The Great Test! #1

Hey guys! 1st of all, thank you very much for being avid readers to my Personal Detailing blog.

Now, there are still a number of potential clients who doubt my ability in detailing the paintwork of one's car. Or complaining that my prices are a bit steep. Steep? How can you compare my work, and the product used with your regular car wash guys who only use cheapo polish, and never canvassed the polished car with a really good wax as a protective and sacrifical barrier? And do your regular car wash guy can remove all holograms, reduce at least 40% of swirls ( not hiding them yah! But reduce 'em! ) on your car, while in the same time, not adding more scratches and swirls? Those car wash bays charge RM 80.00 to wash your car ( with the kind of soap solutions that may surprise you. Note : some of them use the same soap solution you use to wash your clothes! Haha! ), dry with Good Morning towels ( while I use Meguiar's MF chamois! ), and vacuum your interior, then proceed to polish your car with most probably, the cheapo RM 20.00 - 35.00 polish compounds with old t - shirts and again, Good Morning towels!

Yes, I can never compare my work with professional detailers locally here, who actually do it for a living. Well, come on. Those guys got big detailing bays, a hell lots of staffs too. Well, I do it for a living too, but it's more like a pastime hobby to me, as I do it alone, and I thoroughly enjoy to see, the fruits of my labour, and to have the owner / customer, to say words like : Wow! You did such a great job! As usual, my car will gleam, shine and yet, have much lesser swirls compared to other cars around my block!

So, in this case, I have decided to use my car as The Great Test, or, as a testament to my abilities to detail the paintwork of a car. My car have not been detailed, or better yet, washed for over 2 months now. My car went into the workshop twice, so you can imagine those filthy oil marks around the car's exterior. And do not forget, bird poo marks may have already embedded itself deeply into the paintwork too.

My digicam is with my girl, so as soon ( should be today or tomorrow ) I'll get it back and proceed to snap a few detailed pictures of the car in it's current extremely filthy state. Then, I will proceed to wash with Meguiar's NXT car wash solution, dry, clay with Meguiar's mild clay, rinse, machine polish with Meguair's Professional range of Cleaner + Polish ( that will thoroughly clean the paintwork, remove all holograms, reduce the appearance of swirls and scratches up to 50 - 60% off, and reintroduce important oils into the paintwork to make it shine better, deeper, and wetter. All in one process! ), and finally, put a couple of coats of NXT Paste Wax. This process may take up to 7 hours, plus breaks in between, this is because I want to ensure that I do a damn good job!

Then, after all is done, I will snap pics of the car, as proof of before and after. I seriously hope that The Great test will be proof that I do great work, at great prices! And yes, hopefully more customers too... :)

New Additions : Blue Honda Jazz VTEC and Red Old Skool Merc wagon

Recent additions, my uncle's red ( I think original colour! ) and my pal's blue Jazz VTEC. Both only done by hand, but check the results!