runrun411
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This is my very first review so all your comments and critisisms are welcomed and appreciated.
First I'd like you to meet Myrna (Pronounced Mer Na). A 2002 Hyundai Elantra which just turned 400,000 miles. This is my DD and has been through quite a thrashing over the years. Between hitting 5 deers, 2 fender benders and countless butchered cars washes, it has every kind of bodywork defect in exsistance.
This car is also my test mule for detailing products I get from AG. I decided to do a paint correction on this beater car and had to start with removing all the old tree sap. Where I live there's a lot of pine trees and a few right over my driveway and when the weather is warm they all decide to spit on my cars.
Believe me it's worse than the pics suggest (I gotta get better with the camera).
When I went to the car wash (before AG) I would ask the attendant what could he do to remove the tree sap and he would scrub the car with a cleaner that was meant for the tires (like I said this was Pre-AG,). Look at what it did.
It has worn the clearcoat and swirled and scratched the finish really bad. I started late in the day and said that I was only gonna do the roof as this was to experiment with what I read in a post about using Purell to remove tree sap (thanks Bobby G.)
I know that people use alcohol for a IPA wipedown before applying wax but I don't think it's Ethyl Alcohol. If so be very careful, this stuff will soften your clearcoat.
After applying Purell I tried using a soft small brush to remove it, nah, it didn't remove well. Then I tried a terry cloth towel, a little better but not by much. Then I massaged it with my finger and 'BINGO', your fingerprint is some odd way acts as a mirco scrubber and you can feel the sap spots disappear.
After removing all that old tree sap (some of it quite a few years old). It time to go to work.
Now here's what happens when you don't use tape before your first pass.
Oh well. On to another pad.
And now the triple treat. What a lucky beater car. With DODO we're gonna trip the Light Fantastic. LOL. I use a white CCS pad for the 205 and a blue CCS pad for the DODO Juice. I ended up using a MF applicator for the wax because it was so hard to see it go on the car with the PC.
Anyways, BAM
BOOM
POW
Sorry I couldn't get better reflection shots. Now onto the rest of the car if it doesn't kill me first.
First I'd like you to meet Myrna (Pronounced Mer Na). A 2002 Hyundai Elantra which just turned 400,000 miles. This is my DD and has been through quite a thrashing over the years. Between hitting 5 deers, 2 fender benders and countless butchered cars washes, it has every kind of bodywork defect in exsistance.
This car is also my test mule for detailing products I get from AG. I decided to do a paint correction on this beater car and had to start with removing all the old tree sap. Where I live there's a lot of pine trees and a few right over my driveway and when the weather is warm they all decide to spit on my cars.
Believe me it's worse than the pics suggest (I gotta get better with the camera).
When I went to the car wash (before AG) I would ask the attendant what could he do to remove the tree sap and he would scrub the car with a cleaner that was meant for the tires (like I said this was Pre-AG,). Look at what it did.
It has worn the clearcoat and swirled and scratched the finish really bad. I started late in the day and said that I was only gonna do the roof as this was to experiment with what I read in a post about using Purell to remove tree sap (thanks Bobby G.)
I know that people use alcohol for a IPA wipedown before applying wax but I don't think it's Ethyl Alcohol. If so be very careful, this stuff will soften your clearcoat.
After applying Purell I tried using a soft small brush to remove it, nah, it didn't remove well. Then I tried a terry cloth towel, a little better but not by much. Then I massaged it with my finger and 'BINGO', your fingerprint is some odd way acts as a mirco scrubber and you can feel the sap spots disappear.
After removing all that old tree sap (some of it quite a few years old). It time to go to work.
Now here's what happens when you don't use tape before your first pass.
Oh well. On to another pad.
And now the triple treat. What a lucky beater car. With DODO we're gonna trip the Light Fantastic. LOL. I use a white CCS pad for the 205 and a blue CCS pad for the DODO Juice. I ended up using a MF applicator for the wax because it was so hard to see it go on the car with the PC.
Anyways, BAM
BOOM
POW
Sorry I couldn't get better reflection shots. Now onto the rest of the car if it doesn't kill me first.
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