Paulie102003
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So, always looked after my cars, kept them clean and maintained them - or so I thought until I did my first proper detail using a DA polisher.
So, a good hose down started everything off, followed by the two bucket method to give it a wash. No pics of this as we all know what a wet car looks like and my car has never been caked in dirt (or so I thought, wrongly I found out quickly enough, as it gets washed weekly) so no real benefits of showing any before pics either.
Cracked open the Iron X, read the instructions and I have to be honest, thought to myself - yeah sure, spraying this stuff on is going to make any difference at all. Understatement of the day that was. Sprayed it on, in fact, ended up using the entire 500ml bottle on the car and after a few minutes, couldnt see any of the Iron X changing to pink/red on the paintwork. I guess the black paint was hiding it. Still upholding my cynicism, I thought, sod it and hosed it all off. Amazed to suddenly just see this flood of red water pouring off the body work. Foot in mouth time for sure there.
Anyway, clay bar came out, thought it looked huge and split it in half - here is just the boot, rear bumper and rear side panels, this was also after remoulding it a few times: I was shocked
Second half of the clay bar then came out:
I had started learning an important lesson by now - black cars really do hide the dirt well. I thought I had been good at keeping it clean, but I guess I was wrong.
Anyway, so car was dried, and I cracked open the yet, still in its box, DA Polisher and started off using the finishing pad and #80 Speed Glaze Meguiars to try to rid some of those horrible swirls on the boot:
This didnt work too well, and I felt slightly confused cause all of my research showed that Hondas have really soft paint.
Anyways, opened up the #83, put onto the polishing pad and went over it again:
Went over it again -
Getting better...
Then it just all kinda fell into place...
So, after a number of hours buffing, I applied some Poorboys Black Hole as recommended, which incidentally, I really liked the smell of, made me hungry, followed by Autoglym High Def Wax and then she ended up looking like this:
Roof:
Bonnet:
So, a good hose down started everything off, followed by the two bucket method to give it a wash. No pics of this as we all know what a wet car looks like and my car has never been caked in dirt (or so I thought, wrongly I found out quickly enough, as it gets washed weekly) so no real benefits of showing any before pics either.
Cracked open the Iron X, read the instructions and I have to be honest, thought to myself - yeah sure, spraying this stuff on is going to make any difference at all. Understatement of the day that was. Sprayed it on, in fact, ended up using the entire 500ml bottle on the car and after a few minutes, couldnt see any of the Iron X changing to pink/red on the paintwork. I guess the black paint was hiding it. Still upholding my cynicism, I thought, sod it and hosed it all off. Amazed to suddenly just see this flood of red water pouring off the body work. Foot in mouth time for sure there.
Anyway, clay bar came out, thought it looked huge and split it in half - here is just the boot, rear bumper and rear side panels, this was also after remoulding it a few times: I was shocked
Second half of the clay bar then came out:
I had started learning an important lesson by now - black cars really do hide the dirt well. I thought I had been good at keeping it clean, but I guess I was wrong.
Anyway, so car was dried, and I cracked open the yet, still in its box, DA Polisher and started off using the finishing pad and #80 Speed Glaze Meguiars to try to rid some of those horrible swirls on the boot:
This didnt work too well, and I felt slightly confused cause all of my research showed that Hondas have really soft paint.
Anyways, opened up the #83, put onto the polishing pad and went over it again:
Went over it again -
Getting better...
Then it just all kinda fell into place...
So, after a number of hours buffing, I applied some Poorboys Black Hole as recommended, which incidentally, I really liked the smell of, made me hungry, followed by Autoglym High Def Wax and then she ended up looking like this:
Roof:
Bonnet: