Show N’ Shine Contest (December)

[Meghan]

We're looking for some incredible photos that showcase your best work. It could earn you a $100 gift certificate to Autogeek.net for a monthly winner, or a $1000 check at year's end if your work is deemed the very best. Show us your detailing skills and we'll show you the money!

The Autogeek staff will pick the photo that shows the most impressive results. The winner will get a $100 gift certificate at the end of the month and be entered to win a $1000 check from Max at the end of this year.

For our final show n' shine we are looking for the best paint correction photos. For example the best swirl/scratch, and/or oxidation removal. We want to see befores and afters and a list of the products and machines used to get the results.

Submit your pictures by posting them on this thread. We will announce a winner at the end of this month. Good luck and happy detailing!

Please do not reply or comment on this thread, just post pics if you are entering this contest!

 

[Dust2Glory]

I know I know... ur thinking this guy already won, he's greedy.. but somebody had to get the ball rolling!

Products/Machine used:

50/50 IP/SIP via UDM and Yellow LC pad Sp.6
75/25 IP:SIP/106ff via UDM and cleaned Yellow LC pad Sp.6

Zymol Creame via Green/Red AG wax applicator
Liquid Souveran Spray Wax via mf
Tires coat of RL exterior dressing, then DP tire gel
Windows SIG via MF WW
PB spray and gloss wipe down

Befores:

During reconditioning process:

more to come...

 

[AjNavo61490]

Items Used: PC 7424, LC Pads (Orange, White, and Blue), Meguiar's Supreme Shine MF Towels, 500 Watt Halogen Light.

Products Used: Meguiar's Deep Crystal Paint Cleaner, Pinnacle XMT Swirl Remover #3, Pinnacle XMT Swirl Remover #1, Pinnacle XMT Finishing Glaze, Pinnacle XMT Pad Conditioner, Meguiar's NXT Tech Wax.

Before:

After:

Others: (some items in this picture i was using on a test spot on another part of the car)

Whole Car Shots:

 

[Dust2Glory]

Afters::righton:

My sig shot:

Enjoy!! and happy polishing:buffing:

 

[Pats300zx]

Here's two for me...

 

[dontsleeponit]

My first ever real correction work...

2005 Chevy Cobalt black (just the hood)
UDM
PB SSR 1 & 2.5 for the scratched area
LC White CCS pads
DP Clay
Aquawax LSP

Its not a full job or anything amazing, but I was proud of it for being my first time out. I got out some deep scratches from a snow scraper that I wasnt sure were going to come out, and a lot of etchings from bird crap and just never washing. The paint actually looks black now. I will give the car a full detail this spring most likely.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

 

[DantheMan]

Man I just did a perfect job for a thread like this, but didn't bother to take my camera like most days... I need to learn how to take pics and start bringing it along with me.. Here's the best I have online right now:

Drivers door before:

Afters:

What key marks???

Nasty scratch where??

Products used:

Makita Rotary
3m 2000 grit paper
Menz PG/LC twisted wool
Menz SIP/LC Foamed wool
Menz 106ff/LC CCS white
And some other stuff, but that covers the correction portion!

I may replace this entry some time this month if I get another good correction job to do on black and get some pics to turn out.. We'll see how it goes..

 

[shuskan3]

This is a prep I did on my Bmw 3-Series for an Ultima and Opti-Seal comparison. It had some swirls and heavy marring. I used Rotary and Menzerna.

 

[Driven Auto Detail]

Optimum Compound
Makita Rotary polisher
Meguiar's Yellow (turned burgundy) polishing pad

Bye Bye Oxidation:

 

[ehuth1]

This one was my favorite

Before then after

50/50

Before then after

Afters of exterior

 

[mixxer]

work done with PC

MENZERNA 106 polish[orange pad] ,klasse AIO[white pad],Surf City Garage Barrier Reef Carnauba Wax[by hand]


AFTER

 

[mixxer]

wash,clay, PC polish orange pad menzerna 106ff,klasse AIO white pad,sealed FK1 2180,final wipe down with quickshine,surf city tire shine,AIO wheels,trim restorer inside.
BEFORE



AFTER

 

[blkexcoupe]

I rarely take pictures of my details, but my friend snapped a few pictures the first time he was teaching me how to use the rotary.

Hitachi Rotary, Meguiars DACP, and Lake country yellow cutting pad.

 

[wolfpacker92]

Alright this will be my first Show and Shine contest so here goes:

Products and Process:

Paint Correction

• Menzerna Power Gloss via PC with LC orange pad @ speed 5.5, the truck bed got Power Gloss via PC with LC yellow pad @ speed 5.5.
• 1z Einszett Pro Line High Gloss Polish with LC lo pro white pad via Hitachi rotary @ speed 900 rpms.

LSP

• Liquid Souveran via PC @ speed 3 with LC CCS red pad.

Misc

• Tires dressed with DP Tire Gloss
• Wheels cleaned with Surf City Beyond Steel
• Wells dressed with Stoners Trim Shine
• Windows done with Surf City Clearly Better
• Trim got Poorboys Trim Restorer

Here are some correction shots:

Some before and after full shots:

Good luck to everyone but man I sure would like to win!

 

[richy]

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring as well. Here is a job I was very pleased with, especially with the reflectivity of the paint. It was originally shown in S & S (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/show-n-shine/9465-04-saab-1st-engine-detail-lots-pics.html)
This car was scratched up pretty good from being abused by automatic car washes. The paint was corrected using UCCL/wool pad/rotary followed by 106ff/white CCS/rotary then RMG/gray CCS/UDM and sealed with 476S. The tires were done with DG (will never use anything else!), interior cleaned woolite/water 1:10, and treated with 303 Aerospace; glass with IG. ARO was used heavily in this case: for the wheels, convertible top and engine (which was dressed with 303).

BEFORES:

Look at the lack of depth in this photo:

AFTERS: (REFLECTION SHOTS)

WET SHINE:

MISC:

One last shot of a 2000 BMW 7 series hood..the car was done with UCC/wool/rotary;Micro/blue CCS/rotary;RMG/gray CCS/rotary;Collinite 476S

 

[pt91]

Single stage paint. What a mess. Not one panel matched because of the oxidation and one section was recently repainted. Lots of defects as you can see.

Compounding stage with wool and rotary

Foam via flex with SIP

Final polishing prior to LSP

Some of the arsenal used (spoiler, etc were done by hand)

Afters (next morning)

 

[6LS2]

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

 

[beavslu01]

Process:
Wash: 3X wash with Megs. soap and 2 bucket method with uni-mitt.
Wheels: DP wheel gel with EZ bruch.
Clay: Mothers clay with DP Waterless Wash as lube.
Polish: Porter Cable with Mez. Power Gloss Compound with 6in. Orange Edge, and PB SSR1 with 6in. green Edge pad.
Wax: Pinnicale Souveran
Trim: Pinnicale Souveran
Wheel: Megs Hot Shine

Before:

After:

 

[Ridebyshootings]

shine on!

 

[fast01gt]

1999 Ford Lightning
Guy is in the military and had left it as his dad's place for over a year, thought it was in a garage, turned out it was outside the whole time.

I used
Duragloss 901
Portor Cable /W
Lake Country Orange, white, blue, and black pad.

For Paint Correction used

Meguiar's #83
Menzenra IP
Menzenra FP
Meguires High Tech Yellow #26

Customer did not want tires or wheels touched as he was buying new ones the following week.

Here are some pics

In the first Pic you can kinda see the oxidation on the middle of the hood and on the roof.

Second and Third Pics are of the hood before, the third is the roofbefore, white portion is oxidation that became more visiable as the vehicle dried..

The fifth picture is the hood after, kinda hard to see because it was dusk but those are cloud reflections.

last the finished product.