This was a job I did for a fellow club member. The car was in pretty rough shape though white cars can sometimes mask it well. In all I spent about 20 hours on the car and my aching hands can verify it. White is not an easy color to make look really wet or to bring out a high level of reflectivity but I think it was accomplished. The owner freaked when he saw the results so that felt great. Enjoy.

Process..

wash with dawn
clay with megs
polish with menz IP on orange pad
wash
seal with UPGP
glaze with Danase wet glaze
wax with P21s
glaze again with Danase wet glaze
seal with UPGP
Zaino Z-16 on tires

Engine and interior were done too but no pics.


Here's some before pics









Here's what the clay bar looked like after I started claying.



Here's a cool before and after of one of the tail lights. Here is one of them before....



after polishing....



Here's some pics showing just how bad the swirls and scratches were...





Here is the trunk before....



and after....



Here are some other after shots....











Hood shot before, swirling around sun.



Hood shot after....

 

great job! come summer, i'm gonna need to do that too... my results will mostly likely not be as good - me lazy.

 

Wow amazing job! Great!

 

Whoa the after pics look awesome.Good job.

20 hrs of cleaning.

 

Great job on getting the swirls/scratches out

 

Nice work....its pretty difficult to get a white car to reflect like that.......

what is the UPGP product?

Can't beat P21S to bring out that wet look.....

 

You removed all that swirling with just IP/orange? are you sure there aren't any fillers being utilized? especially in that glaze?

 

Good job!

 

100% positive. I made sure not to top the car with anything until I was sure there were no swirls left. When I took the car outside, I did find one section on the rear quarter where I missed a bunch of swirls in one little 18x18 section. So I redid that section taking it really slow and knocked out all of the scratches I saw except for one that was deeper than I could correct without wet sanding. Many assume if you use a glaze that it will be full of fillers and that is often true. However, DWG has NO fillers and that comes straight from Bob at Danase himself. It's not hard to take care of most swirls as long as you go REALLY SLOW hence this being a 20 hour detail. Besides I have yet to see or use ANY wax or glaze (menzerna included), that can REALLY hide swirls that well. For a wax or glaze to hade swirls, the swirls would have to be SOOO fine otherwise they will not fill no matter how many times you go over it. I've tried it mant times before I got into polishing and I NEVER found anything that really and I mean really helped hide swirling. I had the same results when I detailed my wifes car. The trunk was HORRIFIC!! Massive oxidation and even more swirls then the 350 above only it was hard to see them through the oxidation but in person it was in "HOLY CRAP" condition. I just really took my time and here's how it came out. Mind you with the after pic there is no wax or anything. Picture was taken 10 seconds after polishing.

before....



after....



Good old IP or SIP should knock out most swirls assuming they aren't really deep. Also if you look at the before and after of the hood shot, the after was pulled right out into the full sun so I could check my work and as you can see, swirls are totally gone. The hood had a TON of swirling on it so again, I just took my time. If there was any trace of swirling you would for sure see it in the after shot.

 

Fantastic job! I hope that fellow member appreciated your hard work.

 

Awesome job. The reflection after the detail is amazing.

 

very awesome job cant believe how it looked after!! better than the showroom!

also is the P21S wax samething (aka) as BMW wax?

 

Daaaaaaamn.

Nice job on the tail light.

What did you use?

 

amazing, now if only there was a product to get rid of the front license plate...

 

Thanks man. I used the same polish as I used on the car, Menzerna IP with an orange pad on a UDM on 6.