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right chaps, for some bizzare reason, a mate of mine wanted to clean my car on his day off, so I let him!
here's the post he made on another forum:
Right, I picked the car up like this...Quite a state ?
LOTS of light scratches all over it, and this horrid sap had coated the car.
The interior of Nicks car is lovely, everything is to hand and all of his "extras" look just like factory items.
Still needed a damn good clean though !
Snow Foam time ! I use snow foam in a very diluted form, simply because it goes everywhere and I need to wash the driveway down after I clean cars.
Then I got out the buckets (I always use the two bucket technik', keeps the water clean!), and washed it with a towel wrapped sponge. (Think of it as a sponge with a fur carpet over it)
I rinsed it with the Karcher and then washed it again, then I repeated that but rinsed it with filtered water ready for claying.
Starting to look good eh' ? Well then I clayed it, but I have no photos of that because my camera batteries died. My sister bought me some batteries over so I'll carry on from the filtered rinse after the claying...
I used my Aquablade to remove any excess water and then sprayed it down with Auto Glym Aquawax and toweled it off,
Then I got on it with the polish, I started off with Auto Glym Ultra Deep Shine. Which is specially formulated for dark/deep metallic paints, the way I polish is in small circular motions doing one panel at a time. I let the polish dry (normally takes 90ish seconds) and then buff it off with a microfiber towel.
Which leaves a *fairly* good finish, but there are still little imperfections and a slight dullness that the camera flash doesn't show
Worked my way around the car with that, and was pretty pleased with the result.
It started raining then, so I cried a little...
Then I moved onto the wheels, now you might call this sad but what I did was lie on the floor and tuck my arm in behind the wheel to clean the inside of it with a fine brush. Because I hate it when people clean the face of the wheel and don't bother with the insides, it looks **** people so don't do it !!
Notice the little black dots on the face of the wheels in this photo ? All the wheels had that same marking...
Nicks in love with his wheels, so I really went to town with them and polished the faces with Super Resin polish. There were lots of little black dots from brake dust build up, and things like that. Not any more....
Tyre gel unit, get into position !
It had stopped raining so out came the Aquablade and I carried on with the soft stuff...
I polished the car again with Auto Glym Super Resin, a really good polish which give beautiful reflection. I like it a LOT !
Then I ran around and did all of the trim, because I was about to apply a wax finish any over smear from the trim wax would be buffed off with the wax. (Smart thinking eh' ?)
Daum it was grey and faded...
It started raining again then (***) so I got the brushes and muc off out and did the engine bay...
The rain had gone and the sky looked bluer than in the morning so I toweled it off for the last time and got my Zymol out to seal it.
I got my little plastic spodger out and used it to remove all the grime that gets built up in the Audi badge/bump strips on the doors etc etc
Then I re applied some tyre gel, and polished the windows inside and out.
I tidied up and went inside for a quick cup of tea and to listen to the start of classic afternoon on the radio...
here's the post he made on another forum:
Right, I picked the car up like this...Quite a state ?
LOTS of light scratches all over it, and this horrid sap had coated the car.
The interior of Nicks car is lovely, everything is to hand and all of his "extras" look just like factory items.
Still needed a damn good clean though !
Snow Foam time ! I use snow foam in a very diluted form, simply because it goes everywhere and I need to wash the driveway down after I clean cars.
Then I got out the buckets (I always use the two bucket technik', keeps the water clean!), and washed it with a towel wrapped sponge. (Think of it as a sponge with a fur carpet over it)
I rinsed it with the Karcher and then washed it again, then I repeated that but rinsed it with filtered water ready for claying.
Starting to look good eh' ? Well then I clayed it, but I have no photos of that because my camera batteries died. My sister bought me some batteries over so I'll carry on from the filtered rinse after the claying...
I used my Aquablade to remove any excess water and then sprayed it down with Auto Glym Aquawax and toweled it off,
Then I got on it with the polish, I started off with Auto Glym Ultra Deep Shine. Which is specially formulated for dark/deep metallic paints, the way I polish is in small circular motions doing one panel at a time. I let the polish dry (normally takes 90ish seconds) and then buff it off with a microfiber towel.
Which leaves a *fairly* good finish, but there are still little imperfections and a slight dullness that the camera flash doesn't show
Worked my way around the car with that, and was pretty pleased with the result.
It started raining then, so I cried a little...
Then I moved onto the wheels, now you might call this sad but what I did was lie on the floor and tuck my arm in behind the wheel to clean the inside of it with a fine brush. Because I hate it when people clean the face of the wheel and don't bother with the insides, it looks **** people so don't do it !!
Notice the little black dots on the face of the wheels in this photo ? All the wheels had that same marking...
Nicks in love with his wheels, so I really went to town with them and polished the faces with Super Resin polish. There were lots of little black dots from brake dust build up, and things like that. Not any more....
Tyre gel unit, get into position !
It had stopped raining so out came the Aquablade and I carried on with the soft stuff...
I polished the car again with Auto Glym Super Resin, a really good polish which give beautiful reflection. I like it a LOT !
Then I ran around and did all of the trim, because I was about to apply a wax finish any over smear from the trim wax would be buffed off with the wax. (Smart thinking eh' ?)
Daum it was grey and faded...
It started raining again then (***) so I got the brushes and muc off out and did the engine bay...
The rain had gone and the sky looked bluer than in the morning so I toweled it off for the last time and got my Zymol out to seal it.
I got my little plastic spodger out and used it to remove all the grime that gets built up in the Audi badge/bump strips on the doors etc etc
Then I re applied some tyre gel, and polished the windows inside and out.
I tidied up and went inside for a quick cup of tea and to listen to the start of classic afternoon on the radio...