Ok so to me it sounds like you want to do this right. There is a plethora of places to learn online. I’ve always been into cleaning my vehicles since my first car at the age of 16. It relaxes me. Inside I’ve always felt it as an obsession. Maybe OCD in a way. I’ve been using Adam’s Polishes for 11-12 years now. I’ve learned quite a bit from there video’s. I would say I love 90% of there products. You need to decide what route of maintaining your vehicle you want to go.
Either way it starts with
1. A two bucket wash (buy two buckets with grit guards
2. Two soft wash mitts
3. Drying towels or a master blaster air dryer or a dedicated leaf blower to cut your drying time down.
4. Clay bar. You can’t really pick a bad one because for the longest time one person held the patent for the US and everyone had to use the same. Just different colors and sizes
5. Detail spray. I buy it by the gallon. Use it as the lubricant for coating the vehicle. Go slow. If you go to fast you risk the clay slipping out of your hands and hitting the ground. Once it does that it’s trash. Use small pieces and keep folding it after each panel.
6. Premium towels for wiping down after using the clay bar. I sat at least 12 of them since they will be used for other phases in detailing.
Now I was breaking this down because I don’t know how experienced you are.
Paint correction is the next phase.
You can do this by hand, but it’s going to take forever.
I use a D/A polisher because it’s almost impossible to “burn” the paint like an orbital can.
You can pick you up from quite a few places. Buy a good one so it will last. I believe mine was $350, but I’ve had it for 12 years and haven’t looked at prices of them in quite awhile.
swirls.
On a brand new truck swirl and haze remover won’t be to bad.
They make specific “cutting pads” for removing swirls.
polishing
Same as right above. Use the correct pads for polishing with the polish and remove.
sealing the paint.
You can use paint sealant, machine wax, wax by hand, or the new craze ceramic.
Each one has a different time table.
Normal wax being the least (time depends on quite a few variables 3 months for me) all the way up to over a year+ with ceramic. Wax is the easiest to apply and ceramic scares quite a few people away because if you mess it up most people can’t fix it themselves.
Now your pressure washer. I need more details. Drilling out the orifice hole on your pressure washer tip doesn’t really help you. You have no idea what pressure your at. You said it 3200 psi. Is that true psi? So much goes into this. About 1200 psi is max you’d want to use on paint. Right where it starts to hurt your hand if your holding it in front of the nozzle. When it comes to pressure washing a car it’s not pressure. It’s GPM (gallons per minute). Right at 11-1200 psi and 2gpm is what your looking for.
My go to wand is made by Mosmatic and foam cannon is made by MTM.
now interior.
What seats do you have? Recaro’s or normal leather? Recaro’s are a different animal for taking care of them. More steps and products. Leather, just cleaner and conditioner. I can go on forever.
Adams Polishes site has quite a bit of info and so does Obsessed Garage. Matt @ Obsessed has some awesome video’s and the man has spent 10’s of thousands trying to find the “perfect” products.
If you have more questions just reply or hit my up via PM
I’m a little obsessed with it also
Kyle
