Race Valeting Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Well this was a major last minute booking ready for Edition 38 show this weekend, the owner Carl had only just bought the car on the tuesday evening and posted up on here for a detailer in Portsmouth area. Luckily I had a cancellation for the wed/thurs so fitted in nicely to the diary. On arrival at the unit yesterday afternoon the car was looking very nice but obviously not been looked after very well and was covered in swirls and RDS and even a fair few sanding marks in the paint. The car was just booked in for a good enhencement/minor correction detail leaving the deeper remaining RDS for another time. Anyway this was the car on arrival and in the cleaning stages, nice to have a photographer around to take the snaps as Carl stayed around to help out and polish the wheels and set the coilovers up. Firstly the wheels and tyres were cleaned using some g101 and a selection of brushes. Next up the car was pre-washed and rinsed and then onto the snow foam. This was left for 10 mins before rinsing and then washed using the 2bm and dodo sp and some z sponges. The car was then taken inside ready for claying. After all the car was clayed we then taped up ready to start polishing. Looking nice and swirly.... Started off with the bonnet and a elite car cutting pad and some menz ip/ff. I look like the bloke from the green mile spitting the light Was achieving these results with 2 hits, the deeper RDS remained on the bonnet as it was only a quick going over really and nothing too major this time due to the limited time we had. While I cracked on with the paintwork Carl started with the wheels and the britemax twins. :thumb: Time was getting on a bit last night and the weather was foul so we decided to crack on a bit more: I called it a day last night at around 9:20pm leaving it looking like this. Had a little visiter last night to a sweet mk1 running 190bhp valver of carbs, this will be booked in for a correction in the near future too so keep an eye out:thumb: On return this morning I got cracking with the roof and the passenger side while Carl sorted out his coilovers and lowered her a bit on the front end more :doublesho Once all the correcting was finished the car was IPA'd and the tape removed ready for the swissvax BOS this was applied by hand for better coverage. the wax was left for 20-30 mins to cure while Carl cleaned the windows and I sealed them using rainx, the tyres had 3 coats of meguairs endurance and then the wax was buffed followed by all the bumper plastics and black dressed with ground nutmeg oil. The finished results after 16hrs Finally some sun for some nice afters: The car was a true joy to work on and thanks go to Carl for helping along and hopefully he learnt a fews things. All C&C welcome Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Valeting Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 No replys, thought there might of been some old skool fans on here..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Ooops did we miss you out. Good job there. Great to have a helper too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummybird Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I'm not a fan of VW's but thats looks really good!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMartinGrant Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 these cars never used to do it for me but since i now hang around with so many €uro boys lol, they have grow on me and I like them, btw very good detailing work there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walbertonio Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Quality result again, just not a fan of VWs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIXXERUK Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Big bumper late mk2 i've had 3 quality cars and quality detailing results i've been to ed38 a few time with my corrado, good bunch of people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Big fan of old V dubs, Especially Euro style ones. Cracking job bud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1 HNK Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 stunning, love modern classics like those. The sort of car i'd love to have in the garage but never drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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