What did you work on today?

I dressed my DD's interior with Poorboy's Trim Restorer (I really love that stuff by the way). A couple of days ago I cleaned the interior with DP Total Interior, DP Pre-Extractor Treatment, DP Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner, Wolfgang Vinyl Protectant, and my Aztec Hot Rod. I bought this car used but I'll bet that it looks better now than when it did when it was pulled off the dealer's lot! I've learned so much about car care from this site. I love it!!
 
Detailed a 2010 Altima that had dealer installed swirls from the last time I looked at the car and now has owner installed RIDS from washing with a Walmart MF towel. M105 with PC Orange flat LC pad and KBM followed by Poli Seal Meg Polishing pad then topped with Opt Opti Seal
 
Surfed AM then hosed mud off of truck,no need to wash it will get muddy when I go again.Worked on yard getting ready for daughters high school graduation party next week.Wife washed her own Durango i stay silent or she hands me the hose.
 
Today I started to detail my truck, got through the interior and wash n clay. Went inside to eat and came back out to find my dog laying in my back seat covered in mud from jumping in the lake behind my house. I quit working after that. 4 hours in to find a mud covered back seat from a german shepherd that can't stay clean for longer than an hour.

Tomorrow I start over and the dog is staying inside.
 
Washed and fully detailed (LESS CLAYING) the family's DAILEY DRIVERS and waxed 2 of them with FUSION ! My 2010 FORD EXPLORER will get done in the Morning !

2005 MERCEDES C230 PEWTER
2006 MERCEDES C280 BLACK
2007 MERCEDES C230 RED
2006 MERCEDES E350 WHITE
 
I detailed my leather recliner that had gotten quite disgusting from the dogs jumping up on it. Started with a little APC+ diluted 10:1 and a scrub brush to get the grime off. I rubbed in a good amount of 1Z leather conditioner. In the mean time I went to a wedding, and when I got home wiped the chair down. It is now clean and soft.

Jenn
 
Worked on the rock today j/k...The wife and I went on a tour of the old Idaho State Penitentiary. Established in 1870 and decommissioned in 1973...Most all of the Prision was accessible and we were able to go into many of the old cells, incuding the solitairy confinement cells, death row cells, and the gallows (where many men were hung)...WOW what a sucky place that would have been to spend time!!!
 
forrest@mothers said:
I spent the day cleaning windows in cars - the kids' and wife's.

No one knows how to do windows, or vacuum, around the house but me.

Oh yeah, checked the air pressure in the tires, too, since no one can count to 34 psi but me.
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HAHA! Isn't that the truth?
 
I am out of town this week so I did very little yesterday except spent some time on line looking at stuff to buy. I did not bring my detailing kit with me (regretted it) since I could have washed two cars.

Oh, made some eastern NC style bbq pork (cheated - used oven method).
 
yesterday washed my wife's Tahoe. Didnt polish or wax (waiting on my cyclo to come this week) just did a wash, interior clean and shined the tires.

The dog was of no help haha he just wanted to drink the water
 
Detailed the interior of my '09 Cobalt SS/TC.
Warm water with an oil soap to clean(looking for a better cleaner) followed by Pinnacle leather conditioner massaged in by hand. Also did the vinyl with Megs #40.
 
Worked on my website for GK Auto Spa! Been at it for several dayz now.
 
a hangover:eek:

friends wedding, great party.
gonna wash my dirty nissan and put a coat of liq. pinn. sov. on her. then do a full interior clean with dp prot. getting ready for a road trip to NH on wed.
 
Marinated some ribeys for the grill later!!!! But yesterday washed, clayed and sealed a brand new Toyota Prius in dark gray.
 
Got to use Pinnacle SSII for the first time on my 04 WRX.
Love the way it looks.
 
Finished up yesterdays wash, clay and wax on my G8 GT by doing the tires and wheel arches and under hood with Meguiar's Hyper Dressing. Meguiars Hyper Dressing
I then washed the wife's TBSS. :autowash: I'll wax it later today when the sun goes down and it cools off. I'll also do her tires, wheel arches and under hood at that time.

Tomorrow looks like rain so I'll give them both a second coat of wax (Meguiar's Gold Class paste on mine, Meguiar's NXT 2.0 on hers.)
 
I put the third coat of Helmsman Spar Urethane on the pre-cut boards for an $80 6' picnic table from Home Depot, I've put at least 30 man hours into this cheap little table.

Last year all table pieces were sanded and wood bleached a couple times then sanded progressively down. Starting at 80 grit on a belt sander to (at least) 320 grit on a vibrating sander. Then just the table top piece was treated with Min Wax Pre-Stain treatment twice, each one day apart. Then very thoroughly stain/sealed with Minwax Wood finish in three coats, being very careful to get every nook, cranny, knothole etc. saturated and excess removed. And finally two coats of Minwax Helmsman Spar Urethane, just as thoroughly applied, but sanded between coats.

This year I've gotten the rest of the pieces (frame and seats) caught up with the table top piece. The frame and seat boards had to be bleached and sanded again because little beads of sap had seeped out all over.

I plan on taping off the bottom of the table top and seats to fill between the boards and a 1/4"on top with Super-Glaze, it's the really thick clear coat like on nice bar-tops.

The amount of effort I have put into this table is comedic, but it should last a little longer than the last one I had... It was just stained once for some color.

A couple pics-

I think this is Pre-stain treatment (left) and first coat of stain in progress (right)
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Spar Urethane going down
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Getting in the holes
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Between coat sanding
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Gotta have a reflection shot! :D
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Table top piece
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Sorry it's not car related :dunno: If it wasn't so crappy out I would have had big, not car related, project to post about... Building a Retaining Wall.
 
Gonna take the wand at the self do-it car wash to clean up my wheel wells and then head off to a pool party for some good times.
 
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