What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

I had to come in here and say...I WAS WRONG! I said that I used 3 ounces of Beadmaker about 30 mins ago when infact, I used FOUR ounces. I filled the empty bottle with a measured 16 ounces Saturday afternoon, 12 ounces left. I will say that I am "heavy handed" with a product like this and DID NOT apply to the windows today, just to be fair and honest, or fair and balanced, or no Fake News, whatever works for yah

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My wife and I brought home three giant file cabinets from her office yesterday. Today before everyone arrived for Easter dinner I rinseless washed them with ONR. I was surprised just how dirty they were. The front faces were fine as they got wiped down frequently but the backs and sides weren’t. After I dried them I wiped them down with some off brand paint sealant then finished them off with Bead Maker. They’re now ready for life in the garage. Tomorrow the shelves come off the walls and the cabinets get installed in their place. Also her Beast will get a bath after I’ve neglected it the past week.
 
Polished inside the door jambs and tailgate of the Jeep. Now they too shine like brand new. I have only the passenger side left to go. Ill do that next week and then the hood the week after. Lastly I'll do the engine bay.

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Klasse Act said:
Since the car sat over the weekend when we got back from Easter activities I had to do "something", clean car and all (it was our first 80 degree day after all ) What I did was a dry application of Beadmaker, yes I know I used Beadmaker as a drying aid Saturday morning but that was a day and half ago, LOL

Since that Beadmaker thread was locked the other day I'd like address one thing with this recent application...the amount. Some people were talking about 8 oz amounts for every application and I mean you can, it's your product but I used about 3 ounces if I had to guess, I could measure it....

No reason to post a pic, surely my new car is over exposed as it is already but you see I haven't had a colored car since 2011 when I had a 2010 Honda Fit Sport in Revolution Orange, that color just G L O W E D

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I just replied in the beadmaker thread unless there is another I’m unaware of?


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My dad doesn't wash his car, at all. So I offered to, as his new Mitsubishi Pajero (Montero in the US) was matt after 13.000 km (10.000m) with grime, salt and an assortment of dirt we get from the gravel roads and bad tarmac here in Iceland.

I foamed the car, and washed, put tar remover (white spirit based), and washed. A couple of Sonax fallout remover bottles (300ml) later (and wash) I IPA cleaned it.

Following the pre and hands on cleaning process, using the 2 bucket method, I applied a layer of Soft99 Fussocoat on the car and finally, after 6 hours, I finished up using Soft99's Glaco window coating.

My first post, thanks for the forum and information guys! Regards from Iceland.
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hakon78 said:
My dad doesn't wash his car, at all. So I offered to, as his new Mitsubishi Pajero (Montero in the US) was matt after 13.000 km (10.000m) with grime, salt and an assortment of dirt we get from the gravel roads and bad tarmac here in Iceland.

I foamed the car, and washed, put tar remover (white spirit based), and washed. A couple of Sonax fallout remover bottles (300ml) later (and wash) I IPA cleaned it.

Following the pre and hands on cleaning process, using the 2 bucket method, I applied a layer of Soft99 Fussocoat on the car and finally, after 6 hours, I finished up using Soft99's Glaco window coating.

My first post, thanks for the forum and information guys! Regards from Iceland.
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Awesome looks beautiful. Welcome to the club!


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Rinseless washed my car with Wolfgang Uber, and followed it up with griots rinseless wash and wax just for fun. That stuff is no joke. Definitely makes a good QD/spray wax/whatever. Might even be easier to use than d156, imo.

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Wells, tires, and wheels are still dirty, I know. I’m very busy and I’m just trying to clean it more often while pollen season is going on because that crap seems to stick to my car like nothing else. Poor thing has neglected since I don’t drive it more than once or twice a week now. Gonna have to clay it one of these weekends and maybe polish it.


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I took a day off from my main job to run my side detailing company.

Did a 2015 BMW 2 series. Car was only tunnel washed its whole life so far. I washed it, iron remover, clay bar, paint prep, then did a one step on it. Also cleaned up its engine bay.

Then did a maintenance wash on a 2009 Aston Martin Vantage. I paint corrected that car a few months ago.

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RaptorGT said:
I took a day off from my main job to run my side detailing company.

Did a 2015 BMW 2 series. Car was only tunnel washed its whole life so far. I washed it, iron remover, clay bar, paint prep, then did a one step on it. Also cleaned up its engine bay.

Then did a maintenance wash on a 2009 Aston Martin Vantage. I paint corrected that car a few months ago.

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How bad was the paint from tunnel washing? LOVE that orange and that AM, well, SEXX on wheels, even in cliche' red!

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Klasse Act said:
How bad was the paint from tunnel washing? LOVE that orange and that AM, well, SEXX on wheels, even in cliche' red!

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They are nice looking cars!

Believe it or not the BMW was not terrible only going through tunnel washes. The hood, roof, trunk was the worst. The sides was not overly swirled out. The worst part was the back of the trunk where BMW badge and 228 badge was, the roller did a number on that. The one step took out 90 percent of the swirls. I was concerned I might have needed a real polish on the hood and trunk but blended in nicely!

The worse was the Aston Martin. Up to 2 years ago the two previous owners looked like only tunnel washed that car too! New owner got it 2 years ago and hand washed it or did touch less washes which now just has me wash it thankfully! That car had deep swirls in it. That was a hard car to correct. Unfortunately in the right sun angles can still see a few swirls on the back of the trunk and the first part of the hood where the roller hits. Average person never notices it, only people like us doing detailing! I feel it is good enough as do not want to over cut the poor guys paint.
 
I spent a wonderful day with my lovely wife in the garage. Pulled down the shelves at the back of the garage and installed these free for the hauling medical file cabinets. Inside is bunches of detailing chemicals and MF towels in sealed containers. Where the leaf blower was hanging is now occupied by the detergent cabinet from our laundry room.

My old Aiwa boom box is still pumping out the tunes. That things got the be close to 25 years old. It has dual cassettes and a five CD changer plus AM & FM radio.
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Before dinner I got three wheels into cleaning her Beast when it started thundering. After the storm passed I continued with the last wheel. Next I foamed the Beast using Griots Foaming Surface Wash letting it dwell several minutes then rinsed. I washed the Beast using several MF towels in a bucket followed by a rinse then used Bead Maker as a drying aid.

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When getting off of work this afternoon I noticed what I would call a light amount of dust/pollen on the car, seed planted right then and there...after the Bruins vs. Leafs game I'm washing the car!

I had enough Griot's Garage foaming surface wash left over in my IK Foam 9 so I used that. I simply foamed the car, let it dwell and rinsed off with the Worx hydroshot and dried with the Sucker, simple Dried the jams and with a separate mf towel I dried the tires and wheels.

Funny story here, while working on my car I was talking to my buddy Hectour, he works opposite shift of me and we talk shop (cars...and other things) every night and tonight was a classic. I brought up how ridiculous the Mclaren Senna looks, it's absolutely ghastly No I can't afford one, obviously but my God is that car F U G L Y! I know everything is done with track use in mind but let's be serious here, .000000001% will see the track and .0000002% will see the street and 99.999999% will be parked somewhere and hopefully with a heavy tarp thrown over it...did I mention how ugly this car is, EEEEEEK!

OK, enough of that, time for bed...1-0 VGK over SJ right now

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Finished polishing up the door jambs of the Jeep. Put the Rupes iBrid to work on this task the other day and it came through with flying colors. Small yellow pad with some Sonax Paint cleaner and the door jambs shine like the outside.

Now the task of cleaning under the hood. That project should make for some great before and after shots.
 
No great pictures as the clouds were getting very dark and looked like it was about to storm

Rinseless washed with N 914. Decontaminated with Iron X followed up with the Nanoskin sponge and Glide as a clay lube. IPA wipe them had lunch

Gave it a quick one step with Menzerna 3500 using the Harbor Freight DA and a Lake Country lcs green polishing pad. After polishing wiped down with Gyeon Prep. Sealed with IGL Premier which I had picked up about a month ago.
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Did a quick ONR wash. Used the BRS. Didn’t notice any marring. Maybe I’m getting better with it, maybe I was just overthinking it when I first got the sponge, but I’ve enjoyed using it lately.

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No presoak, just sponged it straight from the bucket and dried it off. Total time was 13 minutes when I finished.


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Came out of the office and noticed it had drizzled on my pollen dust covered car.










Hmmmmmmm?



Go bass fishing or rinseless wash the SS???




Hmmmmmmm???

















I caught 14!
 
Coatingsarecrack said:
The BRS scares the $h•+ out of me...


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It’s really not that bad. I used to use grout sponges with ONR a long time ago, and had no issues with those either.

I think if you have a habit of pre rinsing before you do a rinseless, there really wouldn’t be anything to worry about.

That being said, I did just clean a butt ton of pollen off my car without inducing any marring I could see.

My only real complaint about the sponge is that it doesn’t really fit under my door handles very well, which leads me to kind of push it up in there which I don’t like. But other than that it’s grown on me. It seriously releases dirt like nothing else.

It’s really nice to not have a whole bunch of wet towels after I’m done. All I needed was one waffle weave and that blue creature edgeless, which I started going behind the waffle weave with after about 70% of the car had been washed, to dry and that was it.


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