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Offline lukemk5gti

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Steel Grey Detail
« on: August 21, 2014, 01:57:06 pm »
Decided I'd spoil myself with a few new products and give the car a good detail this weekend.

Swirl marks really are not that bad but the next purchase will be a DAS6 polisher and range of compounds.

To keep me ticking over I did the following yesterday.

Exterior:
Strip old wax off
Snowfoam
Iron X
Clay
Polish Windscreen
Glossworks Glaze x 2 coats
Jetseal 109 x 3 coats
Autoglym Super HD Wax x 2 coats
Windscreen G1 Application x 3 coats on front & 1 coat on all other
Alloys also sealed and waxed.
Exhaust tips polished

Interior:
Leather cleaned and conditioned
Screen polished with displex
Steering wheel plastic covers colour coded to car
Grease on door joints removed, cleaned and re-greased
Engine bay jet washed and painted.




















« Last Edit: November 18, 2014, 09:30:53 am by lukemk5gti »
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2014, 06:23:24 pm »
Good work fella and very good to see you could be bothered to do a very complete job - so easy to neglect things like the door jams. For example, I cleaned the fuel cap and housing the other day after a couple of years neglect  :ashamed: looks great now  :smiley:
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2014, 06:46:17 pm »
Quote from: Frenzy on August 24, 2014, 06:23:24 pm
Good work fella and very good to see you could be bothered to do a very complete job - so easy to neglect things like the door jams. For example, I cleaned the fuel cap and housing the other day after a couple of years neglect  :ashamed: looks great now  :smiley:

The fuel cap is another good one, had to powerhouse mine clean when I bought it because the drain plug on the bottom was stuffed full of crud!

A final big difference is to remove the wheel arch lining of the front wheels and take out the sand and grit that builds up just where the side skirts and mud guards meet.
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2014, 11:55:21 am »
That is awesome, look at the reflection on that beauty!  :party:
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2014, 06:25:15 am »
Really nice mirror image on your car
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2014, 07:57:39 am »
How clean are the insides of your doors! LOL Wish mine looked like that, you take bookings for car cleaning?  :evilgrin:
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2014, 08:50:19 am »
Great job, Steel Grey really does look well when it's clean
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2014, 10:45:01 am »
Nice to see such a clean Steel Grey car! I must clean mine!!
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2014, 11:49:12 pm »
Looks great!  :happy2:

Very smart.
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2014, 10:20:11 am »
Nice work! I agree the Steel Grey looks fantastic when cleaned properly! I wouldn't however bother putting on so many coats of sealants/waxes. One properly applied coat should do (make sure the surface is properly degreased and prepared) and especially after 2 coats you will start getting diminishing returns for your effort and material spent.

You can finish off your exhausts with #0000 grade wirewool and Autosol paste. I used the combo on mine and they came out like this:
Those have around 60k miles on them so they are far from brand new. : )
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2014, 11:05:57 am »
That's something I always suspected, I figured only a few coatings might stick but I was following the manufacturers instructions. It would be good to see a side by side study of one with a few coats and another with all the coats I've given it but since driving conditions vary dramatically it's tough to do.

Considering the prep is already there I'm going to continue doing the full amount of coats as its only an extra hour or so.

Your exhausts I have to say look much better, I'll give them another go come the summer detail!
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2015, 03:14:17 pm »
Looking good fella  :happy2: must attack mine soon when it gets a bit warmer outside  :smiley:
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2015, 03:19:02 pm »
Quote from: Tracey on January 20, 2015, 03:14:17 pm
Looking good fella  :happy2: must attack mine soon when it gets a bit warmer outside  :smiley:

I did mine again last Friday and froze my finger tips to bits!! One trip to Galway on Monday morning and it's destroyed already. So heart-breaking that I only got the weekend out of it.. It doesn't matter how much protection I have on the car, as soon as I pass out a 40foot truck in the rain I get destroyed with road grit.
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2015, 03:47:09 pm »
Quote from: lukemk5gti on January 20, 2015, 03:19:02 pm
ain last Friday and froze my finger tips to bits!! One trip to Galway on Monday morning and it's destroyed already. So heart-breaking that I only got the weekend out of it.. It doesn't matter how much protection I have on the car, as soon as I pass out a 40foot truck in the rain I get destroyed with road grit.
Tell me about it ! its heartbreking this time of year. I just give mine a wash to get the main sh*te of it ! Will do till spring
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Re: Steel Grey Detail
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2015, 02:11:37 pm »
Lovely colour on a golf
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