Make a donation

Author Topic: Red Edition 30 Stonechip removal from Chin spoiler and Wings/bonnet.UPDATE  (Read 8111 times)

Saintsteve

  • Guest
Well , its been a busy couple of weeks, the car has had loads of Paint repairs and had all of its horrible stone chips been dealt with. As im sure most Tornado Red owners will say, is that after washing and waxing, the leftover white marks showing the white primer, it takes away the look of what a great colour Tornado red is imo.

Anyway this weekend was the turn of the Chin spoiler that needed some heavy treatment, after the bonnet was sorted a couple of weeks back by almost the same process but, we decided to go the full caboodle and respray, prep and paint new.Because we had such good results using just a Rattle Can, and how realitively easy Vw's water based paint is to spray on,with the right ammount of prep work, it is possible to achieve as good as the factory finish is. Prep work took almost 5 hours of Rubbing down, wet sanding with different grades from 600 grit, 1200, 2000 and 2500 grit to achieve the end result.

This was Carried out at a very good friend of mines who is loves to Detail cars as a hobby in his spare time,by the name of David Proctor, and not only has detailed my car back in january, has also done Simon's (Maxload) car just last week on his Black Edition 30.

Anyways some pics...

Condition of the lower chin spoiler, pretty much in the same condition as my Bonnet was 2 weeks or so ago.



There was some damage done to the bottom of the splitter over the years, so hense why we took the decision to remove the whole bumper instead of pulling off just the lower section..



after 5 hours of prep work, to finally putting on the 1st coat of filler primer..




then once this was all rubbed down , a second coat of Red primer was used..


once that was wet sanded back, the 1st coat of Tornado red was applied, this again was used with just a rattle can!



and several passes of VW laquer and left to dry overnight...



next day back onto the car so some more wet sanding could be done and also some area's that need some crash damage repaired aswell..





and onto repairing a scrape downe by some Tw&t at a tesco carpark..



and whilst David was busy rubbing down, i was busy using his Megs machine on the bonnet before the heavens opened  :sad1:



Due uto having some spare red paint left over, quickly rubbed down ,and resprayed the Bumper inserts to get rid again of some unwanted chips aswell.


rubbed down...


and machined...



to leave this...



and final wash off ,althought due to the rain, was hardly worth it  :stupid:





and grils refitted..job done, yet to be waxed and polished to give time for the paint to harden off properly..



This is what ocupy's most of Davids spare time. this car is absolutely imaculate!! and must be over 20 years old?? M reg and is his pride n joy!!





Heavens have opened, so once i get a nice dry day, i will capture a polished and waxed new Front phylis Shot..

And I'd like to say a big thank you again for the endless cups of tea and homemade sausage rolls and bacon sarnies freshly made by Mrs proctor  :love:
« Last Edit: April 10, 2012, 07:23:19 pm by Saintsteve »

Offline alexperkins

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 7
  • -Receive: 99
  • Posts: 2122
Shiny!!

Looks good Stevo  :happy2:


VCDS Scanning/Coding, RNS and MDI retrofits, and specialist mechanics services with VAGtek available - Just PM me for details.

Offline JoeDarKa

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 57
  • -Receive: 73
  • Posts: 3188
Looks great, want to do mine?  :signLOL:


GT Sport - Reflex Silver 2.0 TDI My Build

Saintsteve

  • Guest
Looks great, want to do mine?  :signLOL:

david will be along shortly  :wink:  :happy2:

Offline david proctor

  • Taking part
  • ***
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 40
Great pictures Steve. I'm glad you are pleased with the results, its amazing what can be achieved with plenty of time, know how and a few rattle cans.

If any of you guys and girls would like your VW's detailing I'm available most weekends in the Southampton area. from a simple wash and polish to a full correction / enhancement detail and also engine bay and interior detailing. Only quality products used. (Mainly Meguiar's as I have an excellent relationship with the organisation and love their stuff) If anyone is interested pm me.

I've also spent some time on Maxload's car. His Ed 30 had a full enhancement detail last weekend.

































A few pics of some of my products:













Offline david proctor

  • Taking part
  • ***
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 40
Looks great, want to do mine?  :signLOL:

Sure what did you have in mind...????

Offline alexperkins

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 7
  • -Receive: 99
  • Posts: 2122
Bring on next saturday  :grin:


VCDS Scanning/Coding, RNS and MDI retrofits, and specialist mechanics services with VAGtek available - Just PM me for details.

Offline david proctor

  • Taking part
  • ***
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 40
Bring on next saturday  :grin:

Please bring me a proper dirty car Alex.....

Offline alexperkins

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 7
  • -Receive: 99
  • Posts: 2122
Its unlikely to be dirty dirty, but plenty of defects to get rid of!

Wheels will be pretty grubby as will the engine bay


VCDS Scanning/Coding, RNS and MDI retrofits, and specialist mechanics services with VAGtek available - Just PM me for details.

Offline david proctor

  • Taking part
  • ***
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 40
Its unlikely to be dirty dirty, but plenty of defects to get rid of!

Wheels will be pretty grubby as will the engine bay

Looking forward to it mate.... Keep your fingers crossed for the weather....lol

Offline maxload

  • Won't Shut up.
  • *****
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 41
  • -Receive: 29
  • Posts: 663
  • Edition30 - No.1819
    • Email
Great to see you on the site Dave!!

I have to say Steve's front end just looks better and better , top work mate  :happy2:

Offline Jussa

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 23
  • -Receive: 12
  • Posts: 1051
  • Bicester
    • Email
Dave, What do you charge for a full enhancement detail  :party:
Seeing as you can't read PM's yet?  :happy2:
2010 3dr phantom black S-Tronic S3 - BCS TBE with 3½" DP - LOBA LO4xx turbo - LOBA HPFP - Revo CAI - H&R 25mm lowering springs - Forge 11mm spacers - RS4 fuel Pressure valve - THS intercooler - H&R front and rear ARB's - AEM water methanol injection

Offline david proctor

  • Taking part
  • ***
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 40
Great to see you on the site Dave!!

I have to say Steve's front end just looks better and better , top work mate  :happy2:

Cheers mate...... Give me a bell when you want your bonnet correcting......

Offline david proctor

  • Taking part
  • ***
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 7
  • Posts: 40
Dave, What do you charge for a full enhancement detail  :party:
Seeing as you can't read PM's yet?  :happy2:

You can pm me now as I have passed 10 posts.

Offline MC71

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 413
  • -Receive: 427
  • Posts: 5198
  • Mk7 R
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,113185.0.html
Dave, What do you charge for a full enhancement detail  :party:
Seeing as you can't read PM's yet?  :happy2:

You can pm me now as I have passed 10 posts.


Dave, just been looking at all that gear on those shelves, my wife uses that much stuff when cleaning the bathroom. Glad she is not the only one with OCD when it comes to products,! Nice one and great work!!   :notworthy: :notworthy:

Cheers, Martin
.                              

                    Build thread Stage 2+ Edition 30 ~~Clicky here~~