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FlaresideLariat's Sunday Detail! Lots of pics!
Vehicle: 1993 Buick Regal Limited 3800
Products Used: Gold Class All Wheel Cleaner, Hot Shine Tire Spray, Gold Class Carwash, All Metal Polish, Dual Action Cleaner Polish #83, NXT Wax, Vinyl & Rubber Cleaner/Conditioner #40, The Absorber, Comet, rubbing alcohol, ScratchX
Time Elapsed: 5.5 hours
Weather: 49*, cloudy, yet the sun came around once in a while
Pad Status: used 3 white CMA polishing pads, all of which accumulated dirt quickly and turned black
PC Speed: 5 with DACP
Before I started out, my car looked like this:
The water from the hose makes a mark on the windshield like it does after I've had the wipers on (and I did not). Why is this?
I washed it with GC, then cleaned the tires with Comet, and cleaned the wheels with GC AWC.
There was sap drops on the hood from the trees. I grabbed rubbing alcohol and a towel and went to work on the sap. It came out! But it left a mark on the hood. I wiped it with a towel, then I grabbed a polishing pad and my PC along with ScratchX. I thought it would remove the mark the alcohol left. I was going to try it out for the first time on my hood. Well, it didn't turn out so good! The pad had black spots in it, I don't know what, and the hood had paint chips in it. I don't remember them being there prior to using ScratchX but it disappointed me. Here is one chip...:
Anyway, I removed the ScratchX right away and went on to DACP. This is what my polishing pad looked like after doing the hood, all red like the color of my paint. Why was it reddish?
Then I was done with the hood:
I then used DACP on the rear fender. This is a pic:
Compare that to the other rear fender, but unpolished!:
Reflection of my legs in the passenger's side rear door, after DACP:
The trunk turned out lovely! AWESOME reflection!
And the wet look...
Now for the most amazing part. On the metal strip all around the car, right above the rocker panels, there has been this etching, if you will, of I don't know what. Here's a before pic:
And, with speed 5 on the PC with some DACP, !!!!:
I am truly amazed!!
Again, before:
And after:
All done with polishing and waxing:
I can't get enough of the metal... Before:
After:
View of the front, after all done, and I used All Metal Polish on my license plate:
Here's a look at my WHITE polishing pad:
Check out the metallic flakes! I could eat them for breakfast! lol
Reflections:
Backed into the sunlight:
Pretty nice, eh? I believe this is the nicest detail job I've ever done. There are some more pics in my gallery if you wish to view them which I highly recommend.
What do you think?
Products Used: Gold Class All Wheel Cleaner, Hot Shine Tire Spray, Gold Class Carwash, All Metal Polish, Dual Action Cleaner Polish #83, NXT Wax, Vinyl & Rubber Cleaner/Conditioner #40, The Absorber, Comet, rubbing alcohol, ScratchX
Time Elapsed: 5.5 hours
Weather: 49*, cloudy, yet the sun came around once in a while
Pad Status: used 3 white CMA polishing pads, all of which accumulated dirt quickly and turned black
PC Speed: 5 with DACP
Before I started out, my car looked like this:
The water from the hose makes a mark on the windshield like it does after I've had the wipers on (and I did not). Why is this?
I washed it with GC, then cleaned the tires with Comet, and cleaned the wheels with GC AWC.
There was sap drops on the hood from the trees. I grabbed rubbing alcohol and a towel and went to work on the sap. It came out! But it left a mark on the hood. I wiped it with a towel, then I grabbed a polishing pad and my PC along with ScratchX. I thought it would remove the mark the alcohol left. I was going to try it out for the first time on my hood. Well, it didn't turn out so good! The pad had black spots in it, I don't know what, and the hood had paint chips in it. I don't remember them being there prior to using ScratchX but it disappointed me. Here is one chip...:
Anyway, I removed the ScratchX right away and went on to DACP. This is what my polishing pad looked like after doing the hood, all red like the color of my paint. Why was it reddish?
Then I was done with the hood:
I then used DACP on the rear fender. This is a pic:
Compare that to the other rear fender, but unpolished!:
Reflection of my legs in the passenger's side rear door, after DACP:
The trunk turned out lovely! AWESOME reflection!
And the wet look...
Now for the most amazing part. On the metal strip all around the car, right above the rocker panels, there has been this etching, if you will, of I don't know what. Here's a before pic:
And, with speed 5 on the PC with some DACP, !!!!:
I am truly amazed!!
Again, before:
And after:
All done with polishing and waxing:
I can't get enough of the metal... Before:
After:
View of the front, after all done, and I used All Metal Polish on my license plate:
Here's a look at my WHITE polishing pad:
Check out the metallic flakes! I could eat them for breakfast! lol
Reflections:
Backed into the sunlight:
Pretty nice, eh? I believe this is the nicest detail job I've ever done. There are some more pics in my gallery if you wish to view them which I highly recommend.
What do you think?
Your comments make me feel good inside. 
I also shook out the driver's side floormat, looks a lot better but not as good as what a vacuum can do. It's all good 
I just stuck it on there for effect... 
How often do you polish your cars?
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