Nica
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This vehicle belongs to a co-worker of mine, really nice guy. When I brought the Cyclo to work and he saw it he was started asking some questions about what I do to the paint and how it would look and well he was interested. I told him that I would detail the exterior of his vehicle at no charge. Well he jumped all over it, and I can see why now. It’s a silver Toyota Tercell, I’m not sure what year though. Has about 55,000KM and it has seen better days. The exterior needed some hard work and I found out after washing it. I didn’t mind detailing working on the paint, I really enjoyed the challenge and did things that I had never done and well gaining experience and that I did. The vehicle has never seen a polish surprising enough it actually didn’t there were only some spots that were bad but then again I found out that it’s hard to see scratches on silver. I had to play around with the light’s. This vehicle doesn’t even compare to my Lexus, my Lexus was a walk in the park compared to this Tercell. Mind you my Lexus is brand new and this Tercell is not. Any who, I started this vehicle on Sunday at 2PM and finished it at 12:30AM. Yup, I had fun. Surprisingly enough I’m holding up okay with about 3hrs of sleep. I usually get up early to go to work 4:30AM.
Oh sorry for the long winded write up but I hope some of you enjoy it, if it’s too much let me know. I’ll try to keep it down on the next one.
Washed (black shmitt)
Washed (black shmitt)
I first washed the car using Meguiars Gold Class Shampoo, this stuff works well. No complaints here. The reason I used the black shmitt is because the paint really needed that extra aggressiveness. Surprising it didn’t cause any micro marring, found this interesting. I’m still not using the black shmitt on my Lexus. I like the white one. Oh yea, I didn’t even bother with the two bucket method lol.
Clay
I had the Meguiars clay bar (white one) and so I didn’t want to use my Pinnacle clay I thought I’d use the Meg’s. The Meguiars clay bar doesn’t have much bite but I’m glad I used it because when I was done claying this vehicle I had to throw it out. The clay felt as though I dropped it on the floor and it looked like I had dropped it on the floor. So to the garbage it went. The clay bar felt like sand paper.
Polish (Orange Edge 2K pads with XMT #3 and the Linda (Cyclo))
As all of you have seen I just received my Cyclo and I put it to work. Okay, first things first THE CYCLO IS WICKED!!! No vibration, no num feeling and gives good results. The results I would say are no better then the Porter Cable 7424. After all the Cyclo and the PC do the exact same thing minus the vibration. Money well spent if you ask me. Now as for the size of the machine, that was something I wanted to test out and well first the obvious. On flat surfaces like the hood, roof, fenders and back panels it works great. Then came the door panels, it can be done but you just have to be careful. When it came to underneath the side view mirror’s now that was tricky, I only tried it in one side and in the other side I used my rotary and yes it’s much easier and faster to use the PC or a rotary underneath the mirrors and the door panels too. But if you only had a Cyclo it can be done just take extra care. Another spot to watch out for was the door handles, I guess it depends on the type of door handles but if you got like the ones you will see in the pictures it’s actually easy to do the door handles. I have to admit I like the dual 4inch pads, I felt I had better control but I think this is due to the design of the Cyclo. Oh on the horizontal parts I didn’t find it to awkward, surprisingly my arms didn’t hurt either. I don’t know, I felt it better to hold because of the handle but yes you can not maneuver the Cyclo with just one hand like the PC. I tried using it with just one hand and it didn’t feel comfortable so two hands all the way. Okay hope this info helps those who have questions about the Cyclo, if you have more questions I’ll try to help…keep in mind I just got it and first time using it and by no means I’m not an expert on the Cyclo.
As all of you have seen I just received my Cyclo and I put it to work. Okay, first things first THE CYCLO IS WICKED!!! No vibration, no num feeling and gives good results. The results I would say are no better then the Porter Cable 7424. After all the Cyclo and the PC do the exact same thing minus the vibration. Money well spent if you ask me. Now as for the size of the machine, that was something I wanted to test out and well first the obvious. On flat surfaces like the hood, roof, fenders and back panels it works great. Then came the door panels, it can be done but you just have to be careful. When it came to underneath the side view mirror’s now that was tricky, I only tried it in one side and in the other side I used my rotary and yes it’s much easier and faster to use the PC or a rotary underneath the mirrors and the door panels too. But if you only had a Cyclo it can be done just take extra care. Another spot to watch out for was the door handles, I guess it depends on the type of door handles but if you got like the ones you will see in the pictures it’s actually easy to do the door handles. I have to admit I like the dual 4inch pads, I felt I had better control but I think this is due to the design of the Cyclo. Oh on the horizontal parts I didn’t find it to awkward, surprisingly my arms didn’t hurt either. I don’t know, I felt it better to hold because of the handle but yes you can not maneuver the Cyclo with just one hand like the PC. I tried using it with just one hand and it didn’t feel comfortable so two hands all the way. Okay hope this info helps those who have questions about the Cyclo, if you have more questions I’ll try to help…keep in mind I just got it and first time using it and by no means I’m not an expert on the Cyclo.
I tried using the Cyclo as much as possible but this vehicle had some mean scratches and the Cyclo was hardly putting a dent on them, I can’t wait to get my Optimum compound and the Menzerna I could have used it on this vehicle. So I would say half the vehicle was done with the Cyclo and the other have was done with Lola (Metabo rotary).
I enjoy your write-ups and pics!!
. "Makita VS.Metabo VS. Cyclo..." If you can afford it I would get a rotary and the Cyclo...I like this combo.
