Sharing My 22nd Birthday, My Detailing History & Thanks To My Detailing Buddies

its already been a year plus since i know about detailing, i still remember when the 1st time i got my car i didnt bother washing it till one day i saw a really shiny car on the road passed by me. i ask myself, why nice car have nice shine and my car doesnt? that moment i dont really bother about shine or not shine, to me a car is just for me to drive around. i have NO any interest about detailing cause i dont know what is detailing! one day, i saw my dad waxing his car. i asked him, why you wipe your car every sunday? he replied, to keep it shine la, if dont wax regularly the paint will get oxidized. i looked at my car it almost going to become matte black, i ask my dad can i have some of your wax? and then he gave me his bottle and guide me. 1st, he ask me to wash the car and then just wax. i tried with his way, wash with dish cleaner and then wax with car kit carnuba wax, the finish is really satisfied me 100 times alot. i immediately drive it out under the sun with a happy smile on it. since that day passed, i have a habbit to keeping my car clean and tidy, i wash almost everyday with detergent and wax with good morning towel, i also will add abit of water to smoothen up the surface while waxing, if is not, i will find very hard to wipe off the residue. after a few months, i went to ENEOS to check out about detailing supplies. i saw Meguiar's products on the shelf, i was too excited to pick a few stuff from there but i have no idea which one should i get. a sales man approach to me and ask me, i told him about the problem but he seems dont understand, he gave me a name card and ask me to go to his office at USJ1, yea.. Hypercoat Enterprise. after talk to a person at there, i bought the full range of Meguiar's product which cost about almost 1k. shampoo, 3steps, engine degreaser/hyper dressing, gold class carnuba, tire gel, interior bla bla bla. i tried myself with the instruction behind have labelled, i start becoming a detailing freak non-stop trying out all the products everyday after that. i even went to meguair's malaysia forum to check the stuff which can satisfy my needs. until one day, i saw a person posted at there named KC, his work really got me shocked. to find out who he is, i read his blog everyday. i even called him to ask him how to get those stuff to be done that way, almost an hour of conversation and i decided to meet up with him. after the night we met up, my interest about detailing become stronger each day, i immediately purchase a SKIll rotary buffer to whack my car but with alot holograms on it. i still not satisfied, i went back to him again. he'll tell me bla bla bla. then next day i bought makita and learn again to improve myself until one day, i have archive this result..



this is a testing car i driving everyday, you can see the hood is swirl free and hologram free after months of practicing/learning etc etc. thanks uncle KC for your encouragement and willing to "SHOW ME YOUR WORK!!!" million thanks to you and also my detailing friends, seech aka jack, st1l aka josh and fishbonezken aka kenneth for your useful videos and write up. last, specially thanks to my lovely girlfriend who willing let me spend time on detailing, thanks for everything you've done for me. if you're reading this i would like to take this opportunity to tell you that i love you, thanks for the cupcakes/present you bought for me on my birthday, i really like it and happy 1 year anniversary :)


icing cupcake anyone?


yeah, its reffering to me. HAHA!


look familiar, izit a makita 9227c?


close up.





thanks for viewing tho im sharing some of my happiness here.

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Proper Washing/Cleaning Technique Guide by mun

good day again everyone! just yesterday i was having a simple proper car wash technique/cleaning lesson for one of my friend who send her car precious to roadside car wash once she got her car. i saw the picture caption at facebook she wrote "and then spilled milk tea all over it right after the car wash" can guess what kinda milk tea?

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tadaa!!! detergent milk tea anyone?

how can this be? well, i set a date with her and gather few of my friends come over to learn, just a very quick lesson for them.

after arrived at her place, and i saw this charming white A4 parked inside nicely. so i went and inspect it and found..



how it caused after park inside the porch? take a look of another picture at this angle..


the birds are just love to hang around there, maybe is their favorite place to rest after flying around.


another one.


the bug also decided end his life here.

now lets take a look of the wheel 1st..




all wheels caked with alot of break dust.

now to the paint..


rear trunk


skirting


passenger door


emblem


water stains

look at the amount of dirt stick to the paint after a wash out there. alright, have enough of the ugly pictures. lets start the work now before it gets bored.

wheel cleaning


rinse off the wheel


dilute Power Clean on soft bristle brush.


and then brush to agitate the brake dust.




and finally rinse it off.




and then wipe it dry.








a clean wheel :D

then i decided to ask the owner try to clean herself at the emblem..


not bad.






just dilute Power Clean and a soft bristle brush to clean, so easy and effortless and its a clear coated safe product!

after cleaning the emblems, my turn to wash the car by using Optimum No Rinse 1 ounce with 2 gallon of water. i show them the proper method of washing a car while washing, always start from the hood, roof, trunk, door panel and finally use the existing solution to clean the skirting/bumper which have a lot of dirt/sand/tar etc etc.


they are gonna try their own while i was drying the car.

here is the finishing picture after a good wash..



















thanks for viewing my another story. cheers!

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