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A friend of mine had purchased a '97 MB E320 about 9 months ago for his wife and they had never had a chance to have it detailed. And by the looks of it, neither had the original owner.
Finally finding a day off that the weather did not turn inclement, I headed over there right after they had brought their car back from a local car wash I use for my vehicles.
I started off with a new claybar and plenty of QD. I thought I had taken off plenty of contamination before on my Buick when I first got it. This takes the cake! I took the advice on this forum and broke the claybar apart into 3 pieces, thinking I'd use one up, move onto another, and still be able to use the second one a few more times. Not the case. I went through all three pieces of claybar on the vehicle and discarded them all when I was finished. I would not have been comfortable reusing them on another vehicle. About this time, my friend came up to his MB and never knew that paint was supposed to feel that smooth.
The next steps were easy, and as usual a little time consuming.
#83 applied with the PC, follow by PC applied #81, (although I'm going to try out #80 next time after using #83), and finished it all off with PC applied NXT wax.
I apologize for not taking any "before" pics. The skies looked a little ominous overhead, so I wasted no time whenever I could. But here are a few after pics. They started snapping pictures before I had a chance to apply a dressing to the undercarriage doorsills.
There's my lil '03 C320 4-matic in the background
My friend and his wife immediately commented that they were happy that the DIO swirl-marks had been removed!
A big thanks to everyone here at the Meguiarsonline forum for posting their tips, tricks, and advice to beginners such as myself. The information provided here has paid off in spades.
Finally finding a day off that the weather did not turn inclement, I headed over there right after they had brought their car back from a local car wash I use for my vehicles.
I started off with a new claybar and plenty of QD. I thought I had taken off plenty of contamination before on my Buick when I first got it. This takes the cake! I took the advice on this forum and broke the claybar apart into 3 pieces, thinking I'd use one up, move onto another, and still be able to use the second one a few more times. Not the case. I went through all three pieces of claybar on the vehicle and discarded them all when I was finished. I would not have been comfortable reusing them on another vehicle. About this time, my friend came up to his MB and never knew that paint was supposed to feel that smooth.
The next steps were easy, and as usual a little time consuming.
#83 applied with the PC, follow by PC applied #81, (although I'm going to try out #80 next time after using #83), and finished it all off with PC applied NXT wax.
I apologize for not taking any "before" pics. The skies looked a little ominous overhead, so I wasted no time whenever I could. But here are a few after pics. They started snapping pictures before I had a chance to apply a dressing to the undercarriage doorsills.
There's my lil '03 C320 4-matic in the background
My friend and his wife immediately commented that they were happy that the DIO swirl-marks had been removed!
A big thanks to everyone here at the Meguiarsonline forum for posting their tips, tricks, and advice to beginners such as myself. The information provided here has paid off in spades.
awsome results!
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