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Well after three people canceled on me last week, I wound up upset and bored, so I figured I give my ride a quick polish, cause I noticed I was starting to get very very light swirls in a few places, I guess I have not mastered swirl free maintence, the swirls were hardly noticable, but they were bugging the crap out of me. So heres what I did and used:

QD: PB Spray and Wipe Waterless wash, the car was basically cleaned, just a quick wipe down.
Clayed: Sonus Ultra Poly with a nxt/water mix, seemed to work real well and the mix had no ill effects on the clay.
Polised: Menzerna FPII, sorry AG, but I love this brand, wish AG carried it. Used an orange edge pad on 5.
Waxed: Collinite SDC, this wax is awesome, gives the look of a nuba, the feel of sealant, and the protection like no other.
Wheels: DP Wheel Glaze and Armorall Tire gel. Ardex speedy brightener for the wheelwells.
I did my entire car in about two hours, start to finish, and the finish came out perfect, no swirls, which amazed me cause I kinda rushed the ploishing. Anyway, check the pics.

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Check this pic, you can see a jet flying by in the reflection, the white line.

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AG Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I love white when its clean and shiny!!!
 
chu said:
I love white when its clean and shiny!!!
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:iagree: I always thought that the high maintenance color was black but white is just as bad.

Nice head lights :awesome: :awesome:
 
White is "hot" when shiny, love the reflection pics
 
Nica said:
:iagree: I always thought that the high maintenance color was black but white is just as bad.

Nice head lights :awesome: :awesome:
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Dude tell me about it, I owned a black suv and white suv at the same time, still have the white one, anybody that thinks white is easy is outta their mind. I think it's as bad or worse then my black suv lol.

Excessive - whats Collinte SDC? I have their 915 and really like it, one of the few nubas that will give flakey cars like silver a nice wet/deep look but pop flake like hell, I noticed Souv, NB kinda muted flakes. But I like that look (the muted flake), give s amuch darker appearance.

Armor All Extreme Gel rocks, I love it. I just applied a coat 3 days ago, and it stormed the last 2 days and it lost very little gloss, still looks fresh even after all the driving in the rain.
 
Surfer said:
Dude tell me about it, I owned a black suv and white suv at the same time, still have the white one, anybody that thinks white is easy is outta their mind. I think it's as bad or worse then my black suv lol.

Excessive - whats Collinte SDC? I have their 915 and really like it, one of the few nubas that will give flakey cars like silver a nice wet/deep look but pop flake like hell, I noticed Souv, NB kinda muted flakes. But I like that look (the muted flake), give s amuch darker appearance.

Armor All Extreme Gel rocks, I love it. I just applied a coat 3 days ago, and it stormed the last 2 days and it lost very little gloss, still looks fresh even after all the driving in the rain.
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Yea I feel ya on the black and white, at least with black you can shine a light on it, do that with white and ya just blind yourself. The SDC stands for super double coat, supposed to last up to a year, not sure about a full year, but pretty darn close, very good stuff.
 
Excessive Detail said:
Yea I feel ya on the black and white, at least with black you can shine a light on it, do that with white and ya just blind yourself. The SDC stands for super double coat, supposed to last up to a year, not sure about a full year, but pretty darn close, very good stuff.
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I just did my wifes car and mine with Collinite 845 and I've never seen a wax bead this well! Great stuff! I want to get the #915 as well.....looks like a quality wax that lasts!
 
What % is that tint? I have 20% on mine and yours looks darker.
 
wytstang said:
What % is that tint? I have 20% on mine and yours looks darker.
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Its 20% all around, I think the fact that the car is white makes the tint look darker.
 
excellent work! thank you for sharing with us. it looks brand new!:applause:
 
As you may have noticed my pictures are not of the highest quality, I'm not sure why I can't get them to look better, I used a 7.1 megapixel Olympus, I was wondering how many of you use a type of photoshop after you take pics to enhance them, or do guyz have any tips on how to make my pics better. Thanks.
 
ltoman said:
excellent work! thank you for sharing with us. it looks brand new!:applause:
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Thanks, I'm trying to keep this car as perfect as possible to see how much more I can get when I trade it in or sell it. I just wish I would have taken a little more care of the motor and tranny, I ride that thing hard, I'm about to loose the clutch, but its fun bangin gears, even in a 4 banger, and even if it can't run at least it looks good. I'd probably kill myself if I had V8.
 
Excessive Detail said:
Well after three people canceled on me last week, I wound up upset and bored, so I figured I give my ride a quick polish, cause I noticed I was starting to get very very light swirls in a few places, I guess I have not mastered swirl free maintence, the swirls were hardly noticable, but they were bugging the crap out of me. So heres what I did and used:

QD: PB Spray and Wipe Waterless wash, the car was basically cleaned, just a quick wipe down.
Clayed: Sonus Ultra Poly with a nxt/water mix, seemed to work real well and the mix had no ill effects on the clay.
Polised: Menzerna FPII, sorry AG, but I love this brand, wish AG carried it. Used an orange edge pad on 5.
Waxed: Collinite SDC, this wax is awesome, gives the look of a nuba, the feel of sealant, and the protection like no other.
Wheels: DP Wheel Glaze and Armorall Tire gel. Ardex speedy brightener for the wheelwells.
I did my entire car in about two hours, start to finish, and the finish came out perfect, no swirls, which amazed me cause I kinda rushed the ploishing. Anyway, check the pics.

P1010004.jpg


P1010010.jpg


P1010003.jpg


P1010002.jpg


P1010009.jpg



P1010008.jpg


P1010007.jpg


Check this pic, you can see a jet flying by in the reflection, the white line.

P1010013.jpg


AG Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Looks great! I know how hard it is to keep white swirl free (very hard to notice swirls without proper lightning).

One hint - NXT wash soap might dry out your clay bar (previously mentioned in your other post). You a real clay lube, it's worth it.

By the way, - I love those HID XENON lights!:righton:
 
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