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Here’s a photo where I forgot to add of how I hold the clay…

Polished the car today with CarPro Essence in preparation for coating it soon. The paint was in such good condition I only needed a gloss pad.

Really depends on the dealer. There is a wide variety in products used, talent involved, and cost they’ll pass along. I’m doing it myself but it does involve some learning and some tools.

It did sit at the factory for 53ish days and who knows what was in the air. Still, I was a bit surprised by the disparity between the iron and non-iron contaminants.

I had very little iron when I did iron remover on mine but there was a bunch of bonded non-iron contaminants that I removed with clay.

My first car was a ‘66 Mustang when I was a teenager in ‘85. Came from a Ford Family on my mom’s side. Growing up we had pintos, a ‘69 T-Bird, a ‘76 Cougar, a mustang II, an ‘82 Mustang. I haven’t had a truck but as a kid my Grandad had a Ranchero and then a Courier.

And still you don’t get it obviously.

Had our Hybrid a month plus a little. It usually sits mire days a week than driven and (knock wood) no issues yet.

That’s a lariat hybrid display. The xl & xlt have a smaller screen with two physical gauges below it.

Jag! Comfortable to cruise yet still fun to drive

My ‘daily’* is an ‘08 MINI Copper cabrio. It’s one of the last 100 supercharged they made. Not a classic - yet - but it’s very fun to drive. It also get’s Greta mpg if I keep my feet of the go pedal. * as a disabled wounded warrior I don’t drive much at all.

We have one here and like it but it’s across town. We have to drive by more than a dozen restaurants to get there so we don’t often eat there,

Since it was a cloudy, wet, and cool day, I took the opportunity to work on the interior. I had been sent some Adam’s UV Leather & Vinyl coating. I didn’t use the UV part but applied it to the pleather seats. We’ll see how it works out. Should help them wear a little better and provided some...

Is it like ‘Smurf’? oh, I maved in my mavs!

it actually rained here the last few days so it needed a wash. Also took the opportunity to do the clay bar.

Made a short video as I washed and clayed…

Most clay bars are very similar. You want the mild versions as more Aggressiv versions definitely require polishing after*. A light touch and plenty of lubrication is the key. One trick I learned somewhere along the way was to hang your finger tips off the edge of the clay to feel the paint...

Have a thread I started where I’m detailing mine but it’s slow going with my health. was planning on putting the finished result in here. Here’s after first decon wash…

There’s trade offs. The spray doesn’t last as long but it is easy to apply. If you were going to put on a coating then you’d probably want to polish as well as clay.