So I spent $200 and had the "detailed" inside and out before shipping it to my in-laws. I used to wax and in later years put NuFinish on my cars, but I have to say they never came out like this. It is incredible. Maybe I should keep it. LOL.
I have to think that although the car is gorgeous, the process had gone to wear out the clear coat faster? Any ideas on whether that is true?
Art,
I don't believe so. Owning a Black 300M has taken its toll out on my arms. Sort of like the karate kid with "wax on, wax off" for four years. I have not only kept this car clean, but also have maintained the paint by using polish and wax. I see no evidence of the clear being removed.
Unfortunately, in the direct sunlight, you can see the scratches in the clear caused by the automatic car wash. What can you do? It's either salt staying on the car or having it removed but marking the clear.
No more dark colored cars for me. They're beautiful when clean but they don't stay clean for long.
Ken
I think they used polishing compound on the finish which is something I never did. Did the polish you use have an abrasive in it?
By the way, my 2 new Honda's are white. They get filthy very quickly. My
300M and Avalon were beige. That is probably the way to go. I still don't buy silver. I've seen too many cars with problem silver/gray paint. Plus it matches the road so the car is less visible.
TWO new Hondas? I thought you only had one!
Why not give one to the In-Laws, and
KEEP the CLUNKER???
$200?!?!?! We charged $135 and spent ALL DAY if it took it to clean a car.
As far as ClearCoat, ALL professional cleaning/finish products are clearcoat safe now. For a couple reasons:
First, all cars are base/clearcoat now, and it's a Polyesther finish to boot. Just like those high-waisted pants you wear when you're in Florida! ;)
The other thing is, EPA compliance is a LOT easier for products used on Clearcoat paints. It doesn't take (and you don't WANT!) quite as much as you would for a Urethane or Acrylic finish, so the products are easier to manufacture. And aren't as harsh. (You also can't RUB a new finish with harsher chemicals like you could before. A Urethane would stand up to MUCH more punishment than the new finishes. They were a lot thicker and more durable. Hell, when I left the Toyota dealer, we were just beginning to use WATER BASED touch up paint!!!)
We never used Polishing Coupmound. When the going got tough, I used 3M Fill 'N Glaze, which is perfectly CC safe, or a swirl remover for black cars made by another company. If you couldn't at least HIDE the blemishes with either or those products, you needed new paint...
Actually the 300M looks so beautiful all cleaned up that maybe we will keep it and give them the new Accord hybrid. Yeah, if that lottery ticket comes thru, that is exactly what we will do.
They spent less than 4 hours on it. It was actually $182 plus tax.
I have white and even though it show dirt, it doesn't show scratches or imperfections. I can also have it washed and not see the water drops when some of it sprays back on like I have to with white.
The only silver that I ever liked was the Chrysler bright silver. Otherwise I still like white and gold/champagne and the red that Chrysler offers.
Ken
Art,
Not that I'm aware of. I use either Mothers or Meguiars polish.
Ken
I had a red Subaru Legacy. It showed swirl marks really bad. I remember picking it up new at the dealer and being disgusted with the swirl marks.
Why, did you win the PowerBall?
Right...$1M a day for a year! I can handle it.
If I did I would not be wasting time with a Chrysler. LOL
Suit yerself, but I would "waste" a whole lot MORE time with Chryslers- a whole fleet of them! One each of every Chrysler 300 Letter Car between
1957 and 1961, A 1967 Hemi GTX, '66 Satellite, a 1971 Imperial, a 1970 300 Hurst Edition, a '67 Charger (383), '68 Charger R/T (440), '71 GTX. Maybe a few Airflows from the 30s, a LeBaron-bodied Imperial, a '57 DeSoto, a couple of Vipers (roadster and coupe), a 2008 Challenger,..... and for sentimental reasons a '54 New Yorker (331 Hemi) because that's what brought my pink little behind home from the hospital :-p;-)
Thinking about it, I would go with a Airflow too.
Corvette sounds good...thre's a new Supra coming out...
LOL! Would it BE pink?!
Sawe it on the History Channel.
Kinda looks like a PT, doesn't it?
Drifting one more notch off topic, there's a TV commercial running now for some brand of pickup truck (Ford? Toyota? Can't remember) in which they crush it from both ends with two bulldozers. The bulldozers then back off, and the two passengers (that you didn't notice while the bulldozers did their thing) open the totally unscathed doors and get out.
Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')
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