Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

[Mike Phillips]

Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

Huge turnout tonight! Lots of fun and everyone had a chance to try out the new washable foam buffing pads.

A.J. flew in from Pennsylvania for some business in SoCal and came by Meguiar's Garage to have fun and help out...




Before - Wrecking Yard Hood - Horrible condition







George Bacus and Mike Stoops discuss detailing...












Our new foam pads fit the backing plate of the BO6040













Our new foam buffing pads fit the backing plate on the Flex









The pad on the right is our new pad,it's only slightly larger than the W-8006

[CreamPuff]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

As always, thanks Mike for the education, food, and most importantly, FUN!

[RaskyR1]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

Hey Mike,

What were you able to find out about the soft Honda Fit paint?

[LacViet]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

Had great fun yesterday as usual! Thanks Mike (both Mikes) and Meguiars for this fun event.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

Hey Mike,

What were you able to find out about the soft Honda Fit paint?

Yes.

The Andrew aka andrewc_11890 did a great job of removing the swirls and he left a really nice finish with only some very light micro-marring.

We used some ColorX and a finishing pad to work this out and then topped with NXT Tech Wax.

This was the car,






Don't think we took any before shots to show how bad the swirls were but they were horrific. We also discussed the difference in expectations for a show car finish and a daily driver as this is a daily driver and for the same reasons the finish was horrific it's usually not a good idea to try to create show car finish on a daily driver because most owners can't maintain a show car finish.

:0

[gbackus]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

The new cutting foam is a VAST improvement over the original IMO. I'm not sure it can cut to the same degree(would take more than a few minutes to really test it), but it does not grab, pull, or heat up nearly as much as the old foam.

[RaskyR1]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

Cool, Thanks Mike.

I had tried ColorX but it was with a polishing pad. I wasn't really getting micro marring (small orbital marks), it was actually very faint rotational swirls that I was not able to see with my Xenon, all looked great on test spot. They only showed in direct sunlight and I honeslty don't think anyone would have ever noticed them...just my OCD at it's best.

I will try it again with a Polishing pad and see how it turns out.

Rasky

[quantummechanic84]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

Two posts for me... The first not detail related.

So my girlfriend came along with me. It turned out that her and George's girlfriend were friends in elementary school and hadn't seen each other in YEARS.

So... Thank you, Meguiars, for putting on this class where old friends can find each other and rekindle old friendships!

-Casey.

Next post will have before and after pics of a Jetta that has been transformed well beyond my expectations using only M-105...

[CreamPuff]

Re: Pictures & Comments from Meguiar's Open Garage - July 10th, 2008

this was me bugging one of the other guys while he was cleaning his car and i was done with mine...=D


[Sorry, but we had to remove your photo as it does not follow our family friendly guidelines; Thanks, Tim]