Is the car a daily driver? Not sure you can ever have a perfect finish if you regularly wash and drive it daily

 

It can be perfect and stay darn close to it if you properly wash the car. Morons these days don't know how to properly clean their cars, and thats what induces the damage.

 

even if you follow the two bucket method, etc.....daily drivers will never be perfect. As soon as you touch it you are putting some kind of mark or scratch on the paint.

 

Luckily Jonas' car is not a daily driver. After the detail is done, wax provides some protection against swirls and scratches. With proper after-care precautions, swirling and other scratches is no worry.

 

No, my car is a garage queen.. Hardly sees the light of day.. I've put on ~350 miles this year...

 

James got his M105 and his blue or white pad today... he said expect some updated pics tomorrow

 

Thanks to Steve P, (formerly known as Tropi-Care) for the super-fast shipping. Got in what? 2 days?

Got the M105, Purple Pad, Yellow Pad, another Orange Pad, and some Jasmine scents (for 1.59).

I'll have some pics tonight hopefully.

 

Were you able to accomplish anything tonight?

 

You usin a 7424?

 

Yo, PM me a staus update on whats goin on.

 

Yes he is

 

i used SIP and a white LC pad on my black truck and had great results, actually better than the SIP on an orange LC pad.

torchd, i recommend you purchase a gilmour foam master foam gun. i have been using this to wash my camaro since the spring detail.... after 3 foamings, i rinse with no nozzle, then dry with leaf blower.

after this i go around with a QD to prevent water spots.

a finishing polish will help the "jeweling" step, or possible a glaze like a vanilla moose

batmobile,
what LSP are you going to use ?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OF0cGinBY


this kid does some amazing work

 

Every time I see the detail jobs on these high end cars, I keep thinking I gotta switch up my products. I dont think the stuff i am getting from a local supplier at the dealer I work at isnt cuttin it! Would like to spend a day with one of these guys too, almost like a buffing class.......... I've got a ton of patience to do detail work, but my jobs havent looked that good. Then again, I dont do it for a living. Tech first, detailer second........

 

For the LSP, I'll be using two in-a-sense: The NXT 2.0 and topping it off with Tropi-care's Carnauba Wax.

 

damn i need a good detail

 

Any progress pics???

 

why use the nxt ??

the tropi-care carnauba must be better than the nxt,
does the nxt have any cleaners in it ??

 

The NXT is more of a sealer than a wax. He is going to apply this to the paint, let it haze for 24 hrs, then will apply a carnuba wax to the car

 

No reason to let NXT haze for that long. That only gives time for dust and other things to land on the car, which will only scratch the surface when it is removed. As soon as it hazes, and can be rubbed off with a finger...it can all be removed.

"Cure times" aren't how long you let the product sit...it's how long you wait to put something on top of it. Example....if you are applying two products, and product A has a cure time of 12 hours.....you need to wait 12 hours after the product A has been removed before you apply product B.