Silver Car Owners!!!

[Show 'N' Shine Car Detailing]

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Here's a shot of the hood with the sun on it. Looks like no swirls, so I'm happy. And wow does my car have metallic in it, lol



Fender edge sun shot

[davey g-force]

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^ Your silver paint is looking great!

[Show 'N' Shine Car Detailing]

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Thank you. It's also a 2005. I've always been told by the dealerships when I trade in my car to the same place that it's cleaner than it ws when I bought it. lol They've always loved me bringing my cars back, because they know I take care of them.

[Adonyahu]

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Okay so I took the advice of a lot of different people and did the full detail to my car. I even went out and got a GG6 and for anybody who is on the fence about spending that $100 to $150 on a D/A let me tell you it is well worth the money. I will admit the D/A was intimidating at first especially since I came from an orbital but once I got the hang of it I was able to wax my Camry in about 15-20 minutes. I will try to post some pics tomorrow but let me give a brief description of what I did:

1. Good wash with GC
2. Spot Clayed the rough parts around the fender's and bumpers (didn't really need much since I last clayed about three weeks ago)
3. UC (2009 with slightly neglected paint)
4. UP
5. NXT 2.0 let dry for about 2 hours
6. NXT 2.0 let dry for about 30 mins
7. After removing all the wax the paint looked beautiful but I thought why not try some UQD to make it pop (hopefully not overkill)

Unfortunately for me though the car is not garage kept and we got a rain storm two days later (guess I should have checked the forecast). Any ways tell me what you think, any feedback would be great.

I don't understand the different times for dry NXT. I thought that the wax cure is necessary, with any time (4 hour or more) between coats. But wait hours for dry really make diference?

[Adonyahu]

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So this morning I did the drivers side of hood. This time I used again clay bar, then changed to swirlX, then #26 Hi-Tech Yellow Wax to finish. Not a noticeable difference between the two. Still both produce great results. I'm thinking I'm going to go buy some used hoods from junk yards to practice on, probably black, red and silver/white. Should be able to get them for a decent enough price.

Oh, man, what a pity that I'm so far... my black Zafira is waiting for detailing... LOL And if we speaking about silver, my Fiat Uno too!!!!

[Adonyahu]

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Great, great job!

[Golden]

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My wife's old car was silver (03 Pontiac) and I loved the shine I could get out of it. I used to hit it with Meguiar's Cleaner Wax on a polishing pad followed by NXT 2.0 on a finishing pad. The metallic would pop just like Stang2000s pictures above, and the shine was downright blinding.

[Motorsports-X]

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the trick to silver is a respray of clear with pearl in it.

[Wilhelm]

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The hard paint on my wagon was problematic. Initial attempts at getting out some swirls (difficult to see in silver paint) with M105 were not very successful. After trying a few other things in various combinations, the DAMF pads and polishes did the job. Before I had really shiny swirls, but for the first time in 50,000 miles there were actually no swirls. And the next day in the sunlight the wet glossy shine brought the silver titanium paint to life, I mean heads literally turned.

In the picture above, look at the masking tape. The shine on either side of tape is similar. But on the side Michael is working on the swirls are being removed, where on the other side of the tape the swirls are still there, albeit difficult to see.