Detail of my friend's new to him allroad with 90,000 miles of Automatic Car washes !!! Mechanically, this car was perfect, all maintenance was up to date, the color combo was perfect and a 6MT to seal the deal. However, it had been a family hauler and the only washes it ever saw was from the local Automatic Car Wash, and at some point, a clueless maniac with a Rotary Polisher. The car was HEAVILY swirled and had machine trails everywhere. On the inside, the interior was surface clean and no rips, tears or stains and we expected an easy clean-up. Products Used: INSIDE: Standard issue household vacuum Bissell Little Green Machine with Heat MF Towels Leatherique Rejuvenator Oil Leatherique Pristine Clean OUTSIDE: Uber Blue Clay Adams Detail Spray FLEX x2 M105 and Yellow Pad Menz Final Polish and Blue Pad Menz PowerLock P21S Carnauba Sonax Wheel Cleaner Adam’s VRT MF Towels On to the Pics … On the Drive Back .. Some Post Wash/Pre Polish Shots A headless WagonDawg playing pocket pool: Pulled the backseat, wow !! A whole Halloween take here !! Well, might as well pull the front seats too: Bissell Time !! Final Interior shots before seat re-install: Seats back in and slathered in Leatherique, we let it bake for 36 hours and then applied a second coat of oil. The first coat mostly absorbed into the leather. Then we did a final wipe down the Pristine Clean. Exterior: This was a mess, swirls on top of swirls covered by machine trails. Nasty !! We did a standard cleaning and claying on the exterior, Sonax on the Wheels then moved onto polishing. It was getting dark at this point but we tried to highlight the extent of the swirls. Hood: Passenger side -- Front Door vs Rear Door ... More Swirls ... Great shot of the madness -- the whole car was like this ... Afters: We attacked this with 2 FLEX Machines. The first Machine was outfitted with M105 and a Yellow pad. We had had to do some heavy cutting to just get the swirls out. It took several passes and we really heated up the paint. Machine #2 followed up with Menz Final Polish and a Blue Pad. I think we could have gotten a bit more depth and wetness had we done an interim polish, maybe IP/Green Pad??? The Final Polish/Blue evened out the finish noticeably and definitely “darkened” the color. We followed it up with Menz Powerlock and Topped off With P21S Caranuba (aka the buttah) Here’s the final Product, not perfect, but soooo much better …. Not bad for a bunch of rookie hacks !! Thanks to Phil @ DD and 2PUTT for all their advice, and supplies.
Yes, the roof, bumpers and fender flares are painted with a matte grey. It's tricky to clean them up without putting a shine on them.
Thanks for the comments -- we're finally starting to get the hang of the FLEX. This was by far our best final result/biggest turnaround. This is our 6th detail with the FLEX.
