I just want to thank everyone on the forums and give a shout out to Adam and his crew for providing great resources. As a newbie, the wealth of info hidden in here plus the videos that Adam and Junkman make have been invaluable in getting started. It took a task that appeared daunting and made it manageable.
The forum archives ended up being a huge help tonight. I started in the afternoon with trying to do the hood (where most of the issues where) and was getting very frustrated from the results. What I was doing was ineffective at best, nothing seemed be coming out. I was starting to think that I wasted a ton of money on something I was clueless on. That Junkman was using trick photography in his videos to get results.
I took a dinner break and starting reading through the archives and found a few threads that sounded like what I was thinking. They had a bunch of tips on improving technique. After dinner I gave it another shot cutting down on the amount of product being used and adjusting the speed I was moving the PC. That ended up doing the trick for me.
I just finished waxing and I think the results came out great. At least for the first time, I'll probably look back in a year and wonder how I ever thought this was good. I got 99% of the dealer installed scratches that I was seeing (it looks like there's 1 left that I wasn't able to fully get) and the glossy look after applying Americana is great. I was surprised at how much of a mirror I got on it. I'll try to take a few photos to post tomorrow when I can get her outside and in decent light. The light in my garage sucks for taking pictures.
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I just want to thank everyone on the forums and give a shout out to Adam and his crew for providing great resources. As a newbie, the wealth of info hidden in here plus the videos that Adam and Junkman make have been invaluable in getting started. It took a task that appeared daunting and made it manageable.
The forum archives ended up being a huge help tonight. I started in the afternoon with trying to do the hood (where most of the issues where) and was getting very frustrated from the results. What I was doing was ineffective at best, nothing seemed be coming out. I was starting to think that I wasted a ton of money on something I was clueless on. That Junkman was using trick photography in his videos to get results.
I took a dinner break and starting reading through the archives and found a few threads that sounded like what I was thinking. They had a bunch of tips on improving technique. After dinner I gave it another shot cutting down on the amount of product being used and adjusting the speed I was moving the PC. That ended up doing the trick for me.
I just finished waxing and I think the results came out great. At least for the first time, I'll probably look back in a year and wonder how I ever thought this was good.
I got 99% of the dealer installed scratches that I was seeing (it looks like there's 1 left that I wasn't able to fully get) and the glossy look after applying Americana is great. I was surprised at how much of a mirror I got on it. I'll try to take a few photos to post tomorrow when I can get her outside and in decent light. The light in my garage sucks for taking pictures.
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