Sorry, that last post should've been under my username.. I didn't realize that Dave was logged in.

 

run a finger print search and see if he's a criminal.

 

leslie, is dave your teddy bear?

 

He's my other half.

 

Notice she didn't say "Better-Half"!!

 

That's because the two of us together = trouble.

 

hahaha. good one!

 

examples please.





going motoring my MCS in a few min.

 

yah, i think im going to order some amigo.

his butt is hazy.

if i only amigo the butt, would there be a visible difference between
the amigo and non-amigo's sections of the panel?

im too lazy to amigo the entire car.

 

Prolly not enough to worry about.... I've Amigo'd in sections before, when I had "problem" areas that needed a bit of maintenance...

 

I used BW for the first time on Fri and everything turned out great! Areas with heavy wax res will hopefully be gone with a second coat.

 

In my experience, it will take some scrubbing to get that off... just "applying" won't do the trick. I heard that Richard has some new stuff coming out that's more of a cleaner, to remove the wax, etc. before applying BW. I think Griot's also has some stuff that does this. BW will do it, you just have to scrub with it to get it done...

 

thanks, Ken of Amigo. hope to have mine before the
holiday weekend coming up this week. (4 day weekend )

 

Only words of warning:
1) if you have real, legitimate swirls, Amigo probably won't completely hide them. But for "hazing" and some micro-marring, it's great. But don't expect miraculous filling - no substitute for Swirl.
2) It will make the panel you do so mirror-shiny, that you may want to do other panels after you see it.

 

as a base cleaner for BW, i used some rubbing alcohol to remove as much
polish stains and previous garbage dressing (ie: Back-to-Black) off before
applying BW.

worked great.

 

Great tip.

 

yah, it's micromarring from the calduster. i can only see it when
the morning sun hits it directly.

I dont want to polish it too often cause I know ive removed quite a
bit of clearcoat already thanks to the dealer installed deep swirls.
my car was originally a floor car so it has been abused by
porters often. the dealer-painted aero bumper felt like sand paper
on the top surface when i bought it. i could feel the swirlage
bumps.

so this 'filling' of Amigo sounds perfect.

 

Shhhh.... don't tell anyone... but there are parts of my car that I STILL haven't used polish on.... because Amigo has been "good enough"... I've stretched it out for almost 2 years.... but soon the whole thing is gonna need a good de-swirling... but if I only have to polish the sides and bonnet every 12-18 months, and maintain them with Amigo the rest of the time, and use Swirl on the boot every 6 months, that's a victory IMHO, for a daily driven car that I use the duster and QD on quite often.

 

I haven't polished any part of my MINI in almost 5 years!

 

Git the H-E-DoubleHockeySticks outta the Detailing101 forum, heathen.

 

now is a great time to start!

 

You don't want examples. Trust me.

To keep it on topic.. I haven't polished Geoffrey in the nearly two years that I've owned him. I live in an apt so it's rather difficult to do a full detailing session that includes polishing.

 

Nya nya nya nya nya (is that how you spell that??)

I haven't polished my car and I'm on the detailing forum

 

I really think it doesn't need any polishing ... yet. There are just a few "cobwebs" on the hood, but other than that, looks great, I think.

Maybe I'll take it out in the sun later and take some high res pics and post them.

Wait ... maybe I don't want to look toooo closely ...

 

aha! so you're the one that was stuffing people's exhaust pipes
with potato's.




some folks claim they have ZERO swirls and yet they dont look all
that closely at their car or know how to. that's happiness (or sadness).