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Applebees Appetizer posted:Got a new to me car (2013 Scion xB) and I noticed the door panels were getting streak marks from the rain. I figured the dealership I bought it from used some kind of lovely armor-all type stuff on the plastic so I scrubbed all of the panels with simple green and it appeared to solve the problem. Then this morning it was raining and it did it even worse, wtf do I need to use to clean off whatever lovely product is on the door panels causing this? Try some vinegar on the chance it's mineral deposits?
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It's not mineral deposits, that would happen over time. This happens as soon as the rain hits it, I can wipe it away but then it happens again whenever it gets rained on like the water is reacting to whatever chemical is on the plastic. Vinegar is worth a shot tho.
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Aug 16, 2019 16:45
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Applebees Appetizer posted:It's not mineral deposits, that would happen over time. This happens as soon as the rain hits it, I can wipe it away but then it happens again whenever it gets rained on like the water is reacting to whatever chemical is on the plastic. Hummmm. I got nothin.
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Aug 16, 2019 17:01
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If rains doing that it's probably water soluble. I know you said you did simple green already. Maybe it just needs more of the same? Just spitballing.
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I don't know anything about detailing, but I have some filthy black fabric seats with a lot of blotch-y, fingerprint-sized dirt stains that I want to clean. I thought I could get by with household products; I mixed up some hot water and dish soap and attacked one of them with a scrub brush and a shopvac for about an hour, but I honestly couldn't tell a difference. Is it time to invest in an actual detailing product? Do I need a certain kind of brush? The OP recommends Meguiars D103, but nobody local carries it, and I'm really only interested in cleaning the seats, so is there something more appropriate?
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Lester Shy posted:I don't know anything about detailing, but I have some filthy black fabric seats with a lot of blotch-y, fingerprint-sized dirt stains that I want to clean. I thought I could get by with household products; I mixed up some hot water and dish soap and attacked one of them with a scrub brush and a shopvac for about an hour, but I honestly couldn't tell a difference. Is it time to invest in an actual detailing product? Do I need a certain kind of brush? The OP recommends Meguiars D103, but nobody local carries it, and I'm really only interested in cleaning the seats, so is there something more appropriate? This is my first shot at carpet stains: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Magic-900-Carpet-Lifter/dp/B0002KKIXC You can also pick it up at walmart.
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Has anyone attempted paint chip repair themselves? After doing some polishing over the weekend they are more noticeable now to me.
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Aug 25, 2019 22:54
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Dr. Colorchip
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I discovered this flowchart graphic on autogeek, and found it very useful/instructive: Ordered some stuff between autogeek and Amazon to see if I could resurrect the super oxidized single stage "Super White" paint on my 2010 Toyota Corolla: PorterCable 7424XP (w/backing plate) cutting pads finishing foam pads Meguiars Clay Kit Meguiars 105 Compound Meguiars 205 Polish Meguiars #7 Polish grit guard washing mitt (I have buckets and soap already.) Can't wait to actually see if this all works. edit: forgot I'd bought foam pads betterinsodapop fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Aug 26, 2019 |
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Aug 26, 2019 21:42
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So, like a lazy fuckwit I left birdshit on my (black) car for some time and after giving its first wash in about a year the other day the paint looks raised in the area where the bird poo poo was, it's weird. I think you can slightly feel it with your finger too. I've been meaning to give the car a thorough going over with clay, polish, wax/sealant etc., but I'm guessing that's not going to fix this defect now. Experts, how boned do you think I am here?
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Sep 2, 2019 02:28
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Here4DaGangBang posted:So, like a lazy fuckwit I left birdshit on my (black) car for some time and after giving its first wash in about a year the other day the paint looks raised in the area where the bird poo poo was, it's weird. I think you can slightly feel it with your finger too. I've been meaning to give the car a thorough going over with clay, polish, wax/sealant etc., but I'm guessing that's not going to fix this defect now. Experts, how boned do you think I am here? Try washing and the claybarring that part.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:So, like a lazy fuckwit I left birdshit on my (black) car for some time and after giving its first wash in about a year the other day the paint looks raised in the area where the bird poo poo was, it's weird. I think you can slightly feel it with your finger too. I've been meaning to give the car a thorough going over with clay, polish, wax/sealant etc., but I'm guessing that's not going to fix this defect now. Experts, how boned do you think I am here? birdshit can create a nasty spot on a car within hours...you probably wont get far with a claybar on a spot like that (still worth trying though) you'll probably end up needing to use a polisher with some medium correction to start with OBAMNA PHONE fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 22:03
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Last weekend, I spent several hours cutting the super oxidized single stage paint on my 2010 "Super White" Corolla. While it does look 1000x better than it did (previously "chalky" and rough,) parts of it are kind of semi-matte. I'm thinking maybe if I'd used microfiber cutting pads instead of foam pads? What do you guys think?
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Sep 4, 2019 20:15
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betterinsodapop posted:Last weekend, I spent several hours cutting the super oxidized single stage paint on my 2010 "Super White" Corolla. If you were cutting, then it's time to move to polishing. What products were you using?
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meatpimp posted:If you were cutting, then it's time to move to polishing. What products were you using? Some of the car looks FANTASTIC, but the hood still looks pretty muted/dull. Here's what I did: washed (2 bucket style!) w/Meguiar's Gold Class clayed w/Meguiar's Clay Kit cut using orange foam pad and Meguiars 105 polished using grey/black foam pad and Meguiars 205 It really looks a TON better overall, but wish I'd been able to get a real shine back on the hood.
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Sep 4, 2019 21:44
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Huh, my 2005 Pontiac Vibe is super white which I guess means it's single stage too. That would explain how nicely it came back from neglect when I gave it a good polish when I first bought it. I had no idea. No way I'd suspect there were still single stage paint jobs out there in the past couple decades.
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Sep 4, 2019 22:56
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do you use white applicator foam pads or something? 
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Phone posted:do you use white applicator foam pads or something? Before it was given to me, this car spent 8 years in upstate NY without ever being washed, being exposed to rain, snow, and salt from the brutal winters up there. The oxidization was heavier than I thought.
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Sep 4, 2019 23:15
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i meant it towards opengl128 since i would figure just waxing a single stage white car with one of the yellow foam pads would have revealed itself obviously that it was single stage in actual detailing news, i'm gonna wash the mazda3 and polish it up soon! maybe even wash the truck for the first time (owned since 2016)!
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Phone posted:do you use white applicator foam pads or something? I use these guys so...yep haha https://www.detailedimage.com/Meguiars-M43/DA-Microfiber-Cutting-Disc-Buffing-Pad-P515/55-S1 Would also explain the extreme build up on the pads I was encountering!
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betterinsodapop posted:I did cut and polish, but I don't think I got deep enough on the cut. Try some Ultimate Compound, put a firm pad on, crank up the speed and go hog wild.
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toplitzin posted:I guess ChemGuys now has a tornado cleaner thing too (According to amazon, so take that with a grain of salt) and only $40. I want to buy one of these tornado cleaner things, and I know they take a lot of air, but does anyone have any specific recommendations on the size of air compressor I should be hunting for on facebook marketplace?
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meatpimp posted:Try some Ultimate Compound, put a firm pad on, crank up the speed and go hog wild.
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Finally had my M3 corrected and ceramic coated. I was going to try and get it done myself, but the time requirements combined with my workspace made it less than desirable so I had a shop do it. There was some hologramming from a po doing a bad polish job on pretty much every panel and that was my main issue.  Doesn't capture super well, but that was everywhere.     Haven't had a chance to really go over it in good lighting, but I'm definitely happy so far! They're supposed to send pics of the process and hopefully they were able to get pics of how bad it was before they corrected it. If they did I'll make sure to post them.
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fknlo posted:Finally had my M3 corrected and ceramic coated. I was going to try and get it done myself, but the time requirements combined with my workspace made it less than desirable so I had a shop do it. There was some hologramming from a po doing a bad polish job on pretty much every panel and that was my main issue. That’s the good poo poo, right there. Right into my veins.
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MrYenko posted:That’s the good poo poo, right there. Right into my veins. Lmao, I just got loving rear ended. Light hit so it's probably just the bumper, but 
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fknlo posted:Lmao, I just got loving rear ended. Light hit so it's probably just the bumper, but God drat dude 
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fknlo posted:Lmao, I just got loving rear ended. Light hit so it's probably just the bumper, but 
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In the right turn lane. Car in front of me is stopped. I'm stopped. The lady behind me is stopped. I look up and now she's driving into me. I'm super loving angry. I may have done a bit of a burnout when traffic cleared. Pull over in a parking lot and I've already relaxed a ton and the lady gets out and is just loving shaking. She saw how pissed I was initially but I was able to calm her down. In the end it's just a car and no one was hurt, etc... Still loving sucks. I literally had a conversation with my Lyft driver about how you can't have nice things on the way to pick it up this morning. So now I need to track down a body shop and decide whether I want to gently caress with her insurance or just let mine do the work like I did the last time I was not at fault in an accident. I'll probably let my insurance deal with it since that's what the gently caress I pay them for.   Not super bad, just super loving frustrating. This is why I don't ever drive my S2000.
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loving sucks dude. Still, could be a lot worse. I got rear ended once at approximately the same speed, and it should have been a similar non-event, except the rear end in a top hat had a flat-tow hitch adapter on the front of his mini truck that very nearly punched a hole through the bumper cover of my car. I also gave up on every owning a “nice” car. If I drive it on the street, I assume some rear end in a top hat is going to gently caress it up. I guess Eve online taught me something useful, after all.
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MrYenko posted:loving sucks dude. I probably wouldn't have been anywhere near as angry initially if I hadn't just spent a bunch of money on the paint stuff. It's not that bad, I'm not exactly worried about resale or anything like that, and it's just a car. I'm obviously going to do my best to be made whole with the best body money can buy and all that jazz. Will the whole car have to be redone as far as the coating goes or can they just do part of it? Because that's gonna get paid for too.
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fknlo posted:In the right turn lane. Car in front of me is stopped. I'm stopped. The lady behind me is stopped. I look up and now she's driving into me. I'm super loving angry. I may have done a bit of a burnout when traffic cleared. Pull over in a parking lot and I've already relaxed a ton and the lady gets out and is just loving shaking. She saw how pissed I was initially but I was able to calm her down. In the end it's just a car and no one was hurt, etc... Still loving sucks. I literally had a conversation with my Lyft driver about how you can't have nice things on the way to pick it up this morning. So now I need to track down a body shop and decide whether I want to gently caress with her insurance or just let mine do the work like I did the last time I was not at fault in an accident. I'll probably let my insurance deal with it since that's what the gently caress I pay them for. drat that sucks man. Use your insurance so you can dictate what shop it goes to / oem parts etc. They'll make her insurance pay for it later. That debate is their job and afaik mostly comes down to "does this cost less than litigation". Outside medical and personal injury it always does. Good on you to recognize that a car is only a thing, but I'd be pissed as gently caress too and it's ok.
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fknlo posted:I probably wouldn't have been anywhere near as angry initially if I hadn't just spent a bunch of money on the paint stuff. It's not that bad, I'm not exactly worried about resale or anything like that, and it's just a car. I'm obviously going to do my best to be made whole with the best body money can buy and all that jazz. Will the whole car have to be redone as far as the coating goes or can they just do part of it? Because that's gonna get paid for too. Anything that gets resprayed will have to be recoated. And you'll have to wait for the paint to cure before you recoat. Typically 30 days.
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Brand new 2019 Rav4, a bunch of these stains are appearing from insects splattered on the road. They're not sitting on the car for long, I clean them off every day or so. Anyone know how to get it out of my paint/prevent it from staining my paint? It's completely smooth to the touch, so it's not surface crud.  I tried clay just for the hell of it, am completely stumped why my paint seems to be staining like this, or how to get it out. Raskolnikov2089 fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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meatpimp posted:Try some Ultimate Compound, put a firm pad on, crank up the speed and go hog wild.
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I used the Meguiar's heavy duty headlight restoration kit a while back to polish one of my lights that was getting cloudy. Its starting to get a bit cloudy again. Can I just re-do the polishing step of this or do I have to re-sand and then re-apply the polish? Its not that bad yet.
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betterinsodapop posted:In the end, this is what I did, just using 105 compound. I got heavy cut microfiber pads, cranked the speed, and did indeed go hog wild. It finally chewed through the severe oxidation. Followed it up with 205 polish on 5 speed. The car has gone from white chalk to white gloss. Single stage paint still sucks, but at least I got most of the shine back. Very nice. The reason I recommend the UC is the way it works, it starts out fairly coarse, but breaks down as you use it, so really it's both of those products in one. You can hammer on it and get good cutting, but light and fast polishes. Next time you need it (it'll be soon), try UC. wesleywillis posted:I used the Meguiar's heavy duty headlight restoration kit a while back to polish one of my lights that was getting cloudy. Its starting to get a bit cloudy again. I had really good luck with the Sylvania headlight kit on the BMW and Escalade, both 10+ years old. It wipes on/buffs off and has lasted over a year with no change on the Escalade, most of that sitting in direct sun.
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meatpimp posted:Very nice. The reason I recommend the UC is the way it works, it starts out fairly coarse, but breaks down as you use it, so really it's both of those products in one. You can hammer on it and get good cutting, but light and fast polishes. Next time you need it (it'll be soon), try UC
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Just don’t do what I did and also buy Ultimate Polish. That stuff sucks. I swapped it out for some Menzerna SF3500 over the weekend and I was pretty happy with the result. Nice glossy mirror finish. Still looking for something decent to remove tar though. I picked up some Turtlewax Bug and Tar based on some recommendations but it didn’t really work on the tiny tar spots on my wheels even after multiple tries.
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Goof Off has been good to me in the past for most things. UC is the best product I have ever used. Might be a technique thing, but I've gotten better results with that than anything else. Also seconding that Ult Polish wasn't good.
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