Car Detailing

Been blogging less and less these days.

Just work these days.. went to get the bumpers painted on Saturday.. and made the mistake of following Adam there. He could have done it by himself - but i tagged along thinking his friend at the bodyshop could fix my cars little paint chips here and there. But as i suspected, he would need to repaint the entire car - and didn't wanna do it cuz it's probably too much work.

Sunday i went to work again.. this time to detail my car. Dennis was nice enough to bring his equipment and we did my entire car.

1. Wash car:
I'm pro at this. I can wash it in about 30 minutes no problem and get all the panels nice and clean.

2. Clay bar:
We used Clay Magic which is the blue stuff you can only get a profesional auto care stores. That stuff works great!.. Took off all the stupid black things stuck in the paint. Also got rid of all the rust and small particle build ups in the car.
I would think that Mcgueiars clay bar does the same thing.. and it's cheaper i think.. maybe i'll try mgeiars next time.

3. Polish:
We used Dennis's orbital random buffer.. that thing is tight. Saves so much time and effort.. and it does a lot better job applying the stuff than it would take to do it by hand. It would be a great investment to buy one.. but it's like $150 or sumthin.
For the polish we used Mcgueiars Speed Glaze. Usually it's done on black cars to remove swirls.. but it made my paint silky smooth.

4. Wax/Cleaner
We used sumthing from Germany. It's supposed to be the best.. and i don't remember the name of it.

5. Sealant:
Meguiars NXT Tech Wax.. we only did the hood, top of the car and trunk for this, particularly because when we were claying the car, i noticed that all the side panels were in good shape..

We used bath towels to dry the car after washing, and used Microfiber towels for buffing the polish and wax. I remember the days when i buffed wax/polish with regular terry towels.. that made the job SO much harder.. microfiber is the way to go.

Now the car is freakin shiny as heck. I can see all the imperfections of the paint. I have a bunch of pin holes, scrathes and craters.. sigh. I wish for a new paint job.. but that's so muh money. I need to find how much it'll be to over-spray the areas.
I want to just leave the car in the garage.. can't get it dirty! The whole process took about 4 hours.. which is pretty fast with 2 people. Claying the car probably took the longest.

My AEM V2 should arrive tomorrow.. can't wait to install that thing.

Bleh.. that is that. We went to Korean BBQ afterwards.. had some good meat. Then Boba Loca - and messed around in the computer they have in the store open for public. Some idiots left they're AIM SN with passwords saved. HAH! We logged onto them and messed around with ppl. Funny shit.

I came home and played Dota .. and now it's now. We gotta get the vertical doors installed in the tib.. but still waiting on the wiring harnesses. Oh well. Getting a little sick of work. Not enough pay.. long hours.. and stupid little things that bug. Isn't that any job though? Lol.. i bet your reading this and saying "hey, that's my job!"

Wow this was a long post in a while. Anyways. Jah Gya went on a Sun with some old geezer.. whatevers.
Dad doesn't seem to really like me.. obviously cuz of my spiritual background - but wtf. Makes me wonder wtf i'm doing.

I still need to apply for citizenship. I told myself i'd do it after College when i have more time - but it seems like i have less time these days.