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The car arrived looking very clean, but rather dull... Closer inspection in the sun revealed why - swirls! Some minor regions of damage that would require attention too, hit by a football... and bird etching... First off though it was the wheels and arches, which...

PhD during the week, detailing at the weekend - I love the summer! :D This weekend was a bit chalk and cheese - two cars and they couldn't have been more different! I'm writing today's car up first, which is essentially Part 2 :) A Ford S-Max, mid-grey, a family car with its fair share of...

A very enjoyable day for myself and Stuart yesterday, detailing a Ferrari 360 Spider - a particularly special day for Stuart as well as this was the first Ferrari that he has worked on :) I appologise for the lack of pictures in this writeup, I'm afraid I'm struggling to hold my little Fuji...

A tuition detail this one - rather than the detail just being carried out by myself, the owner stays for the whole detail and plays an active role in all aspects of it to gain some experience of detailing themselves :) This Golf was meticulously cared for - you could tell the minute it...

Just a quick writeup on this one, a black Ford Focus with what looked like severe swirls that was detailed as a joint effort between Bryan, Stuart and myself :) The car was detailed in two parts: a day-shift from Bryan and Stuart to wash, decontaminate, clay, and begin the machine polishing...

Something a little different from a car detail here - teaching people how to machine polish their own cars in a day long "class"... obviously its not all-encompassing, but it has been designed to give new rotary users a sound basic grounding with which to enhance their skills :) Another...

Familiar paint arrived in the unit on Friday afternoon - black sapphire Volvo (same as my own S60). Only much more of it on this car!! :lol: Bryan worked on Friday to prepare this car for the paintwork correction stage with the washing, decontamination and claying stage... It was then...

Sunday was another detailing treat for me... a chance to work on one of my favourite Ferraris, the 355, with a simply beautiful shape and in the gorgeous rosso corsa deep red :) Charlie, the owner, was keen to learn machine polishing and so opted for an Assisted Tuition Detail. That is...

A question often asked is what light sources are best for highlighting swirls, and there are a great many on the market which offer that ability. A popular choice is the 500W halogen light readily available from B&Q, Screwfix etc and as the photograph below highlights they are very good at...

This vehicle is completely unique! A labour of love for its owner, three years long and counting, Stevie has rebuilt it from nothing but a shell. The cab is a 1979 Mini pickup, running a rebuilt 1275cc BMC A-Series+ Engine (Mini Cooper), single SU carb (as opposed to the twin SUs the...

The car is owned by an elderly couple who wanted their car to "shine again", so a paintwork correction and protection detail was carried out. This detail was carried out in three "shifts" by Bryan and myself: pre-correction prep; correction; protection. Dropped off with us late...

Today was the first of the Rotary Polishing training days of 2009 ("Beginners"), a day for folks to learn or enhance their rotary polishing skills by examining machine control and polish behaviour on various paints and their own cars. First off, the "class photo"! :thumb: The morning...

With 2008 now drawn to a close, I thought I'd post some pics of the cars I've had the opportunity to work on through 2008... I'm a detailing enthusiast who has been lucky to work on some simply superb cars and work with some great detailers (blr123!!) who I also consider to be great friends -...

Today's detail was on a rather nice two year old VW Golf GTi D SG, in grey metallic... The owner wanted the car cleaned and protected for the winter months, and also have the opportunity to see some detailing in action with emphasis on seeing and having a go at claying. The car arrived...

Products used and why: Meguiars Shampoo Plus for cleaning the paintwork Autobrite Supa Snow Foam for prefoaming the paintwork before washing Meguiars Last Touch for claying lubrication and general quick detailing Meguiars Mirror Glaze Mild Blue Clay for removal of bonded contamination to...

The second detail of the weekend was this rather funky looking little Nissan Fiagro, which like the S2000 arrived with general road grime as you'd expect at this time of year: Only a short write up for this one I'm afraid as it was a very busy weekend with two cars in the...

Two cars from one owner this weekend - the first of these was this solid red Honda S2000... The car was a little mucky on arrival, but what was bother the owner was the swirl marks in the paintwork so it was booked in for a paintwork correction and protection detail. Bryan and Stuart...

A BMW 320d made for another great opportunity to try out the Valentines Concours Wax - though this one needed some more serious machine polishing attention first to bring the paintwork up to standard. Bryan started off preparing this car by washing and claying (so I have no pics of this...

Not doing a big write up on the preparatin here, as you've all seen my car polished a few times by now - suffice to say it was clayed using Zaino Z18, then machine polished using Menzerna PO85RD Final Finish using one of the finishing pads Ben at Rubbishboys has got in (which are superb - review...

After a few lighter going hills and gentle forest walks, it was decided time to try out a proper hill - or dare I say it, mountain!! :D 2760 feet, nearly a Munro, so I was a bit proud of myself for the climb and the first to such a height for me... (thought it should be noted, this was an...