Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules
Today I did some detailing...
Comments
-
-
-
Misses asked why this was still around and not in the bin / recycled. My horrified self informed her it's a work of art that will be turned into a table / mount.
Took the opportunity before the tyre was mounted to apply some wax / sealant. The carpro didn't arrive from detailing she'd yet
so used 2 coats of hydrawax from bilt hamber then a 3rd of finished wax. Don't expect it to last too long but until the carpro stuff arrives it will do.
Give it another wash over the weekend for cars and coffee, might get the other alloy repaired just some scuffing to it0 -
Spit shine for cars and coffee. Decided to put some tyre shine on (McGuire's) wasn't sure about it before but happy with it looks well. Threw some onto the trim as well and looks great. Shame the new grille isn't on for tomorrow.
3 buckets, sonax gloss shampoo, bilt hamber snow foam with some of their shampoo mixed in. Rinsed, foamed, rinsed, then x2 washes and dry section at a time. Wheels were done first separately just washed once then dried at the end of the wash. McGuire's tyre shine applied to tyres and trim.
Have the Irish reg plates (for a while ��) but haven't put them on quite like how the UK plates look very clean or something. The current plates are stuck on, sticky pads at the front which are very sticky. Will take a hairdryer to it and some remover stuff when I get the backing for my plates.
Rear is reallllly stuck on. Must have been a liquid adhesive. Not sure how I'll tackle that.
My plates don't have any backing so have ordered ones off eBay as didn't want to have metal plates scratching up the paint.
There are screw holes (covered ATM) up the front for a reg plate but nothing on the back afaik, unless under the plate. Don't really want to screw was just gonna use some sticky pads any tips? They're pressed metal plates.
One or two of the wheels have these funny marks on them in the corners mostly, but in other parts too. Hard to describe, not rough but can definitely feel them, almost seems scratched / marred to ****e by someone cleaning them before or left over sealant from something.
Some smaller marks buffed off today during washing but have a feeling that may have been was residue from when I did it. Might try take a hand polish / cleaner to it next time and see if there's any effect. Any ideas what it could be? Gloss wheels so new one for me.
0 -
-
Advertisement
-
-
Yesterday I did some work on the Leon (it was massively overdue)............
The process was- Rinse down to get the loose dirt
- Snowfoamed with BH AutoFoam & rinsed
- Snowfoamed again (it was VERY dirty!)
- 2BW with BH Auto-Wash
- Wheel arch liners, etc were coated with BH Surfix and worked in with various brushes. Rinsed off.
- The sides & rear of the car below the window line were dried as well as the front bumper
- Two applications of CarPro Tar-X and rinsed off (Geez that's great tack!)
- A misting of BH Korrisol was applied and left to react. The boot door was the worst for the purple. Rinsed off.
- Next was claying with a mix of DnD Detailing clay, CarPro ClayCloth and CarPro Immolube. Note to self, never start claying with the boot door. I started there and it was so bad I had to throw the clay out immediately after one panel!
- The car was foamed again, rinsed down and re-washed using the 2BW
- Dried with a Cry-me-Crazy. The car was finally clean.
- LUNCH!
- The panels were wiped down with CarPro Eraser and then IPA. I left it then about 30 minutes for the IPA residues to flash off.
- Two coats of Gtechniq C2V3 were applied with about 3 hours between coats
The wheels were also done as above (washed with BH AutoWheels and then as above, detarred, clayed, etc) and they got a coating of Gtechniq C5. As I had to keep the wheels dry overnight and "something" was in the garage, I built up boxes from corriboard to keep then dry. Tyres were dressed with CarPro PERL 1:1 water.
While waiting for the second coating of C2V3 to be applied, I tackled the engine with BH surfix 1:3 in water to clean and dressed with CarPro PERL 1:3 in water. The external trims also got a coating of CarPro PERL 1:3 water.
Wheels complete..........
Yes I know the dark accents in the wheel are not showing up that well in the photo. It was late when I finished and I used my phone for the photos. I wasn't breaking out the SLR to get decent snaps
The residue that came off the bonnet. That piece of clay then went into the bin.
Final complete item, after 10 hours all in (including stops for lunch & dinner)
Edit - Forgot to say. I had to do some pipe clearance work after the foaming. The drain got blocked...........0 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
Did a bit of a wheel detail at the weekend. Wash, decontaminate, detar, degrease, machine polished the face to remove scuffs and polished the inner barrel to shine it up a bit after claying, Gtechniq panel wipe wipe-down, 2 coats of Gtechniq C2V3 and a top coat of Gtechniq QD.
0 -
MetzgerMeister wrote: »Did a bit of a wheel detail at the weekend. Wash, decontaminate, detar, degrease, machine polished the face to remove scuffs and polished the inner barrel to shine it up a bit after claying, Gtechniq panel wipe wipe-down, 2 coats of Gtechniq C2V3 and a top coat of Gtechniq QD.
Dayum that's cleaner than some peoples teeth!
0 -
-
This is not a "whole vehicle" type job but I got sick of the external shower door and external gas connection door on one of the motorhomes.............
The plastics got sun bleached from staying in Spain for prolonged period. The annoying thing is that the rest of the external plastics (fridge vents, door surrounds, etc) didn't fade and it looked cack. CarPro PERL would hide the effects for a while (two months or so) but I wanted something a bit more permanent.
The process was:
1. Mask off the two doors
2. Wipe them down with CarPro Eraser and leave it to "flash off"
3. Apply two thin coats of Gtechniq C4.
And then break out the tae................
It was repeated on some other small door catches.
0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Waxed a tiny section of the roof the other day, after removing a bit of iron fallout and poop.
You can clearly see where i've freshly waxed and not.
Full bonnet waxed though:
Thanks to MetzgerMeister for the Wax! I finally got around to trying out the collinite 845 he sent me... a year ago. :eek:0 -
-
-
-
-
-
Yesterday I did some work on the Leon (it was massively overdue)............
The process was- Rinse down to get the loose dirt
- Snowfoamed with BH AutoFoam & rinsed
- Snowfoamed again (it was VERY dirty!)
- 2BW with BH Auto-Wash
- Wheel arch liners, etc were coated with BH Surfix and worked in with various brushes. Rinsed off.
- The sides & rear of the car below the window line were dried as well as the front bumper
- Two applications of CarPro Tar-X and rinsed off (Geez that's great tack!)
- A misting of BH Korrisol was applied and left to react. The boot door was the worst for the purple. Rinsed off.
- Next was claying with a mix of DnD Detailing clay, CarPro ClayCloth and CarPro Immolube. Note to self, never start claying with the boot door. I started there and it was so bad I had to throw the clay out immediately after one panel!
- The car was foamed again, rinsed down and re-washed using the 2BW
- Dried with a Cry-me-Crazy. The car was finally clean.
- LUNCH!
- The panels were wiped down with CarPro Eraser and then IPA. I left it then about 30 minutes for the IPA residues to flash off.
- Two coats of Gtechniq C2V3 were applied with about 3 hours between coats
The wheels were also done as above (washed with BH AutoWheels and then as above, detarred, clayed, etc) and they got a coating of Gtechniq C5. As I had to keep the wheels dry overnight and "something" was in the garage, I built up boxes from corriboard to keep then dry. Tyres were dressed with CarPro PERL 1:1 water.
While waiting for the second coating of C2V3 to be applied, I tackled the engine with BH surfix 1:3 in water to clean and dressed with CarPro PERL 1:3 in water. The external trims also got a coating of CarPro PERL 1:3 water.
Wheels complete..........
Yes I know the dark accents in the wheel are not showing up that well in the photo. It was late when I finished and I used my phone for the photos. I wasn't breaking out the SLR to get decent snaps
The residue that came off the bonnet. That piece of clay then went into the bin.
Final complete item, after 10 hours all in (including stops for lunch & dinner)
Edit - Forgot to say. I had to do some pipe clearance work after the foaming. The drain got blocked...........
Really nice job ðŸ‘ðŸ‘0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
Joined the black car club a month ago, it had it's weekly clean this evening.
Love the colour when it's just washed but it'll take some maintenance!
As much as we all love to do full paint corrections to the best of our ability, time is not always on your side especially when trying to maintain a black car. I would therefore highly recommend glazes or the likes of Meg's three in one, prima amigo etc to keep the car looking it's best (in conjunction with a good wax/sealant of course).0
Advertisement