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The workshop is free (minus the products you use of course... how much do you normally spend on your own car when you clean it?)
A first timer can expect a 200 minute workshop
A annual attendee can expect a 120 minute workshop
A repeat attendee can expect a 50 minute workshop

 

These are the dates of the Shine Workshop: [They are every second Saturday of the Month]

1pm to 5pm

Testimonials:

 

You are amazing Gyrobot.

 

OH DUDE! thats freakin SWEET!....damn i wish we had something like this out here in socal

 

Damn, I wish we had something like that near Toronto... But my Copper Red 8 needs some serious front end paint work from all the stone chips!!!

 

1. Gyro_Bot
2. Tubingchamp (weather permitting) :D

 

I'll be out of town and won't be back until Sat evening. I'll see you guys on Sunday at the REVscene meet though.

 

Hey Gyro..

I have a lot of the same products you use (though I haven't had a chance to use them on the 8 yet... freakin' Ontario winter)... just wondering if you have any process or order you use in applying each product and if you'd care to share and tips ya got.... seeing has I won't be able to make it out there.. lol

 

Buy LOTS of small microfiber towels. Get three different colors: 32 Body / 8 Wheel / 4 Glass.
(Burn through 3-5 Micro fiber towels per application - Bring a laundry bin to catch all the towels you burn through)

Wash your car clean. Wipe clean with throw away cheap towels, ensure not even haze of road grim is visible.

Clay-bar whole car, ensure the entire car is utterly clean after wards. (Do a sanity dust wipe - clean with (new) 3-5 towels).

Use lots of scratch X and deep crystal polish#1 with a rotary buffer.

Wipe clean (new) 3-5 towels.

Apply Nufinish by smearing it over the whole car with a foam applicator pad. Next (this makes a noticeable difference) "using both your hands" (no pad) spread the product evenly, working it into your finish. Knead the product into your finish in progressive patterns. Your aiming to transmit the heat from your hands through the product, into your finish. Use your fingers as tiny applicator pads. I love making five circular patterns as I go.

Wipe clean (new) 3-5 towels.

Meguiars NXT 2.0 next. Apply with two micro fiber mitts. (Less chance they slip out of your hands)

Wipe clean (new) 3-5 towels.

Apply Ultra Detailing spray.

Wipe clean, use silk cloth or polishing cloth.

Done. You should be able to see the blue sky better in your reflections, than you do in real life. Now I've compared this workshop to a Zaino full application, it's 99% as reflective, less effort and most importantly not as costly. (Two weeks of poor weather and you'll kick yourself for paying all that money for Zaino),

Glass cleaner - wheel care - interior..... nothing unusual. Just apply as normal.

 

woof... that's a lotta steps. Looks like I gotta go buy some more towels and a rotary buffer. Thanks!

 

Wow, i bet your car looks amazing. I've gotta keep that list and look into doing the same thing, only after i get the front end repainted (way too many stone chips!!!)

 

yeah... winter's been rough on my car as well.. I'm going to eventually do some touchup work with wetsanding and the lot to clear up the 50 lil' chips or so.. In any case, doing this first.. I want her to GLEAM... if you come to the US cruise you can see how it looks

 

Ah! Found the sign-up!

1. Gyro_Bot
2. Tubingchamp (weather permitting) :D
3. him

 

Who wants there lugs and SS's

 

eee when and where exactly? D= I can come!! The same underground spot as before with the big vents?

 

ugh y do these have to be on saturdays when i got work =.=..

 

Are you a member of BCRX8? just propose an "impromptu" workshop time we can discuss. We do this on occasion for folks who miss the scheduled workshop.

Ideally... I prefer two cars at the workshop. So... let's see if we can get another member interested too.

Sundays aren't too bad for me.

 

so..... I finally got around to STARTING this process... ran out of time.. but managed to claybar / scratchx / deep crystal. The car already looks pretty good.. feels like glass n all that good stuff... but man... that deep crystal just refused to come off my car.. spent like 3 hours removing it, even now it's coming back up to the surface as white hazing. <<insert RarG here>>.

Will most likely do another through clean and finish off the last steps of this next week. Body still hurts from the 7 hour detail / installing exhaust / 4 hour cruise to the US this past weekend. Sigh... I'm getting old.

 

Did you use a rotary buffer? I have no experience with that product without the rotary buffer.

Most likely you put too much (which normally fine if you use a buffer). With a lot it just means you have to wait longer for it to dry up. I did a black toyota on Friday and we used a whole tube of Scratch X and as much deep crystal polish as possible (Just realized the image of deep crystal on the product line says.. wax... and not polish... you need the polish... I got to fix that image!)

Back to the story - it did take a little longer than normal to dry off... but we don't have a choice. If you don't wait until its dry it will just smear over and over. Until it finally is removed.

Dang it.... I hope you used the deep crystal Polish and not the deep crystal wax.

Let me know how it turns out!
At the very least you're just working in the wax product all the more into your finish, and from my perspective, that's not a bad thing!

 

Yeah... I figured you meant the polish rather then the wax so I got that (it's step 2 btw ). In any case, I used a rotary buffer to apply it but was running low on the rotary pads so I removed it by hand, so I'm sure that didn't help any. In retrospect I don't think I put on too much.. just a thin coat. In addition I was doing this indoors so I didn't have the benefit of the sun to help dry the polish out. Either way... the stuff's a bitch to remove.

I think when I go back to finish it off I'll apply another coat of the Scratch X 2.0. Stuff worked amazingly well but after I put the polish on I noticed the scratches came back up to the surface a bit.

It's suppose to be relatively sunny this week (high of 18 on friday.. w00t!).. so I'll try to finish off the process on Wednesday. I don't have any before pics.. but I'll be sure to post the afters. It's already in a state where I can see a mirror image of what I'm parked beside (for the most part).. TiG is kind of an odd colour when it comes to reflections.. you either see them perfectly.. or the light catches and you see nothing.

 

My good friend payed me to work on his car:

1992 Toyota Celica. (It was dull, faded and didn't hold reflections well with all the scratches) (I'll have to post the before pictures when I get home)

Here are the after workshop pictures!
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I really wanted to work on his car, because old black cars show the greatest improvement over all the other colors. Making black cars disappear into a cloaking field of mirrors... is just too much fun!

Thing about black rx8s.... is with a hot body like our cars have, you don't want to hide it! (Like a woman with beautiful curves... you really don't want her to wear a black dress). Not to knock on black rx8's ...... they may look brilliant, but you have to really look hard to enjoy those curves.

 

Lol, that's the exact reason i went with Copper Red instead of Black

 

yeah... honestly... with older car's.. the nufinish step is king. In fact I'd most likely change the order of your steps and do the nufinish first. It's a very rough polish and will cut through all the crap and oxidation on the car. I remember doing just the nufinish alone on my 1990 rx-7 after a long winter (well... for BC) with no washes. The difference was absolutely amazing. The side I hadn't touched yet was dull and dark.. the side I polished gleemed like a ****. Great stuff.

 

Somebody, please, somebody start one of these near Toronto!!!!!

 

where are these held, i dont see it.