This car belongs to a member on MOL. He lives in the same area as I do and we started talking about his 02 Civic. He said he enters in a lot of the local shows here in the area, and wanted to learn how to polish his car. I told him to come over, so we started saturday at about 8am finished lil after 1:30pm. Hopefully before the big show we get another chance to polish to work on the car, need to polish the headlights, dress the fender wells and clean the engine. Washed with ONR Rims cleaned with SC Grime Destroyer and ONR Rims protected with DG 501 Tires cleaned with APC and ONR Tires dressed with Meg ASD Clay with Meguiars white clay Glass cleaned with SC Clearly better, Walmart glass towels and waffle weave towels Polished with PC 4" LC Flat orange and 5.5" LC CCS orange pads, Primed pad according to KBM, applied pressure for a few passes, then used just the weight of the PC for a few more passes Would have liked to followed up with 205, but we needed to be done and honestly 105 left an amazing finish behind Applied Danase Wet Glaze LSP this time was Clearkote Carnauba Moose (first time using this and it is going to be used a lot more) Not to many before pics, Josh and I both took just a couple pics The entire car looked like this rest of the befores Scratch Nomore scratch After 105 only The afters
Looks great, the headlights need some attention, or is that just the angle that you took the pic at? overall man you did great.
Thank you. Yea we will hopefully be doin that before the car show. This time was focused on just the swirls Thank you. Lol that was not my doing Thank you Thank you, yes the headlights need some work for sure
I've worked on an 2001/2002 Civic and from my experiences with the headlights, you probably want to wetsand them. I polished them with an orange pad and a medium polish and they gunked back up (not as much, but still) in about a year. I moved up to foamed purple wool 3.5 inch pads this time and it made a bigger diff, so I can only imagine the difference in wetsanding. They aren't friendly headlights, they seem to have a lot of pitting issues and such.
Thank you for the heads up. I was goin to use PFW followed by foam pads, finished with FK 1000p for preotection. I think now I will consider wet sanding first
Looks good Sal, Glad to see your getting "NEW" Clients...Maybe this fellow can pass out a few of your cards at the show to all his freinds. Good Luck:cig:
Thank you, yes it will look lots better hope to do it teh end of the month if I am still livin here Thank you, this one was more of a teaching on detailing then a paying job, it was fun though reminds me of when I was learning. He took lots of business cards so I am praying for some more customers
Anyone have a guide or vide on wetsanding the headlights? I'd be interested in seeing how these end up looking, compared to the rest of the car!
Here is an 02 Accent I polished the headlights no wetsanding http://www.detailingbliss.com/forum/f47/02-accent-9593.html There was a great writeup on headlights I can not seem to find at the moment it was posted not long ago
