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I detailed my mother-in-law’s Pontiac G6 today. Her car is white and was in need of a good polish and waxing. I know Mike Phillips has a post on his dislike of white paint and I agree with him. It is really hard to make white have any kind of depth to its reflections, but I was amazed at the end results. My Aspen White WRX that I had never got the reflections to it that I was able to achieve on the G6 today. With white paint you usually can only make it shine really well with little to no real depth to the reflections. I will let some of the final reflection photos speak for themselves. I used my usual plan of attach and used my g-100 and #80. Here is a more descriptive process. I first started off with a good hose down to get any loose dirt from the finish. I used Safe Degreaser with a foaming sprayer to pre-treat the lower body work of the entire car, I let it dwell for about 5 minutes, and I ended up having to use a Meguiars body brush to scrub off all of the stuck on road grime before I washed the car. I washed using Meguiars Hyper Wash. After a good drying I clayed with Meguiars Detailer Line mild clay with Last Touch cut 50/50 as my clay lube. After taping off all of the rubber and plastic trim work I started my polishing phase. Like I said earlier I used the g-100, #80, and a few 8006 polishing pads to bring on the shine and correct the paint. I then had to make a very hard choice on my LSP. I have 21, NXT, 26, and 16 available to put on. I decided to do something a bit different than I have in the past. I will usually put on 2 coat of one LSP and call it a day, but today I used 2 different LSP’s. I first used M21 via the pc with a 9006-finishing pad. After I remove that I gave it about an hour before I put on a coat of 16. For whatever reason this combo seemed to really make the white paint really pop to life with a really good shine and very impressive depth to the reflections. I did not take any pre-wash pictures only after the wash and final shots. Here are my before and after photos. I hope everyone enjoys this write up and any comments are welcome.
Andrew
BEFORES
AFTERS
REFLECTIONS
These last three pictures in my opinion really show the depth that I was able to achieve.
I detailed my mother-in-law’s Pontiac G6 today. Her car is white and was in need of a good polish and waxing. I know Mike Phillips has a post on his dislike of white paint and I agree with him. It is really hard to make white have any kind of depth to its reflections, but I was amazed at the end results. My Aspen White WRX that I had never got the reflections to it that I was able to achieve on the G6 today. With white paint you usually can only make it shine really well with little to no real depth to the reflections. I will let some of the final reflection photos speak for themselves. I used my usual plan of attach and used my g-100 and #80. Here is a more descriptive process. I first started off with a good hose down to get any loose dirt from the finish. I used Safe Degreaser with a foaming sprayer to pre-treat the lower body work of the entire car, I let it dwell for about 5 minutes, and I ended up having to use a Meguiars body brush to scrub off all of the stuck on road grime before I washed the car. I washed using Meguiars Hyper Wash. After a good drying I clayed with Meguiars Detailer Line mild clay with Last Touch cut 50/50 as my clay lube. After taping off all of the rubber and plastic trim work I started my polishing phase. Like I said earlier I used the g-100, #80, and a few 8006 polishing pads to bring on the shine and correct the paint. I then had to make a very hard choice on my LSP. I have 21, NXT, 26, and 16 available to put on. I decided to do something a bit different than I have in the past. I will usually put on 2 coat of one LSP and call it a day, but today I used 2 different LSP’s. I first used M21 via the pc with a 9006-finishing pad. After I remove that I gave it about an hour before I put on a coat of 16. For whatever reason this combo seemed to really make the white paint really pop to life with a really good shine and very impressive depth to the reflections. I did not take any pre-wash pictures only after the wash and final shots. Here are my before and after photos. I hope everyone enjoys this write up and any comments are welcome.
Andrew
BEFORES
AFTERS
REFLECTIONS
These last three pictures in my opinion really show the depth that I was able to achieve.
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