Tony@Cherished
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The owner of this black car hasn't been into detailing, but I think he's slowly becoming addicted like us, as the swirl and scratching present since purchase where nagging on his mind.
He is keen to look after it, so a paintwork correction detail was in order to get a good base to enjoy maintaining.
It was in quite a sorry state, to our standards anyway :hmph:
Some initial pics -
Outside only on this detail, apart from interior glass.
Wheels first,
a mix of AS Smart wheels and foaming agent, Vikan and soft brushes -
A deep cleanse snowfoam mix for the paintwork, with a development foam,
8ml of washing up liquid and 5ml of AS G101. This was constantly topped up to soak for 10 minutes -
While soaking, I removed some tar and balance weight tab residue from behind the wheel spokes, it was a messy job -
Washed with Megs Shampoo plus and Sonus mit.
It was dried then clayed, the chrome effect trim can be sensitive to water marks etc on these cars, so I dried it off completely instead of claying while wet. Yellow poly clay used.
Taped up, then set up equipment to begin the transformation -
Inspection lamp pics -
Depth checks, then on to machine work via Metabo rotary.
After a small selection test, I decided on megs polishing pad with a mix of Menz IP and FF, heavier on the IP. Then refined with FF on a finishing pad.
More smaller drops of polish used on this tough VAG paint, responds better
than 2 - 3 larger pea sized drops -
Some 50/50 shots -
After correction -
Lights corrected also -
The bonnet had a tough, but good quality re-spray, and unfortunately suffered the worst marring.
I used 3M Fast Cut plus here on a cutting pad, then refined with Menz FF on polishing pad.
Swissvax pre-wax oil, then 3 layers of Swissvax best of Show.
And the afters.
I've been studying my snapping technique, so might be a bit pic heavy this bit.......
Thanks for reading.
He is keen to look after it, so a paintwork correction detail was in order to get a good base to enjoy maintaining.
It was in quite a sorry state, to our standards anyway :hmph:
Some initial pics -
Outside only on this detail, apart from interior glass.
Wheels first,
a mix of AS Smart wheels and foaming agent, Vikan and soft brushes -
A deep cleanse snowfoam mix for the paintwork, with a development foam,
8ml of washing up liquid and 5ml of AS G101. This was constantly topped up to soak for 10 minutes -
While soaking, I removed some tar and balance weight tab residue from behind the wheel spokes, it was a messy job -
Washed with Megs Shampoo plus and Sonus mit.
It was dried then clayed, the chrome effect trim can be sensitive to water marks etc on these cars, so I dried it off completely instead of claying while wet. Yellow poly clay used.
Taped up, then set up equipment to begin the transformation -
Inspection lamp pics -
Depth checks, then on to machine work via Metabo rotary.
After a small selection test, I decided on megs polishing pad with a mix of Menz IP and FF, heavier on the IP. Then refined with FF on a finishing pad.
More smaller drops of polish used on this tough VAG paint, responds better
than 2 - 3 larger pea sized drops -
Some 50/50 shots -
After correction -
Lights corrected also -
The bonnet had a tough, but good quality re-spray, and unfortunately suffered the worst marring.
I used 3M Fast Cut plus here on a cutting pad, then refined with Menz FF on polishing pad.
Swissvax pre-wax oil, then 3 layers of Swissvax best of Show.
And the afters.
I've been studying my snapping technique, so might be a bit pic heavy this bit.......
Thanks for reading.
