Proton Waja CPS - Tranquility Black with popping flakes.

The owner has just bought the car less then 5 months ago and odometer is less then 5000km. Plus the owner is a very nice person and would not mind I spend extra time on his ride (has another spare car to commute).

Total time spent on the car was around 30hours spanning over 3days.

Owner mentioned the car has never been polished; only waxed by dodgy car wash centers.

(during work, the images in my camera were again corrupted therefore most of the pictures were gone; might be buying the 550D)

Car upon arrival (Day 1)

Perodua Kenari - Titanium Silver

This is the derivative of the Daihatsu Move Custom. Owner wanted it to be detailed in and out. It took me around 30hours to complete the whole car But before that:

First and foremost, I apologize for the lack of "befores" as majority of the pictures taken were corrupted thus unusable.


So here goes, car went in on Friday night.

Steps:

Engine:

• Engine PW to loosen grime & dust
• Sprayed with APC+ and SuperDegreaser
• PW to rinse
• Dried with cotton towel + MFs
• Hyperdressing on plastic components
• D151 on all painted parts (under front hood included)

Wheels

• Wheels washed with APC+ and WheelBrightener
• Tires washed with SuperDegreser
• Wheel wells and undercarriage on APC (Osren)
• All parts agitated with various brushes
• PW to rinse

Body:

• Body PW to loosen up dirty and muck
• Emblems and other intricate parts cleaned with APC+ and agitated with various brushes
• Hyperwash+ Meguiars MF mitt used to wash whole car
• PW to rinse
• Water Magnets to dry

Correction:

• Meguiars Blue Clay with ONR as lube
• G220
• M205
• Meguiars 6.5" Yellow Polishing Pad
• LC 4" Flat Pads - white and black
• IPA
• D151 used on door jambs
• GooGone to facilitate cleaning on tougher stains (painted parts)
• Stains on plastics - APC+ and brush & GooGone
• Lots of ADS MFs
• Lots of Meguiars Supreme Shine MFs
• LSP Paint: M21 2.0
• LSP Glass: RainX
• LSP Metal: Meguiars All Metal Polish
• Wheels polished with D151 and topped with M16
• Tires on All Season Dressing
• Door seals, roof rubber lining, door handle, other plastic/rubber - M40
• Tailpipes on All Metal Polish
• Defelsko DFT Combo
• Hi Lumens LED torch
• Metal Halide Light Source
• Took around 12hours to do all the correction

Interior:

• Thorough vac throughout interior
• APC on seats, agitated with Meguiars Interior Brush
• Extracted with warm water
• Carpets vacuumed, APC+ and PW to clean
• Vinyl interior wipedown APC+
• M40 on all plastics/rubber.
• Seats received 303 Fabric Guard (2 coats)

Note: Opted to wash the car first as to lessen the next day's work load

Here's pictures of the car after being washed. Took only a few picture as it was very late.

Toyota Avanza - Metallic Silver

I've detailed the paint about a year plus ago. Car is never under a garage/shed (home park outside, workplace no shade). Its true 24/7 under the sun/moon *LOL*.

Paint is Metallic Silver and only have very minor swirls. Only issue is the bonded contaminants. Never been washed by a car wash company. Its one of my test mule on testing products (especially sealants/waxes). It was wearing Collinite Marque D'Elegance #915 when the car came in.

So this is the second time its polished since Oct 2008 (that a long time ago).

Anyhow, here are the breakdown on the things done.


Vehicle upon arrival.




Here's the overall picture of the car.




Scratches on the door handle. Notice the clear peeling from the keyhole.

Perodua Myvi - The Passo Wannabe

Last Friday, a buddy of mine told me to take a look at his car and wondered if I can help to increase the gloss. So after much discussion, he dropped the car on Friday night. By the way, this car aint no Passo, its a Perodua Myvi.

So here goes. Not much was done on the interior and undercarriage; work was more focused on exterior and engine cleanup.

Car upon arrival:






Holograms on the C pillar. Swirls on the spoiler




Some sanding marks were also found at the rear pillar.







Not that bad.



Some light oxidization on both the headlights.

Detailed: Toyota VIOS 2008 BLACK (Picture Heavy) - My last 2009 Detail

Hi guys. Been some time from doing full details and writeup, but here we go.

The owner of this car is actually my brother. This is his Christmas and also New Year's gift. Its a FOC work.

The car has never been detailed properly, he only patrons those cheesy car wash; its cheap he says. LOL

So here are some pictures at arrival.


Note: All lights under Metal Halide

Side




Driver Door


Driver Fender

Proton Waja - Galaxy Grey - Transforming daily driven car to show room condition

Thought of sharing some work done on my car. The last full detail was on Oct 08; till today, its only washed and coupled with regular waxing every 2 weeks or so. The paint is not perfect. No major swirls but only odd random light scratches and the unavoidable water spots.

Since the workers doing the renovation took some time off to go deep sea fishing, I took the chance to clean my car.

So here goes.

Washing Stage:

Started by washing the engine bay.

Tools & Products used:

Pressure Washer
Air Compressor
Demoted MFs
Terry Towels
Numerous brushes

Osren APC (I ran out of Megs APC )
D151 to do general cleaning
HyperDressing on rubber/plastic parts
M40 on seals around the engine bay
NXT All Metal Cleaner for chrome bits

Before Pictures:

UGLY METALLIC BLACK - Toyota Passo wannabe -- Perodua Myvi

Its a Perodua Myvi Metallic Black. Owned by another friend that used to have his own car wash company. It just came out of the bodyshop as certain parts of the car had been repainted (meaning its fresh paint, barely 3 days out from the oven). Initially he told me the bodyshop already polish it for him and it was already shinny so I was hoping it was in a acceptable form - but when it arrived at my place, boy it sure does look ugly..

At first, I though maximum of 16hours would suffice to get it back to a better level, but I encountered buffer hop and the polish was gumming up faster than normal. But a tweak in polishing method and also the product application process helped to solve it.

I spent a minimum 16hours on the paint itself plus another 8hours on other parts (engine, interior, wheels, etc) - span of 3 days.


So here goes...


Day 1: Pictures taken during various time span


EXTERIOR BEFORE







Looks ok right? Wait till you shine a light on it