[Detailers Domain]

Subject: 2000 Honda Civic
Requirements - Remove heavy swirls and scratches, and protect with Opti Coat

Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed with 1Z einszett W99
- Aquartz Iron Cut
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Nano Scrub AutoScrub
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Wetsanding
- Meg's M105 with Surbuf Pad - Griots Orbital
- Meg's D300 with Microfiber DA Cut Pad - Griots Orbital
- Menzerna SF4000 with Uber Green Pad - Griots Orbital
- Opti Coat
- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used -

1Z einszett W99
Aquartz Iron Cut
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Meg's M105
Meg's D300 Microfiber Correction System
Menzerna SF4000
Opti Coat
Adam's Super VRT
Optimum Metal Polish

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before














Prep - Wash, Wheels, Tires, NanoSkin



Headlight restoration

Before shots of the lights.




Various stages of wet sanding required to clean up the headlights



Compound and Polish



After shots of the headlights - Opti Coat installed





D300 with Griots


50/50 shots of correction




Before trim


After


After shots

[HifiSyd]

Wow! That car was wrecked! Amazing transformation, well done!!

[mo2566]

Wow, nice job!

[Torobimmer]

im impressed. how long was the service and total cost?

[Detailers Domain]

thanks guys.

about 12 hours exterior only.

for pricing you can pm me.

[biz77]

The transformation is amazing, but one must question why anyone would spend that kind of money to correct a 12 year old Civic. The work must be approaching half the value of the car!!???

[SilverII]

like new

[Kramzz335i]

damnnnnnn! well done guys

[Motastic]

well come but as said earlier too much work for a car that is so outdated but hey to each their own

[itsmeek]

Dang, that detail probably cost about 1/2 the cars value.

[catch]

Great work!

[ddogg35]

Im sure thats an old car not worthy of such a detail, but im glad to see it looking better then new.

[Torobimmer]

Originally Posted by itsmeek

Dang, that detail probably cost about 1/2 the cars value.

because the owner has an emotional and sentimental connection with this thing he's spent more time with than anything else in past 12+ years.

i actually can respect people who values their 12+ honda civic than a middle class american who's lease or owned 7+ cars in 12 years and values material abundance.

each their own but i respect one more than the other.

[itsmeek]

That's fantastic- that someone has earned your respect by having a 12 year old Honda civic detailed for half the car's price. Oh to have your respect....

[Detailers Domain]

thanks guys yup he's attached to the car as well going to grad school so he decided to try his luck with a paint correction over $3k - $4k to paint it.