MK5 Golf GTI
General => Detailing => Topic started by: pomme on December 07, 2009, 10:20:50 pm
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Hiya guys I had this tern up on me last weekend.
First up some to show the condition of the car prior to touching it:
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Okay first up was the wheels, a quick rinse followed by the following:
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And the finished wheel:
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This process was completed on each wheel. A the car was pretty filthy i used a citrus snow foam pull the dirt off and whilst it was dripping i did the small cleaning jobs:
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And now car with most of the foam dripped off:
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Car was then washed with teh two bucket method:
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Car was then clayed and i couldnt beleive how bar it was the following pic shows it with just half the bonnet done:
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Car was then snowed again to remove anything left over from the claying:
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and then dried:
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Here is a shot to show the car after the washing stage:
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Car was then pulled inside, tapped up and polished up with menzerna power gloss and meguairs 205, here are the pics after the swirl removal:
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The polishing was followed up by two coats of Danase Wet Glaze and some Dodo Juice Purpel Haze Pro to last a little while as well as its give that great look:
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Didnt finish till after it had gone dark, so pics were taken the next day.
As the owner had to go out last night the car was a little dirty so here are initial shots when i arrived:
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Car was rinsed, and the washed usual manor of two bucet method. Here are some pics before drying:
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Then i added a layer of Z8:
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I took the brickmann along to get some pics:
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And here are the finished pics:
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unfortunatley the sun was going down in the last pics but pretty happy with them :)
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Pomme, that's a great job you've done on that. big thumbs up from me!
Get some 50/50s next time.
It's so much more rewarding to work on a car with little to no orange peel like this audi!
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Great read Pomme, results speak for themeselves! :congrats:
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you know, if you rolled the ends of those jeans a little then they wouldn't get so wet :grin:
nicely done dude :happy2: :drinking:
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you know, if you rolled the ends of those jeans a little then they wouldn't get so wet :grin:
nicely done dude :happy2: :drinking:
Was just about to post something about the jeans! :grin:
Great work pomme and a lovely motor! :drool:
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Pomme, that's a great job you've done on that. big thumbs up from me!
Get some 50/50s next time.
It's so much more rewarding to work on a car with little to no orange peel like this audi!
Cheers mate, was a very very nice car to do. Will def do a 50/50 next time which should be a 911 turbo.
Althoguh got to learn how to get the pics of defects int he dark as i found it hard to photo, any tips?
Great read Pomme, results speak for themeselves! :congrats:
Cheers mate for the kind words :)you know, if you rolled the ends of those jeans a little then they wouldn't get so wet :grin:
nicely done dude :happy2: :drinking:
Lol i knew it would be you that said that :congrats:
you know, if you rolled the ends of those jeans a little then they wouldn't get so wet :grin:
nicely done dude :happy2: :drinking:
Was just about to post something about the jeans! :grin:
Great work pomme and a lovely motor! :drool:
oh not you too lol
cheers mate :)
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Very nice write up... :happy2: