Mmm, depends where u park I suppose. If its under shade or car porch and generally minimal dust, then maybe using a plush MF damp cloth should do fine. If park by roadside or dusty areas, personally I prefer to give a strong splash of a big bucket of water first.

Erm, Aeon? They have a big variety of buckets, thats where I got one that fits my Grit Guard clone.

I will PM u with the snapshot tomorrow. Didnt bring the bucket and gritguard along after moving to condo.

It depends between your expectation and what they offer. From an enthusiast point of view, we may prefer to do it ourselves for the satisfaction of using the right quality products and techniques to care for our beloved cars. However, from a regular driver standpoint that doesnt have interest in doing your own care care, then this is a reasonable offer for someone else to care for your car.

That being said, I probably would not polishing every 6 months. Perhaps clay + wax every 3-6 months, but polish only once every 1-2 years. When u get a very good quality polish result, then follow up with proper protection and maintenance, your car shine can last few over a year easily or more.

Most ads will use big product brands to back their advertisement, but what specific product they use will always be the more important part.

My suggestion, check out the provider of the Fave deal, bring your car there to wash first, then see their wash quality. If good, maybe can consider for more services. If no good, then pay and leave.

If Ace hardware is convenient to ur location, pay a visit, they have a good selection.

There is, but I kinda think its overpriced. One that comes to mind is Carpro Eraser.

U can very well get pure IPA 99.8% and Spritzer distilled water on the cheap and mix them together and would get much more out of it.

Based of personal experience, short term and medium term nothing bad would happen actually. Soap heavily diluted doesnt have anywhere near potential properties to eat anything, let alone cured paint on car. At best it may leave some very mild stains in between those gaps u mentioned, but will either mostly dry off and evaporate, or be somehow washed off by rain or your next car wash. Long term wise I wouldnt know as I never owned a car beyond 15 years without going for a respray somewhere in its lifespan with me.

Bosch and Karcher are 2 common brands that come into mind.

https://www.bosch-pt.com.my/bosch-power-too...rden-tools.html
https://www.kaercher.com/my/home-garden/pre...re-washers.html

However, as part of buying these pressure washers, u should also think about connector between your tap to your machine also.

Personally I am not a fan of Karcher consumer series stuff as I had bad experience with them in the past. So I would recommend Bosch.

Osren HCS maybe?

Erm, maybe bring to service center? They would have the knowledge to check for leaks as well as opening up all the plastic covers to lift the floor carpet.

Osren HCS lasted me 2 months or so, but I may not be the right reference because I work from home mostly and my car is parked in covered carpark in condo.

Think durability of protection products can vary greatly between users, best for everyone also to share what's their car parking/driving conditions are like.

1:1 is good enough. Whatever is left from polishing oils is fairly thin, doesnt require a greater concentration of IPA to remove.

Hmm, never had streaks or residues for me in 1:1 dilution. Just tend to have a stronger whiff of the IPA. But if 1:10 works, that saves more money in the long run.

I have used both before, and personally I would say M101 is easier to work with than M105. However, M105 cut is easier to finish with M205. M101, being abit coarser than M105, leaves abit heavier machine-induced defects.

There's Osren, Rupes, ShineMate, SPTA also. Makita isnt exactly known for their DA, and Meguiars DA always had mixed reviews.

I was using Rupes Lhr21mk2 and nano ibrid, but sold both after moving to condo, now looking for a cordless rotary within budget.

Actually been thinking of going back to rotary for some time liao. I know and experience myself that DA definitely finishes easier, but have heard of many old sifus that could finish as equally good as DA even before the emergence of DA into mainstream. Having both DA and rotary experience myself, I always found DA's biggest weakness to be lack of interchangeability of pad sizes when needed.

Besides, after moving to condo, cant use my main rupes DA liao, and to detail the entire car with ibrid alone most likely will kill it, so decided to sell them both while they still had value and was in good working condition. Now hunting for a reasonably priced cordless rotary to fit condo use and try to rediscover the true sifu secrets to rotary finishing.

Hahaha, I no sked u lor. Bring it on! 😁

Checked both dy, Shinemate cordless rotary price RM2250, I might as well buy Flex cordless rotary from Detail Kingdom at that price. SPTA I checked their website only got 2-speed vertical cordless rotary, not ideal.

If anyone got jalan to get better prices for Shinemate or Flex, I dont see much suitable choices for now. Hehehe...

Erm, they look like paint chips of some sort. Your roof been repainted before?