hmm let me see if i can find pics of one that i worked on for the 2-3 hours.... so hold on...

 

ok sorry ms. cleo, i forgot your all might internets emotion knowledge

you should probably be on www.internetpsychics.net

 

This was about 2 weeks after a complete wetsand, buff and polish. Photo credit REIGN SS


This was my last wax before the rims came off and the cold weather came...

 

paint looks very very deep. nice, got any sun bragging shots?

 

not any where that was the main focus... like I said Ill have to do this when the weather gets a bit nicer...

This is the closest I have to direct sunlight...


And this is a close up (no DIRECT sun though)

 

its pretty obvious that your paint is far superior than the majority of black cars on the road. i still want to see how good of shape its in when you get a chance (not doubting, i honestly just have tons of respect for good work)

 

thats cool, ill definitely have to do that... in 3 months I'll start a "calling out hatrickstu" thread

 

do it! i just wanted to do a friendly comparo between me and mdub because ive never seen any close sun shots of his car

 

looks good so will you do my balt for me since yopu dont live so far away please i might pay ya too

 

understand, he posted his pics on another forum, but i didn't see any close up sun shots. I'll admit though, i had a bit of an edge in my detailing... I was in charge of ordering the chemicals for the largest GM dealership in the area, and got to try whatever I wanted lol. It was nice to try these super expensive polishes and not have to pay for them personally... if only I got to keep them lol.

 

throw some money my way haha. only thing that pissed me off is the front bumper (yours would be way easier) and the area under the wing (which you dont have) haha

 

Wow man, that is a superior job... If you lived around here you'd be getting paid to help me with mine. Then off for a photoshoot heh. It's amazing what a little elbow grease can do.

 

care to share what you liked best? were you using a PC?

you wanna talk about elbow grease ask me about the lips on the wheels

i wouldnt mind doing a clean SI!

 

Gotta say man, those pics are good. You can definitely detail. Can't deny that. I think you should show me some tips lol.. how-to maybe. I got silver and I can see the spider marks in the sun. I know, I wash it too much.

 

OMG... when I worked there I bought Wolfgang, DP Premium, Glare, Nuvite, and 5 Star Shine. The five stare shine was the best system, but it takes a solid 4.5 hours to do, and that is just the exterior. Nuvite was awesome, but I was only able to get it one time, the supplier I used was unable to get it any longer. I have various Maguires products at home, and they work well for the stuff that anyone can buy, but don't last as long as I would like. Glare did well, but dried like concrete lol. On the lot cars we used a lot of cheapo Car Brite and Malco products, and some of those were rather surprising too.

I live relatively close

 

hey i have the low pro wing so how much you gonna charge me

 

best way to learn is to check out some detailing forums, www.autopia.org is a great site and where i learned alot.

id obviously need to check out the paint before i said, but if i need to do all the steps i did you are prolly looking about $175

yea id like to check out some wolfgang stuff after i run out of my optimum. did you ever use any optimum?

 

that always made me laugh when I would get a call, "hi, I have a black grabd prix, it has some scratches, but how much for a full detail?" "well, without looking at it, I can say it will cost between $125 and $275" lol. they didnt care for the brad quotes, but still wouldnt bring them in for estimates.

hmmm... dont think that I did. Have you ever used any of Adsco's products? I'm not sure if they are just in my area or not.

 

yea well before i stepped up my game i was just using nanowax and a cheapo buffer and getting $130 or so on suv's and trucks.

people dont realize what goes into these things.

i just started with the PC type ****, so no i havent

 

given your shine i may give some attention to it though.

 

oh and brad SI i would def. look into getting chrisault2004 do your car.

i think i might should have gone a little bit further with the polish, but the poorboys sealant is fantastic

 

Oh I'm on it. I saw his car at cbus and it was real clean and done well. Then just a couple weeks ago ryan told me that it's different shades of black. I couldn't believe it. My paint has so many swirls in it and theres places where the paint is just bad. Not only do I want him to help but teach me more than I know. I enjoy doing this stuff. Cept the lips on my wheels hah.

 

The ABSOLUTE BEST product that I have used is from Adsco, it is unfortunately discontinued, but was called "Dark 'n Deep". It was a gritty compound, it almost felt like 3M's cutting compound, but as you worked it in it broke down, smoothed out and sealed the paint in. This stuff took a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time to buff in though. I never did the entire car with it, it took about 2 hours to do just the hood, roof, and decklid. With this you had to work in in completely, because if you didnt it would swirl your paint like a cutter. The grit was heat activated, and I loved that stuff.

yeah.... thats why i wet sanded the entire car after i bought it, the person that owned it before me wrecked it AT LEAST twice, so the texture was different on almost every panel lol.

What type of buffing/polishing pads do you use?

 

Mine was wrecked only once by the previous owner aswell.

 

damn i can not imagine wetsanding an entire car... that would def. not be $175 hahahaha