imported_Dave KG
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Todays detail was one of my favourtie cars of all time - the legendary Escort Cosworth, herein referred to as Cossie! 
:thumb:
The Cossie turned up last night, and in fairness already looked pretty good for itself in the dim evening light. However, under the the brihgt lights of the Brinkmann, swirls were visible in the paint:
So, last night, Bryan set to preparing the car for today by washing and claying, and washing the wheels and applying a layer of Poorboys Wheel Sealent to them.
The car was ready in the morning for machine polishing... I took a test spot on the bonnet, where the swirls were representitive of the whole car:
I started with a light abrasive combo of Menzerna PO106FF Final Finish on a Meguiars W8006 Polishing pad on the Makita rotary, spread at speed 1, two passes at speed 2, then about ten passes at speed 3, followed by two passes at speed 2 to refine the finish and the result was the following:
Even the deeper scratches were being removed, the single stage paint clearly being pretty soft. To highlight how soft, Bryan went to cut in the boot (lots of badges, so rotary was really a no no here) by PC using a white SFX-2 pad and 106FF.. The boot before:
and after just one hit with the FF:
A few deeper marks remain after one hit, which came out with a second. So the paint was soft, not very soft, but still pretty soft so for the rotary, the IP woud stay in the box for the day.
Onto the front wing by rotary, before:
and after:
A 50/50 shot on the passenger door:
And the rear wing after polishing:
In some areas where there were some deeper scratches, a second hit of the PO106FF was used to remove these, again there was no need to get any more aggressive than this, as I preferred to go for two hits of 106FF where necessary and one hit of 106FF in most places rather than go at the car with a more aggressive polish where it wasn't needed 80% of the time.
Just as I was away to finish off machining on the gigantic rear wing, I got a call from a friend who had broken down, so there was a 45min break for me as I went to help her, in which time Bryan was finishing cutting in the skirts and bumpers by PC.
Then, once all machining complete it was ready for the LSP... We decided to opt for Zymol today, so the car received HD Cleanse to prep the paint and then being solid red we decided on Zymol Concours, which I applied by my own fair hands and Bryan removed (which saved me loosing wax into an mf everytime I went to buff off the residue...)
Inside the finished results revelaed a lovely wet gloss:
The trim was treated to Poorboys Natural Look, wheels received a second layer of wax (this time Rim Wax), and tyres Megs Endurance. Glass was cleaned using HD-Cleanse, which we tried for the first time and were very impressed with the way it left the glass beautifully clean.
The car was the rolled out for some outside pics... pity the Scottish weather didn't want to play ball with the sunshine, but at least some daylight pics:
And finally a close up shot of the Compomotive wheels the owner had recently fitted which I think really suit the look of the car:
:thumb: The Cossie turned up last night, and in fairness already looked pretty good for itself in the dim evening light. However, under the the brihgt lights of the Brinkmann, swirls were visible in the paint:
So, last night, Bryan set to preparing the car for today by washing and claying, and washing the wheels and applying a layer of Poorboys Wheel Sealent to them.
The car was ready in the morning for machine polishing... I took a test spot on the bonnet, where the swirls were representitive of the whole car:
I started with a light abrasive combo of Menzerna PO106FF Final Finish on a Meguiars W8006 Polishing pad on the Makita rotary, spread at speed 1, two passes at speed 2, then about ten passes at speed 3, followed by two passes at speed 2 to refine the finish and the result was the following:
Even the deeper scratches were being removed, the single stage paint clearly being pretty soft. To highlight how soft, Bryan went to cut in the boot (lots of badges, so rotary was really a no no here) by PC using a white SFX-2 pad and 106FF.. The boot before:
and after just one hit with the FF:
A few deeper marks remain after one hit, which came out with a second. So the paint was soft, not very soft, but still pretty soft so for the rotary, the IP woud stay in the box for the day.
Onto the front wing by rotary, before:
and after:
A 50/50 shot on the passenger door:
And the rear wing after polishing:
In some areas where there were some deeper scratches, a second hit of the PO106FF was used to remove these, again there was no need to get any more aggressive than this, as I preferred to go for two hits of 106FF where necessary and one hit of 106FF in most places rather than go at the car with a more aggressive polish where it wasn't needed 80% of the time.
Just as I was away to finish off machining on the gigantic rear wing, I got a call from a friend who had broken down, so there was a 45min break for me as I went to help her, in which time Bryan was finishing cutting in the skirts and bumpers by PC.
Then, once all machining complete it was ready for the LSP... We decided to opt for Zymol today, so the car received HD Cleanse to prep the paint and then being solid red we decided on Zymol Concours, which I applied by my own fair hands and Bryan removed (which saved me loosing wax into an mf everytime I went to buff off the residue...)
Inside the finished results revelaed a lovely wet gloss:
The trim was treated to Poorboys Natural Look, wheels received a second layer of wax (this time Rim Wax), and tyres Megs Endurance. Glass was cleaned using HD-Cleanse, which we tried for the first time and were very impressed with the way it left the glass beautifully clean.
The car was the rolled out for some outside pics... pity the Scottish weather didn't want to play ball with the sunshine, but at least some daylight pics:
And finally a close up shot of the Compomotive wheels the owner had recently fitted which I think really suit the look of the car:
That is a really sharp looking car! Excellent job on the finish, very deep and wet.