Silverstone Hardcore Cleaning! +FC3S Sneekpeek!
09-09-2009, 01:26 AM
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Silverstone Hardcore Cleaning! +FC3S Sneekpeek!
So in July I bought my MY00 Silverstone. I definitly love the car so I wanted to take care of it. I was a noob at cleaning and knew nothing about detailing. For some reason I just wanted to hardcore clean my car, so I did. Read and read on here, then bought all my supplies. Heres what I did and used.
-Wash and Wheels+Wells Wash
-Clay
-Polish
-Wax
-Interior Cleaning+Leather Care
Wash: Meguiar's Gold Class. Washed and then took all wheels off to clean them. Seemed like the wheels were never fully deep cleaned so I took them off and used a powerwasher to get everything off of them and then used a soft brush to get all remaining dust/dirt off.
Wash
Wheels Before
Wheels After
Clay: Mother's Clay Bar Kit. Same price as Meg's but with more clay so I got it.
by the results. I guess the car was never clayed before.
Polish+Wax: Menzerna kit and pads from DD.
PowerGloss - Orange
PowerFinish - Green
SuperFinish - Blue
SealingWax - Black
Did a couple layers of power gloss on areas with light scratches, followed by the two finishes and did a couple layers of the sealing wax. I'm not sure if I did everything right, it was my first time using a PC. I started the part of the polishes and then did some physics homework, finished then went back to finish the car at around 2AM. So I wasnt 100% sure if I was doing everything right, and I only did the front half of the car because I was way too tired to finish and I had class the next morning. I took some before pictures but I failed, didnt know how to use lighting to show swirls. But here are some after pictures:
Cool reflections
Interior+Leather: I had some Armor All Interior cleaner left from before. I know its not the best but I didnt see the point of buying more interior cleaner when I got stuff left, so I just used it. Read around here and found that Lexol is good bang for the buck so I went to Pepboys and picked up some. Got both the cleaner and the conditioner for just $9.99, I dont know if the lady checked it out wrong or was it really that cheap. Used microfiber pads to clean and also used it to apply the conditioner too.
Before
After
Super happy
with results! Comments welcome! Let me know if I should do anything else!
-Wash and Wheels+Wells Wash
-Clay
-Polish
-Wax
-Interior Cleaning+Leather Care
Wash: Meguiar's Gold Class. Washed and then took all wheels off to clean them. Seemed like the wheels were never fully deep cleaned so I took them off and used a powerwasher to get everything off of them and then used a soft brush to get all remaining dust/dirt off.
Wash
Wheels Before
Wheels After
Clay: Mother's Clay Bar Kit. Same price as Meg's but with more clay so I got it.
by the results. I guess the car was never clayed before. Polish+Wax: Menzerna kit and pads from DD.
PowerGloss - Orange
PowerFinish - Green
SuperFinish - Blue
SealingWax - Black
Did a couple layers of power gloss on areas with light scratches, followed by the two finishes and did a couple layers of the sealing wax. I'm not sure if I did everything right, it was my first time using a PC. I started the part of the polishes and then did some physics homework, finished then went back to finish the car at around 2AM. So I wasnt 100% sure if I was doing everything right, and I only did the front half of the car because I was way too tired to finish and I had class the next morning. I took some before pictures but I failed, didnt know how to use lighting to show swirls. But here are some after pictures:
Cool reflections
Interior+Leather: I had some Armor All Interior cleaner left from before. I know its not the best but I didnt see the point of buying more interior cleaner when I got stuff left, so I just used it. Read around here and found that Lexol is good bang for the buck so I went to Pepboys and picked up some. Got both the cleaner and the conditioner for just $9.99, I dont know if the lady checked it out wrong or was it really that cheap. Used microfiber pads to clean and also used it to apply the conditioner too.
Before
After
Super happy
with results! Comments welcome! Let me know if I should do anything else!
09-09-2009, 09:19 PM
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7 Hours after I posted my detail, my car got hit... stupid kid at school's parking garage decided to random back up and ran right into my car... 
I told him I just spent over 10 hours past couple weeks detailing the front part of my car, and all he said was "O, sorry."
I told him I just spent over 10 hours past couple weeks detailing the front part of my car, and all he said was "O, sorry."
09-09-2009, 11:06 PM
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I am getting tired of these drivers that don't look before backing up or backing up quickly when they are unable to see what or who is back there. Sorry to see that happen to your car.
but that's just sad it got hit like that 