Author Topic: Truckies edition30 (Read 2041 times)

craigy123 · « **on:** March 13, 2010, 10:33:28 pm »

From a wee while ago.......

A mate asked me to give his MK5 ed30 a detail, so here it is.....

Products used for the detail were

When i got up to his garage it was raining, typical!! so only a few before pics....

The car is always kept clean, so the wahing stage wasnt going to be that difficult.
First up was the wheels, tyres an arches. The wheels were done with Megs wheel brightner, EZ-detail brush, a microfibre mitt and various brushes.
The tyres were done with Megs APC and DE-greaser with a stiff brush and the arches were done with Megs APC and some tardis for the tar spot in the arches and on the wheels. The calipers were also done with Megs APC.
The door shuts were the sprayed with Megs APC and worked with a Megs side lock and some other smaller brushes

The car was then foamed woth VP snow foam and Megs shampoo plus, while this was doing its job, i went round the badges and window seals etc.

Car was then rinsed, and washed 2BM with a sonus sheepskin mitt and dodo juice BTBM shampoo
Car was then rinsed left wet and autosmart tardis applied to the lower panels and the small tar spots were removed. The lower panels were then re-washed and rinsed. With the car still wet, i clayed the car with sonus green fine clay, using Megs last touch as lubricant, there wasnt alot of contamination, although there was a few orange spots which were easily dealt with using the clay.
The car was thwen power rinsed.
Car was then moved inside to the garage and dried with a ultra plush drying towel and sonus perfect shine towels, using megs last touch as a drying aid.
Then i put the halogen lights on to help highlight the defects a swirls marks on the car,the car was in pretty good shape

The car was then taped up using 3M 3434 blue tape, and polished with a sonus sfx-2 polishing pad and Meg #205 via a Megs G220 DA polisher, in some place i had to use a sonus SFX-3 cutting pad and megs #83 to remove defects, the main area being on the roof where it looked like someone had tried to remove bird droppings, the polish residuue was remove with Eurow towels.
Once the polishing stage was complete i added a coat of chemical guys jetseal 109, while this was curing the wheels were sealed with poorboys wheel seal and the tyres dressed with megs endurance gel.
The jetseal was then buffed off after around 35min, and a coat of Zanio Z-6 was put on, followed by a layer of Dodo juice supernatural. While this was curing the glass was polished and the trims were dress with Megs gold class gel, the arches were dressed with Chemical guys bare bones and the engine given a wipe down from polish dust.
After 20 min the wax was buffed off and a coat of red mist was applied to top it off. Time taken was around 8.5 hours, and heres the finished pictures