I've booked this Sat morning for full detailing job at Carnuba Autospa in Glenmarie. Most probably will be there for 4-5 hours. Anybody who wants to drop by and take a look at the process is welcomed.

Full detailing.. wash, polish, clean engine, seats, rims, dash, carpet, everything that can polish will be polished.. everything that can be cleaned will be cleaned.

Call me uncle one more time and I'd ban you butt..

The car is driven everyday and a quick run on the highway would clear most dust.. hahaha..

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Jul 18 2006, 04:33 PM

It's called polish. Waxing is for protecting. Polish is for shine. You can't wax damaged paint and expect it to gloss like brand new car. You'd need a good polish and maintain by monthly waxing.

New car does not mean it shines. The original layer of paint needs a good polish to shine. A lot of people makes the mistake of thinking that the best shine is on a new car. That is incorrect unless the manufacturer does a good job at polishing it before delivering it to you. Do to any car paint shop and watch how they respray cars. Even after the overcoat/clearcoat is sprayed on, the car does not shine until it is polished kau kau. My car is 3.5 years old and you can see that it shine even more than some cars <see signature>.

Edit: If you plan to do polishing, send it to somewhere good. Forget DIY. You'd end up killing the paint. I'd be doing my detailing this weekend and you can drop by to visit if you want.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Jul 20 2006, 10:55 AM

I've posted that a few replies back, in the previous page. Going to Autospa this Saturday.

RM1550 for a package of 3 full detailing sessions. Individual sessions would cost about RM700 without the package.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Jul 26 2006, 10:31 PM

It's full detailing.. not just polish and wax. I can't steam clean my seats from home. I can't do pre-polish treatment at home. I don't have running water at home.. I live in an apartment.

PlastX does work but why would you need it on a new car? The headlight covers are not scratched yet. I did a good polish on my old 2001 headlights and the results were fantastic.

I did it Karate Kid style.... wax on wax off...wax on wax off...

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Dec 2 2007, 11:25 AM

The amount of work we have to do for you....

http://www.meguiars.com.my/index.php?_room=8&_subRoom=22

That is no myth. Clear coats are usually about 0.5mm thick. Polishing removes a layer (otherwise how do you think they remove the swirl marks and scratches) and the most a paint job can endure in a life time is less than 10. If you go full detailing that really removes a very thick layer to return the car to showroom condition, the most you can do is about 3 times before the clearcoat becomes too thin.

That is where you are wrong. You have to step back and think a little. The clear coat is only a layer of transparent paint. I ask you one question.. what are swirl marks? Swirl marks are fine scratches that show up on transparent paint. You CANNOT repair scratches on any surface. You have to remove a layer of the surface down to the level of the scratch so that they are all on the same level and the scratch is gone.

So you are actually not repairing the scratch.. you are also not removing the scratch.. you are removing the surrounding areas around the scratch. Fillers and glazes do not work as they either leave a tell-tale signs of repair or swirl will return after a few washes. That is not repairing but rather just covering up the scratch temporary (like when you are trying to sell the car).

So, to think that scratchx removes the fine scratches is wrong.

This is the reason why there is no such thing as scratchx for windows. You can't remove a layer of glass hence you cannot make the scratch disappear. If you can actually remove a scratch, then there would be plenty of products out there that can 'remove' the scratch of the surface of glass.

To say that a product removes scratches without damaging the clearcoat is all marketing talk. Bullshit if you ask me. Hypercoat, the official distributor of Meguiars and detailing centre, will tell you the same thing.

Now you open on Sundays? Great. If I miss my usual Saturday wash at Autospa, I know where I can go to on Sundays.

You can use rubbing alcohol aka Spirits. Do not user THINNER. One drop of that and it'll dissolve your clear coat. SPIRITS is like rubbing alcohol and it is safe on paint (if you accidentally get some on the paint). It works great to remove stickers from glass as my Visual Merchandising Dept use them alot to remove stickers from our shop's glass windows.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Jul 14 2008, 06:26 PM

Finally got access to my ftp server. Some migration messed up the access but not going to post the pics here. Too many pics in this page. Going to skip this post and start on new page. Easier loading times.

Pics on next page.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Sep 23 2008, 12:37 PM

Here's some combo of Zymol and Meg products. Zymol wax 3 weeks earlier and one quick layer of quick detailing.

Age of paint: Oct 2001
Car Registered: Feb 2003
Total mileage: 120,000km

Curvy hips...




I see the sky...




...reflected of the roof




... told you it was reflected off the roof...




A pic of the butt..




A pic of me...



This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Sep 24 2008, 03:56 PM

I tried that before and even done by Hypercoat themselves who should know their own products. Unfortunately, the results were far from satisfactory and it was a waste of RM250. NXT does not seem to work on dark coloured cars. Hopefully it would work on light coloured cars since Adrian is driving one.

I bought it secondhand in 2006. The first owner put in 80k km after 3.5 years and I put in another 40k km after another 2 plus years. Previous owner took real good care of it, which is why i bought it and continued his hard work. I met up with him again about 6 months later and he was happy to see that his car was well taken care of.

Almost all my subaru friends in the subaru club use the car as our daily car. Haven't you notice that you see much more subaru on the road than any other performance car? Why bother buying a performance car when you only drive it on the weekends. That defeats the purpose of having a performance car. The highest mileage in the subaru club belongs to a guy who has put in almost 180k km in 4 years. Those with the previous generation GC8s have gone over 200k km. So is it good for driving everyday? Yeap, it's made to be driven.

Consumption? 6-7km per liter in the city. 15km/l on highway speed. 8km/l if we double that.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Sep 24 2008, 10:27 PM

I aleady have the wet look as you can see above. What I'm saying is that Hypercoat failed as distributors and detailers of Megs. I've always been to Autospa and I thought lets try Hypercoat. They should know better but they failed. So it is still back to Autospa for me. The only DIY I would do is to use quick detailing with Megs. There is no way i would do the paint cleaner, paint treatment, wax and top coat that Autospa does for me each time I wax. It takes 4 of them 2 hours to do it, which would mean 8 hours by myself.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Sep 25 2008, 07:28 AM