05-09 Exterior Modifications Making Your '05 Stand Out from the Crowd

Spent some time detailing my car

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Old May 6, 2008 | 07:37 PM
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Spent some time detailing my car

Not bad for 42K miles and 3 winters, eh?










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Old May 6, 2008 | 07:53 PM
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Excellent outcome, when can I drop mine off?
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Old May 6, 2008 | 07:56 PM
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Very clean What exhuast tips are those?
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Old May 6, 2008 | 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Rapture
Very clean What exhuast tips are those?
Magnaflow Mufflers
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:25 PM
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Man that's nice, and black is the hardest color. Awesome job!
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by ShowGT
Excellent outcome, when can I drop mine off?
Yeah put me down for a wash.

Black is deff the nicest color when clean!
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Old May 6, 2008 | 11:28 PM
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looks great
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Old May 7, 2008 | 12:57 PM
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Products and process? She's a beaut!
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Old May 7, 2008 | 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Andrew07GT
Products and process? She's a beaut!
Exterior Process:
  • Simple Green wheel wells and rims.
  • Wash car with liquid dawn
  • Meguiars Claybar
  • Menzerna Intensive Polish using a Porter Cable buffer and Orange pad
  • Menzerna Final Polish II using a White Pad
  • NXT 2.0 using a white pad. I typically use P21S, but tried 2.0 and loved it. It goes on and off so easily with a deep luster. I will have to see how the durability is, but supposedly Meguiars has improved it.
I used NXT metal polish on the wheels and exhaust tips. It takes a while, but I love the results when I am done. Now I just need to take the car to my dent guy and get one removed from the right rear quarter. First dent ugh!
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Old May 7, 2008 | 07:33 PM
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Looks great man!
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Old May 18, 2008 | 06:33 PM
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Absolutely awesome results! I just ordered my Porter Cable, I can only hope mine comes out as well as yours did.
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Old May 18, 2008 | 08:29 PM
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Better get the buffer back out because that rag should never stay on the hood; it should slide right off, lol, jk bro.
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Old May 18, 2008 | 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by EastCoast07GtCs
Absolutely awesome results! I just ordered my Porter Cable, I can only hope mine comes out as well as yours did.
Invest in a velcro backing plate and some good pads. The ones that PC sell are cheap quality.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 06:06 AM
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Thanks for the tip! I ordered it from autogeek and got the lake country pads. I didn't notice anything about a velcro backing plate when I was looking, can I get that anywhere?

EDIT: Looked on the site, saw the Lake Country velcro backing plates

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Old May 19, 2008 | 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by EastCoast07GtCs
Thanks for the tip! I ordered it from autogeek and got the lake country pads. I didn't notice anything about a velcro backing plate when I was looking, can I get that anywhere?

EDIT: Looked on the site, saw the Lake Country velcro backing plates
Lake Country are the good stuff!!!
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Old May 20, 2008 | 06:37 PM
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Due on thursday and it looks like after all the rain we've been having here in the northeast that memorial day weeked is gonna be beautiful!!! Hope the family understand if I'm not around for the barbeque.... LOL
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