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

K-Car - Metallic Purple - Perodua Kenari

Finally I got a friend that does not mind his car being posted online.


Background: The car is rebadged model of the Daihatsu Move. Locally its called Perodua Kenari. The car had been repainted 2 months ago from Red to Metallic Purple.

The owner was not satisfied with the outcome as he mentioned that the reflection was blurry. So after a length discussion, he settled for a simple detail session.

As I was pressed for time, pictures are in very small numbers. Plus, weather was not great, sunny in the morning and started to rain in late afternoon till night time.


Spent around 20 hours on the car (2 days span) and polishing more like 8-10hours.



EXTERIOR - BEFORE (taken at various time)