Category: External & paint care Forum

  • Polishing/sealing of a VW Passat B8 (Deep Black Pearl Effect) – a few beginner questions

    Hi, I have a VW Passat B8 in Deep Black Pearl Effect (EZ 10/2017). I used to work in a VW car dealership (office), where I often polished my cars with a rotation machine with Meguiar’s Diamond Cut Compound 2.0 (I mean the pad was lambskin). No big tear, car washed by hand, no glued off, Liquid Glass used pre-cleaner, polished with above mentioned polish and rotary machine, then “sealed” with liquid glass by hand. Now I see that the topic So I wanted to ask a few questions. I own a T3000 CPS (from 2013 – unfortunately never used) and wanted to order the following: Knet contact spray/gliding agent: Optimum No rinse Wash & Shine (for mixing) Knead: Petzoldt’s Magic Clean Blue (mild) 100 g Polish: Menzerna Medium Cut Polish 2500 (formerly PF2500) Finish: Menzerna Super Finish 3500 (formerly SF4000) Control cleaner/isopropyl alcohol: Isopropyl alcohol 1:1 distilled water Protec 1. Which microfibre cloths for which step? 2. Which pads for which step? 3. Does bee coke go through kneading? 4. Do you also have to “knead” the side skirts? 5. How long does a pad hold? 6. Does the bumper have to be polished by hand (plastic/heat development)? 7. Do you still have to glue the corners of the body parts and plastic parts? If so, which tape do you recommend? Thank you for your attention. Time and effort.

  • Clean spaces of model designation

    Hello, have you been asking me for a while how to clean the spaces of the model name. in the laundry with a brush, but after that you always see wheels around the letters. Do you still have a Parr tip for me? LG

  • Midway with the paint care

    Hello together, I have read something here in the forum and also read through the advisors etc.. Unfortunately it does not help me so much, because usually the optimal way is described. But I am looking for something in between. So far I drive with my vehicle into the textile wash and mostly do the full program (super foam, paint protection and care (except for floor wash). Yes, is not the best, I know. Now comes my new vehicle (leasing). It is a 4 BMW with the Indivi dual painting San Marion Blau. I would like to take care of this paint more consciously, even if it is a leasing. I don’t have the time to take care of the car care every week. Speak of pure hand wash including polishing etc. My question is therefore how to get the best out with a reasonable wall. We have boxes for manual laundry next to the textile wash. Should I wash the car here completely, or a combination of both? Own sponge, if yes, you have a Recommendation? Should a hand wash in such a box be significantly better and the time was spent in the frame, that would be OK. Should I also pay attention to something at the beginning? So if the car is completely new? Many greetings n3

  • VW Deep Black Scratch / Matt

    Hello together; I am faced with a decision to buy a Golf 8: EZ 04/2022 approx.6,000km Former factory employee vehicle from VW dealer The vehicle has a problem that still keeps me from buying: The varnish Deep Black pearl effect, is my opinion in a bad condition, there are ringrum holograms scratches that have the course of a washing machine brush, and on the passenger side it is also partly matt, but that’s also because of how you look at it and where the sun is standing t. The dealer has not yet prepared it,except once or twice put it into their washing machine. My question would be to get it back? Bzw. Is there still a mild polish here? I clearly need deep black a lot of gentle care in general, but I think with the two buckets of laundry it should be possible.

  • Does a Mini Lack Platzer have to be treated?

    Moin, next to my parking lot is a small metal railing. Normally I am careful and wanted to do some rubber over it, so that I don’t hit the door, because I have the parking lot only recently. Now it happened to me today, however, that I came against quite easily. With the naked eye you don’t see much, if you go over with the fingernail you notice a small placer. With very close access you can recognize from certain angles and exposure nevertheless a cleavage In the hole (not even half a millimetre in diameter). I tried to wipe over with a microfiber cloth, didn’t go off, so it’s probably the paint that’s there. Since my car color is grey, I don’t see how deep it is. We can go out for the first time that it’s all over the sheet metal. The question is, does this have to be repaired somehow? The vehicle is very new and has to be delivered in 3 years (leasing). I don’t want this to happen because of such a micro Loc h starts to rust or something. In the meantime I have covered the railings already, so that I don’t fight… Unfortunately only too late. On occasion I will attach a picture.

  • Bienenkot Problem

    Hello guys, have now finally a garage where I can park my car. Now in the spring I had the car always standing outside and almost daily my car was covered with bee puke. (the round, often elongated yellow spots). At work we only had parking spaces outside and yesterday my car was completely covered with the bee puke. I then put it away at home for half an hour (with ONR diluted 1:16) and a microfiber cloth. At the weekend I will be my car for the first time Do you have the problem with the beehive? You can’t remove the dirt every day or wash your car continuously. How dangerous is it if you leave it on the paint until the next wash? If it is relevant, my car is currently sealed with a Ceramic Spray protection.

  • What are these “flakes” on the paint?

    Good day, I bought an E90 a few months ago and quickly noticed that it was only washed in the wash road and accordingly the surface of the paint looks like this (light fine scratches in the paint). So I wanted to polish the car anyway and have it polished soon in the spring. But what I noticed are these “flakes” on the bonnet (see picture attached), which do not disappear after a normal laundry from me, look like water What could that be? Tree resin? I don’t know, don’t know me well. Hope one of you can help me! Thank you very much.

  • Newbie: SB-Box with given media + microfiber cloths (Corona Edition)

    Hi, I know these topics are like sand by the sea and you can read into the topic for months, but I don’t find anything that isn’t 1000 years old and could fit my problem. I have a new car, deluxe white, 5000km on the clock and it’s dirty like sow. Drive almost only highway to work. Since I have little time and now with Corona I don’t get all the means I need, I have to take what I can get. Means: SB box and microfiber cloths + two buckets. I I don’t have a Gloria o.E., autoshampoo, rim cleaner or insect remover. Now my question: do I get the car well with the given means (SB-Box allegedly has XXL power foam; it is in Regensburg, has never been washed here) neatly clean and don’t mess up the paint if I don’t completely stupid instead? If so, how should the procedure be? I don’t have a rim cleaner, no insect agent, just the foam and the water out of the box. I now put the two buckets 1x with foam, 1x filled with clear water, the car first roughly cleaned with water, then sprayed everything with foam, let it all work, everything with clear water down again and then would have latched me from top to back down with the bucket foam and microfiber cloth until everything is clean. Rims then at the end. Then I would have felt the microfiber cloth again and again in clear water to get all the dirt out. Look forward to tips that could fit my scenario.

  • Urgently remove wax

    Hello together, I urgently need help with my car… I was so stupid and wanted to seal the gaps from the doors with wax, because there were always ugly traces there. Unfortunately, I got the Nigrin cavity preserver for this. When I sprayed one side of the car the yellow mass remained hanging and now Matt is stuck on the paint… I already tried with rinsing and warm water, but the stuff is extremely water-repellent…. Would be over every A. You’re grateful how I get that stuff away again!!

  • Preparing/cleaning a car

    Good day, I would like to bring my Audi to the front and would like to clean/prepar it. I would like to clean the fabric seats, footroom and dashboard from the inside. I would like to take the outside to polish and then seal it. Now my question. Which products can you recommend to me. I don’t want to spend a lot of money, best the price-performance-cracker. Currently I only have products of cooking chemistry in mind. Fine Cut F6.01 250ml for polishing package Clay set from Kochchemie for the “unkneading” of the paint Plast Star to make the rubbers as well as the plastic parts look nice again Pol Star for cleaning the fabric seats as well as the footroom Nano Magic Shampoo (which makes little sense for me if I want to polish the car afterwards) Green Star for the interior Which other products would you recommend for the cleaning/processing. I am unfortunately a newcomer and have little experience regarding these things. I would appreciate any advice you give me.