I don't know what color to call this, so it's just going to be an ES300. Car was pretty clean to begin with since it had been washed a week ago, and its color hides dirty very well. There is a lot of chrome on this car, and I'll be looking for a better metal polish after seeing minimal results on all of this. I need to be more careful with this wash process though! I let some citrus wash and gloss water get into my gloves during the wash process and now my fingers' skin is all peeling! Nasty! Wash&Dry CG CWG Micro-chenille mitt Grit Guard Waffle Weave Drying Towel Clay CG Clay CG CWG as clay lube cause I'm out of QD and lazy to refill soap Glass CG CWG for wash Stoners IG to clean up Jetseal 109 Engine Bay CG Grime Reaper diluted 5:1 Costco MF Metal Bits Exhaust tip, trim, grille, door handles (yes, door handles) CG Metal Polish Wheels & Tires CG CWG EZ Detail brush - best wheel brush out there! Swissvax Wheel Brush - this one's for the wheel face and made my job a lot easier Jetseal 109 Swissvax Pneu - tire shine Paint Correction Hitachi rotary polisher Menzerna PO106FF Menzerna SIP (trunk only) LC White Pad (with 106FF) LC Orange Pad (with SIP) 50/50 Isopropyl and water mixture LSP Jetseal 109 - cured overnight Meguiar's Quick Detailer All purpose MF towel Now for pictures. I didn't take before ones because I was being lazy, and it wouldn't have made much of a difference for this color. My camera is pretty crappy and I'm looking to upgrade that anyway. Engine bay before As you can see, I had a pretty hard time actually capturing the swirls on camera. my test section taped up for a 50/50 shot! This is the best I could do in terms of actually capturing the paint correction I was doing. I'll let you guess which side I actually polished. The polished side was passed with SIP and 106FF. Finished one side of the car and half the roof. Time for a break! After Jetseal 109 and finished engine bay pictures. Yeah it's not completely clean because there were some areas I tried to avoid. Crappy Toyota cooling! I sprayed some Grime Reaper on it and it just started to steam and smell like death! Same happened to the wheels. He drove it for 7 minutes and the brakes were so hot, the water evaporated right away! SV Pneu is awesome! It's a good shine in person, but it's not a OMG THAT IS TOO SHINY kind. My attempts at the "FMINUS shot" Jea! super dark tint! After working on this car, I bought a 3M backing plate right away. Just look at that hood my fellow detailers!
Vehicle looks great, I'm a huge fan of Lexus' gorgeous vehicles. What colour is that, silver...or is it more like pearl white? Any who the vehicle looks great. Thank you for sharing.
thanks! i would've waxed it if i weren't busy that day that thing has so much chrome it must be expensive haha yeah it's close official color? Thanks, Nica! All i need now is a legitimate camera and i think i'm good to go
