Cleaned my car

Kinja'd!!! "Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
04/07/2014 at 21:24 • Filed to: None

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I <3 Black Granite Metallic. First wash with meguiars hyper wash, worked so much better than the neon green crap from Walmart. Also tried meguiars spray wax, I think it worked really well. Not as good as a proper synthetic or carnuba, but far easier. Entire wash and wax took ~90min.

I did notice a nasty chip in one of the headlights though :(. I really hope that's coveredby warranty, it's pretty bad...I'll post a pic in reply.


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Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 21:26

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Here's the chip. Upper left. It's like a half inch long, and deep. Guess the exposed projectors have a downside


Kinja'd!!! beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 21:32

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mmm blaaaaaaack

I keep a bottle of the spray wax and a microfiber towel in my car to clean bird poo off the paint. It's good stuff.


Kinja'd!!! saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 21:33

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That looks awesome!!! Like properly good! What a great color. Reminds me of this guitar finish (I have one in the natural clearcoat job):

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Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
04/07/2014 at 21:36

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Unfortunately the brown is only an effect of the sunset, but the black metallic looks good


Kinja'd!!! saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 21:37

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That's too bad. That would be a beautiful paintjob. It looks fan-friggin'-tastic anyways! Props, those are great little cars too! My friend got one of those and the suspension was sublime. And it was pretty nippy too. Lotsa fun.


Kinja'd!!! awe46m3zcp > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 21:39

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90 min? I could of washed my car, hand dried, AND applied a PASTE wax in that time.


Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > awe46m3zcp
04/07/2014 at 21:40

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Doing a proper job with paste wax takes about an hour for me. No need to rush it. 90 minutes was from backing out of the garage to pulling back in, so I guess the whole job didn't take that long. It's not a contest anyways ;)


Kinja'd!!! McMike > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 21:57

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Hosum Layaroundus


Kinja'd!!! Bandit > Jayhawk Jake
04/07/2014 at 22:12

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The yellow fogs just work on this car.


Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > McMike
04/07/2014 at 22:15

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yeah yeah yeah I hadn't put it away yet


Kinja'd!!! McMike > Jayhawk Jake
04/08/2014 at 05:08

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I don't know why I always notice that. So many for sale ads, so many "just washed" photos.

It's been happening for decades.

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/notice-that-ev…