Slakr

Do you use/do anything special on the top??

Here's mine after its maiden top down run of the year!!!

Barn996

What a nice feeling it is after finishing a detail job like yours, what great results. Your Porsche looks brand new, and I bet it drives better too. The windows look amazing.

htny

Everyone seems to love that Ultima, pros and us joes alike. I really went way too all out on the detailing budget, I think I was trying to make up for neglecting it so badly this winter.

Anybody in NYC want a job? Mobile detail business? I'll front the materials!

Partial list:
Orbital Polisher & tons of pads
Menzerna Power Gloss, Super Intensive Polish & Nano Polish
Sonus SFX-1 Scratch Restore Polish (bought with the ultima, didn't have enough grunt for the water etching on our old black slab of a Benz, hence the menzerna)
Ultima PPP for prep and PGP sealant
Ultima Tire & Trim Guard (gonna try to do the rubber accordion under the spoiler too)
Foam gun, even bought a freaking pressure washer
Oh, and Rejex for the wheels and the Audi (which is white and gets parked on the street most nights)
Optimum No Rinse
Zaino Clay and Z8

Oh the tragedy of it all

It's way too funny, laughing at myself, but I figure I have enough stuff to last 3 years on 3 cars, and it's so much cheaper than therapy or fistfights.

99C2

Chicago Land:

There is a RED Cab just like yours roaming around my area, perhaps there's room for one more! Ha! Yeah, let us know if you get back to the area.

Griots, Use the products everyday on the cars and if you use their buffer and go through the steps - it is just awesome! People offer me jobs to detail cars after they see mine! (They could not afford me)

Anyway, good luck in your search.

99C2

DFC

Looking good!

For the top, I use Raggtopp products (well, I used to, I now have a brand new top, but that's another story...). Usually just rinse off with water, pat dry, and use a lint roller. If it get's real dirty or a spot, then I use a mild cleaner.

http://www.autopia-carcare.com/wps-2148.html
http://www.autopia-carcare.com/wps-2141.html

Drives much better... and faster too

Uh, embarassed to say, but my list is actually longer. I have some serious issues...

I get the same thing. I am waaay too much of a perfectionist to make a living at this.

htny

OK finally had to test ultima on the porsche. I didn't polish or prep, just washed and applied one coat of PGP by hand on the foam thing they ship it with. Then put the Tire and Trim Guard on the tires (wheels have a coat of rejex on them already). Took all of ten minutes. I'm impressed, and I like it because it's effortless. Also I had some heavy rain for a short while coming down the west side highway the other night, but it blew off, perfectly dry no spots in the morning.

First pic is after applying, 2nd pic is after buffing by hand (it's so wet looking the camera's autofocus is all out of whack, was hard to get a shot!)

htny

also, I did manage to break out the polisher, still testing on other cars before I do the Porsche, but much more confident after seing how the menzerna worked and finished down on black

https://rennlist.com/forums/996-forum/426609-couple-questions-on-random-orbital-polishing-and-waxing.html

So hopefully I will do the Porsche sometime before summer

DFC

Black looks incredible when clean. What did you have to buff? I had a few small spots where I put it on a bit too heavy, and had to buff the next morning, but not too much. It's amazing how little is actually used, I'm sure it will be even easer the next time.

htny

I think it was CDodkin who told me he buffed his, and that man bought a canopy just for detailing, so I figured I'd sit up and listen! haha

It was very nice unbuffed, just the sealant as it cured. But I sprayed on some Zaino Z8 Quick Detailer and buffed with the cotton applicator it comes with and it just went POP

I have to say the thing I like best about the ultima PGP is even with no prep, practically no product on the applicator, and less than ten minutes of work, it showed up real nicely. My biggest issue with waxing is the lack of free time, so something that goes on this quickly, this easily and looks this good will help if only because I'll actually use it!

Sometime this May I will Menzerna the Porsche and apply several coats of the PGP.

Honestly though I'm not that impressed with the ultima paint prep, I strongly prefer the Menzerna polishes so far (tried the ultima paint prep + on the trunk of my mother's audi, and half the trunk of the MB in the other thread). Maybe it's because I'm a first timer, but the Menzerna stuff is just so easy, so fast, so clean, and so damn glossy when it's done.