Padd Solutions

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Yesterday Earth Day was abit bored as my customer suddenly had to go outstation and had to cancel a detailing session, so, i decided to detail up my own ride as it was lacking some love lately.
The hilarious thing was, i woke up at 9.30am and thought it was a working day, panic! rush to the showers and was looking for excuses to tell my boss, then i realize =.= it was a saturday

Anywayz, my car was well maintained as i really had a passion for detailing and polishing it with hand before i got in touched with the detailing circle.

Some teasers before all


So, Todays prescription =D
Meg's Gold Class
ONR No Rinse wash
OPT Power Clean
OPT Hyper Compound
OPT Hyper Polish
OPT Quick Wax
Meg's QUD
Meg's Detailing Clay
Tools Involved:
Makita 9227c
Wool Pad
LC's Yellow Cutting pad
LC's White polishing pad (Accidentally cut a sharp area and cut off some now i need to get a new one zzz)
various brushes and microfibres

Oh i started on Friday night which was on my "Practice" Session on my own spoiler. small part of black that needed swirl removal. Sorry i didnt take alot of pics this time as it was white and i dont know how to take good pics of white....
Starting with some evaluation pics
Blur reflection

Unclear reflection with some light swirls which is very hard to notice...

Swirls on black paint

Abit Blurry had swirls but cant notice in pics... hard to take white cars with swirls

The above pics was taken at night
now for the morning shots
pics
Clearer Swirl under sunlight

Another swirl shot

Side mirror...

there are some light swirls around the halogen if u see clearly...

Side mirror preping a M105 threatment

Some water marks stains...not sure if viewable..

Althought its clear but still swirls and water strains are visible..

Roof area not a very clear reflection on the left

Hood area...swirls

Front wheel arch swirles~

Doing a deep clearning...i dont think many people will do till this extend.. but i was bored and it was my car... i know all the insides and out of it... sooo. just gonna clean it!
These were after cleaning


Corrected....
Side area above rear right rim Corrected

a deep RID after correction still there...

Corrected roof! no swirls and smooth touch!

claarity

taadaaa... direct reflection, flawless

Do u feel that there is a deep wet glossy look? + reflection + no more swirlies~

from far... a corrected front hood

nearer...

Cleaned my mugen twin loop too

After the spoiler i went to sleep and after panic morning i continued detailing the whole car including a tail light swirl removal
Damages, light swirls.. im not sure if can view so i'll post a few



Compounded with M105
tadaaaa

Even taillights also gain a deep gloss

Clear reflection from the halogen


After Fully Compounded and awaiting a refreshing ONR was.. she looks out at the streets...

After washing, i continued with Hyper Polish and then another wash, following to wax application and the UQD. I clayed the car in the beginning for surface prep but not much dirt and contaminents...this is good news right??
Anyways, I completed the car in a total of 13 man hours!
and now for the final prize...
reflections!

PAW PAW PAW white can reflect too

my palm trees gonna be famous yoo~

blue skies from the front hood~

blue skies from the roof

even my bumper has gloss till it almost reflect! (note there is a gazillion of stone chips there)

Just for the tail lights....sexy shot

awsome isnt it?



Regards,
Josh/1st/s1tl
Zero2Hero Auto Detailing™

Lesson learnt from this session,
if ur pad it not big enought, dont force into right places!
watch out of sharp areas, pads might get damages or cutted!!

Cheers!
Happy Detailing...
like KC says to me, the best detailing is the owner! its true
My dad's friend who owns this Cefiro has been looking for someone to fix his so called "scratches" around his car. For me, i see swirls, RIDs, and alot of abuse...
So as for today ive only slept 6 hours since my last detail. abit worn out abit tired, i had to push my passion to the limit and give this babe a big big smile to her owner! Passion Rules!

Before i start the prescription..some teasers =p

Wiped the engine with ONR
Should a 3.0 V6 be left like this..... =/


Todays prescription for this sexy looking babe
ONR No Rinse Wash
Optimum (OPT) Hyper Compound
OPT Hyper Polish
OPT Quick Wax
OPT Power Clean
Meg's Detailing Claybar
Meg's Ultimate Quick Detailer
Tools:
Makita 9227c polisher
Makita stock Wool pad
Lake Country Cutting pad
Lake Country Polishing pad
some brushes and sandpapers up to 2000grid
Started with some standard inspections around the car doors, roof, hood, boot and found tonnes of damages to be fixed. without hesitation. i wash it with my favorite potion ONR No Rinse wash!
just with ONR, look at the reflection!



After that clayed down with 1:8 ONR as lube
look at what ive picked up just from quarter of the roof! ewwww

Proceed to doing test spots...i ran out of masking tape...had to use cello tape as an alternative @@
tape up and did a test spot with Opt hyper compound and wool pad... 50/50 looks something like this

Compounded part

Not compounded part

Before...

Following with LC Yellow cutting pad results are quite good...
After testing to determine how could i solve the scratches i decided that some minor wet sanding was requires. i used 1000 grid wet sanded the scratches parts then moving to 1500 then to 2000 till even, after that i did a few passes on wool pad and 1 more pass on cutting pad. No more RIDs

Even my Golden Retriever shares at the gloss

After that i move to the side wheel arcs and doors till complete
After that i had a short break for lunch and my brother wanted to offer some help.
He then invented some amazing tools for Rim cleaning hahaha epicness!
"Extended" Brush

Water "Jet"

In return he opted that i detail his blackberry lulz~ of all the other things he could wan so i just did it anyway...
Light pass with compounded wool pad, move to a more harder pass on cutting pad, then speed 1 to 2 to 1 on hyper polish sprayed some wax and applied Meg's UQD
tadaaaa a well protected backpanel with extreme deep gloss

Even my Golden Retriever was emo as i didnt have time to play with her @@

After lunch i moved on the the roof and boot area...
Roof Area Compounded

This part is the most not safisfied part of all as i couldnt do anything to it. it was "touched up" with a chinese calligraphy brush =.=! notice the whitish spots

After Completely Compounding the car, i moved on to polishing Speed 1 spread, speed 2 to work the product and then to buff off. Then, Waxed and sprayed some Meg's UQD for hydrophobic effect ^^
Reflection Shots of overall job =) My fav part of every detail
Paw Sun Shots at the roof

Remember the oxidized headlights... cleared!

Deep black gloss *bling bling*

Which is which? which is the real one =p

Another Roof reflection


Boot corrected

Front Hood

Dark Gloss and Cefiro Chrome badge

Roof Area

Boot area

Side doors

Then it started to Rain! KC's Fav ^_^

Water beading...


Alien Eggs~



Thanks for viewing~!



Regards,
Josh/s1tl/1st
Zero2Hero Auto Detailing™