Crazzy_Al
Mr. Hair Gel Overgeller
How much time do you guys spend REALLY detailing your toy cars and/or DDs? I only ask because I spent 7.5 hours last night detailing my DD for it's spring clean up. I started at 7:00pm and finished at 2:30am. Too much?
I sprayed the engine bay and hood with Simple Green, rinsed it all off, dried the engine bay, waxed my painted engine cover, and then thoroughly cleaned all the ridges and edges in the bay and hood. I didn't dress the engine bay for a couple reasons. 1.) everything still looks shiny and like new, 2.) dressing attracts more dust and grime and the car is a DD that's driven 21 miles to work each day + running around, etc.
Then I washed the car, wheels, and brake calipers by hand with warm water and Dawn dish soap I only use Dawn dish soap for the specific purpose of stripping wax, grime, etc. I do NOT use it for normal washes. Then I dried the car and used the blower attachment on my vacuum and cleared all of the gaps, trim pieces, wheel wells, and wheels of water. Then I clay barred the whole car. I followed that with applying a coat of Meguiar's Gold Class liquid wax to the recently powdercoated wheels. After that, a coat of Gold Class wax on the whole car.
From there I attached the Mother's Power Cone to an electric drill and went to work on the black wheels and red brake calipers. Got what I could with that tool and did the fine touches to the wheels with a clean microfiber towel.
Then it was time to pull all of the wax off of the car. I did that with a 10" random orbital buffer, 8-10 terry cloth buffer bonnets, and a few branch new 16" microfiber towels.
After that was done I dressed the tires with Armor All Extreme Tire Shine Gel and went to bed. :lol:
This morning I cleaned all the windows with Stoner Invisible glass, cleaned all of the interior pieces (dash, doors, TV, etc) and vacuumed the car. I didn't dress the interior pieces as I don't like the shiny look inside of my car.
So all in all, is that a bit too much for a DD? I don't think so at all but my wife seems to think differently. :lol:
I sprayed the engine bay and hood with Simple Green, rinsed it all off, dried the engine bay, waxed my painted engine cover, and then thoroughly cleaned all the ridges and edges in the bay and hood. I didn't dress the engine bay for a couple reasons. 1.) everything still looks shiny and like new, 2.) dressing attracts more dust and grime and the car is a DD that's driven 21 miles to work each day + running around, etc.
Then I washed the car, wheels, and brake calipers by hand with warm water and Dawn dish soap I only use Dawn dish soap for the specific purpose of stripping wax, grime, etc. I do NOT use it for normal washes. Then I dried the car and used the blower attachment on my vacuum and cleared all of the gaps, trim pieces, wheel wells, and wheels of water. Then I clay barred the whole car. I followed that with applying a coat of Meguiar's Gold Class liquid wax to the recently powdercoated wheels. After that, a coat of Gold Class wax on the whole car.
From there I attached the Mother's Power Cone to an electric drill and went to work on the black wheels and red brake calipers. Got what I could with that tool and did the fine touches to the wheels with a clean microfiber towel.
Then it was time to pull all of the wax off of the car. I did that with a 10" random orbital buffer, 8-10 terry cloth buffer bonnets, and a few branch new 16" microfiber towels.
After that was done I dressed the tires with Armor All Extreme Tire Shine Gel and went to bed. :lol:
This morning I cleaned all the windows with Stoner Invisible glass, cleaned all of the interior pieces (dash, doors, TV, etc) and vacuumed the car. I didn't dress the interior pieces as I don't like the shiny look inside of my car.
So all in all, is that a bit too much for a DD? I don't think so at all but my wife seems to think differently. :lol:
It's all personal preference. For my DD I take it through a unlimited carwash thats $33/mo. Includes tire shine, rain X, sealer wax, yada yada. Does a good job with no waterspots and doesn't swirl the car too bad. Every day that its not raining I wash my car on the way to work and it looks mint at all times. To me, can't beat that. BUT some people wouldn't take their car through a drive through car wash if you paid them too.
