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And now the after-pic..

Zymol Hd-Cleanse + Glasur, Sweet combo


Zymol Glasur:


















Pas de soleil, malheureusement, mais quand même, la peinture a une belle profondeur qu’on voit rarement chez les peintures japonaises de couleurs pâles.

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I took a solid 30 minutes on these pipes, the owner told me ‘’ jva tu me voir la face dedans après? ‘’ So, I had no choice to make it nice :P




Glasur on the freshly polished engine cover:








Freshhh

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Here we have today a sweet Cayenne. The car was in good shape. A couple of light scratches there and there but overall it was well kept! And it’s always easier/ more fun to work on a car that is already well kept! Lots of pics so I will skip the bla-bla!

Process:
2-bucket washing method
Foam gun
Clay bar
Chemic. Decon
1-step polish
Zymol HD-Cleanse pre-wax treatment
Zymol Glasur which is specially formulated for Porsche’s paint ( so says Zymol!)
Engine bay cleaned
Interior done by extractor
Leather conditioner

Foaming.


Ça, c’est le decontaminant chimique qui travaille:




On contact with brake dust and metallic contaminant that can rust your paint, the decon turns purple and remove those bad particles.




I still need to do the clay bar after it:




J’ai essayé de prendre en photo la condition de la peinture, mais c’était plutot difficile:




Ici, c’était assez ardu du fait que j’étais direct dans le edge du panneau, très facile à brulé, mais ça la très bien sortie!


Just because I’m crazy.. that’s me polishing the little panel with paint the engine bay had!!


Just some tool to clean under the seat.



L’intérieur était en meilleur condition que l’extérieur, je mentirais pas. Donc, j’ai surtout protéger et rajeunis l’intérieur, plutôt qu’un full clean-up.

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I did a little trip to the US this PM to get some of my orders placed in the last 3-4 weeks.

1) Have you noticed the increase of 30 cents of the gaz over the last 6-12 months ? I bet all shipping carrier now charges more and thus the company have to charges more to suck up the increased price. Well, for me, it sure cost me more to go to the US.

2) Every trip takes me about 3-4 hours. Time is money!

3) You propably know or maybe not, Freeport have changed their way of doing thing now. It's now 5$/box and it can cost even 7$ if it's too heavy. I remember not long ago, it was 3$/no matter the size/weight. Well today. I paid 50$ for my stuff. Also, they make you sign/fill a paper when you leave with your boxes, but the thing is.. you know how it is there ? It's quite small or imagine 2-3 peoples filling paper for 10 boxes each ( name, shipper name, carrier, 4 digit tracking) Took me an extra 30 minutes today.

Also, to all of you who order from Autogeek, didn't you notice the increase of DP's line pricing ? Since they changed the label last year, pricing have gone up by 20%.. Have you noticed the price increase in Blackfire's line too ? Funny they had new label too LOL

Optimum ONR.. 39.99 to 49.99 !

Menzerna Polish!! ( from 129.99 to 179.99$)

Zymol.... Glasur.. 109$ to 129( or is it 139$ now?) Not long ago.. Vintage was selling for 1600$ its not 2400$

Samething for Swissvax. When they changed swissmol to swissvax = price increase and not long ago ( I think 1 or 2 years) they announced a price increase of 20% to all their retailer.

It's an industry trend and it seems like almost all manufactures are following the 20% increase rules.

Am I the only one who noticed ?

But with the new changes freeport have made. I think I will start buying more from canadian retailer. When you consider, I loose 3 hours + 25$ in box + 7.5% of tax + gaz.. really http://www.autoobsessed.com/ doesn't seems anymore expensive than any of ther US retailer.

P.S: Please write down Alex - MR.com in the comments box if you ever place an order from Autoob.

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A month ago, I wrote an article about the proper way to clean your pads. Well now it’s time to talk about the proper way to clean your Microfiber!

Just like pad, you should use a soap that doesn’t leave anything behind to just have a clean towel that won’t streak after-all.

Do not mix your interior/wheels towel with the exterior! Do 2 loads! You don’t want APC/ harsh cleaner mixed with your clean exterior towel.

Suite à mon article sur le nettoyage des pads à machine, je vous explique comment nettoyer des microfibres. On suit le même principe, c'est à dire on doit utiliser un savon à microfibre qui ne laissera pas de strie comme d'autre détergeant pourrait en laisser. Il est aussi important de toujours faire deux brassées, une pour les roues/intérieur et l'autre pour la peinture.

1) Always wash with hot water. fill the Microfiber soap first and then add the towel. WHY ? because you don’t want 2-3 towels to absorb all your soap. Mix it first in the water then add the towel.

Toujours nettoyer à l'eau chaude, ça nettoie beaucoup mieux et ajouter la solution avant d'ajouter les microfibres, de sorte que le mélange soit uniforme dans l'eau.


2) Adding the solution (usually I add 2oz for a full load = 20-25 towels).





3) Since my wash machine is quite old, I need to manually stop the machine and restart it or else it will do a whole cycle in like 20 minutes which I think is too short.. So what I do.. is let the machine on for 5 minutes, let mix it thoroughly and then let it sit for a hour.. then you do the full wash or even do mega-cycle if your machine has it.

Dépendant de votre machine, je vous recommande de faire un cycle, laisser mijoter 1 heures et faire un autre cycle.



4) Once it’s clean, don’t heat the towel, let it dry naturally. However, if you dry it outside.. chances are debris will stick to your towel.. sometimes to a point who wont be able to use your towel on painted surface ( true story!)

See, washing your microfiber is not a banal thing. There’s precaution to it and not a lot of people talk about it even tho, you use a microfiber every single time you touch your car, no !? Or, if it’s too complicated or your rich, then you can go buy fresh towel at 3$/16x16 each for every single job !

Hope you enjoyed it. I have more idea in my mind haha.

Trouvez un moyen de les faire sécher à l'intérieur pour éviter que des débris de toutes sortes se colle à vos microfibres lors du séchages et éviter aussi la sécheuses.

Au plaisir!

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Process :

2-wash bucket method
Clay bar
Mech. Decon.
1-step polish
Paint cleaner
Menzerna Powerlock.

Avant:

Ah oui.. il y avait pas mal d’huile qui a sécher sur les moulures..Ce fut plus compliqué à retirer et ce n’est pas parti à 100% non-plus.











And I jump right after in the sun..


























See ya!

Alex

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Process :
2 wash bucket
Clay bar
Chemical decon
2 step polish
Paint cleaner
Menzerna Powerlock sealant

Condition avant:










And after.. enjoy the nice deep reflection!







Ummm..


















Don’t tell me that doesn’t look good !?






95% correction on this car:






People ask me sometimes about it. But yes, I polish the taillight and headlight every single time:

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Please look at my thread in the gorup-buy section for more info about my services. you can also PM me.

And don't be shy, I'm looking to expend a little bit, I like challenge, if you have a locla show, a magazine, website, I dunno etc.! Give me your thought maybe we could work something out.

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Clean and fresh!






Thanks for looking, I apologize for the lack of description, I mean. I’m very hyper-busy at the moment. I’m trying to please everyone but it’s impossible, be patient if I didn’t get you back

Pour les autres, ça va me faire plaisir de recevoir vos PM pour plus tard ! Il me reste encore quelques places pour le mois de mai.

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And now, here’s what I call a real uber premium wax.




























And here’s some after/work in progress

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I must say I’m very pleased I met Sergei! Such a good guy, hope to deal with him again. Another thing, for a 100k kms car, I was very impress how good the car looked.

So because I thought the car looked pretty nice and Sergei have been a nice guy with me, I upgraded his wax for my uber premium Waxxon wax. Just a way to say I was happy to do business with him.

Pour une voiture de 100k km, j’ai été franchement impressionné par l’état de la voiture. En plus, j’ai trouvé très rigolo Sergei, vraiment un gars down to earth et il a grandement apprécié mon travail. J’ai donc décidé de le remercier en lui offran ma cire exclusive 76% carnauba au lieu d’une autre cire du style Wolfgang Fuzion.

2 bucket washing technique
Clay bar
Chemical decon
1-step paint polish
Interior done by extractor.

Aquapel

Before:

























Chemical decon doing it’s thang!


Clay bar.. not so bad! Could been worse


I always polish the glass before applying aquapel:

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Using the air compressor to push hard to reach debris to ‘’easy to reach’’ haha :P







Some misc after pic:










Tell me how please, there was a nasty stain and gummy texture right there:


























This one took me like double times of what I usually take to do an interior! At the end, I’m still happy with the result. It look a lot more clean than it was before!

Thanks for watching!

Alex

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Interior:

APC
Leather cleaner
Leather conditioner
Uv protector
Odor remover
Various boair hair brush
Extractor wash
Air compressor.

This is how nice the leather looked..




And after:





Barely noticeable the blue ink.




Door card:


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Misc before picture:

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13- Je prend des microfibres de qualité pour essuyer la voiture.

Et voilà, voici comment je prépare une voiture à être poli ou cirer!

Gas door :




Wheels:





Exterior :
Before:










After the paint cleaner done by orbital and Wolfgang Fuzion:

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Voici une 350z que j’ai attaqué la semaine passé. J’ai pas l’habitude de dire ça car je ne veux pas insulter personne, mais l’intérieur de cette voiture était un vrai cauchemar! Vous verrez pourquoi..

Pour l’intérieur, j’ai opté pour un wash/Paint cleaner ‘n wax.

À partir de maintenant, pour simplifier les choses, j’appelerais ça le Deluxe 2-bucket washing technique :

1) Je rinse la voiture

2) Ensuite, je mousse la voiture avec une solution concentré pour nettoyer plus intensivement :




3- Ensuite, je laisse la mousse faire son travail et je remplis mes 2x 5 gallons avec les 4 grit guards pour garder le plus de poussière dans le fond.

J’ai plusieurs savons, donc n’importe quel savon pour auto, en particulier, peut faire le travail, mais j’aime bien le Wolfgang shampoo.

4- Je rince encore.

5- Je lave la voiture avec une éponge de mer naturel :


6- Je nettoie les trims avec un APC et une brosse :


7- Pour les roues, j’utilise une brosse boar hair, une ez-brush et une autre brosse boar hair pour les lug nut, comme savon j’utilise le Sonax Wheel cleaner


8- On rinse

9- J’applique un décontaminant chimique. Très peu de gens font cette étape car elle est très dispendieuse, mais vous allez voir, elle est très efficace. Elle nettoie la peinture en profondeur et permet d’éliminer des particules de métal qui pourrait rouiller avec le temps et nuire au look de la peinture et la durabilité de la peinture :