My in laws do a ton to help us out by watching our kids when we work among other things. In the last year she's had a ton of health problems, and the car has been neglected badly. She always comments on how clean our cars are, so I offered to do a full detail on hers. I took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather and a couple days off this week to start working on it. I'll share pictures because I did a two-step correction but please note that I'm not done with it. The paint was rough, and took me about 14 hours to correct over two days while trying to help with the kids. I told her I'll steal it again in a week or two to clean up the interior, wheels, trim and apply a wax.
Yeah, it was filthy. When I was drying it before claying, I could feel my towel snagging on the crud in the clear coat.
Swirls, scratches, spider webs. I had my work cut out. I've used AIO a few times now, but decided it was time to take the next step and try compounding. I've never done it before. I have a ton of different samples, but decided to go with McKee's Fast Compound for no reason other than I've liked everything in the line that I've tried so far. I also had some Megs ultimate on hand in the event that I scared myself and wanted something that was known to be easy to use.
Not seen, but I did a small test spot with 5 passes using my PC and an orange CCS pad at 5. For more heavily damaged areas I would make 6 or 7 passes with the last two bumped up to a speed of 6. I found the fast compound to have good working time, and with 4 pea sized drops on the pad I could not make it "disappear" as the description on AG suggested. It started dusting a bit at 6. It wiped up easily. I had a bottle of XMT-1 out of a mystery box, so I decided to give it a try. I wasn't super impressed. Couldn't really see a difference after 5 passes on a white pad. Because of this, and how long it took me to correct the paint I elected to abandon it for McKee's 360 on a white CCS pad with solid results. Plus, I managed to avoid going over the car a 3rd time.
The wheels have some rash on them, and I'm going to have to really scrub the trim along the rocker panels and wheel wells, but by the time I'm done with this her car is going to be looking a lot happier. Doing a two step correction took me about 14 hours of working time over the course of two days. It made me realize how much easier it is to maintain a finish when you do this early on, and can keep things looking good without going over the car multiple times with the polisher. Next up for a big correction will be my explorer, but that will have to wait until the temps are above freezing again. In the mean time, I have an interior and trim on this to give a good cleaning to.
Thanks for looking.
Yeah, it was filthy. When I was drying it before claying, I could feel my towel snagging on the crud in the clear coat.
Swirls, scratches, spider webs. I had my work cut out. I've used AIO a few times now, but decided it was time to take the next step and try compounding. I've never done it before. I have a ton of different samples, but decided to go with McKee's Fast Compound for no reason other than I've liked everything in the line that I've tried so far. I also had some Megs ultimate on hand in the event that I scared myself and wanted something that was known to be easy to use.
Not seen, but I did a small test spot with 5 passes using my PC and an orange CCS pad at 5. For more heavily damaged areas I would make 6 or 7 passes with the last two bumped up to a speed of 6. I found the fast compound to have good working time, and with 4 pea sized drops on the pad I could not make it "disappear" as the description on AG suggested. It started dusting a bit at 6. It wiped up easily. I had a bottle of XMT-1 out of a mystery box, so I decided to give it a try. I wasn't super impressed. Couldn't really see a difference after 5 passes on a white pad. Because of this, and how long it took me to correct the paint I elected to abandon it for McKee's 360 on a white CCS pad with solid results. Plus, I managed to avoid going over the car a 3rd time.
The wheels have some rash on them, and I'm going to have to really scrub the trim along the rocker panels and wheel wells, but by the time I'm done with this her car is going to be looking a lot happier. Doing a two step correction took me about 14 hours of working time over the course of two days. It made me realize how much easier it is to maintain a finish when you do this early on, and can keep things looking good without going over the car multiple times with the polisher. Next up for a big correction will be my explorer, but that will have to wait until the temps are above freezing again. In the mean time, I have an interior and trim on this to give a good cleaning to.
Thanks for looking.
