Hey guys, did this car for a friend of mines wife. One of my first 'full details'.

Heres a couple before pics:











Car was washed with ONR and clayed with meguiars mild. Car had tons of contamination on the vertical sides but not alot on the horizontal sides... Weird.









In the halogens:



Customer only opted for a 1-step so I hit with menzerna p203s on a 4" flat white on my PC. Heres some 50/50 shots.







In the halogens after:



Car was topped with meguiars #21 and left to cure for about half hour. Wiped off any residue with FK 425.













What yall think?

 

nice job and report... hard to believe thats your first!
especially like your light flares-

i assume that she is impressed??
hope she tries to keep it nice

 

wow! those before pics in the lights make me gag, nice turn around!

 

Yeah they both really loved it. Im going back in a few week to do the husbands 4-runner and a maintenance wash on the civic. This was my first experience with Honda paint and it was so much easier than a mustang I did last week. Tried SIP with PFW 4" and barely made a dent in the swirls.

 

nice work.

list of all tools & products used?

 

Started off with ONR using 2 buckets and proline GS. Soaked with ONR at quick detailer strength before. Used WW towels from shak to dry. Clayed using optimum quick detailer and meguiars mild clay. Wiped down using 70% isopropyl acohol before I started polishing. Used a porter cable with 4" flat white pads and menzerna P203s. Did another isopropyl acohol wipedown before applying Meguiars #21 with a 4" red ccs pad.

For wheels and tires I used chemical guys citrus sticky gel cleaner and P21s TAW. Scrubed with various brushes like swissvax and boars hair brush. Zaino Z18 tire gloss for the tires. And stoners invisible glass for the windows. Thats all I can think of right now.

 

did you use a PC or a rotary?

 

good job bro makes me want to do a two step on my cars as well

 

Porter cable. And this was only a one-step. Care couldve came out much better but we didnt have time to do a 2-step. P203s is a great product.