Hand Car Wash

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Captaincodpiece wrote: »

That doesn't mean anything to me.

But with 1000 microns to a millimetre you're taking 8000 microns in thickness.

Looking about, 200 microns is good for today's paint go I guess mine ain't going to last he winter.

yes correct microns, I going off memory, math terminology wasnt strong for me so I place wrong terminologies to things sometimes.


looking at that sealy it may not be the best one to purchase as its based on magnet readings, wont the metal flakes in metallic cars interfier with the reading?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

27col wrote: »

Actually, if I wash the car, other than on Boxing Day. The wife says to me "I see you're getting a new car then"

my aunt used to say the dirt is holding the car together the only it time it gets washed is when it rains an not by anything else.

Iceweasel

I polish my car twice a year - April and October - and washing it is a piece of cake - very easy due to the protective sealant I use after the polish.

I use all Autoglym products rather than a mixture of brands as I believe they complement each other and are guaranteed to be compatible with each other.

I had a very bad experience years ago when I used a Halfords brand sealer and it reacted badly with the polish I had used. Hours of work ruined and had to start again.

So it's The AG Super Resin Polish followed by AG Extra Gloss protection that my car gets treated to.

My car is never garaged and after 6 months the surface is still beading raindrops beautifully. I reckon it would last 8 months if needed - but I have a twice a year regime going.

Without the EGP sealing coat after the SRP I doubt it would last much more than 2 months, so it's money time and effort well spent.

Of course I wash it using another AG product - Bodywork Shampoo and Conditioner - which does not affect the sealant.

I wouldn't dream of letting anyone other than myself wash my car.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Iceweasel wrote: »

I polish my car twice a year - April and October - and washing it is a piece of cake - very easy due to the protective sealant I use after the polish.

I use all Autoglym products rather than a mixture of brands as I believe they complement each other and are guaranteed to be compatible with each other.

I had a very bad experience years ago when I used a Halfords brand sealer and it reacted badly with the polish I had used. Hours of work ruined and had to start again.

So it's The AG Super Resin Polish followed by AG Extra Gloss protection that my car gets treated to.

My car is never garaged and after 6 months the surface is still beading raindrops beautifully. I reckon it would last 8 months if needed - but I have a twice a year regime going.

Without the EGP sealing coat after the SRP I doubt it would last much more than 2 months, so it's money time and effort well spent.

Of course I wash it using another AG product - Bodywork Shampoo and Conditioner - which does not affect the sealant.

I wouldn't dream of letting anyone other than myself wash my car.

I don't mind AG products, Halfords homebrand stuff is appalling, I'd rather buy turtle wax than buy that if im honest and youd get a better result.






Every one has preferred products, G3 at least the superwax I can highly praise, works well after dodo hardwaxing it takes the shine to another level entirely.


my main product use is maguiars clays and sealant and carnuba wax, DoDo carnuba hardwax and autoglym deepshine polish, victoria wax, G3wax I dont not use all in one go, I may swap between a few things depending on what mood im in how long I want to spend doing it and what desired results I want.

mjoneseyjones

Iceweasel wrote: »

I polish my car twice a year - April and October - and washing it is a piece of cake - very easy due to the protective sealant I use after the polish.

I use all Autoglym products rather than a mixture of brands as I believe they complement each other and are guaranteed to be compatible with each other.

I had a very bad experience years ago when I used a Halfords brand sealer and it reacted badly with the polish I had used. Hours of work ruined and had to start again.

So it's The AG Super Resin Polish followed by AG Extra Gloss protection that my car gets treated to.

My car is never garaged and after 6 months the surface is still beading raindrops beautifully. I reckon it would last 8 months if needed - but I have a twice a year regime going.

Without the EGP sealing coat after the SRP I doubt it would last much more than 2 months, so it's money time and effort well spent.

Of course I wash it using another AG product - Bodywork Shampoo and Conditioner - which does not affect the sealant.

I wouldn't dream of letting anyone other than myself wash my car.

What car do you have, if you don't mind me asking?

force_ten

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

it will do for metal only built cars, if you have plastics/fibre or the AUDI spaceframe or alu body then it wont read. there are ones out there that read alu aswell.


by personal knowledge, a factory cars paint thickness will range from 2.5mm to 8mm anything over that thickness is likely to have been repainted. so if you know it hasn't been in a bump or repainted at all, then you air on the side of caution and go slow with a rotary mop or DA (not DA sander by DA polisher) on slow settings in small sections at a time. anything under 3.0 thick to me is too thin, I wont use no buffing machine near a car with that thickness.

looking at your top figure the car would have a paint thickness of over a quarter of an inch wow that is some paint job :rotfl::rotfl:

Iceweasel

mjoneseyjones wrote: »

What car do you have, if you don't mind me asking?

An e90 BMW.

force_ten

paint on a normal german car as already said is 120 microns to 150 microns factory which is 0.12 to 0.15 mm in thickness

if a car has 200 microns there is a good chance it has had paint since it left the factory, 200 microns is one fifth of a mm so to get to 8mm it has got some thickness of paint

atrixblue.-MFR-.

I think you missed post 42 where I said yes it is microns i do muddle mathematics up due to dyslexia.




That said, a fellow friend who does restorations do like to lay it thick, 2 full wet coats of epoxy primer, 2 full wet coats of high build filler primer 2 full wet coats of base coat after building the color up to uniform over the primer and if a solid color no lacquer will apply upto 12 full coats of base and if lacquered 2-3 full wet coats.


the most highest reading I had seen was 794 microns on a e type jag solid red.

force_ten

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

I think you missed post 42 where I said yes it is microns i do muddle mathematics up due to dyslexia.




That said, a fellow friend who does restorations do like to lay it thick, 2 full wet coats of epoxy primer, 2 full wet coats of high build filler primer 2 full wet coats of base coat after building the color up to uniform over the primer and if a solid color no lacquer will apply upto 12 full coats of base and if lacquered 2-3 full wet coats.


the most highest reading I had seen was 794 microns on a e type jag solid red.

I did see your later post after but I still had a chuckle trying to imagine a 1/4 inch thick paint job

the paint measurement you were looking for is Mils and 4 to 8 mils would be 100 to 200 microns or normal paint thickness

1 mil = 1/1000th of an inch and strange as it sounds a mil is an imperial measurement, the americans would probably measure paint in mils, we tend to use microns which is a metric measurement