A bit of an unusual detail this time! A Golf Mk2 VR6. Now the VW geeks out there will know that this has to be an engine transplant as the MK2 never had a VR6 engine in it! There were a few other mods here as you can see, the arches being an obvious change from the norm!
You'll have to forgive this relatively brief write up this time as we're getting very busy and in combination with a sister-in-law who's due tomorrow it's getting hectic here!
Anywho, onto the work! The car had being resprayed about 3 months ago, with some extra flake added to the paint. From what Omar told me the bodyshop never 'finished' it off, as in repsrayed it and nothing else like a basic clean!
Here's the car before we started. Unfortunatly we forgot to take any post pics of the door shuts so no pics later of those I'm afraid!
The first step was to rinse and wash the car. This was done using the usual pressure washer and gilmour combination, using snowfoam in the gilmour.
Here's the Edge Schmitt in use again!
After the car was washed and dried off, we went concentrated on the door shuts and around the engine bay. Meg's Super Degreaser was primarily used here. The car was dried off using Der Wunder Drying Towels and Megs Last Touch.
The car was then clayed using Meg's Mild Clay.
The PDG readings were now taken and evidence of the recent respray was apparent!
Once we had seen the cars bodywork now it had being thoroughly cleaned we found that we had underestimated the task! Swirls were evident (remember a respray 3 months ago!) but the hologramming was very bad! We've tried to capture them with the camera but unfortunately you can't see truly how bad they are!
Meguiars #80 was used with both yellow and white Sonus SFX pads on the bodywork as Harry demonstrates here!
Here's a scratch on the rear bumper that we worked on.
Once we had gone over the whole bodywork, we started the final processes of cleaning the glass, treating the rubber/black plastic and the tyres. Oh, the wheels were cleaned with some mild Megs Super Degreaser. Collonite was used to finish them off.
Here's the obligatory waxing pose!
Once the whole car was covered in the lovely P21s we went all around the car to make sure no white residue was left.
Thanks for reading and apologies again for the brief write up!
Thanks!
You'll have to forgive this relatively brief write up this time as we're getting very busy and in combination with a sister-in-law who's due tomorrow it's getting hectic here!
Anywho, onto the work! The car had being resprayed about 3 months ago, with some extra flake added to the paint. From what Omar told me the bodyshop never 'finished' it off, as in repsrayed it and nothing else like a basic clean!
Here's the car before we started. Unfortunatly we forgot to take any post pics of the door shuts so no pics later of those I'm afraid!
The first step was to rinse and wash the car. This was done using the usual pressure washer and gilmour combination, using snowfoam in the gilmour.
Here's the Edge Schmitt in use again!
After the car was washed and dried off, we went concentrated on the door shuts and around the engine bay. Meg's Super Degreaser was primarily used here. The car was dried off using Der Wunder Drying Towels and Megs Last Touch.
The car was then clayed using Meg's Mild Clay.
The PDG readings were now taken and evidence of the recent respray was apparent!
Once we had seen the cars bodywork now it had being thoroughly cleaned we found that we had underestimated the task! Swirls were evident (remember a respray 3 months ago!) but the hologramming was very bad! We've tried to capture them with the camera but unfortunately you can't see truly how bad they are!
Meguiars #80 was used with both yellow and white Sonus SFX pads on the bodywork as Harry demonstrates here!
Here's a scratch on the rear bumper that we worked on.
Once we had gone over the whole bodywork, we started the final processes of cleaning the glass, treating the rubber/black plastic and the tyres. Oh, the wheels were cleaned with some mild Megs Super Degreaser. Collonite was used to finish them off.
Here's the obligatory waxing pose!
Once the whole car was covered in the lovely P21s we went all around the car to make sure no white residue was left.
Thanks for reading and apologies again for the brief write up!
Thanks!
