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Today I did some detailing...
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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enforced detail and a bit more today. My nephew decided to run his toy all over my bonnet/wing, with the inevitable damage. it was actually pretty bad, car is only just gone a year old (A6 black edition) and i had been minding it big time. so was pretty annoyed at this.
so started with a snow foam, then a wash.then detar , wash again then it was onto the scratch correction. decided to give the Autoglym scratch repair a go, and happily it did exactly what i wanted. scratches removed, you wouldn't even know they were there now
so then another wash, and decided to try the G30 wax, here it is soon before wiping it off
and the results. good days work. scrathes removed, and a good protective layer put on
wheels tomorrow0 -
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Overdue proper wash for Terenure tomorrow.
Nothing too exciting, snowfoamed x2, then washed wheels with bilt hamber shampoo and wheel cleaner. Tyres were very dirty dunno why, very hard to properly clean will have to buy something to tackle them properly. Only had them off recently for full clean...
Used tar remover on various spots before washing after the snow foam, probably should have done it after the washing.
Washed x2 and dried. Optimum tyre dressing applied to tyres and trim.
Exhausts washed but not polished, insides get very black i have found cif is the best at cleaning them... Have polished outsides with bilt hamber auto polish before.
Finis wax applied to wheels and front black grilled and badge. (Rest of the car is ceramic coated.
Was going to apply a layer of wax but honestly it looked great without it, coating doing well so didn't bother. Inside got a quick Hoover and will clean it in am.
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Black_Knight wrote: »BEHIND YOU!
Jaws music
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you could look at it another way, my kids know better than to try to squeeze their bikes between the wall and daddy's car. well trained
i had a lovely scratch along an F10 i had previously where a friends kid tried to squeeze their bike between two cars and didn't have the bike handling skills to make it0 -
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you could look at it another way, my kids know better than to try to squeeze their bikes between the wall and daddy's car. well trained
i had a lovely scratch along an F10 i had previously where a friends kid tried to squeeze their bike between two cars and didn't have the bike handling skills to make it
What you think of the A6 in comparison to the F10? Thinking about a 162 530 F10 or 181 A6..0 -
Haven't got many pics but I spent my spare time last week giving the car a refining polish. Had the main cutting process done from about a month agoso that's all it needed and came out very well. I also polished all the glass to remove old Gtechniq G1.
Saturday saw it get 2 coats of EXO V4 and the glass got fresh coats of G1. Took me from 10:30 am to 8:00 pm as I wanted to make sure I buffed every area properly when it came to the EXO. I was taking my time too with breaks in between etc.
Only pic I have at the moment:
Herself thought the bumper was damaged due to the reflection of the wall :pac:0 -
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My Fiesta is also a 1.1 non-turbo
Cleaned up today in advance of Kilkenny car show tomorrow.
https://i.imgur.com/j0dRLu6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/G6XnKus.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Tq0jdDv.jpg
Wow :eek:
That Fiesta looks fantastic.:)0 -
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My car has been very neglected in the last 3/4 months. I cant even remember the last time I washed it. Made a burst the weekend and decided to clean it up and get the summer grime of it.
wheels with Bilt Hamber wheel cleaner
bilt hamber snow foam
2 bucket method with carpro hydro2
and dried with some fluffly drying towel. I think dry me crazy?
Also washed my parents car.
Noticed some specs under the paint on the back bumper, looks like they are painted over so will have to investigate further
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