PIC: Berlina with Wolfgang Sealant
10-14-2005, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by flitcroft,Oct 14 2005, 08:22 AM
^ You got it. All it takes (for me, at least) is lots of time and attenton to detail. Being comfortable with photography also helps when documenting your shine for the web.
10-15-2005, 07:27 AM
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Wow. 
Where can I pick some of that stuff up?
Where can I pick some of that stuff up?
10-15-2005, 12:05 PM
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I have orange peel like everyone else. Synthetic polymers vastly help to smooth out the reflections on S2000 paint. My car has light spiderwebbing but it's low enough right now that one coat of PS21 or Wolfgang hides nearly every scratch on the car in partial sunlight.
Polish as long as you can stand to do it and then make sure your finish looks about like the shine I have above before any wax or LSP touches it. Most people that see my car when I'm detailing it can't tell if I have wax on it or not. My finish looks about the same either way. With one coat of wax or polymer the paint looks richer and wetter (polymer) or waxier (carnauba wax) but with no products on the clear coat it looks pretty decent as well.
One other thing I may do differently is that I only hand wash the car and if that means the car is brown when I get a chance to wash it, then so be it. If I could wash it more often that would be better (and save me from a lot of clay barring) but my car has never once been to a commercial wash.
I also only apply LSPs (last step products - wax, sealant) by hand in thin coats in the direction that wind travels over the car. When I apply, I use a foam applicator and always spray it with two sprays of detail spray. It's just short of dripping wet before I put product on it. That helps even out the LSP, keep product from building up around edges and trim, and makes buffing much easier.
yea any step by step advice for how to get it looking like that??
One other thing I may do differently is that I only hand wash the car and if that means the car is brown when I get a chance to wash it, then so be it. If I could wash it more often that would be better (and save me from a lot of clay barring) but my car has never once been to a commercial wash.
I also only apply LSPs (last step products - wax, sealant) by hand in thin coats in the direction that wind travels over the car. When I apply, I use a foam applicator and always spray it with two sprays of detail spray. It's just short of dripping wet before I put product on it. That helps even out the LSP, keep product from building up around edges and trim, and makes buffing much easier.