Last 2 days I was trying to detail my car. Seriously I have not yet done this serious job before. After I source a lot of information from the net, including utubing video with many many views. Below are what I'm done.

1st - Meguiar gold class car wash. Instruction 4 caps with 1 gallon of water but I don't need a gallon of water to wash my car, so I put 2 caps for 2 lit. 1 gallon is about 3.7+lit.

2nd - Start to clay my car using 3M clay bar. I have cut 1/3 out only and I could finish clay my entire car.

3rd - Using Meguiar Ultimate to polish my car, of course partner with Borsh GE270 AE and Meguiar pads.

4th - Waxing with Meguiar Carnuaba wax.

5th - Finally detailing with Meguair detailer M135.

It took me 6 hours to finish this and of course in the middle of the time I took my lunch and did some groceries shopping at Tesco.

Well, the results are satisfying. Although this is my first time detailing and I found a fun of doing it, even though after the job done I was exhausted.

During polishing, I have forgotten after applied the Ultimate polish, the polishing surface need to buff b4 the ultimate polish dry. Once it dry there's a mark on the surface and difficult to remove. After finish polishing I was scratching my head how am I going to remove the polish mark. I tried using my bare naked finger to rub it, it removes. Finally I don't know how I figure it out with spraying water on the marks and wipe it with microfiber cloth. With the help of our earth nature (water) finally I removed all the marks without any difficulties.

At last proceed to waxing. Aiks.. another problem arise, 130mm meguiar pads did not be able to wipe the carnauba paste wax out from the tin. Finally again, I don't know how I figure out, using a ruler to scrap out a thin layer from the tin and spread it on the pad surface. Not sure is there any different or not, any sifu please comment. Next time I will get a liquid wax form.

Any sifu can comment or help me to make it better? I have another car, Nissan Navara to do. I guess I need 2 days to finish this XL pickup truck.

This post has been edited by qboy123: Jun 13 2016, 10:41 AM

2 days.. wow.. my car isn't that dirty and only 4 yrs old car. All the time maintain good only that once happened I parked at my office, workshop area ppl were spraying paint and landed on my car bonnet. The clay didn't turn out to be very dirty.

I have consulted Meguiar technician b4 I started the detailing job. The technician said I could use machine + paste wax and he did demo using his pad. Meguiar has some small pads to fit in the past wax tin but I didn't realize until I used mine. According to Meguiar technician, liquid wax n paste wax are the same. Depends on user. He only highlighted liquid wax + machine will consume more than paste, therefore the liquid wax giving extra oz for compensation. Basically same results. Well, I can't argue that cos this is my first time. Will try liquid wax once my paste finish.

I watched in utube, a guy using a nylon brush to remove the residuals before cleaning the pads. I do the same. After finished, I use normal washing soap to wash n rinse it. So far can restore look like new. No bad spots on the surface.

This post has been edited by qboy123: Jun 13 2016, 12:11 PM

I really no expert in this, what wax will not attract dirty? Cleaner wax? Any recommendation?

Now I prefer liquid wax because of the liquid is easily to squeeze out from the bottle, instead of paste wax.