Petrucci Detailed: Volkswagen Red Jetta TDI

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Petrucci Detailed: Volkswagen Red Jetta TDI



Wash:

Chemical Guys Citrus Wash & Gloss

Chemical Guys Heavy Duty Bucket

Grit Guard

Chemical Guys Super Fluffy Mitt

Gilmour Foam Gun



Clayed:

Meguiar’s Medium clay

Chemical Guys Synthetic Quick Detailer



Paint Correction:

Flex 3403 rotary

3M Backing Plate

Gloss-it 3 inch Backing Plate

Menzerna Powergloss

Menzerna Super Intensive Polish

Menzerna Nano Polish

CM5300

Fenix TK10

Orange LC pad

White LC pad

Grey LC pad

Detailer Domain Uber Towels

Highline Paint Gauge Meter



Protection:

Jetseal109



LSP:

Lusso Oro



Trim:

Aerospace 303



Glass:

Stoner’s Invisible Glass



Wheels:

EZ Detail Brush

Swissvax Wheel Brush

Chemical Guy’s Grime Reaper

Surfcity Tire Shine



Interior:

1Z Cockpit

303 Aerospace

Chemical Guy’s Lighting Fast Stain Extractor

Metro Vac n Blow

Lil Green Bissel



Engine:

Chemical Guy’s Grime Reaper

CD-2

Various brushes



The owner of this Jetta just acquired this guy up and wanted her all cleaned up. It seriously looked like it sat in the desert/sun for quite some time. There were some sections that were severely oxidized, primarily around the door handles. Here's what it looked like before the wash. Lucky for me both of my remote's batteries were dead so I have a gap in my pictures. So I had to go out to the store and grab some more.





Before:

This looks like fun! Eeek.

Engine - Before:

Engine - After:

The interior needed some attention.



Interior - Before:

This was the first round of extraction, nice results and I'd freak if that crap was in my carpet and mats.



Interior - After:

Second round!

Much better!

I ran into a little microfiber problem, as you'll see in most of the after pictures. The tiny specs that look like imperfections/scratches are really lint from my towels. I was driven crazy trying to remove them. One towel, after wiping down the panels, would leave so much lint behind that I would have to get a clean towel just to remove them. Really frustrating, to say the least.



I took measurements of the paint before I started to polish. The average range was from 110 to 130 microns. There was one spot in the trunk that had below 100 microns, but that was in an area where some heavy RID were.





Roof - Before:

Roof - After:

Roof - Before:

Roof - After:

 

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Trunk - Before:

Trunk - 50/50:

Trunk - After:

Hood - Before:

Hood - 50/50:

Hood - After:

Driver Front Fender - Before:

Driver Front Fender - After:

Driver Door - 50/50:

Driver Door - Before:

Diver Door - After:

Diver Rear Door - Before:

Diver Rear Door - After:

 

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Driver Rear 50/50:

Rear - After:

Passenger Rear Door - Before:

Passenger Rear Door - After:

Passenger Rear - After:

Final Shots:

 

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[vtec92civic]

Holly Crap! Car looks fantastic! Not sure where you take the afters at but i notice most of the cars make it over to that spot. Nice though . . . . how long did this car take!



The red now looks like a puddle of kool-aid

 

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful job. Which towels caused your MF problem? I had a similar issue with some of mine.

 

[imported_Sludge1]

Nice save. You don't see many red cars that glossy. Fantastic work.

 

[Thomas Dekany]

What a difference Josh!!!



Amazing work! :bow

 

[white gecko]

That is some exceptional work!!!! The interior looks very good. I love the extractor shots. My extractor is showing up today (sometime in the next 3 hours! woot!).



I see what you mean about the little lint fibers on your new MF towels, some of mine do that to, its very annoying!



Great job on that Jetta, looks soooo much better!

 

[Alex Boyce]

Great work all around! I really enjoyed the before and after of the door handles, great attention to detail.

 

[Petrucci_M3]

Holly Crap! Car looks fantastic! Not sure where you take the afters at but i notice most of the cars make it over to that spot. Nice though . . . . how long did this car take!



The red now looks like a puddle of kool-aid

Thank you! Three days worth of work on this guy. :up

Beautiful job. Which towels caused your MF problem? I had a similar issue with some of mine.

I'm using the Detailer Domain Uber towels, they're kinda of a hate/love relationship right now. I have so many and too many unopened ones as well.

Nice save. You don't see many red cars that glossy. Fantastic work.

Thank you!

What a difference Josh!!!



Amazing work! :bow

Thank you Thomas!:up:up

That is some exceptional work!!!! The interior looks very good. I love the extractor shots. My extractor is showing up today (sometime in the next 3 hours! woot!).



I see what you mean about the little lint fibers on your new MF towels, some of mine do that to, its very annoying!



Great job on that Jetta, looks soooo much better!

Thank you! Good luck with your extractor.

Great work all around! I really enjoyed the before and after of the door handles, great attention to detail.

Thank you!

 

[Bimmerdude]

I'm using the Detailer Domain Uber towels, they're kinda of a hate/love relationship right now. I have so many and too many unopened ones as well.

yes me too. did you speak to anyone at DD about them?

 

[Petrucci_M3]

yes me too. did you speak to anyone at DD about them?

Not yet but that's a great idea, Phil is the only place I like to shop and maybe he can help.