How To: Detailing Civic Correctly

[NOFX]

u can find it at napa, autozone, advanced auto parts, or whatever your local auto parts shop is. you can also try auto body supply shops (my fav)

Anf, when you come to Delaware I wanna bring you to my Auto Supply Shop. I love that place. I have only been a few times but they always remember me.

 

[anfrey]

Anf, when you come to Delaware I wanna bring you to my Auto Supply Shop. I love that place. I have only been a few times but they always remember me.

it's not easy to forget you amelia

 

[NOFX]

it's not easy to forget you amelia

Awww, thanks hun. You're a sweety. You're equally difficult to forget.

 

[chadster]

Here are a couple of other 5 Star reviews from some other sites that will be ongoing and updated.

http://forums.clubsi.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB44&Number=4385029

http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/showthread.php?t=149760

 

[Bizzle24v]

thanks for the good info dude..

 

[CivicSi00]

yea really nice info thanks a lot...

 

[loccusst]

Great info...now if I could only figure out how to buff my car with a buffer.

 

[anfrey]

if it's a random orbital buffer, then it's not very hard.

 

[CivictunR]

Hey thanks alot for the info, but my body really isn't #1 would any body still say" Do it"!

 

[Danronian]

I used a clay bar on my malibu last summer (which has a color tinted clear coat) and it came out amazingly smooth. The paint job was only 2 years old and the car is always under a car cover or in a garage but I was amazed at how smooth it got. I then used mequirs scratch-X on the bad scratches (only a light polishing compound and haze remover that I really like, it cost about $7 a tube) and then I use Nano Wax ($15). The Nano wax is pure carnuba and has the most amazing finish I have ever seen. But for some reason the only way to get Nano wax off without residue was with microfiber cloths, but damn am I glad I started using those. I recommend Microfiber over terrycloths anytime, I tried them next to eachother and the microfibers take the wax off so much faster and cleaner.

 

[NOFX]

This thread was made in July 13, 2003....! The last post was in November of last year.....

 

[NOFX]

The Nano wax is pure carnuba and has the most amazing finish I have ever seen. But for some reason the only way to get Nano wax off without residue was with microfiber cloths, but damn am I glad I started using those. I recommend Microfiber over terrycloths anytime, I tried them next to eachother and the microfibers take the wax off so much faster and cleaner.

NO automotive wax is pure caranuba. That would make it a very hard brick. It would be worthless for use.

 

[Vallejo_raider]

ok you guys when clay baring a car could you use that clay bar more than once? i ask this because im gonna be detailing a couple cars this coming weekend and i was wondering if i have to use a clean side of the bar ever time i clay a car before wax/polish. thanks

 

[NOFX]

ok you guys when clay baring a car could you use that clay bar more than once? i ask this because im gonna be detailing a couple cars this coming weekend and i was wondering if i have to use a clean side of the bar ever time i clay a car before wax/polish. thanks

You can use a clay bar to do several cars. I'll say three just to be in a safe medium. When the section you're using gets dirty, flip it and roll it around. Just crumble it up and use another piece. It's like silly putty, just kneed it into another shape.

 

[Beelzebubba]

NO automotive wax is pure caranuba. That would make it a very hard brick. It would be worthless for use.

Maybe a cake type wax like Mother's

 

[NOFX]

Maybe a cake type wax like Mother's

Nope, that still has ingreidients to break it down and make it possible to work with.

 

[anfrey]

pure carnauba is used with these waxes, yet the wax compound you use is not 100% carnauba. that's the point nofx is trying to make

 

[NOFX]

Exactly. No wax you use on your car is "100% pure carnuba" as advertised or otherwise though.

 

[anfrey]

i mean, the carnauba in them is 100% pure... but the substance is not made of solely (100% of the matter) carnauba


think of it as "made with real fruit juice" ... well.. the whole thing isn't real fruit juice. there's real fruit juice in there, but 100% of it isn't real fruit juice.

 

[FANATTIC8228]

excellent post