What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

Thanks. It’s an 05 with 22k on it. Bought it 2 years ago with 15k on it.
 
A rinseless wash at dusk.

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Much, MUCH needed FNW!

So this week it was very messy in Chucagoland! Early in the week it snowed 2 days in a row and they hammered the roads with salt, then we got a gradual warm up which continues into early next week, awesome!

So tonight I started by pre-washing the car with foaming it down with TW Ice in the IK Foam 9...everything, topside and bottomside, tires, wheels and wells, left to dwell and then rinsed. At this point the beading from the double coat of TWSS and TW spray wax was incredible, granted it's only 2 weeks old but still, it laughed at the first wave of winter!

Next up was the tires and wheels, Brake Buster to the rescue! Doing one at time it dwelled for a couple minutes and my usual 4 brushes took care of everything and once rinsed, the CMX coated rims were beading like the car was, so far, so good there, stay "tuned".

For the wash I had about 2.5 gallons of leftover Ech2o from last weeks wash but I wanted a little more so I actually added 2.5 ounces of....drum roll, TW rinse wash and wax, added a gallon of hot water, stirred and got after it. Since I had 2 buckets, 1 with the RW solution and the other with pretty warm water, both with grit guards and the car was still wet, no pre-treating the panels and I used my newer grout sponge to clean the car. One panel at a time, dunk and rub against the grit guard because I got all up under the side skirts, paying special attention to making sure the dirt was all gone each time. The water was pretty damn dirty, I can only imagine how it would've looked if I hadn't pre-washed and rinsed it.

The Gyeon Tire Express still has a matte finish to it, I'll check it out in the morning but either way, I'm glad the car is clean once again. Tomorrow my daughter and I are driving down to the WeatherTech factory store so I can pick up front and rear mats for the ES, also pick up some of their protectant for the mats too, I'm running low and I need to clean/protect my wife's mats too.



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Roger, be sure to get your complimentary scones and coffee. The coffee counter is off to your left when you walk in.
 
Misterpaul said:
Roger, be sure to get your complimentary scones and coffee. The coffee counter is off to your left when you walk in.
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I haven't been there in 5 years, my wife picked hers up there while she was out in the area when she got the Eclipse Cross, so I'll look for that but I wanna see what cars they have in the shop, always something cool on the commercials. Waiting a little while as I'm sure the road is still sweating right now, trying to keep the ES clean, LOL

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Applied some Beadmaker over the winter Collinite 476 because the dust attraction was annoying me. Lol

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Yet another driveway wash. High of 40, but I had no problems. I`ll keep on doing it till temps don`t allow. Then only on above freezing days. Truck was dirty!
 
Since the car got trashed going down to WeatherTech this morning and I have the time I decided to re-clean the car, big surprise, huh

I started with the tires and wheel and hadn't used Meg's DUB wheel cleaner in a while and wanted to see if anything would pull up....nope, just the rotors, full barrel cleaning and spokes, tires scrubbed with 303 tire and rubber cleaner and rinsed away. I know this, I don't miss the smell of that DUB wheel cleaner I next moved to the wash, chose a RW using the towels in the bucket method, solution of choice tonight was Griot's Garage Brillant Shine rinseless wash, just love this stuff...pure clean! After the wash and dry I used some of the leftover and re-sprayed the tires, wheels and wells with it and then immediately dried using my Master Blaster to dry completely, actually went over the entire car in all the nooks and crannies, handy tool without a doubt.

I should mention that before I got started with all this I took out the OE carpeted mats, vac'd out the car and installed the WeatherTech floorliners and ofcoarse they fit perfectly, no surprises there. I treated the brand new floorliners with their protectant earlier and let it dry and soak in real good while I watched the Wolverines smoke the Spartans

Now the car sits till tomorrow where I'll be attending a cars and coffee I haven't been to since a week after I got the car Time to head upstairs, pour myself a Coke and cook a burger!

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Klasse Act said:
Since the car got trashed going down to WeatherTech this morning and I have the time I decided to re-clean the car, big surprise, huh

I started with the tires and wheel and hadn't used Meg's DUB wheel cleaner in a while and wanted to see if anything would pull up....nope, just the rotors, full barrel cleaning and spokes, tires scrubbed with 303 tire and rubber cleaner and rinsed away. I know this, I don't miss the smell of that DUB wheel cleaner I next moved to the wash, chose a RW using the towels in the bucket method, solution of choice tonight was Griot's Garage Brillant Shine rinseless wash, just love this stuff...pure clean! After the wash and dry I used some of the leftover and re-sprayed the tires, wheels and wells with it and then immediately dried using my Master Blaster to dry completely, actually went over the entire car in all the nooks and crannies, handy tool without a doubt.

I should mention that before I got started with all this I took out the OE carpeted mats, vac'd out the car and installed the WeatherTech floorliners and ofcoarse they fit perfectly, no surprises there. I treated the brand new floorliners with their protectant earlier and let it dry and soak in real good while I watched the Wolverines smoke the Spartans

Now the car sits till tomorrow where I'll be attending a cars and coffee I haven't been to since a week after I got the car Time to head upstairs, pour myself a Coke and cook a burger!

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They seriously still have cars and coffee this time of year? After that hell of a week we had with the weather and still salt everywhere? I though people would be storing those nice cars by now.
 
Kaban said:
They seriously still have cars and coffee this time of year? After that hell of a week we had with the weather and still salt everywhere? I though people would be storing those nice cars by now.
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Most people do have them put away, but some of us that have modded DD still show with our rides and the other guys drive their DD or designated winter cars. It's cool to get car guys together and talk shop, these guys from Chicago Garage have been doing this weekly cars and coffee for years now

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Hey Klasse,

I am wondering why you use heavy hitters for cleaning tires and wheels.
Seems to me you coated the wheels and tires.
I only do the atomic clean before a facelift otherwise the normal soap bubble theory works
 
spazzz said:
Hey Klasse,

I am wondering why you use heavy hitters for cleaning tires and wheels.
Seems to me you coated the wheels and tires.
I only do the atomic clean before a facelift otherwise the normal soap bubble theory works
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Bad habits die hard, LOL.

Today's wheel cleaning was just to be curious, plus to use the stuff up honestly. I see no need to use the color changing wheel cleaners on my car, Brake Buster @4:1 or even 5:1 is my go to for weekly cleanings. I guess when I do a WW or RW I could use my designated wheel cleaner and then when I do a 2BM and pre-wash with the foamer I could just use whatever is in my foamer at that time, I should know better to be honest

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Also, I used the color changing stuff alot on my Abarth because I was all about the chemical reaction, problem there was what it was doing to my rotors and the paint on my calipers though. This bad habit I did learn from. Every so often is ok but weekly, never again! It stays on the shelf for when I really need it, like someone else's car, LOL

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My neighbor just brought me this... Never done any of his vehicles before. This 1 is currently thrashed. It’s time to earn it.

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I wonder how soft/hard that BMW paint is. Keep us posted.
 
Bill D said:
I wonder how soft/hard that BMW paint is. Keep us posted.
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John from Forensic Detailing has a BMW and just had his hood and front bumper re-sprayed and he commented on how hard BMW paint is, looks to be the same color red too actually.

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Speaking of hard or soft paint, my Hyundai looked great when I got it and still don't see any swirls in my paint. I mean I feel my wash technique is good but even still, after 8 months I see nothing anywhere. Because it's an Asian branded car, on the less expensive side, I'd assume its soft paint

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