How much do you care about your car's skin?

[foxfrc5]

Originally Posted by caySman

Any logic behind not using shampoo? The shampoo lubricates AND lifts dirt, I suppose that's justification enough to use shampoo, right?

Nothing scientific but it just doesn't seem to make much difference. Bear in mind that these cars aren't really very dirty. If they were, I'd go over to the Zymol guys and they'd use Zymol Clear. Nonetheless, I think I will try a bottle of Zymol Clear at home at some point in the near future.

[centurion]

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Originally Posted by caySman
the new gayman is WHITE, so that's a relief - no need to spend 5 hours a weekend cleaning and sealing already. Freedom from polish.

Actually nothing beats a highly polished white car... almost as delicious as a nicely waxed black car with no swirl marks. Sorry if OT.

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Originally Posted by foxfrc5
Actually nothing beats a highly polished white car... almost as delicious as a nicely waxed black car with no swirl marks. Sorry if OT.

OT: man, you're trying to get me back on the OCD hell again after I attended polishers and waxers anonymous.

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Originally Posted by caySman
OT: man, you're trying to get me back on the OCD hell again after I attended polishers and waxers anonymous.

Hehe, no lah. Just pretty sure you'd want your pride and joy to be looking its best...!

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Transferring the conversation here to avoid OT in the other thread...

surprisingly, I would not consider polishing the white gayman myself, as opposed to a beautiful long gigantic black S500. Smaller cars like the Gayman, especially when it's white, do not give the beautiful liquid look and gloss in the same way as a long hedonistic body like the beautiful S500's. If the gayman were the deepest shade of cobalt blue (MB code Jasper Blue), or a wonderful metallic red like Merc's Tazanite Red, man I would return to OCD hell, but white cars like no shiok to get them gleaming.

Still, I have NEVER owned a white car before and I'd like to see how it glows and glosses.

The extent of my OCD is quite extensive though not as frequently done, here's how I do the session.

1) Dissolve 1 capful of Mama lemon in a half bucket, and wash my car using a 2 bucket method (1 soap 1 fresh, fresh to rinse) using a wash mitt. This gets rid of old Carnauba wax

2) Do it once over with pre-wax prep, a very small particulate chemical, to clean the paint from bonded contaminants which are not so strongly bonded. Wipe over with baby diaper.

3) Do it once over with New Car Polish, the smaller particulate range of polish, to clean the paint from more stubborn bonded contaminants, and to hide swirls. Meguiars has a good chemical for this. Wipe over with baby diaper.

4) Carnauba time, panel by panel. PASTE not Liquid. Wipe over with microfiber.

5) Polymer sealant time to bond over the carnauba. Chemical compatibility with the carnauba required, so I'm using the Meguiar Pro series.

And this gives me like 14 days of beautiful beading, after which, I think most of the carnauba is screwed anyway .... but I don't want to believe that.

[SL2]

Originally Posted by TripleM

i know u wash urs thrice / week..

I was hoping to change my car colour to white without respraying. Champion.

[Mockngbrd]

any advise on how to upkeep a brand new resprayed car? heard no waxing for dunno how long or somethin

[centurion]

Originally Posted by Mockngbrd

any advise on how to upkeep a brand new resprayed car? heard no waxing for dunno how long or somethin

A brand new paint job using water soluble paint requires almost 3 months to totally dry out. If you seal the paint before that, the moisture is trapped, and it will result in bubbling out.

[phil]

looking at the resprayed cars in Singapore, looks to me as they all have been done with 2K, as 2k needs to be baked, polishing next day is ok, as what the paint shops do.

[foxfrc5]

Originally Posted by caySman

The extent of my OCD is quite extensive though not as frequently done, here's how I do the session.

A new use for Pampers and Huggies! That sounds insane but it also sounds like you enjoyed every moment!

[althaus]

When the car was new, I used to clean it twice a week. And polish once a month. Then spray with water in between if it gets dirty.

Then as time passes by, the washing frequency decreases....

Now, its just wash once in 2 weeks (or unless necessary). Still wash it myself though, like what you all said, maids cannot be trusted.... My old Honda used to let maid wash everytime, dunno how many fine scratches after that.

But people do maintain their car in Singapore. In Canada, my cousin don't even bother to wash his X5. No exterior/interior wash for about 6 months....

[centurion]

Originally Posted by foxfrc5

A new use for Pampers and Huggies! That sounds insane but it also sounds like you enjoyed every moment!

CLOTH diapers. Cotton CLOTH. not the disposables. I'm not nuts.

The only diapers really used for baby's backside in my house is the synthetic type. the cotton ones all for the car.

The JOY of taking your finger, put in plastic bag, and FEEL the smoothness of the car after the work, and looking from all angles, the gloss shines through, it's almost better than sex.

[Azrielsc]

Too bad at the place i work is real dusty... even after a day parked outside, there is a layer of brown dust over the whole car... i could write my name in the dirt!