Ceramic Coated Maxima - Daily Driver

This has been a long time coming for me. I've been acquiring products and waiting for a nice weekend for months now. I picked this 17 Maxima up about 7 months ago, and it was in pretty rough shape. The previous owner didn't care for it. Every wheel had curb rash, and the front bumper is covered in road rash, plus there were plenty of swirls in the clear coat.

So after about 16 hours of off and on work I am proud to say I love how it came out. (I didn't do the wheels, I had them refinished by a specialist about a month ago)

So my process with products was as follows : * Wash wheels with Auto Fanatic Wheel cleaner and foam sprayer * Prefoam car with foam cannon and CG HoneyDew * Wash car with Adam's Strip Wash * Decontaminate car with Carpro IronX * Decontaminate car with Carpro TarX * Prefoam car again to release any left over chemicals. * Dry car by hand * Clay car with ONR as lubricant and Optimum Clay Towel * For heavy imperfections I used Meguiars 105 with Hexlogic Orange pads. Medium Imperfections were tackled with Meguiars 205 and Hexlogic Orange Pads. Finally a finishing polish with Adam's Final Glaze and Hexlogic Whitepad. * IPA wipe the car with Carpro Eraser * Apply two coats of CQuartz UK 3.0 to the paint * Apply Gyeon Q2 Rim Coating to the rims * After 12 hours I applied Carpro Gliss Top Coat to the paint * After 12 hours I applied Carpro Reload to the paint for that final touch

Overall it was definitely a ton of work, but detailing has been a hobby of mine ever since I bought my first "nice" car 8 years ago. I've watched countless videos, researched tons of products, and learned from my own mistakes. This was by far the most extensive detailing project I've ever tackled, and it was a blast.

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