R26.R - Nurburgring & Spa 2015

[Dan@puredents]

Brake and wheel combo! Yess.
Different. But nice :)

[liver]

I ideally didn't want gold but I needed what ever they had in stock, I wanted black

should look good when I put my winter black alloys/ tyres on though

[rich83]

I quite like the gold.

[liver]

I quite like the gold.

Cheers

the car passed its MOT with zero problems and advisory's

[Pikey Motorsports]

bells look nice i had mine done gold on my rs 

[liver]

Hiya everyone

A friend very kindly offered me the use of his bodyshop during the Christmas period. This desperately needed after I had a little miss hap with a new clay bar which left the paint work on my R26R looking very sorry for itself as you can see below





I took taping the car to the extreme as I didn't want to mess around and used as much from the bodyshop as I could.



A few more before pictures under light





these are some pictures from polishing stages, I used a two stage polishing approach and was really happy with the outcome










here are some pics of the car in the bodyshop during the process







this was the first time outside before I re-washed the car to remove the dust





These are the final outside pictures

[Scottymon]

I'm going mad, I'm sure I've seen this before   You did an excellent job there... what happened with the Clay bar, not enough detailing spray?
Must be nice to have all that indoor area to work on it.

[liver]

haha your not, I posted it in the detailing section as well but thought id keep this thread upto date as well

I think the clay bar was just too aggressive for the paint and hence all the maring and defects

I always use plenty of lube when detailing especially when claying to avoid any problems.

yeah it made a massive difference compared to the drive I usually use at home, was nice to be inside and cover it up inbetween

[liver]

a couple of beading shots from last night

[chrisr763]

Wow.

Top work there buddy!  Serious shine 

[liver]

cars been getting some love recently over the internet

Renault Uk on Instagram (marklivesey)



and Pistonheads on Facebook

[Pikey Motorsports]

Lovely colour

[liver]

Washed the car for the first time since the detail and it was a pleasure to wash and im sure you'll agree it looks cracking



however, I did notice that there is a patch on the bonnet that's getting affected by the heat even though I have the gold reflective tape underneath

[liver]

Havn't updated this in a while,

Not much has happened to be honest, just been enjoying the car, used it as a daily for 2 weeks and it was fine.

I've still got the car on black wheels at the minute. I've been having two wheels painted and 2 wheels decomtam'd due to the track pads and bigger brakes leaving loads of deposits on the red wheels, but they're more or less ready to go back on.

The car was burbling on idle, not obviously just but slightly, new injectors where needed and apart from that nothing else has happened

some pics





freshly painted wheels, cleaned, cleansed and sealed







they look different colours but its just the light and my camera skills

[Steve Saunders]

Stunning! I used to own number 39, Lunar Grey. Miss it so much after seeing these pictures. Keep up the good work mate.