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Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« on: May 24, 2012, 11:21:55 pm »
Hi Chaps,

The owner of this 2009 Focus RS in Frozen White contacted us as he was keen to have his car detailed whilst back over in the UK, as the owner lives in Germany for most of the year due to work.
Due to strict regulations with car cleaning in germany, the car isn't always kept as clean as possible despite the owners best efforts!

It was agreed that an enhancement detail would be carried out whilst applying a sealant to paintwork/wheels etc to ensure maximum protection due to the mileage the car covers. The main issue was contamination, which chemical decontamination and claying resolved, which can be seen in pics below!

The car was treated too:

- Wheels cleaned using AS Smart Wheels, vikan/lambswool brushes
- Tyres/arches cleaned using AS G101, vikan brushes
- Pre-wash via foam lance, to remove loose debris/dirt, high pressure rinse
- Bodywork, door shuts etc washed using Dodo Juice Supernatural Shampoo, 2BM and lambswool mitts
- Bodywork/wheels decontaminated using Iron X/Tardis, followed by clay with Auto Finesse grey
- Paintwork enhanced using Dodo Juice Lime Prime prior by DA (3M yellow pad)
- Paintwork sealed using Auto Finesse Tough Coat
- Wheels lightly polished by hand, sealed with Auto Finesse Mint Rims
- Tyres, plastics and rubbers dressed with Car Pro Perl, glass cleaned, exhaust/chrome polished
- Light interior detail, include mats/carpets clean, fabrics, plastics etc, glass cleaned.

The car looked a little like this on arrival:

























Few pics from the wash process:







Iron X was used by the bucket load, contamination was very evident!















Finished results!















































Much more to come over the next week or so!

Thanks for looking! Comments, questions etc welcome!

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Re: Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 11:25:27 pm »
Lovely motor.  :love:  your pics are getting better too.  :happy2:

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Re: Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2012, 07:02:01 am »

Great work!  :congrats:

The no washing on the street laws used to drive me mental!  Was In a small cocoon of English neighbours & my house was off the main road so used to risk a snow foam & wash but was usually rushed looking over my shoulder for snitches  :fighting:

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Re: Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2012, 09:46:48 am »
Lovely motor.  :love:  your pics are getting better too.  :happy2:

Why fankyou TC!  :love:

To be honest I took them and Gaz uploaded them and chose which to put in the write up, which is a shame as I thought there were some better ones in there!  :happy2:


Great work!  :congrats:

The no washing on the street laws used to drive me mental!  Was In a small cocoon of English neighbours & my house was off the main road so used to risk a snow foam & wash but was usually rushed looking over my shoulder for snitches  :fighting:

Cheers Mike. Yeh not sure I could deal with it to be honest!!  :scared:

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Re: Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2012, 10:05:42 am »
Top work as usual bud - hat's off  :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:

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Re: Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2012, 11:15:26 am »
briliant work mate

do you just spray the iron x directly onto the paint??

ive done that before and seemed to use loads just wondered if you had an alternative method

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Re: Detail My Ride - Focus RS - Frozen White
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2012, 01:45:23 pm »
briliant work mate

do you just spray the iron x directly onto the paint??

ive done that before and seemed to use loads just wondered if you had an alternative method

No thats pretty much it. Are you wiping it over with an MF cloth once it's done it's thing?