It was nearly a year ago when we last saw this car, it was fully de-swirled back then but has spent a fair few months in a garage getting quite a bit of work done to it, as you can imagine your average mechanic doesn't worry about swirls etc!
It's a MK2 Golf with a VR6 engine in it with the Schrick Inlet Manifold and some bodywork modifications.
The car was pretty clean (fairly recent re-spray too) so didn't really bother with before pics.
We first tackled the wheel arches (what we could get to anyway!) and the wheels themselves. Meguiars APC was used for the arches as well as a very thin brush but due to the fact there's no gap between the wheel and the arch it was nigh on impossible! Very diluted Meguiars Wheel Brightener was sprayed onto the already very clean wheels but it did bring some of the tougher brake dust off.
It was washing time now, as we didn't have the Petrol Pressure Washer with the Foam Lance we resorted back to the good old Gilmour for this stage with some Supa Snow Foam thrown in for good measure!
Notice the usual Schmitts!
We made sure to get into all the areas a lot of people forget about.
We started to clay the car next but due to it's recent past since we last visited we didn't expect much from it. The majority of panels were fine but there was some tar stuck to the lower panels. Meg's Quick Detailer was used for the lube.
Another quick wash later to rinse everything off and all that was left to do with this stage was to dry the car properly. Meg's QD was spritzed all over the car before using Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels to soak up the water.
We now moved the car in doors due to the great British Summertime weather and started to look at what awaited us. There were random readings all over the car which averaged out at around 650!
From working on the car previously we knew that there was some light scratches underneath the laquer which obviously we couldn't do anything about but there were also a fair few ones on top that we could! The camera wasn't brilliant at picking them out but we tried to photo some!
One of the usual suspects!
We used a combination of Meg's #83 and the yellow Sonus SFX pad to get rid of the nasty swirls!
Here's me in action!
A few 50/50's for you! There were quite a few random scratches on the car including this tennis ball sized mark. Kids eh!
Half way through the machine polishing we also started work on the engine bay. The first thing to do was to cover up the sensitive areas (using cling film) to stop any water from fouling up the electrics.
There were a few loose bits of tape around various places so we trimmed them off.
Meguiars Super Degreaser was then sprayed over the engine bay and left to work for a few minutes. We then rinsed it down with the hose (no pressure) and covered it again with Degreaser, this time using a brush to agitate the remaining muck from the various parts of the engine bay.
As the manifold was polished we got the PC back out and using some Meg's NXT Metal Polish started buffing it up to regain its shine. We had to go through a few pads before the ground in dirt was lifted out, as you can see from this picture they absorbed a fair bit!
The uneven and hard to access parts were wiped down using the same metal polish but this time by hand.
The rest of the bay was then sprayed using Megs Hot Rims which leaves a very nice shine to engine plastics and rubber.
By this point (now into day 2) we had finished the mp'ing and the engine so we started waxing her up and finishing off the little details. We also gave the interior a brief spruce.
Meg's Glass Cleaner was used on the glass.
No pictures of the waxing step unfortunately but I'm sure you can imagine what it looks like! JetSeal 109 was used, using the obligatory 2 coats half an hour apart.
There was a little dust from the #83 so we used a detail brush to get it out of all of the little cracks and panel gaps.
It's a MK2 Golf with a VR6 engine in it with the Schrick Inlet Manifold and some bodywork modifications.
The car was pretty clean (fairly recent re-spray too) so didn't really bother with before pics.
We first tackled the wheel arches (what we could get to anyway!) and the wheels themselves. Meguiars APC was used for the arches as well as a very thin brush but due to the fact there's no gap between the wheel and the arch it was nigh on impossible! Very diluted Meguiars Wheel Brightener was sprayed onto the already very clean wheels but it did bring some of the tougher brake dust off.
It was washing time now, as we didn't have the Petrol Pressure Washer with the Foam Lance we resorted back to the good old Gilmour for this stage with some Supa Snow Foam thrown in for good measure!
Notice the usual Schmitts!
We made sure to get into all the areas a lot of people forget about.
We started to clay the car next but due to it's recent past since we last visited we didn't expect much from it. The majority of panels were fine but there was some tar stuck to the lower panels. Meg's Quick Detailer was used for the lube.
Another quick wash later to rinse everything off and all that was left to do with this stage was to dry the car properly. Meg's QD was spritzed all over the car before using Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels to soak up the water.
We now moved the car in doors due to the great British Summertime weather and started to look at what awaited us. There were random readings all over the car which averaged out at around 650!
From working on the car previously we knew that there was some light scratches underneath the laquer which obviously we couldn't do anything about but there were also a fair few ones on top that we could! The camera wasn't brilliant at picking them out but we tried to photo some!
One of the usual suspects!
We used a combination of Meg's #83 and the yellow Sonus SFX pad to get rid of the nasty swirls!
Here's me in action!
A few 50/50's for you! There were quite a few random scratches on the car including this tennis ball sized mark. Kids eh!
Half way through the machine polishing we also started work on the engine bay. The first thing to do was to cover up the sensitive areas (using cling film) to stop any water from fouling up the electrics.
There were a few loose bits of tape around various places so we trimmed them off.
Meguiars Super Degreaser was then sprayed over the engine bay and left to work for a few minutes. We then rinsed it down with the hose (no pressure) and covered it again with Degreaser, this time using a brush to agitate the remaining muck from the various parts of the engine bay.
As the manifold was polished we got the PC back out and using some Meg's NXT Metal Polish started buffing it up to regain its shine. We had to go through a few pads before the ground in dirt was lifted out, as you can see from this picture they absorbed a fair bit!
The uneven and hard to access parts were wiped down using the same metal polish but this time by hand.
The rest of the bay was then sprayed using Megs Hot Rims which leaves a very nice shine to engine plastics and rubber.
By this point (now into day 2) we had finished the mp'ing and the engine so we started waxing her up and finishing off the little details. We also gave the interior a brief spruce.
Meg's Glass Cleaner was used on the glass.
No pictures of the waxing step unfortunately but I'm sure you can imagine what it looks like! JetSeal 109 was used, using the obligatory 2 coats half an hour apart.
There was a little dust from the #83 so we used a detail brush to get it out of all of the little cracks and panel gaps.
