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Mats Mk6 - Tornado Red GTi - Detailing and mods

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peter_booker2003:

--- Quote from: matmk5 on May 21, 2017, 06:43:13 am ---Thanks all, much appreciated  :smiley:

Cheers Peter, I'm about an hours drive from Midland VW (I'm right on the Notts/Derbyshire boarder) there's plenty of closer specialists to me but when I spoke with Jody on the phone he clearly knew exactly what he was talking about so decided it was worth the run over... will definitely use them in he future.  :smiley:

Hoping to get to a few shows this year as its been a while so will give you a shout if your heading down too  :happy2:

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Brill. Yeah, i'm hoping to get to Fitted UK, Vag Tuner Live and Edition 38 in September. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

Love the Tornado Red paint too although i may be a bit biased  :wink:

matmk5:
I have been really happy with pretty much everything about the car and it’s not missed a beat but one thing that has been niggling me is the paint.  It just looked dull and flat and under direct sunlight the swirl marks were absolutely everywhere... its only had one previous owner but he must have put it through the car wash 4 times a day to attain the world record for most swirl marks on a five door hatch lol!

It really detracted from the rest of the car which is absolutely perfect so I nipped to a local detailer last weekend and was quoted £700 + VAT to put it right as it needed two full days of labour, to be fair that is about right for two full days of labour but there’s just no way I could justify spending that, so after a few days of research I bought this full kit, a clay bar, some decent cloths and a paint depth gauge and after watching a few hundred YouTube tutorials I set to work.


All told it’s taken 22 hours (five nights at it lol!) of hard graft but I’m absolutely chuffed with the results, genuinely looks better than a new one, dripping deep red shiny gloss, no swirl marks, scratches or scuffs (trust me I have been over every inch of every panel with a Lenser P7 lol!)

Routine for each panel was wash, clay bar, wash again, dry, dual action machine polish stage 1 to get rid of the most severe scratches, hand polish, dual action machine polish stage 2 fine scratch removal to refine the clear cote, then machine polish with stage 3 finishing polish until perfect.


The rear quarter, doors and boot were especially swirltastic so I hit those first… before and after:


Roof and spoiler next, before and after


Bonnet and bumpers:


So after five nights and 22 hours of machine polishing it was sat waiting for a some wax this morning to finish and seal, I tried Ultimate rather than the classic gold mainly hoping for it to last a while


And finally, all done, aching arms, aching back, but car looking unbelievably glossy, not a swirl in sight and beading like a dream after this afternoons downpour :D









Ohh and I added the GTi seat handle inserts

prp74:
Looking stunning after all that hard work. Well done to you  :congrats:

doylebros:
Top job - worth all that time and effort  :congrats:

dervdave:
Fantastic job !  like the Cemetery shots do you live there ?

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