01' Mustang GT full correction
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Nice work. Couple of questions......
-Do you put any car shampoo in the Foammaster II foam gun?
-How much shampoo did you add vs. water?
-Did you foam prior to using iron-x?
-Do you foam after iron-x?
-What are your thoughts on the Nanoskin vs. Clay bar. I am thinking about picking one up.
Products on my bucket list: Adams DWC, Iron X, Nanoskin, Foam gun.
Thanks
-Do you put any car shampoo in the Foammaster II foam gun?
-How much shampoo did you add vs. water?
-Did you foam prior to using iron-x?
-Do you foam after iron-x?
-What are your thoughts on the Nanoskin vs. Clay bar. I am thinking about picking one up.
Products on my bucket list: Adams DWC, Iron X, Nanoskin, Foam gun.
Thanks
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Nice work. Couple of questions......
-Do you put any car shampoo in the Foammaster II foam gun?
-How much shampoo did you add vs. water?
-Did you foam prior to using iron-x?
-Do you foam after iron-x?
-What are your thoughts on the Nanoskin vs. Clay bar. I am thinking about picking one up.
Products on my bucket list: Adams DWC, Iron X, Nanoskin, Foam gun.
Thanks
-Do you put any car shampoo in the Foammaster II foam gun?
-How much shampoo did you add vs. water?
-Did you foam prior to using iron-x?
-Do you foam after iron-x?
-What are your thoughts on the Nanoskin vs. Clay bar. I am thinking about picking one up.
Products on my bucket list: Adams DWC, Iron X, Nanoskin, Foam gun.
Thanks
I always foam when I wash not just whe I use Iron X.
I don't foam after Iron X.
I'm pickup up the Nanoskin Autoscrub today. The Charger I'm doing right now has all sorts of stuff stuck to the paint. If I would clay it by hand it would probably take 5-6 hours(it's that bad)so it's worth it in this case to use to the autoscrub.
If the car wasn't this bad I would clay it by hand. I think it's an extra step breaking out the D/A just to clay a car, but with this Charger it's going to be worth it.
I've read a lot of good things about the nanoskin was mitts and towels but haven't used them yet. I'm sure I will pick one up in the future. Stick with the fine grade unless you are planning on polishing.
I hope this helps.
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Thanks man. Funny how that "Ask a Professional Detailer" thread spawned a few professional detailers. Let me know if you ever need a hand on anything. I'm about 45 minutes southwest of Chicago.
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You brought that car back. Great work on it.
Need to break out the stuff and do this to mine but I'm trying to get my car legal for the road again since I had issues with my insurance company and had the state send a letter wanting my tag.
Need to break out the stuff and do this to mine but I'm trying to get my car legal for the road again since I had issues with my insurance company and had the state send a letter wanting my tag.
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After that you would clay/nanoskin to complete the decon process. If there's anymore questions let me know. If I don't know the answer I will find someone who does.
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I'm just asking how much would you charge someone for labor to do what you did with that GT. Without the cost of all the product you used, just labor.
Reason being, from past experience, it looks like it was extensive. But you did everything that, that car really needed and it came out beautiful.
Reason being, from past experience, it looks like it was extensive. But you did everything that, that car really needed and it came out beautiful.
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I'm just asking how much would you charge someone for labor to do what you did with that GT. Without the cost of all the product you used, just labor.
Reason being, from past experience, it looks like it was extensive. But you did everything that, that car really needed and it came out beautiful.
Reason being, from past experience, it looks like it was extensive. But you did everything that, that car really needed and it came out beautiful.
I would only use the stuff I have because every car is different and I don't know 100% if product "A" and "B" are going to work on a particular vehicle. I have close to a dozen different compounds/polishes and probably just as many different type of pads. Does that make any sense? LOL.
This was a pretty extensive correction but there's been worse. The two things that help out greatly with this job is 1. FG400 and 2. The paint is extremely hard which finishes down nicely even when compounding. I probably would have had more time in this car if the paint would have been soft. I had right at 30 hours in this one.
Thanks for the kind words.
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I can't answer that. The reason is I charge a flat hourly rate, I don't add anything on for the cost of the products I use unless it's Opti Coat because of how expensive it is. So the product cost is factored into my hourly rate. I don't ever know how much of whichever product I might use so there really is no way for me to say how much I would charge an hour minus the products.
I would only use the stuff I have because every car is different and I don't know 100% if product "A" and "B" are going to work on a particular vehicle. I have close to a dozen different compounds/polishes and probably just as many different type of pads. Does that make any sense? LOL.
This was a pretty extensive correction but there's been worse. The two things that help out greatly with this job is 1. FG400 and 2. The paint is extremely hard which finishes down nicely even when compounding. I probably would have had more time in this car if the paint would have been soft. I had right at 30 hours in this one.
Thanks for the kind words.
I was going to say I bet it was a decent amount of time. I've never seen a car transform as much as it did with this one.