Over the long weekend I decided to do a good cleaning on my car. I haven't had to many posts but I figured I would throw a few pics up of the outcome.

The driver side and front as a finished them up:




Out the garage:


Few close ups:



A few distanced ones in a local parking lot:



I think it came out pretty good considering I am no expert and do not have much practice detailing.

 

looks good man did the same to mine yesterday. Has that wet black look love it

 

Thanks man. I love a clean black car with that "wet" look. Near impossible to get it with the white except in certain lighting.

 

Yea also great thing to keep your car looking good between washes is a California Car Duster I love mine

 

I'm jealous I didn't get white

 

nice job what did u use?

 

That looks great!! Mine is silver and Im thinking of giving her a full day of attention tomorrow. I had a busy weekend or else I would have done the same as you. But looks really good.

 

I'm not sure if I did the "process" as most detailers would, but what I did was:

1: Wash it with Dawn to remove all the prior wax.
2: Mothers Claybar.
3: Zymol cleaner Wax (To get any remanants of the claybar off).
4: Zymol glaze.
5: Nu Finish, they say it is a polish, but It has no abrasiveness to it so I hear it works well as a cheap sealant.
6: Mothers Caranuba Wax.
7: Mist with distilled water (to prevent spotting, or use normal tap water and dry immediately) to seal in the wax.

Nothing is overly pricy, It can all be purchased at Walmart. The Zymols are not the expensive "real" wax as people called it. Which I intend to purchase and use to replace the Mother's Caranuba for next time.

 

looks sweeet! cant wait for the hurendous pollen season to be over to get mine all waxed up!

 

Looks great, WF was the other color I was looking at before settling on the CB.
The only problem with the lighter car colors is that they have the same paint swirls as the black and crimson colors have. Its just not too noticable to the eye so some owners tend to overlook getting them worked out well with a good polisher and lots of elbow grease.
I found that with a good DA polisher most can be removed with less work. It will really make the car pop after a good wax.

 

Thanks, I was debating between the two colors and went with white because I have to park outside and it would look cleaner for longer. Although I think a cleaned black car still looks the best.

But yeah, I agree most people don't realize their white cars do get noticeable swirls. My old mazda was white and had some MAJOR swirls in it after not polishing it at all for a few years. If you let it go to long they eventually become just as noticeable. I will throw polish in the process at some point, but I bought the car new a few months back and the clear was still in good condition.

I always do everything by hand because I'm hesitant to use a DA polisher and make it worse. So I figured I would save my elbow grease for the other steps

 

Check out Meguiar's G110v2:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o06_s00_i00

My wife bought me one for Christmas and it's very easy to use and no possible way to damage your car's paint.

 

Cool, It was a 9 hour process doing it by hand so I'll look into it for next time.

 

Looks good.