Skipton01
Admin Team
Well, Tank is now all shiney and spic and span, but I can't help thinking I've peaked too soon, it's 10 days to the Scottish Social!
The process was as follows:
Cold jetwash to remove all large debris/dirt followed by a lukewarm shampoo with Halfords Advanced Car Wash and a towelling wah mit (1 bucket).
Then, use Bilt Hamber standard clay and water spray to clay the entire car (all glass too) until the paint is smooth.
Next, rinse and remove any clay residue and commence paint correction/glazing using Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze and a finishing pad, keeping the area wet to avoid burning the paint. This step takes a while, stepping up the speed of the rotary polisher to achieve a really deep gloss.
Once this is done, re-rinse and dry with a microfibre cloth to remove any polish spots (as I was working with it wet, they went everywhere). Then proceed to cover the entire paintwork in Collinite 476 wax, using a little wax melted between the palms of both hands and then applied using skin only - no pads. This means that little is wasted (I am a Yorkshireman and at £19 a tin, this is important!) and you can also work the wax into all the little nooks and crannies.
Once you've gone around the car, the starting point will be ready to buff out, so work around again with a clean microfibre cloth and be amazed at the depth of the paint.
Then, it was a combination of Autoglym Bumper care for all the satin plastics around the bottom and Autoglym Fast Glass for the , er, glass.
Autoglym Rubber & Vinyl was used extensively inside along with Meguiars Leather cleaner for the seats and jobs a good 'un!
Photos to follow, when I get the time.
What saddens me though now are the number of tiny stone chips at the front - you just don't notice them in normal cleaning, but when you start to get really fussy, they stand out like a sore thumb! This and a few white paint scratches (small ones) are the flies in the soup now.
The wonderful thing to make up for this though is the colour of the paint in sunlight: the official colour is Ebony Black Pearlescent, but in sunlight and when you look close, it's a dazzling array of blues, reds, metal flakes and of course black - really beautiful up close - pity there's no macro function on my camera!
Cheers,
Mike
The process was as follows:
Cold jetwash to remove all large debris/dirt followed by a lukewarm shampoo with Halfords Advanced Car Wash and a towelling wah mit (1 bucket).
Then, use Bilt Hamber standard clay and water spray to clay the entire car (all glass too) until the paint is smooth.
Next, rinse and remove any clay residue and commence paint correction/glazing using Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze and a finishing pad, keeping the area wet to avoid burning the paint. This step takes a while, stepping up the speed of the rotary polisher to achieve a really deep gloss.
Once this is done, re-rinse and dry with a microfibre cloth to remove any polish spots (as I was working with it wet, they went everywhere). Then proceed to cover the entire paintwork in Collinite 476 wax, using a little wax melted between the palms of both hands and then applied using skin only - no pads. This means that little is wasted (I am a Yorkshireman and at £19 a tin, this is important!) and you can also work the wax into all the little nooks and crannies.
Once you've gone around the car, the starting point will be ready to buff out, so work around again with a clean microfibre cloth and be amazed at the depth of the paint.
Then, it was a combination of Autoglym Bumper care for all the satin plastics around the bottom and Autoglym Fast Glass for the , er, glass.
Autoglym Rubber & Vinyl was used extensively inside along with Meguiars Leather cleaner for the seats and jobs a good 'un!
Photos to follow, when I get the time.
What saddens me though now are the number of tiny stone chips at the front - you just don't notice them in normal cleaning, but when you start to get really fussy, they stand out like a sore thumb! This and a few white paint scratches (small ones) are the flies in the soup now.
The wonderful thing to make up for this though is the colour of the paint in sunlight: the official colour is Ebony Black Pearlescent, but in sunlight and when you look close, it's a dazzling array of blues, reds, metal flakes and of course black - really beautiful up close - pity there's no macro function on my camera!
Cheers,
Mike
