Got the Max ready for the Wisconsin snow, slush and salt. My process was:

Wash with Meg's Gold Class
Clayed with TOL clay
Polished with SSR2 on green Propel pad
AIO on black pad
2 layers of UPP on black pad.

Still need to top it with Souveran....

Here's the results:




Here's 2 of the hood reflection:





...and one more

 

Couple more.....

 

As always, gorgeous work, Tom!

 

Thanks, THT. Gotta get a good protective coating on there before the snow arrives!

 

damn that reflection off your head...ooops i ment hood is blingin...j/k
very nice job. car looks great

 

No, you were right the first time.....heads without hair reflect very well

 

looks great. i would love to detail my car while i'm home for Thanksgiving, but i fear it will be too cold. how did you like that clay bar? have you used others? can you compare it to any other kinds?

 

The TOL clay bar worked well. In the past I've used Clay Magic and either Meg's or Mother's (I can't remember which). I really don't have a 'favorite'. For me, they all seemed to work the same. I know there are different grades of clay bars, too....some are more aggressive than others, but I think that's noted on the packaging.

 

Looking good! It's always a good idea to do a good job on prepping the car for the winter up in the northern states.

I prepped my car a couple weeks back, but since its still somewhat warm out, I suppose I should throw on another layer or two of the Collinite 845.

 

Looks great Tom! Nice work once again.

 

Time to get yours ready, Lance. Probably gets down to what....35 degrees for you in the winter? Sheit....I'm gettin' too old for all this cold Wis. weather.

 

You would've cried if you had seen what happened to my car about three weeks ago. I came out to the parking lot only to find that it had been dive bombed by literally 200 birds...the ENTIRE car was covered. I had my windows slightly cracked and some of it even got inside the car. The car had been baking in 90 degree sun all day while I was inside so needless to say the paint was trashed. I am going to have to redo the entire Menzerna process I did a couple months ago over the entire car.....and I still don't have a PC yet, it sucks.

Anyway, we can get hit pretty hard here with cold weather as well (relatively speaking). There are many nights where we are between 0-10F and we get the occasional snow/ice storm....so winter prep is necessary and I am going to start section 1 tonight.

 

car looks great! there is just no better pay off then detailing a black car. great job man!

 

Any pics, Lance? J/K...that $ucks. I feel for ya. You gotta get a PC. Doing all that by hand again would be a huge job. Good luck.

gto400no1 - thanks. Black sure does look good after a detail. BTW, love the Evo's. They're still my favorite wheel on a 4th gen.

 

nice work...btw nice looking max...not a fan of the "maxima" emblem on front...just my 2 cents....everything else looks tight

 

looks really good


is undercoating worth it and if so what kind?

 

Excellent work, but Souveran does not last very long. You should consider using a wax like Collinite 845. Doesn't shine as good as Souver. but last much longer.

 

Nice job, looks really good...

 

Patrick - IMO undercoating is not necessary, even in northern climates.

NABU6 - The UPP is pretty durable and should last till spring. I top it with Souveran primarily for looks. It will probably last a month or so and then I'll rely on the UPP underneath.

 

Looks amazing Tom! Your Maxima is one of the cleanest (both physically clean as well as cleanest modified) Maxima's I have ever seen! Excellent job, keep it up!

-Nick

 

Thanks, Nick. That's a great looking engine bay in your sig....

 

Looks great ....makes me wanna redo mine but is the inside as nice as the outside?

 

Yes it is. Although I haven't modded the interior too much, it's clean and well taken care of....

 

...and a few pics of the engine bay.....

 

Nice.. My interior is cloth and i bought a steam cleaner for the seats, I used tuff stuff on a mark and it almost ate away my seat. I haven't done any mods to the interior. What do you use on your engine bay?