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whitethunder46 03-28-2007 08:55 PM

Detailed a friends 05 Acura RSX Type S, just some pics.
 
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Just posting some pics of what I do with my detailing. Now this was only an exterior detail and we only compounded and polished the hood. Here is all the info on what we did:

The car is a good friend of mine (co-worker) and has had it since it was new. There were some decent swirl marks, but nothing to serious. He takes pretty good care of it already. I felt bad because he just cleaned the wheels and dressed the tires a few days ago. What did I do? Clean them again and stripped off his tire shine, Haha!

Process: Washed with 1.5 ounce of DG901 and about 1/2 oz. of Dawn in 2 gallon water (two bucket method) and dried with Guzzler. I used my 1400PSI PW along with the water filter here off AG. I was quite pleased. My water is VERY hard, so there wasn't a "spotfree" finish. However, any water spots wiped off absolutely effortlessly, there was no scrubbing, etc. etc. to try and get a dried waterspot off. I am very pleased with my purchase.

Cleaned wheels with DP Gel wheel cleaner, cleaned tires and fenderwells with purple power 1:1. For tires and wheels used Black shmitt and fenderwells used Mother's fenderwell brush. Tires dressed with Optimum Tire shine.

Glass cleaned with DP Krystal vision (my friend loveddd this stuff) and Cobra glass towel.


Now for the fun stuff. We didn't have a lot of time, and we were just having fun, so we decided to polish the hood. I broke it down into 4 sections simply to try some combos out. I used everything from XMT3 on green pad, XMT 4 on yellow pad, and XMT4 on green pad. XMT4 on yellow pad worked wonderfully and got some of the deeper scratches out that XMT3 and green pad juts couldn't get. However, XMT 4 (both with yellow pad and green pad) left some good buffer trails.

I went over the entire hood with Orange wave pad and XMT2. (turned out flawless). I'm glad I got the Orange wave pad, for it worked much better than the flat Orange pad. I feel that the stiff, firm, and dense foam of the orange pad gets very lopsided easily. With the wave orange pad, it was easy to keep flat.

Finish: The main reason I wanted to do his car was to try some PINK MOOSE (Clearkote VM and RMG mixed 50/50) and DP MaxWax (metallic). Applied pink moose with PC and Edge Blue pad on speed 3.5. Buffed off by hand. Then applied MaxWax by hand and buffed off by hand.

I also tried some DG 870 aluminum polish for his exhaust tip. Holy crap! I really wish I took before pics, there are some after pics from the side though. With a little elbow grease, the grime came right off. We were shocked to know the tip was chrome!

And now for the PICS!:
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Might as well show you a before and after of my engine as well:

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Icefreezen 03-28-2007 09:23 PM

What did you use on the engine it loks fantastic?

whitethunder46 03-28-2007 09:37 PM


Originally Posted by Icefreezen (Post 254662)
What did you use on the engine it loks fantastic?

DP Engine cleaner: http://www.autogeek.net/dp-engine-degreaser.html

Dressing: Zep All Around

White04GT 03-28-2007 09:53 PM

damn I need to find someone local that is that good to clean my whole car like that.

Pilks 03-29-2007 07:58 AM

i need some of that for my engine

B-rett 03-29-2007 11:01 AM

im next im next!!!!!!!11 ill be home may 1st for summer

whitethunder46 03-29-2007 11:24 AM

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Might as well throw these in here as well. Before and afters of paint correction. (Swirl removal and scratches gone)

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B-rett 03-29-2007 11:56 AM

well those are impressive but lets see what you can do with BLACK

B-rett 03-29-2007 11:57 AM

then we could have a photoshoot of mine yours and my bros stangs if you still have yours

doobie 03-29-2007 02:41 PM

wow, the engine de-greaser is a MUST for me. i need to get that part of my car cleaned up. i think in one of those pics it has them using a hose in there, is that really safe? id like to hear some more details about your process of cleaning the engine bay

whitethunder46 03-29-2007 09:19 PM


Originally Posted by doobie (Post 254764)
wow, the engine de-greaser is a MUST for me. i need to get that part of my car cleaned up. i think in one of those pics it has them using a hose in there, is that really safe? id like to hear some more details about your process of cleaning the engine bay

I went ahead and made a thread about it. A few others have asked as well.

https://mustangboards.com/show-shine...tml#post254819

spike_africa 03-30-2007 05:53 AM

Good job bro, i know the hard work you do. I used to detail cars in highschool for 3 years and still do a few cars here and there in college. Its hard work but fast cash. Keep up the good work bro!

mustangvsix 03-30-2007 04:41 PM

looks great!!


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