Car Cleaning - sheet metal

• Meguiars Gold Class Car Wash or similar. (DON'T USE HOUSEHOLD SOAP)
• Clay Bar (From a Meguiars kit but others make them, including Griot's)
• Griot's Paint Prep. (Use only to remove EVERYTHING. Appears to be the same as 50/50 Dawn & water.
• Nathan's Liquid Lustre - discontinued.
• Meguiars paint cleaner (Try this on tail pipes if you can't find Chrome Polish)
• Meguiars #7 Show car Glaze
• Meguiars #26 yellow Carnuba wax
• Meguiars Quick Detailer
• Meguiars Quick Detail Applicator Pad
• Griot's Garage Speed Shine (Same as Quick Detailer
• Butter wax (final step at show. Available at body supply shops)
• The Wax Shop Cleaner/Wax (Not used; won as door prize)
• Stoner Spray Shine (Auto Parts Store) for SELECTED engine parts

Car Cleaning - rubber & glass

• Mother's Back to Black
• Turtle Wax Black Chrome
• Motorcraft Vinyl Protectant (Same as Armor-all)
• Black Permatex for small rubber repairs

Car cleaning - wheels.

• #26 paste Wax. Use on clean wheels.
  
• Quick Detailer(Use before Hot Rims; it's gentler)
  
• Mequiars Hot Rims All Wheel Cleaner

Tire Dressing

• Endurance (Old style) Goes on flat; no longer available. New product is shiny for "wet" look. Can be "wiped"'
  
• Griot's Garage Tire Rejuvenator - One of xx listed. Recommended when I asked for clean, flat black look.
  
• Tooth Brushes (For tire dressing)
  

Carpet cleaning

• Tuff Stuff (Aerosol and spray)
  
• Club Soda removes some food products
  
• Reminder: JCNA Rules call for the carpet to be out of the car. Not always enforced but be prepared.

Leather Cleaning

• Leatherique Rejuvenating Oil Step 1 (Available from Jag Journal ad w/discount.)
  
• Leatherique Pristine Clean Step 2
  
• Connolly Hide Food. They went bankrupt around 2003. XK's Unlimited offers a product that looks the similar.
  
• Rubber Gloves for use with Leatherique (See your doctor or dentist)
  
• Jaguar Leather Cleaner

Glass Cleaning

• Griot's Garage Window Cleaner (Best I've tried)
  
• Others tried, but not not displayed:
  • Windex
  • Invisible Glass
  • 2 types of Meguiars

Tools

• Spray gun w/soap dispenser (Griot's Garage - $15)
  
• Griot's Garage Random Orbital Polisher ($129)
  
  • Machine Polish 3
  • Paint Glaze (Similar to Meguiars #7)
    
• Folding wash bucket (Griot's)
  
• Wheel scrubbing brush (Wal Mart)
  
• Wire wheel tapered brush (XK's Unlimited)
  
• Scrub brush (for chassis)
  
• Small held-held brushes (Sally's Beauty Supply)
  
• Detailing brushes
  
• Long Handled cotton Tipped swabs (Medical supply store)
  
• Q-tips (Wal Mart)
  
• Long handled micro fiber wheel dryer
  
• Micro Fiber towels
  
• Screwdrivers (flat & Phillips head)
  
• Tape - masking & Blue
  
• "Preval" Portable paint Sprayer (~$4-5 @ Home Depot)
  
• Touch-up paint (BASF Base Coat 51 matches MANY late model Jaguar wheels)
  

Notes:

1. Avoid PPG paint because of hardener problems
   Carry is small,air tight bottles to avoid drying out
   
2. 1000 or finer wet/dry sandpaper and small block of wood for backing
   
3. Assorted model paints for interior touch up of SMALL spots
   
4. Very small paint brushes (Hobby Lobby)
   
5. Tooth picks or hypodermic syringes for applying drops of paint to chips.
   
6. Padded chamois for initially drying windows after washing (SNG Barratt)
   
7. Single edged razor blades (for scraping glass)
   
8. Floor jack
   
9. shop Vac (The Small one I had is roughly equivalent to 500 Watt portable from Griot's)

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