What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

[DETAILROOKIE]

Gave the Genesis a little wash and preparing to turn it in. I'm not sure how picky Hyundai is with their lease turn ins, so I shampooed everything and took care of the stains around the interior. Also practiced my stripes, Sizzlechest's stripes are my inspiration lol. Topped the exterior off with CMX, still streaked and it is even more noticeable on the dark color, not impressed with it at all. Let's see how it looks in the morning.

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[PaulMys]

Nice.

But, working for a dealer, I can tell you that they don't give a rats a$$ about lease returns.

Yours will be more desirable as an auction vehicle though.

 

[Klasse Act]

Gave the Genesis a little wash and preparing to turn it in. I'm not sure how picky Hyundai is with their lease turn ins, so I shampooed everything and took care of the stains around the interior. Also practiced my stripes, Sizzlechest's stripes are my inspiration lol. Topped the exterior off with CMX, still streaked and it is even more noticeable on the dark color, not impressed with it at all. Let's see how it looks in the morning.

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What's replacing it...G70?

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[DETAILROOKIE]

What's replacing it...G70?

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It was replaced by a G90 lol. I'm finishing the lease for my dad and fix some stuff on it before I turn it in.

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[VISITOR]

Gave the Genesis a little wash and preparing to turn it in. I'm not sure how picky Hyundai is with their lease turn ins, so I shampooed everything and took care of the stains around the interior. Also practiced my stripes, Sizzlechest's stripes are my inspiration lol. Topped the exterior off with CMX, still streaked and it is even more noticeable on the dark color, not impressed with it at all. Let's see how it looks in the morning.

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love that color!

 

[SWETM]

Nice.

But, working for a dealer, I can tell you that they don't give a rats a$$ about lease returns.

Yours will be more desirable as an auction vehicle though.

Hmm this is interesting to hear about leases in the US. But it's what I have noticed through reading about it how it works. Here in Sweden the leases seems a bit different. First when you sign of the lease you estimate the driving distance you are going to have. And if that's much off when turned in the price added is high. Also if the normal wear what that now is is more than expected. It's also something that will get you a higher cost as when you turn it in. Don't know if they are hard on these things. But on private leases it's rare that you see them to neglect the vehicals they lease. A good friend of mine has looked at leasing a car. But with his high mileage of driving cars it's more costly than to buy it instead. If you have a business car and leasing it it's way different than the private ones. So maybe not autogeek standard care of a leased car but if you get back with no maintance and stains and unusual wear interior or exterior and driven way longer than the leasing says. I have only heard this extra cost will be no fun to found out when turned in. Could be that the leasing cost is very different from the beginning between our countries. But from how we look at it it seems to be a huge difference in the mind set of leasing vehicals.

Is it big difference in the cost if you where to buy the car and trade it in than a lease is during the same amount of time?

 

[drei4runner]

Took me three days to do 90% of the detailing of my wife’s Big Bertha. First day was just basically tried to clean the tires and wheels as best I could since it was super windy. Also cleaned the interior of Big Bertha and partially the engine bay. Second day consisted of washing, claying and polishing the paint. The third day, with the help of my two boys, I cleaned and polished the wheels, and finished polishing and then used sealant.

I used Duragloss 501 and PBA 4:1 mixture and after I was done, I used DG 111 and PBA 4:1 mixture also. I used the GG6 to both the DG 501 and 111 mixtures. Still need to apply the Collinite 845 but that will be most likely next weekend and then AW afterwards.

I used Mother’s Chrome polish and a little elbow grease to remove the stuck on brake dust and then used some of the DG 501 mixture on the wheels to give it some protection.

Learned a lot from this forum and thanks to all those people that helps out newbies like myself.

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[Klasse Act]

Lots of work there but look at that shimmer

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[DETAILROOKIE]

Nice.

But, working for a dealer, I can tell you that they don't give a rats a$$ about lease returns.

Yours will be more desirable as an auction vehicle though.

Thank you for that! I never know what to expect when turning in a car.

I know GM doesnt care about the condition, but I got a bill from Nissan when I turned in my Sentra in 2009 for rock chips on the front bumper. They said it was excessive wear and tear, wasn't even bad. Havnt leased a Nissan since.

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[Klasse Act]

Nissan sucks, not a fan of their product line and certain not their CVT, the one in our new Eclipse Cross is pretty impressive if I'm honest. I will say that the new Altima is a good lookin' car, renders the Maxima useless other than it comes with a V6, same size car and I predict the Maxima ends up "sleeping with the fishes".

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[DETAILROOKIE]

Nissan sucks, not a fan of their product line and certain not their CVT, the one in our new Eclipse Cross is pretty impressive if I'm honest. I will say that the new Altima is a good lookin' car, renders the Maxima useless other than it comes with a V6, same size car and I predict the Maxima ends up "sleeping with the fishes".

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I agree! Nissan used to be fun today and nice to look at, but they have gone down the drain recently. They have funky designs and that CVT is horrendous. I used to drive nothing but Nissans but that stopped after that lease. I loved my 2003 Sentra Spec-V, the last nice Sentra they made. The new ones are grotesque.

But my mom has a Rogue and loves it! She will not drive anything else, no matter how much my dad and I try to convince her. Lol

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[Bruno Soares]

Nice.

But, working for a dealer, I can tell you that they don't give a rats a$$ about lease returns.

Yours will be more desirable as an auction vehicle though.

I guess it varies per vehicle too. My wife’s previous Honda Fit was well cared for and when we stopped at the dealer, 3 months before end of lease, just to see if she wanted something else next, they saw the car and offered to buy it for the price Honda would sell the car outright to us. Obviously they figured we’d also get another car that day but that was nice since we didn’t have to worry about the $600 end of lease fee if we just turned it in later and the condition the car was in was fine for them. A lease inspection could complain about curbed wheels which my wife is pretty good at.

 

[Misterpaul]

Nissan sucks, not a fan of their product line and certain not their CVT, the one in our new Eclipse Cross is pretty impressive if I'm honest. I will say that the new Altima is a good lookin' car, renders the Maxima useless other than it comes with a V6, same size car and I predict the Maxima ends up "sleeping with the fishes".

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I agree! Nissan used to be fun today and nice to look at, but they have gone down the drain recently. They have funky designs and that CVT is horrendous. I used to drive nothing but Nissans but that stopped after that lease. I loved my 2003 Sentra Spec-V, the last nice Sentra they made. The new ones are grotesque.

But my mom has a Rogue and loves it! She will not drive anything else, no matter how much my dad and I try to convince her. Lol

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We got a Nissan DeathTrap a few years ago as a loaner. We immediately returned it and told Enterprise it wouldn’t shift out of first. Turns out it had one of those ****** CVT. Noisy, slow, sounding like it was slipping, couldn’t wait to get back into her TBSS at that time.

 

[Misterpaul]

The ophthalmologist my wife works for retired at the end of last month. I inherited a giant RubberMaid storage cabinet which is now in my basement. All of my products that were on shelves are now safely ensconced in said cabinet. Shelf unit will go on the curb Thursday night for the junkman. She’s also bringing home his file cabinets which will go in the garage and replace the DIY shelves I put up 19 years ago. They’re 36” wide, 18” deep and 78” tall. Before installing them I will ONR them and apply a paint Sealant to them. The best part is the price: free for the hauling!

 

[lane5515]

Finally got my new Cox Reel and hose mounted today for my Master Blaster.

 

[TTQ B4U]

Re-coated the Q50 Today

Decided to get started on re-coating my Red Sport with Cquartz UK 3.0 and Gliss v2. Love my GYEON Pure / Skin but it's time I have one of each to show customers and my wife's will be re-done later this Spring to keep the shine/polish looking 100% and I'll maintain the Syncro on her. It's been 13 months and her car still beads like freshly done.

So far I will say Gliss v2 is definitely slicker than v1 and that one was great. Hopefully the hydrophobic property will be up there with Skin as that's the one thing I REALLY enjoy about GYEON's Skin product. Stay tuned for a further comparison.

Anyway, all I did today was a light polish with Essence using the Rupes Mille and yellow pads. Followed up the polish with a single layer of UK 3.0 allowing 4hrs to cure then a single layer of Gliss v2 after. Only the Drivers rear door and quarter needed any real polishing as the kids tend to scuff those panels up with book bags, etc. as they get in the back of moms car or as they walk by. Life happens.....but it's a breeze to correct. Cool thing is self healing clear and a hair dryer got 98% of the marks out.

It's not solid black like my Audi was but it shines good and the flake in the paint....well my cell phone doesn't do it justice. next time I'll have to use a real camera.

 

[ClearVue18]

Finally got my new Cox Reel and hose mounted today for my Master Blaster.

Now that's how it's done sir.

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[minerigger]

Did do a dang thing. Wanted to and then said hell with it. They are dirty and still run great.


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[Klasse Act]

After that freak snow storm yesterday I thought the roads would've been a little messy this morning but not really, some spots though, like thawing and some areas in our parking lot, so I jumped into action tonight. I started with Alien Kleen on the tires, wheels and wells, let it dwell just rinsed it down and left them wet to dry later, onto the wash. For the wash I had a mix of Ech2o and N914, worked great! I have this in my BlackFire hand pump sprayer and it works so well, really like using it! I used the Jack towels for the WW and a Griot's Garage PFM to finish up any leftover. Now it's time for bed...Zzzzzz

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[joleyred]

Project update on my Chevy truck prep and coating. Finished paint correction today, I used a combination of my 3401 with white thin pads for the majority of the work. I used my MarkII with yellow pads for part of it and my PE8 with a 3" microfiber pad for small areas. I tend to reach for the 3401 most often just because it seems like I'm always moving forward and seems like I'm getting more work done. For the first time, I have been using Carpro reflect. I really like the results I'm getting, works really well. Easy wipe off too. White is really tricky, I found if I turn off the over head lights which are fluorescent, I can use my LED floodlight and see pretty well. I'm wondering how much better a Scangrip light would be since I don't own one. I'm putting the coating on tomorrow and I will follow up with pictures. Someone give me their thoughts on the swirl finder lights.

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