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Today is Christmas and what better way to spend Christmas than to ... detail a car.
OK, so I admit i am kinda lifeless and had too much time. As my brother has gone travelling and left his Neo in the house, i decided to mess with it.
Note, the car has barely been taken care of by the owner. Every now and then sent to road side car wash (those 8 ringgit wan). And the owner loves to bang things... so lotsa dents.
This part focuses more on claying and its importance. No paint correction, compounding or polishing was done.
Enjoy the horror
Wheels were cincai cincai wash by road side buggers. Can see the amount of dirt on the bonnet and entire car. Totally absolutely, horribly abused.
After a quick bath using Meguire's Wash and Wax (i would have loved to use ONR but the amount of dirt here makes me feel uncomfortable using ONR)
Now a little bit more details on what road side buggers and 48 ringgit wax can do to ur paint (excuse the non-clarity as i still suck at macro shots.)
Why I would advice using only water in the wiper sprays.... the liquid that you put into the wiper washer is left on the bonnet and dries and results the below stains... which can only be removed using polish (i tried Power Clean max power.... kalah jugak)
Bird droppings or tree sap mark... burned unto the clearcoat. Not too sure which but the stain remains there. Again, OPC lost this battle. Needs to polish
NOW, comes the highlight of this tread, CLAYING. So what is claying.
It is a simple act of removing contaminant from your paint. "BUT I ALREADY WASH THE CAR" you ask?
Here is some graphical proof that car wash alone would not be able to clean as properly as you think you did.
Clean piece of clay (lipat lipat then clean lar, this is not a new but used clay. Have already been used on probably 3 cars already.)
Result after half the bonnet.
Now, result after entire bonnet ALONE is done.
Now, moving on, lipat lipat again (be sure to take away any bits and pieces of solid items (sand, stone, whatever) from the CLAY before lipat else you contaminate the clay only)
After lipat, clean leh
Now, after half the roof
Now after entire roof
Would have loved to continue but I guess you guys are already bored by now if I continue on with every single part of the car (front bumper lar, back bumper lar, left door lar, right door lar, rear bonnet lar).
But I would love to show you the most contaminated place in a car. The lower parts. The below is a result from ONE side skirt only. (always remember to use old clay on the bottom of the car as these areas are very highly superbly horribly terribly contaminated. Wun wanna waste a new clay on these areas)
This concludes our session of claying. Btw, claying process was lubricated with ONR probably.....1:20 dilution? I dunno, i just make it bout 1.5 liter of water and 1 cap of ONR only.
Here is the end results after Opti Seal and Optimum Car Wax.
Your comments and feedbacks are much appreciated.
OK, so I admit i am kinda lifeless and had too much time. As my brother has gone travelling and left his Neo in the house, i decided to mess with it.
Note, the car has barely been taken care of by the owner. Every now and then sent to road side car wash (those 8 ringgit wan). And the owner loves to bang things... so lotsa dents.
This part focuses more on claying and its importance. No paint correction, compounding or polishing was done.
Enjoy the horror
Wheels were cincai cincai wash by road side buggers. Can see the amount of dirt on the bonnet and entire car. Totally absolutely, horribly abused.
After a quick bath using Meguire's Wash and Wax (i would have loved to use ONR but the amount of dirt here makes me feel uncomfortable using ONR)
Now a little bit more details on what road side buggers and 48 ringgit wax can do to ur paint (excuse the non-clarity as i still suck at macro shots.)
Why I would advice using only water in the wiper sprays.... the liquid that you put into the wiper washer is left on the bonnet and dries and results the below stains... which can only be removed using polish (i tried Power Clean max power.... kalah jugak)
Bird droppings or tree sap mark... burned unto the clearcoat. Not too sure which but the stain remains there. Again, OPC lost this battle. Needs to polish
NOW, comes the highlight of this tread, CLAYING. So what is claying.
It is a simple act of removing contaminant from your paint. "BUT I ALREADY WASH THE CAR" you ask?
Here is some graphical proof that car wash alone would not be able to clean as properly as you think you did.
Clean piece of clay (lipat lipat then clean lar, this is not a new but used clay. Have already been used on probably 3 cars already.)
Result after half the bonnet.
Now, result after entire bonnet ALONE is done.
Now, moving on, lipat lipat again (be sure to take away any bits and pieces of solid items (sand, stone, whatever) from the CLAY before lipat else you contaminate the clay only)
After lipat, clean leh
Now, after half the roof
Now after entire roof
Would have loved to continue but I guess you guys are already bored by now if I continue on with every single part of the car (front bumper lar, back bumper lar, left door lar, right door lar, rear bonnet lar).
But I would love to show you the most contaminated place in a car. The lower parts. The below is a result from ONE side skirt only. (always remember to use old clay on the bottom of the car as these areas are very highly superbly horribly terribly contaminated. Wun wanna waste a new clay on these areas)
This concludes our session of claying. Btw, claying process was lubricated with ONR probably.....1:20 dilution? I dunno, i just make it bout 1.5 liter of water and 1 cap of ONR only.
Here is the end results after Opti Seal and Optimum Car Wax.
Your comments and feedbacks are much appreciated.