MarcHarris
New member
While I preformed regular waxes for this client's leased Lexus, when the lease was up, and they decided to purchase the vehicle. Since the purchase, I re-cleared the formerly hazy headlight housings, thoroughly cleaned the leather (woolite dilution + Leather Master's), cleaned the floormats after winter (soaked, scrubbed, extracted), treated all weather stripping (shin-etsu grease), applied Aquapel to the windshield, and rewaxed the paint to keep it protected.
Now the client pulled the trigger on renewing the paint, with scheduling weekly washes to keep it looking new.
I arrived in the rain, but the wax was still holding up.
washed with Meg's Super Soap, a white shmitt, and two bucket method (of course with grit guards), then clayed using Adam's mild clay with ONR as clay lube.
Pretty light contaimination as a whole, but was bad on the lower panels, especially to the rear of the wheels
Re-rinsed, dried with waffle weave mf's, and pulled in for inspection under the lights.
The vehicle was suffering from 5 years of weekly to bi-weekly washes at a local swirl-o-matic. This is one of those cars you'll never see dirty as the owner takes pride in the vehicle, like many Lexus', Benzes, and BMWs on the road suffering from the same condition.
Coming into this job, the owner and I already discussed the target being for a 70-80% correction rate to renew the vehicle's surface without taking the time required for 95%+
I tried several different combo's until I settled using Menzerna IP + flat LC orange....
followed by Menzerna 106 + Detailer's domain blue...
The combo proved to be gold on the body panels
and the uncleared B-pillars
Now the client pulled the trigger on renewing the paint, with scheduling weekly washes to keep it looking new.
I arrived in the rain, but the wax was still holding up.
washed with Meg's Super Soap, a white shmitt, and two bucket method (of course with grit guards), then clayed using Adam's mild clay with ONR as clay lube.
Pretty light contaimination as a whole, but was bad on the lower panels, especially to the rear of the wheels
Re-rinsed, dried with waffle weave mf's, and pulled in for inspection under the lights.
The vehicle was suffering from 5 years of weekly to bi-weekly washes at a local swirl-o-matic. This is one of those cars you'll never see dirty as the owner takes pride in the vehicle, like many Lexus', Benzes, and BMWs on the road suffering from the same condition.
Coming into this job, the owner and I already discussed the target being for a 70-80% correction rate to renew the vehicle's surface without taking the time required for 95%+
I tried several different combo's until I settled using Menzerna IP + flat LC orange....
followed by Menzerna 106 + Detailer's domain blue...
The combo proved to be gold on the body panels
and the uncleared B-pillars
