My detail friend detailed my truck from bumper to bumper yesterday.First Dawn,clay,wash,glaze swirl removal,wash,then Liquid Glass!Also,tires,interior,engine,and wheel wells! And last but not least,Bon-Ami'ed the windshield and Rain-X'ed it!

 

Must look great, it just snowed here.

 

Pics!!!

 

Dawn? Yikes...

 

^^Great minds think alike. Dawn should NEVER be used to wash a car.

 

It was used to strip everything before starting a new detail.After it was clayed and glazed Gold Class was used as the wash soap!

 

Dish soap is commonly used for this and works very well. Of course it should only be used to strip old polishes and waxes to prepare for a ground up detail. Very diluted dish soap also make a passable clay lube.

So never say never.

 

Why just cover the swirls with a glaze and not really remove them?

Got any pics?

 

Lesson #1

Never talk about a detail w/o pics

Lesson #2

Never talk about a detail w/o pics

 

Clay bar and a paint cleaner will strip all of the old stuff off as well. Dish soap is for dishes.

 

I know and have read about alot of professional detailers that use Dawn as the first step to strip the old wax to start from "scratch" of a very great detail!
The glaze was a swirl removal product from his line of Auto Majic detailing products.It removes swirls,not cover them up.He used a DA for this procedure.(#90 XP Swirl Remover)
Well,here is the only pic I took after the detail.It was the next day;
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/PICT0102.jpg
If that's not good enough for ya'll then I don't know what to tell ya!

 

The truck looks great, don't get me wrong! "Professional" detailer is a loose term nowadays. Many stories about that. Dawn strips more than just wax off of the paint, and continuous use can cause problems later on down the road. Think about it, clay will remove embedded dirt, etc. in/on the paint that you can't even see, so it will most definitely remove wax on the surface. A paint cleaning product will obviously do exactly that. Just pointing out that there are "safer" ways to accomplish the same thing.

 

You're correct.At one time I was looking for a detailer and came across one who advertised as a "Professional detailer",and in the same ad was also a gutter installer!

 

Hmmm, did he buff the gutters when he was done? LOL