside - polished with Duragloss glass polish and then topped with Duragloss rain repel.


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Yep, I was/still am quite impressed. Thanks.
 
Nice Job and what a great finish. If I may ask, who is the forum member who did this work? Now, you know how and what to do to maintain his or hers work and what can be done to a needed detail on a car. JoeD
 
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He goes by Strokin04 on here I believe. He's away for the week otherwise I'm sure he'd be in here.

While down there I picked up some of the Duragloss car wash concentrate (901) that we used, I got the Duragloss clear coat polish (111) and some of the Duragloss Aquawax (951) to keep the shine. In the next day or two I'll be ordering a Schmitt and grit guard from Autogeek, getting some microfiber towels from Sams Club and getting a knock-off Guzzler from Walmart until Autogeek gets the mid-sized one in towards the end of the month, then I'll pick that up.
 
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Looks great! It's an addiction he has turned you on to, beware!;)
 
Looking great! You might also want to throw a bottle of Collinite 845 in your cart at Autogeek for our looooong Michigan winters.
 
Grimm said:
Looking great! You might also want to throw a bottle of Collinite 845 in your cart at Autogeek for our looooong Michigan winters.
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I'm hoping this crap ends soon. After being down south and having their nice 65+ degree days I'm over this below freezing stuff.



danponjican said:
So did you beat him?
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haha, we didn't race. His car obviously has 10x the potential mine does...but as is my car would walk away from his pretty bad.
 
Very nice! Lookin' good!! And welcome to the addiction!!:D
 
RyeLou said:
haha, we didn't race. His car obviously has 10x the potential mine does...but as is my car would walk away from his pretty bad.
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Cool... I had a black SRT4 play with me on the interstate last week. Quick cars.
 
danponjican said:
Cool... I had a black SRT4 play with me on the interstate last week. Quick cars.
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They certainly can be. I've got a larger turbo and a handful of other crap. Good for high 11's/low 12's with a 116 - 119 trap speed. Still my daily driver too. I'm a Mustang guy but owning one isn't quite yet practical...soon enough.
 
Great work for a "first timer"

Sweet ride too.

Probably this view most people get of the car i guess! Nice gloss from a good angle.

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And welcome to the addiction
 
So no more rough car washes and stupid soap brushes at the car wash place?
(rocks get stuck in those brushes).

Welcome to the forums! Sweet detail job man :D
 
Truls said:
Great work for a "first timer"
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Thanks. I wouldn't have had any idea what was going on had someone not beeing showing me.

Truls said:
Probably this view most people get of the car i guess! Nice gloss from a good angle.
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Ha. I like to keep it that way but occasionally I get my ass kicked. The license plate frame makes me laugh every time though.

bossboy said:
So no more rough car washes and stupid soap brushes at the car wash place?
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No more. I knew they were bad just didn't know how big of a difference could be made about the damage I had already caused.
 
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