Woohoo - Spring Cleaning FINISHED - pickeechures inside!
04-20-2003, 07:50 AM
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Woohoo - Spring Cleaning FINISHED - pickeechures inside!
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For those that are curious, my process was the following:
(1) Wash with hot dawn dish detergent to strip old wax.
(2) Wash again with Meguiars car shampoo to remove water spots (probably unecessary, but how else am I going to test drive my new lambs-wool mitt?!)
(3) Mother's Clay Bar with included detail spray for lube (first time I did it - amazingly smooth surface afterwards... though I don't think it made it any "shinier" after the polish per-se...)
(4) 3M Swirl Remover on some bad panels - the hood had some bad road debris scratching building up which the SR handled nicely. There was another panel that had some strange streaks in the clear coat that this also cleaned up.
(5) Healthy dosing of 3M IHG on the rest of the car. Used about half a bottle, following the instructions to rub it in until the clear coat doesn't seem to be "drinking it up" anymore to restore all the needed goodies to the shiny coat.
(6) Wax with P21-S paste wax.
(7) Windows done with Stoner's Invisible Glass.
<img src="http://www.zaritskyarchive.com/ryan/closewheel.jpg">
This is also the first time I put my new 18x8 Oettinger REs on the car - I'm very happy with them. And the ride is not noticeably different from when I had the 17s on, though the Kumhos are noticeably louder than the Contis I had on my 17s, as would be expected.
For those that are curious, my process was the following:
(1) Wash with hot dawn dish detergent to strip old wax.
(2) Wash again with Meguiars car shampoo to remove water spots (probably unecessary, but how else am I going to test drive my new lambs-wool mitt?!)
(3) Mother's Clay Bar with included detail spray for lube (first time I did it - amazingly smooth surface afterwards... though I don't think it made it any "shinier" after the polish per-se...)
(4) 3M Swirl Remover on some bad panels - the hood had some bad road debris scratching building up which the SR handled nicely. There was another panel that had some strange streaks in the clear coat that this also cleaned up.
(5) Healthy dosing of 3M IHG on the rest of the car. Used about half a bottle, following the instructions to rub it in until the clear coat doesn't seem to be "drinking it up" anymore to restore all the needed goodies to the shiny coat.
(6) Wax with P21-S paste wax.
(7) Windows done with Stoner's Invisible Glass.
<img src="http://www.zaritskyarchive.com/ryan/closewheel.jpg">
This is also the first time I put my new 18x8 Oettinger REs on the car - I'm very happy with them. And the ride is not noticeably different from when I had the 17s on, though the Kumhos are noticeably louder than the Contis I had on my 17s, as would be expected.
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