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Another job that I just did over this long weekend on my new car that I just got. Used meguiars NXT wash followed by contours clay bar, scholls s3 cutt scholls s30 polish and finished it off with contours drift coat wax.

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I finally picked up some simple green and attacked the engine bay!

Worked amazingly well if I say so myself =D

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thats is amazing man...good work...

was that a spray on spray off job, or lots of rags and elbow grease??

i ahve an engine to work on as well, might give it a try...

here a quick before after shot of a panel I'm working on atm

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was that a spray on spray off job, or lots of rags and elbow grease??

Thanks!

There was a little bit of elbow grease but nothing to complain about. Spray simple green on, let it sit for ~10 secs, wipe over the spot a couple of times with a rag then hose off. At the very end I got the compressor out and dried everything. The green almost seems to 'lift' the grease from the paint, so you literally just wipe it off once it's been soaking for a few secs.

That's an awesome polish job, it's so clear at first I thought you had taken a photo of the lamp and the red was lens flare :P

Hey which simple green product did you use...i saw them at bunnings but there was a few different products most of which were kitchen cleaners and such...didnt see any degreasers of any sort...

bought a bottle of this Ooomph shit instead...sprayed on and hosed off...seemed to work ok...

cars coming along :)

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Here is some work I have done on my mk3 supra, I am a little behind on the latest products but the gear I have seems to be working well.

I got stuck into some polish work on the paint, at some stage the car has been resprayed but had not seen polish for a few years, all the paint had gone very chalky, if you run your fingers over it you would end up with white finger tips.
So I had a play around on the front guard with some hand polishing, first I hit it with a clay bar and then some ultimate cut.
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Then I decided to get serious, I bought a proper random orbit machine from a detail supplier, this is the results on the roof after wet sanding and polish, im still yet to finish the car but you get the idea.
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This is the wet sanding pads I bought
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Heres what I started with
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so first up I wet sanded with the 3000 grit disc on my RO machine, I know the paint is thick so I can get away with the wet sanding first, heres my machine fitted with the disc
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next comes a lake country wool pad with menzerna 500
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followed by maguires ultimate cut compound on a lake country orange pad, the photo shows the amount of polish required when using this system.
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next is the finishing pass using lake country black pad with menzerna 4000
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And finally a wax to protect it, for this I use colinite 845
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Its important to mask it up as this is messy work and you can spend hours cleaning the trim pieces up
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And finally the finished waxed panel, I find white is a bugger to photograph but there is a significant change in the finish of the paint, This panel took around an 1 1/2 hours to refinish to my standard but the results are worth it.
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Engine bay before and after, using simple green and a tooth brush followed with a coat of basic polish.

At the start
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Now
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Here is some work I have done on my mk3 supra, I am a little behind on the latest products but the gear I have seems to be working well.

I got stuck into some polish work on the paint, at some stage the car has been resprayed but had not seen polish for a few years, all the paint had gone very chalky, if you run your fingers over it you would end up with white finger tips.
So I had a play around on the front guard with some hand polishing, first I hit it with a clay bar and then some ultimate cut.
IMG_3682.jpg
Then I decided to get serious, I bought a proper random orbit machine from a detail supplier, this is the results on the roof after wet sanding and polish, im still yet to finish the car but you get the idea.
IMG_3897.jpg
This is the wet sanding pads I bought
20130107_131602.jpg

Heres what I started with
IMG_3966_zps824a5129.jpg
so first up I wet sanded with the 3000 grit disc on my RO machine, I know the paint is thick so I can get away with the wet sanding first, heres my machine fitted with the disc
20130408_155001_zps854d6029.jpg
next comes a lake country wool pad with menzerna 500
20130408_155700_zpsda613e24.jpg
followed by maguires ultimate cut compound on a lake country orange pad, the photo shows the amount of polish required when using this system.
IMG_3943_zpsef204efe.jpg
next is the finishing pass using lake country black pad with menzerna 4000
IMG_3955_zpsd0069360.jpg
And finally a wax to protect it, for this I use colinite 845
IMG_3960_zpsedc22404.jpg
Its important to mask it up as this is messy work and you can spend hours cleaning the trim pieces up
tapeup_zps1107e448.jpg
And finally the finished waxed panel, I find white is a bugger to photograph but there is a significant change in the finish of the paint, This panel took around an 1 1/2 hours to refinish to my standard but the results are worth it.
finishquarter_zps256bb951.jpg
20130409_114931_zpse7019788.jpg

Engine bay before and after, using simple green and a tooth brush followed with a coat of basic polish.

At the start
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Now
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I started reading & thought; "I recognise that wheel!" Lol.

Looking at it now; you take for granted what it looked like when you first bought it. Such a big change.

Now do my car; please? :thumbsup:

Hey which simple green product did you use...i saw them at bunnings but there was a few different products most of which were kitchen cleaners and such...didnt see any degreasers of any sort...

The simple green website has a degreaser listed but I haven't seen it at Bunnings either. I'm fairly certain I picked up the all purpose cleaner, I've just moved house and have no idea which boxes my cleaning gear is in. http://www.bunnings.com.au/simple-green-946ml-all-purpose-cleaner-_p4470276

Ok was just going through some photos and it appears I have completely changed the colour of the car :blink:

before washing

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after wash and polish looking a little more shiney

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after glaze and wax applied it appears to have turned orange

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How can i make my window rubber surrounds black again? They're chalky and look shit.

I've tried 4 coats of back to black and it lasted a few months but I'm after something that will be glossy and last. You detailers must know of something ;)

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