Howdy folks, just joined here.
Just bought Wifey a new-to-us 2010 Rav4 Limited V6, black forest pearl color. Of course upon bringing it home, it is covered in swirls. Now it is covered in road muck from Pennsylvania winter weather. I can't wait for spring. That paint color is going to be awesome to play with.
Ended up following a link to Autogeeks from the Rav4world forum. I am a forum junkie. Love forums. I am on Disneyworld forum, Myrtle Beach forum, few Jetta forums, Rav4 forum, RCGroups for my RC flying and some other RC forums, sim racing forums, flight simulator forums, guitar forums, I have a lot of forums I lurk, read, and participate on.
I read about on the forums about DA polishers a bit along with some other stuff. I'm not a newbie to mild detailing, but would be a newbie to machine work. I have an old Dewalt DA sander and I gave the forum a search and found a few threads. One had a link heading to the Meguiar's forum and pointed to a question I asked a few years back about the Dewalt DW443.
I still want to use that Dewalt DW443. A thread here at Autogeeks made it look promising. Not made of money here as I'm still trying to pay some stuff off while trying to contain the wife's spending, but I have to start somewhere.
During my younger years, my cars were always spotless. I purchased a Toyota 4x4 way back when with 95,000 miles on it for $7000. I beat the living crap out of that thing both on and off the road. I had it covered top to bottom in mud, only the windshield wiper area was clear. You couldn't tell what color it was after one 4wheeling outing. 2 days later I was in an accident. The insurance gave me book value of $7000 (what I paid for it 2.5 years earlier) and gave me a 3 page list of individual areas and the condition with value. Wheels and tires extra clean, $50, glass extra clean, $75, engine bay extra clean, $150, chassis extra clean, drivetrain extra clean, paint extra clean, interior extra clean. It all totalled up to $1800 giving me $8800 for a truck I paid $7000 for and drove for 2.5 years abusing the crap out of it.
I wasn't an expert by any means back then. I loved Eagle One Wet polish and Eagle One caranuaba paste wax. Still love the smell of caranuaba today. The truck was anything but flawless, I 4wheeled in the woods all the time. It was definitely scratched up. I loved STP tire foam back then and that is what I used in the engine bay, underneath the truck, and the wheel wells constantly. I never scrubbed those areas, just sprayed them with tirefoam about once a month.
Then I got married, bought a house, had kids, etc, etc. No time to even bother with washing cars let alone detailing them. Too much work on the house (hence my Dewalt DW443 DA sander that I used to strip the paint board by board off the cedar siding on the house for 3 years.) Now I took that sander all apart, cleaned it, and am going to get a new hook and loop backing plate for it to see how it will do with polishing the cars.
Just bought Wifey a new-to-us 2010 Rav4 Limited V6, black forest pearl color. Of course upon bringing it home, it is covered in swirls. Now it is covered in road muck from Pennsylvania winter weather. I can't wait for spring. That paint color is going to be awesome to play with.
Ended up following a link to Autogeeks from the Rav4world forum. I am a forum junkie. Love forums. I am on Disneyworld forum, Myrtle Beach forum, few Jetta forums, Rav4 forum, RCGroups for my RC flying and some other RC forums, sim racing forums, flight simulator forums, guitar forums, I have a lot of forums I lurk, read, and participate on.
I read about on the forums about DA polishers a bit along with some other stuff. I'm not a newbie to mild detailing, but would be a newbie to machine work. I have an old Dewalt DA sander and I gave the forum a search and found a few threads. One had a link heading to the Meguiar's forum and pointed to a question I asked a few years back about the Dewalt DW443.
I still want to use that Dewalt DW443. A thread here at Autogeeks made it look promising. Not made of money here as I'm still trying to pay some stuff off while trying to contain the wife's spending, but I have to start somewhere.
During my younger years, my cars were always spotless. I purchased a Toyota 4x4 way back when with 95,000 miles on it for $7000. I beat the living crap out of that thing both on and off the road. I had it covered top to bottom in mud, only the windshield wiper area was clear. You couldn't tell what color it was after one 4wheeling outing. 2 days later I was in an accident. The insurance gave me book value of $7000 (what I paid for it 2.5 years earlier) and gave me a 3 page list of individual areas and the condition with value. Wheels and tires extra clean, $50, glass extra clean, $75, engine bay extra clean, $150, chassis extra clean, drivetrain extra clean, paint extra clean, interior extra clean. It all totalled up to $1800 giving me $8800 for a truck I paid $7000 for and drove for 2.5 years abusing the crap out of it.
I wasn't an expert by any means back then. I loved Eagle One Wet polish and Eagle One caranuaba paste wax. Still love the smell of caranuaba today. The truck was anything but flawless, I 4wheeled in the woods all the time. It was definitely scratched up. I loved STP tire foam back then and that is what I used in the engine bay, underneath the truck, and the wheel wells constantly. I never scrubbed those areas, just sprayed them with tirefoam about once a month.
Then I got married, bought a house, had kids, etc, etc. No time to even bother with washing cars let alone detailing them. Too much work on the house (hence my Dewalt DW443 DA sander that I used to strip the paint board by board off the cedar siding on the house for 3 years.) Now I took that sander all apart, cleaned it, and am going to get a new hook and loop backing plate for it to see how it will do with polishing the cars.
