Refresher Update! Customer No. 2 : Black Honda Civic FD

Last Sunday, the 1st CNY, my number two customer came for a wash + maintenance work. As I was drying the car up, I noticed this loooooooong multitudes of scratch on the car's right hand side, passangger door all the way to the RHD upper fender. It looks like someone was leaning on her car, and swiped his / her sorry arse to and fro this particular area. Here are two pictures depicting the damage done to the paintwork :

Pretty bad!!!

More fun work for me then!

And here are the afters :

Look ma, no more scratches! Hehe!

Customer No. 1 : Full Detail Session No. 2 [ Part Five ]

Words cannot describe how happy I am now to see the final outcome of my work. The car do look a bit "wet", especially at the front fender area. I didn't had the time take a pic in the sun, becasue by the time I was done, the sun was not blastin' 100% like in the afternoon ( the afternoon was so hot, I finished up 5 cans of 100 Plus! ), and the owner left as soon as he arrived. He left me his JDM EF VTEC road rocket ( it is a rocket! I've driven the car at full chat, and boy, was it fast! ) for a wash ( alas, no full detail for his 2nd car, well, not yet! ).

Work done ( Day One ) :

- Wash ( with MG's pH - balanced washing solution )

- Dry ( with MG's MF Super Suede and MG's Water Magnet )

- Clay ( with MG's Smooth Surface clay kit )

- Wash again.

- Dried again.

- Reduce the apperance of glaring scratches ( with MG's Scratch X and MG's UW MF )

- Remove bird droppings and tar ( with MG's Bug & Tar Remover and MG's UW MF )

- Applied tyre dressing ( with MG's grapey - smelling tyre dresser with a MG foam applicator pad )

- Applied wax on rims ( with MG's NXT Paste Wax, via a MG foam applicator pad )

- Buffed wax on rims ( with MG's UW MF )

Time spent : three hours.

Work done ( Day Two ) :

- cleaned up the car ( with MG's Quick Detailer, assisted with MG's MF applicator pad and wiped off with MG's SS MF )

- taped the whole car ( with Scotch's Painter's Tape )

- polished the whole car ( via machine, Bosch GEX - 270AE assisted with MG's polishing pad and MG #80 )

- buffed off all remaining cleaner / polish ( with MG's SS MF )

- applied wax ( MG's NXT Paste Wax, via MG's foam applicator pad )

- buffed off wax ( with MG's UW MF )

- applied 2nd layer of wax, and finally

- buffed off wax.

Time spent : about 4 hours 30 minutes.

Total time spent : about 7 hours 30 minutes.

Customer No. 1 : Full Detail Session No. 2 [ Part Four ]

Final steps....I worked in two layers of the infamous NXT Paste Wax on the whole car, let the synthetic polymers inside the NXT Paste Wax to get to work for 15 minutes, and buffed off with a MG SS MF. Result? Pictures as follows : front bonnet ( full ), front bonnet ( left side ), front bonnet ( right side ), roof, and finally, rear bonnet.






Nice, clear reflections on all panels. Reflections look pretty sharp and have depth as well. All this on a car, silver in colour? Yeehaw!

Customer No. 1 : Full Detail Session No. 2 [ Part Three ]

I proceeded to working in one of MG's myriad of cleaner / polish onto the bodywork. I used my new Bosch dual orbiter machine. Slapped on one MG's polishing pad on the Bosch, primed it up with one quick spray of the Quik Detailer, put some cleaner / polish product on the pad, and primed the area I wanted to work on, and then , polish away! Here's two pictures showing the results of ater working in the MG cleaner / polish compound.

See the millions of sparkles from the silver colour ( flash was not used )? Wow!!!!!
Peekaboo! Look at the reflection? And remember : work was done under a shade, and once again, flash was not utilised for this picture too. Beautiful!

Customer No. 1 : Full Detail Session No. 2 [ Part Two ]

This morning ( or more like late morning, oopppsssie! ), I proceeded to apply Quik Detailer on the whole car via MG's MF applicator pad. This step is taken because the car was parked overnight afer washing + drying + claying + washing + drying step last night, and to remove as many dusts, and foreign particles off the car's bodywork, and in the same time, prepping the car for cleaner / polish work.

Customer No. 1 : Full Detail Session No. 2 [ Part One ]

He was late for his full detail appointment, 2 weeks too late.

Ah, the car looks allright from this picture ( no flash was used ). But...

Look at the rear bonnet! And this was all over the car....the 2 next pictures is from the front bonnet and follewed by the picture from the roof.

So, 45 mins later, I proceeded to wash, clay and wash the car again. After drying, I parked the car under the lights to find and reduce the apperance of glaring scratches. Later, the tyres was dressed with MG's grape - smelling tyre dresser.

My Own Car #4

Don't you guys think this is good for a car with such light colour? And yesterday, the car was driven around the construction work around the SMART tunnel / Kampung Pandan roundabout, plus it rained a wee bit also? Hehe!

My Own Car #3

I'm not sure why only one of the various pictures I've posted, can be clicked for a larger image. Anyway, here's one of the other pics I've posted earlier. I'll see whether the pic can be clicked for a larger one.

This pic was taken from my car's roof, check out the depth of the cloud's reflection, and need I rmeind you guys that my car is yellow ( one of the light colours in the multitude of colour's palette? Hehe! )? If my car is black in colour, I'm sure it'll show off a lot better!

My Own Car #2

I've just taken these two pics moments ago. It was drizzling a wee bit ( god chance to see the water beading effect, I guess? ) though.


How's the water beading?

Nice, clear reflection on the bonnet, and also slight reflection of the corrugated wall on the left hand side of the car. Note that the lighting at where the car is parked is minimal. I suppose, this is pretty good ( in my books, that is ) !

My Own Car #1

How's the reflection? Please note that this picture was taken under a shade, at even at that time ( 5-ish p.m ), the sun was hiding. There's still some swirls ( hard too see here ), but I will work on my car again. Anyway, now my car looks wet and shiny, and this is not an easy task, especially for a car that's yellow in colour, like mine.

Customer No. 3 : Silver BMW 3 Series E46

I am sorry to say that, I did not manage to take the " before " pictures of my 3rd customer, as I was running short of time that day.

The car came in with only slight film of dirt all around the car, but on the front bonnet, there was a really think black film clinging onto it! I was told by the customer that his office is situated at Putrajaya / Cyberjaya area, and the car does a minimum of 60 km's per day.

There was some paint chips on the front M3-esque front bumper, and on the front bonnet as well. I proceeded to wash the car, clay, wash it again and drying. I went on to reduce all the glaring scratches around the car 1st, and after that, went on to the front bonnet. And the real challenge begins...

After almost 30 minutes applying paint cleaner solution on the front bonnet, only about 30% of the black film went off! I was like...what the? Looks like I had to double the work just for the front bonnet alone. After about 1 1/2 hours, I finally managed to properly clean the front bonnet. Result : One of my foam applicator pads was ruined ( yes, ruined!!! ) and my whitish MG's Ultimate Wipe MF became black, on both sides!

I proceeded to clean the rest of the car, and immediately went on to polishing the whole car. Finally, 2 coats of the infamous NXT Paste Wax was applied, and I gave about 30 minutes in between each layer of wax.

I managed to finish up the work right about 7.30 p.m, and it was already dark. Here's the best two pictures of the car.....

Check out the reflection on the left of the car! And this is a silver car, and the pic was taken at night! Marvelous!

If you look carefully, you can see the reflection of the light AND the corrugated roofing around the light as well. Nice eh?

Customer No. 2 : Black Honda Civic FD

My 2nd customer was a female, driving a black Honda Civic FD year 2006 model. I was very surprised to see a brand new car, less than 3 months old, to be in such a condition. Take a look, and you'll understand why.....


HOLOGRAMS!!!!!

MORE HOLOGRAMS!!!!!


Marks left by acidic bird droppings, yuck!

So I proceeded to wash, clay, wash and dry the whole car. Later I continued with applying paint cleaner on the car, and then reducing the glaring scratches around her car. After that, I worked in the polish, and finally two layers of the infamous NXT Paste Wax. Total time : almost 6 hours.

Sadly, for that day, I didn't manage to take any good shots. Anyway, here is a few pictures of her a month later ( she is on a monthly package work )...

Nice, clear reflection on the roof!


I enjoy detailing black cars! Her car looks WET!!!!


And to me, this is the MONEY shot! Superbly clear reflection of the building, and check out the depth of the cloud's reflection! Oh yeah!

Note : about the holograms, it will be rectified soon, as I am now in the midst of upgrading my detailing stuffs from Meguiar's consumer range to Meguiar's Professional / Detailer range. Stay tuned!