rahula

I had time off today and in time too so what did I get up to? Well you go out and prepare your ride so that you can show it off on the weekend of course! I am well happy with the results, again, and glad that the winter grime has come off the car.

Exterior Procedure:
Wash
Dry with Waffle Weave Towels from Pakshak
Meguiar's Clay
Meg's #80 Speed Glaze to remove swirls and provide a nice gloss (these were caused by SC Honda who were told not to wash the car. I managed to get 95% out)

At this stage the car looked awesome and I could have applied either a sealant or wax and be done with it but that would be too easy.

I then applies Clearkote Vanilla Moose (glaze) for a little more depth
Then Poorboy's EX-P sealant to provide durability and protection
Finally a coat of Natty's wax for that extra pop to the colour. As I said before I could have skipped at least two steps but these extra steps do provide more depth and wetter look.

Then the interior:

Clean Vinyl and dress the rubber bits with NXT Tech Protect
Clean Leather with Zaino Leather Cleaner
Leather Cream Zaino Leather in a Bottle
Vacuum
Glass with Meg's Glass Cleaner using terry cloth towels bought from boots.

Exterior Misc:

Alloys waxed with Meg's #16 wax
Exhaust with Silvo
Tyre walls with Meg's Hot Tire Shine

Time spent = 11

What will be my next task? Well keep it clean every week with Zaino QD or washing. Top up wax every month. Apply EX-P and VM every three months. Clay every 6. Also my GB and diff oil were just changed and tomorrow the car goes in for it's first service. Hope you like the effort because I sure do. I also hope that it gives some others some inspiration to do likewise and get posting, there is also a GB if you need to get of these polishing products in the sale section and Trypod is also sorting out a GB for MF towels which I highly recommend.

























HT is back on because while being serviced they need to adjust it as it is not sitting tight.

Rocephin

That's the way it should be done

James_N

very nice

User 11317

So sweet.
So very sweet.

JamieS2K

what a shine absolutely stunning IMO

LLOYDJ

A bit to clean for my liking

Sundance

me that is one ing clean car

All Hail Rahula King of Shiny Things

eyeofthetiger

great job rahul

If I spent that much time cleaning my car I dont think I would evere drive the car in rain/snow ever again

RichT2000

How much would you charge to give mine the smae treatment ????
I'm in Surry this weekend !!!!!!!!!!

rahula

In fact this was exactly what was going through my mind at the time. I understand why people who clean with such a OCD don't ever want to get the car dirty again! Not me though, I'll drive it rain or shine and give it a quick wash and it will be back to this level, well almost, within 20 mins. I wasn't lying when I typed that I would QD or wash it every week or when dirty and wax it up every month. It really takes me no more than 30mins-1hour/week to keep it looking like this.

Lastly thank you all for the lovely compliments as it means so much to me. I am chuffed. I think I might like to organise a detailing day for those who would like to achieve similar results but don't know where to start or what to use or even how to use them. Anyone have a double width garage? I would be happy to come along and part with some of my knowledge and others here can show other products that they use. Maybe a new thread is in order.