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My GTi Winter Protection
« on: November 11, 2011, 05:12:02 pm »
So got the day off work on Wednesday and spent the whole day detailing the car, I saw neighbours go to work and come home in the time I spent on the car with some very funny looks

A few before pics





The collection of things I used and what kept me going




Onto the detail, the wheels removed


The car was then jet washed and snow foamed, then rinsed again







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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2011, 05:13:55 pm »
Then the car was washed using the two bucket method and clayed and taped ready for the correction work to start











Then I snow foamed the wheels, cleaned with bilberry wheel cleaner and machine polished them as they were really dull, this really brought back the colour in the wheels and I was really happy. The wheels were then sealed and placed back onto the car.





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Before


After


By this time it was late and dark outside





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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 05:15:44 pm »
Bravo, sir  :congrats: bravo.

Looks great. I'd be too scared to use those lovely Lambo hoops through the winter..
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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2011, 05:15:46 pm »
This was today a few afters pics, unfortunately on the iphone so not the greatest

Pics of beading from the rain last night this morning



















Engine bay



Thanks for looking

Im personally very pleased with the outcome

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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2011, 05:56:29 pm »
The wheels were cleaned with the jet washed, snow foamed and then bilberry wheel cleaner was worked with a Meguiars brush and machine polished with the yellow lake country yellow pad and meguiars 83 then sealed with Autoglym wheel sealer.

The car was jet washed, snow foamed, cleaned using the two bucket method, jet washed and clayed. The car was then polished using my Kestral Das-6 dual action polisher with the lake country yellow pad with meguiars 83, followed by the orange lake country pad with Meguiars 80 speed glaze. The car was then snow foamed and dried again.

I then applied Poorboys Ex with carnauba sealant followed by two layers of Poorboys red natty paste.

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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2011, 08:07:21 pm »
Looks good fella :happy2:

Simple as it may seem i've never thought of placing my car on axle stands whilst cleaning etc. Gonna give it a go when i do my car as it seems it would make everything so much easier :happy2:


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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2011, 09:19:14 pm »
 Ill drop my car off in the morning :signLOL:

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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2011, 07:20:57 pm »
Dude I can't see any of your pics!

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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2011, 08:02:56 pm »
Delete some photobucket albums fella  :P


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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2011, 09:39:00 pm »
All pics will be back on tomorrow on the 13th

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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2011, 01:31:57 pm »
Visible now dude  :rolleye:

Very good results  :happy2:
Did a very similar process to mine last weekend and the results were very similar, permanent shine and protection for the winter. I was impressed, particularly for steel grey.
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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2011, 08:48:45 am »
few beading pics from last nights rain



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Re: My GTi Winter Protection
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2011, 04:45:39 pm »
Superb beading!  :happy2:
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