Well... Winter is gone, and I have a lot of work to restore to Monte Back to Flawless condition. Road salt has left it ugly mark on my baby. Scratches in the hood, a chip on the rear bumber (1/4"), nicks on the front bumper. I got the wet sand, paint, polish, polish, polish, and glaze, seal, and wax. But by the end of the week she will be standing tall again.

So how did your car fair the winter?

 

 

i hear ya Craig. i spent a good half hour spraying all the crud off of the underside of my car the other day. probably do a big wax job next weekend.

 

I'll find out in a few weeks once winter actually lets go here in Wyoming, really wet snow this morning combined with how tired I was kept me from crossing campus for class.

I did have someone scrape up my bumper in the parking lot so that needs covered, along with several more door dings from morons here at UW. She's still looking nice and perdy, atleast she was yesterday, hope that snow this morning didn't have much dirt in it as it's sunny now.

 

Now that it's nice spring weather, I gotta do a complete cleaning and detailing job inside and out. Biggest pain in the a** is gonna be shampooing the salt stains out of the carpet (black).

 

Sorry Space... I tried twice to take pictures both in regular mode and in Macro, but the scratches don't show up, but the dust on the car looked like it was covered in sand in macro mode...lol

The scratches are fine, and most are probably in the protective wax and not the paint itself. There are a couple that will need to be wet sanded to get them and the chip needs to be spread out so I can blend the paint, but I promise you will not even know it was there.

 

Craig, MI had some great weather over the weekend. You could have used some of this to start the clean up on your beautiful SS Monte.

We went to supper inDundee saturday evening and it was so nice outside. It made me want to eat out there instead of inside.

On the way home we stopped at a Shell station to wash the dust off the Monte. Afterall, we had to look our best out there on the interstate.

 

Just finished cleaning and conditioning the leather seats.

Tomorrow's project... carpet cleaning. Providing the rain holds off.

 

I was lucky enough to avoid salt stains on the carpets this winter but I had a nice build up of dirt and dog hair (which is funny cause my dog never rides in my car). I just cleaned, vacuumed and waxed my car this weekendand its looking nice but I need to take the clay bar to the paint. I think it may need glazed too but I will see after I claybar it. Hopefully it will just need a nice coat of wax.

 

i stored my 06 mcss and its just as flawless as it was went it went in the garage under a cover.
yay no work. buy a beater for the winter unless you cant handel not driving the mcss for a couple of months