>Last week my business card printer gave me a call and set an appointment for a detailing job to be done to her daily ride.

So i went down, diagnose the car and set the appointment date.
The day came, and this time i started abit late.

Today’s prescription,
ONR NO Rinse wash
Meg’s Gold Class wash
PG’s detailing Claybar
Meg’s M105 cutting compound
Optimum Hyper polish
Optimum quick wax
Optimum power clean
Meg’s Ultimate quick detailer
Tools:
LC’s yellow cutting pad
LC’s white polishing pad
Brushes, and lots of MF towels

In Malaysia, it is a very common trend that when you purchase a 2nd hand used car, the car dealers normally respray a coat of clear coat to make the car paint look “New” overtime, rain, acid rain, sun, and not good paint jobs, the paint started to bubble up and eventually….pops and there u have, a brand new hole on ur front hood.

tadaaaa free hole from mother nature and a irresponsible shortcut car dealer

not only the dealers is responsible for these kind of damage…the owner also doesnt take care of the car…
dear car, how would u like some….”tree sap”

overview of a washed car…

over here in malaysia, we have rm4 washes, or USD1.50 washes which they spray acid onto rims to clean the brake dust… in result..

After…

unknown stain…

without ONR no rinse wash, with Meg’s gold class wash

now swirls all over the car like spider webs..

Then i started with M105 with 3 puff of ONR 1:8 as some moisturizing as the weather was very dry…

i found out this technique gives me abit more working time and does not affect the performance of the M105 cutting compound..

before..

After…

sheer clarify from beige paint

no more swirls

amazingly i just did a 1 pass on yellow cutting pad with M105 and all was almost flawless!
before if u remember there is a tree sap strain…
now…

how i did it?
1500grid sand paper, hand buff off with M105 then 1 pass with LC yellow cutting pad. tadaaaa magic!

swirls on the taillights…

regain gloss

then after fully compounding the car, i moved to polishing and wax and uqd. wipe n walk away
some particular shots of damages cleareed.

now here we go, beige reflection!

curvesssss

here ends my work…
artistics shots before i close.

>Yesterday Earth Day was abit bored as my customer suddenly had to go outstation and had to cancel a detailing session, so, i decided to detail up my own ride as it was lacking some love lately.
The hilarious thing was, i woke up at 9.30am and thought it was a working day, panic! rush to the showers and was looking for excuses to tell my boss, then i realize =.= it was a saturday

Anywayz, my car was well maintained as i really had a passion for detailing and polishing it with hand before i got in touched with the detailing circle.

Some teasers before all

So, Todays prescription =D
Meg’s Gold Class
ONR No Rinse wash
OPT Power Clean
OPT Hyper Compound
OPT Hyper Polish
OPT Quick Wax
Meg’s QUD
Meg’s Detailing Clay
Tools Involved:
Makita 9227c
Wool Pad
LC’s Yellow Cutting pad
LC’s White polishing pad (Accidentally cut a sharp area and cut off some now i need to get a new one zzz)
various brushes and microfibres

Oh i started on Friday night which was on my “Practice” Session on my own spoiler. small part of black that needed swirl removal. Sorry i didnt take alot of pics this time as it was white and i dont know how to take good pics of white….
Starting with some evaluation pics
Blur reflection

Unclear reflection with some light swirls which is very hard to notice…

Swirls on black paint

Abit Blurry had swirls but cant notice in pics… hard to take white cars with swirls

The above pics was taken at night
now for the morning shots
pics
Clearer Swirl under sunlight

Another swirl shot

Side mirror…

there are some light swirls around the halogen if u see clearly…

Side mirror preping a M105 threatment

Some water marks stains…not sure if viewable..

Althought its clear but still swirls and water strains are visible..

Roof area not a very clear reflection on the left

Hood area…swirls

Front wheel arch swirles~

Doing a deep clearning…i dont think many people will do till this extend.. but i was bored and it was my car… i know all the insides and out of it… sooo. just gonna clean it!
These were after cleaning

Corrected….
Side area above rear right rim Corrected

a deep RID after correction still there…

Corrected roof! no swirls and smooth touch!

claarity

taadaaa… direct reflection, flawless

Do u feel that there is a deep wet glossy look? + reflection + no more swirlies~

from far… a corrected front hood

nearer…

Cleaned my mugen twin loop too

After the spoiler i went to sleep and after panic morning i continued detailing the whole car including a tail light swirl removal
Damages, light swirls.. im not sure if can view so i’ll post a few

Compounded with M105
tadaaaa

Even taillights also gain a deep gloss

Clear reflection from the halogen

After Fully Compounded and awaiting a refreshing ONR was.. she looks out at the streets…

After washing, i continued with Hyper Polish and then another wash, following to wax application and the UQD. I clayed the car in the beginning for surface prep but not much dirt and contaminents…this is good news right??
Anyways, I completed the car in a total of 13 man hours!
and now for the final prize…
reflections!

PAW PAW PAW white can reflect too

my palm trees gonna be famous yoo~

blue skies from the front hood~

blue skies from the roof

even my bumper has gloss till it almost reflect! (note there is a gazillion of stone chips there)

Just for the tail lights….sexy shot

awsome isnt it?

Regards,
Josh/1st/s1tl
Zero2Hero Auto Detailing™

Lesson learnt from this session,
if ur pad it not big enought, dont force into right places!
watch out of sharp areas, pads might get damages or cutted!!

Cheers!
Happy Detailing…
like KC says to me, the best detailing is the owner! its true