i cant wait till i get to washing my car again...the rain and the fact that i park my car in the open at school means that its bound to get dirty after a few hours >_>.

dish soap (dawn in your case) is usually used to remove any old traces of wax left behind...so its usually a start for a good complete clean. following dish soap, usually comes a real car wash soap like ICE, Meguiars, TurtleWax etc..

but awsome looking! definitely gonna clay my car come this summer!

 

Hah, I had to do this last night to my SW
It turned FM over the course of 3 weeks.

Nice job though!

 

Yeah, that pro might tell you he starts with dish soap, but you gotta remember, he probably isn't washing the same car/cars over and over and over...and he only needs it because he may not know the car's um..."wax-history."



I still can't believe you layed your wheels face down on concrete......

 

Honestly, its not that big of a deal, its not as if the factory tc wheels are some sort of gem. My wheels have already been thrown around during multiple auto x tire swaps.

Anyways I'll post up some pictures of Day 2 in the morning. I can't seem to find my camera.

 

wheres the rest

 

Simple green is good for wheel cleaning, scent-free liquid laundry detergent is even better. Before I clay, I always use Dawn Ultra, and I go over the entire car twice. Also good to have a mitt specifically for that job.

 

very nice cleaning job....good work.

 

sorry, winter came along and the only way I can finish this is doing it inside the garage. Well my garage is disgusting. My dad is a contractor so we tend to keep and store allot of useless spare materials. Anyways we've been cleaning it and organizing it for the past 2 days.

Anyways I'll also be ordering a Porter Cable buffer along with some compounds from autogeek.net so I'll promise to finish doing everything and post up the results.

 

lol my fm is long over due 4 a rele good retailing like this i try to but about 20 min into claybaring my tc i just wanna go home n go 2 sleep lol

 

haha...sounds like the complete opposite of me. after I do a complete detail of my car...I constantly find myself going back outside every 10 minutes because I think of something else to do. Sometimes it's take a damp cloth and scrub all the dust out of the engine bay on everything I can reach, sometimes it's clean out the area underneath the sunroof. Whatever I can find...I clean.

 

"dont look at me that wayyy.. it was an honest mistaaake"
haha i love that song.
car looks good. lovin those spacers. i would do it but im worried about the rubbing.

 

lol i think this tues im gonna do mine i got a c/f hood and if my new tannabe g exhaust gets here im gonna be puttin them both on and i wanna clay the hole car use swirl remover then i got some cabarnuba or w/e cleaner wax i bought 2 wax the c/f hood ima wax it after that.. if i dont die after claying it im so tired from work 2day it hurts me just 2 think about this lol

 

Water etching on the glass? Wha? Explain this plz. I might have it and desperatly want to not have it!

 

Water etching are spots where water is left to dry for long periods of time, they are calcium deposits and annoying to have. They mainly create in flat surfaces such as the roof (in our case glass) hoods, trunks and front and rear windshields. I couldn't find a good picture but just imagine dried up water spots from when you don't properly dry your car. Except more permanent. They are a nuisance because even after properly washing and drying the car you still have these "spots" that take away shine and act as an abrasive surface so water doesn't slide off.

I used to have it on the roof of the car, but I was lucky to get to it early and it clay barred off. All I do to prevent it now is to keep all of the glass rain x'ed.

BTW, I cleaned out the garage so the TC is all sung in there, I'm just waiting to pick up the PC 7427 now.

 

I honestly don't see why anyone uses dish soap on a car.

from dawn's website:

 

If you are going to clay a car and do not strip all of the wax off first, you're basically wasting your time. Dawn will strip all of the wax off of a car with little effort. That is the ONLY time you should ever bring dishwashing soap near a car.

 

So is it ok to clay bar the glass roof?

 

Yeah, the hole idea I had that day was I was going to clay bar it, polish it, apply some sealant and some wax, but I got called into work and I couldn't finish up. Now I'm just waiting to pick up my PC to finish it up.

Yeah, I always like to clay bar the glass before applying rain x. That way the surface is in the best condition.