Fristly i would just like to aplogise as my photography skills are not the best. Well this is my GF's 172. I have just had some time off work and decided to give it a really good detail. The oustside of the car had some marring and swirls. The engine was filthy and the archers needed to doing.
I spread this over 3 days and took a total of 18Hrs.
Firstly Sat morning, -2C Tackle the outside. rinse Ice and surface dirt off, Wash with megs gold class with wool wash mit & x2 buckets method. Dried with pakshak ww towel. Then to tackle the bad marks a little bit of wet sanding was done to the bumper using 2000 W&D.
Then with 4" cutting pad corrected the bad swirls on speed 5 -6 with SSr 2.5 then went over with polishing pad with #80 speed 4 -5 , moved to 6.5" pad and did whole car with #80 speed 4.
Here is how it looked to start with
Once this was done and wiped down with pakshak MF cloth i did a cote RMG with 6.5" speed 3. I then applied a cote of EX-P by hand
Buffed off after 2hrs and left over night for the rain to undo some of my work.
Then was for the wheels and archers, I never really use acid based cleaners but these wheels were filthy, so a mixture of machine cleaner and turtle ally cleaner. (boy this burns if you get in your eyes!
while the wheels was on the car
then off the car
The outcome was ok but there was so much grime i could not get it all out.
then for the archers while the wheels were off
Good clean down with AG machine cleaner and then rinsed and dried with old MF cloths, Painted the Calipers dressed the archers with AG rubber care.
Day three the engine, this was fairly filthy mostly surface dirt and grease.
Covered all electrics with bags and tin foil, squirted AG machine cleaner and then scrubbed, then wiped dry and started the engine!. After checking that appied AG rubber care and polished metal with AG UDS.
while it rained a bit i did the interior
The inside just needed i wipe down with poorboys natural look dressing and a hoover out the mats needed a little cleaning with Megs APC.
Then once the rained stopped I dried, put anopther coat of EX-P waited x1 hour did x2 coats of nattys blue and re-did the tyres with megs endurance gel.
I then drove to my mums house gave it a wipe down took a couple more pics
some trees
So there you go, any comments welcome, I am now ready for a good break!
I spread this over 3 days and took a total of 18Hrs.
Firstly Sat morning, -2C Tackle the outside. rinse Ice and surface dirt off, Wash with megs gold class with wool wash mit & x2 buckets method. Dried with pakshak ww towel. Then to tackle the bad marks a little bit of wet sanding was done to the bumper using 2000 W&D.
Then with 4" cutting pad corrected the bad swirls on speed 5 -6 with SSr 2.5 then went over with polishing pad with #80 speed 4 -5 , moved to 6.5" pad and did whole car with #80 speed 4.
Here is how it looked to start with
Once this was done and wiped down with pakshak MF cloth i did a cote RMG with 6.5" speed 3. I then applied a cote of EX-P by hand
Buffed off after 2hrs and left over night for the rain to undo some of my work.
Then was for the wheels and archers, I never really use acid based cleaners but these wheels were filthy, so a mixture of machine cleaner and turtle ally cleaner. (boy this burns if you get in your eyes!
while the wheels was on the car
then off the car
The outcome was ok but there was so much grime i could not get it all out.
then for the archers while the wheels were off
Good clean down with AG machine cleaner and then rinsed and dried with old MF cloths, Painted the Calipers dressed the archers with AG rubber care.
Day three the engine, this was fairly filthy mostly surface dirt and grease.
Covered all electrics with bags and tin foil, squirted AG machine cleaner and then scrubbed, then wiped dry and started the engine!. After checking that appied AG rubber care and polished metal with AG UDS.
while it rained a bit i did the interior
The inside just needed i wipe down with poorboys natural look dressing and a hoover out the mats needed a little cleaning with Megs APC.
Then once the rained stopped I dried, put anopther coat of EX-P waited x1 hour did x2 coats of nattys blue and re-did the tyres with megs endurance gel.
I then drove to my mums house gave it a wipe down took a couple more pics
some trees
So there you go, any comments welcome, I am now ready for a good break!
