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Polished Bliss
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Done by Clark last week, posted by me as he's too busy working on an M3!
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This detail was a 3 day correction detail carried out at the end of this week and I'm afraid to say it was a case of fixing someone else's mess from the dealership yet again (those that are regular readers of our details will know that alot of recent work has come from poor dealership prep, etc).
It was also an opportunity to put to use some of the Gloss-It products that we are going to be taking stock of next week - our first new line in quite a while, fresh from Las Vegas in the USA.
The car in question was this rather nice Supercharged Elise, which looks great in red - not many in this colour going around!
Already in the morning sun there was evidence of paint defects:
But before I can do anything about them I have to get the car washed, so up first with the pre-foam - Hyper Wash @ 60 degrees and left for 5 minutes:
Then rinsed off:
The wheels were sprayed with Menzerna 7.5 Tyre and Wheel Gel and then agitated with various brushes:
The arches and tyres were also scrubbed with a new high strength APC currently on test:
The shuts and exterior trim were cleaned with the same APC and a brush before rinsing:
Although not really needing it, the hood was cleaned just to be on the safe side:
After the roof was thoroughly rinsed, I washed the car with the 2BM and Gloss-It Gloss Shampoo (love the smell of this stuff!):
Tardis was then used to remove any minor tar spots, including the inner arch lips:
Before:
After:
Another quick rinse followed and I then put the car inside for claying.
Another Gloss-It product for this, the green mild:
This was about as dirty as the clay got:
I then dried the car off with one of our new drying towels:
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This detail was a 3 day correction detail carried out at the end of this week and I'm afraid to say it was a case of fixing someone else's mess from the dealership yet again (those that are regular readers of our details will know that alot of recent work has come from poor dealership prep, etc).
It was also an opportunity to put to use some of the Gloss-It products that we are going to be taking stock of next week - our first new line in quite a while, fresh from Las Vegas in the USA.
The car in question was this rather nice Supercharged Elise, which looks great in red - not many in this colour going around!
Already in the morning sun there was evidence of paint defects:
But before I can do anything about them I have to get the car washed, so up first with the pre-foam - Hyper Wash @ 60 degrees and left for 5 minutes:
Then rinsed off:
The wheels were sprayed with Menzerna 7.5 Tyre and Wheel Gel and then agitated with various brushes:
The arches and tyres were also scrubbed with a new high strength APC currently on test:
The shuts and exterior trim were cleaned with the same APC and a brush before rinsing:
Although not really needing it, the hood was cleaned just to be on the safe side:
After the roof was thoroughly rinsed, I washed the car with the 2BM and Gloss-It Gloss Shampoo (love the smell of this stuff!):
Tardis was then used to remove any minor tar spots, including the inner arch lips:
Before:
After:
Another quick rinse followed and I then put the car inside for claying.
Another Gloss-It product for this, the green mild:
This was about as dirty as the clay got:
I then dried the car off with one of our new drying towels: