jmargelo

I finally got a chance to do my spring cleaning and thought I would share. Here's what I used:

Meguiar's Shampoo
Mother's Claybar
Poorboy's SSR 1 & 2.5
Mother's Reflections Advanced Wax
Mother's Reflections Top Coat
Stoner's Invisible Glass
Mother's Back to Black
Vinlyex Protectant

Poorboy's polishes were applied by PC using Propel Pads. This was my first time using a PC, and I loved it. It's hard to tell from the pictures, but the paint looks sooo much better and it damned well better after nearly 8-hrs of work and a nasty sunburn. I still want to add another coat of Top Coat, and I am going to be using Mother's FX Spray Wax after washes.

Here's the Pics (sorry if they suck, my first time shooting the S with my S2 IS):
1: All taped up ready for polishing. Note: remember to take camera out of car before taping-up the doors.

2. Oxidized/Scratched Headlight

3. Headlight polished with 2.5 and Yellow medium cut pad followed with 2.5 and green pad.

4. Nasty swirl marks

5. Swirl marks mostly gone after one pass with SSR2.5 and green pad

6. Finished polishing, no wax yet. The sun went down just in time for applying the wax and it was pitch black outside when I was applying the Top Coat, but I had a 500W halogen to light the way. (1-2 passes with SSR2.5 and 1 pass with SSR1 by blue pad)

7-10. After Wax and Top Coat, and already covered in a thin layer of polen






I have more pictures if anyone is interested. Feel free to comment unless it is to tell me to get a front lip and/or lower it.

wanabe

good post!!

at least you got that wax on before the pollen settled...

jmargelo

Thanks...I guess I should've said that the after wax pictures were taken the next day. The pollen showed up overnight, but a lot of it blew off when driving (alot more than before when there was probably no wax left).

demade

Looks real good.

MikeyC

Nice work!
Also, those basketball sheets you used to cover up the top are sweet!!

jmargelo

I wish they made them in queen size.

00CivicSi

Nice job...

I just picked up a PC a couple weeks ago, but I haven't had the chance to pick up any of the other paint-related products that I need.

I've very anxious to practice on my beater and get it spiffed up and then tackle the S to get rid of the areas of dealer-installed swirls on my NFR (nothing too bad, but I can see them and they make me angry ). Posts like these get me all excited that they will eventually be GONE!

Nice pics.

iamhomin

Good Job! I'll start to freshen my car up in about a month.