Clear coat swirls
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goto www.properautocare.com (my favorite) or
www.autopia-carcare.com or
www.autogeek.net or
www.bettercarcare.com
You will learn more about cleaning, polishing, and waxing than you wanted to know.
All kinds of products are available. Meguiars makes some good stuff.
Important tip - never touch your vehicle's paint with anything other than a good quality micro-fiber cloth or a REAL lamb's wool mitt.
Want proof? My 04, taken yesterday - pay no attention to the wheels......
www.autopia-carcare.com or
www.autogeek.net or
www.bettercarcare.com
You will learn more about cleaning, polishing, and waxing than you wanted to know.
All kinds of products are available. Meguiars makes some good stuff.
Important tip - never touch your vehicle's paint with anything other than a good quality micro-fiber cloth or a REAL lamb's wool mitt.
Want proof? My 04, taken yesterday - pay no attention to the wheels......
I checked out a spiral bound book from the library back in the mid 80's called "Car Beautiful". Best damn book I ever read on the subject. One thing it mentioned was to use cloth baby diapers to wash the car and put them through the wash several times before using to remove any starch. Also always go in straight lines when washing and applying wax/polish, never in a circular motion.
A lot of common sense stuff too like wash from the top down, change out the bucket of water frequently and if a if a rag touches the ground you throw it out and get a fresh one.
Here's a picture of my car that turned SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD back in November. This is the original factory paint, I challenge anyone to top that!
A lot of common sense stuff too like wash from the top down, change out the bucket of water frequently and if a if a rag touches the ground you throw it out and get a fresh one.
Here's a picture of my car that turned SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD back in November. This is the original factory paint, I challenge anyone to top that!
Garage kept is much easier to maintain. I would recommend Zaino Brothers products as well. Basic technique: Wash with dish-soap and clean prep'd diaper (as mentioned above) or microfiber. rinse. claybar it until your elbows can't rub anymore. rinse with hot clean water and thoroughly dry. then start the polish process, I suggest if using Zaino to get the accelerator which greatly speeds up the drying time of the polish. Apply at least two complete coats, in the straight horizontal line technique (also mentioned above). Good luck.
I have had success on black vehicles using sifted (to break up any clumps) corn starch and polishing wheel with light pressure.
I have had success on black vehicles using sifted (to break up any clumps) corn starch and polishing wheel with light pressure.
Now THAT is impressive.(Turbo-Torch @ Apr. 02 2007,19) I checked out a spiral bound book from the library back in the mid 80's called "Car Beautiful". Best damn book I ever read on the subject. One thing it mentioned was to use cloth baby diapers to wash the car and put them through the wash several times before using to remove any starch. Also always go in straight lines when washing and applying wax/polish, never in a circular motion.
A lot of common sense stuff too like wash from the top down, change out the bucket of water frequently and if a if a rag touches the ground you throw it out and get a fresh one.
Here's a picture of my car that turned SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD back in November. This is the original factory paint, I challenge anyone to top that!
My black F150 is only 4 years old - (still looks like that, btw)
I tried Zaino, and liked it, but the shine was too "plastic" looking. It had no depth. I prefer a good white carnuba wax (Pinnacle Souveran)
For washing, I use the two bucket method. One bucket for soapy water, one for rinse water. Lamb's wool mitt in the soapy water, wash the panel. Mitt in the rinse water, to remove the dirt, and then back in the soapy water. California water blade to remove most of the water, then a micro fiber cloth to dry.
+1 on the claybar - good stuff
I use a professional 3M product that many body shops use. It is available at automotive paint stores. It is mildly abrasive to clear coat and works wonders on clear coat scratches and swirls. I use a micro fiber towel to apply/remove it with elbow grease. After removing the scratch I follow it up with a good quality wax.
If you are interested, PM me and I will look out in the shed tomorrow to get the exact product number for the 3M stuff.
If you are interested, PM me and I will look out in the shed tomorrow to get the exact product number for the 3M stuff.
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I use mothers pre-wax cleaner followed by meguiars step 2 polish and finally step 3 wax... pretty much no swirls that I can detect.. did this with my old honda hawk nt650 after it was painted and for a couple yrs after still no swirls... then traded it for the Busa...
pretty much looks like this most of the time... if I get lazy and don't do much and it gets rained on or dirty just normal wash with an auto soap with the lambs wool cloth and then the usual formula stated.. generally I get a pack of precut material that is much like the inside of a soft sweater and use that to do the work... too cheap for the micro stuff... and still no swirls...
pretty much looks like this most of the time... if I get lazy and don't do much and it gets rained on or dirty just normal wash with an auto soap with the lambs wool cloth and then the usual formula stated.. generally I get a pack of precut material that is much like the inside of a soft sweater and use that to do the work... too cheap for the micro stuff... and still no swirls...
Jeremy, I don't know what you use to clean your bike, buy it would be my guess that you are using a towell or some other rar to wipr down your bike. There are alot of wax and polish products out there that will do the job, but I would suggest that you use a micro fiber cloth with whatever you use. I have several products on the trailer if you want to work on it for the bash.
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