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Old 09-19-2008, 11:17 PM
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Detail: 2006 Black suburu (sti?) SWIRLS!!! Pix inside

Guy drove 50 miles to come out
I think my asking price is too cheap

Wash with Meguire's gold class soap, 4 gallon water, 1oz optimum ONR
Dry with WW Towel
Clay with Optimum ONR & Meguires clay bar
Mixture of Optimum Polish, Compound & Four Star Medium Cut Compound ... 5 speed on yellow
Optimum Polish ... 4 speed on Orange
Optimum Poli-seal ... 4 speed on White
Four Star Ultimate Paint Protection on Red ... 3 speed on Red
ONR & One of my many waxes on the wheels

Interior;
Genuine Honda OEM interior vinyl/leather cleaner
Permaplate upholstery cleaner


2006 BLACKswirlzilla suuub


After 1 pass of compound... 90% gone



all the white specks are rock chips

Before:

After:



Theres still a few heavier scratchs that I couldn't get out through buffering, but could probably have been done through wet sanding

but for the most part, about 80% of the swirls were gone I'd say, and 80% of the medium - light swirls were gone.
Not bad for ~4.5 hrs of work
Old 09-19-2008, 11:57 PM
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looks nice. thats about what im going to try on a nbp tl
Old 09-20-2008, 01:31 AM
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yeah, def not bad for the time you spent hows the clear on those cars?

my problem right now is i have an Agean blue pearl tl with those same kind of swirls, and i just cant get them completely out. i have a u, orange white red pads and opt compound& hyper compound. after using those i prbly get like 70% of my swirls out. i was thinking of getting something from the menzerna line, but maybe i should just try getting a yellow pad first?
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I was limited on time and he was on a limited budget, so I did what I can in the time frame given. I didn't go as far as wet sanding and spot treatment since he just wanted the car to be presentable, I did this for very cheap, considering what I did.

I'd say the clear coat of the subbie a little bit harder than the Hondacuras. It seemed as though it required less work time with the mixture I did as opposed to using either straight OC or OP. I played around with a few combinations on the hood to find what worked the best, and 1/3 OC - 1/3 OP - 1/3 FS MCC worked the best.

The guy seemed very pleased with the results though . I was pretty amazed at how it came out given that only ~3.5 hours spent on the paint

I <3 Optimum ONR!!!
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Great work wong! It looks like it came out pretty good for the time you were given. Glad to see another Bay Area detailer.
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