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Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« on: February 15, 2013, 07:41:30 pm »
Was asked by the previous owner of my edition30 to give his edition35 a detail ( he had a mk6 R inbetwwen).

So on arrival at his house it looked like this, having covered just under 3,000 miles......






Just general road grime.
The usual methods were done, up first arches, wheels, calipers and tyres. Then the car was snow foamed, used valet pro detailing brushed to agitate areas that needed it, badges etc.

This was then power rinsed and washed using the safe two bucket method, rinsed again then usi9ng AS tardis removed tar spots froim effected areas.

The car was then rewashed and clayed using VP yellow and megs last touch, which brought it too look like this..



Then the car was taken into the garage, dried off using ultra plush towels and masked up ready for polishing, and enhancement was decidied on to remove light swirling, marring and hazing from areas.

The gloss black B pillars



The gloss black mirror casing


During the polishing stage, which was via rotary using a blue 3m pad and Megs #205



The rest of the car was then treated in the same fashion, apart from one area that appeared to be from an bird dropping removal..


This was removed using megs #105 and chemical guys hex pad


I then applied chemical guys extreme top coat via Megs G220 da with a grey 3m pad, dressed the plastics and polished the exhauast pipes

before..


00 grade wire wool and raceglaze metal polish..


not perfect but alot better, i couldnt seem to shift some of the staining.

The car was then given a coat of Victorias concours wax, i love this stuff on red. The glass was done with duragloss rain repel cleaner, tyres with duragloss wet look and wheels sealed with poorboys.. and a final wipe down with Zaino Z-8

The finished car

















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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2013, 08:01:45 pm »



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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2013, 09:21:40 pm »
Nice camera work as well.  :congrats:

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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2013, 09:40:27 pm »
Nice camera work as well.  :congrats:

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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2013, 08:59:20 am »
Top job sir  :congrats: :congrats:

Looks fantastic  :jumpmove:

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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2013, 09:48:32 am »
Excellent work!! and a very,very nice car.

Interesting you could'nt remove all the staining from the exhaust pipes, as I have a small amount on mine that I have'nt be able to remove yet.
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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2013, 10:16:09 am »
Excellent work!! and a very,very nice car.

Interesting you could'nt remove all the staining from the exhaust pipes, as I have a small amount on mine that I have'nt be able to remove yet.

I think it just required a heavier cut of metal polish. The car doesn't do a lot of miles and sits in the garage most of its life. Think it's just baked on having sat for so long.


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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2013, 10:27:44 am »
Excellent work!! and a very,very nice car.

Interesting you could'nt remove all the staining from the exhaust pipes, as I have a small amount on mine that I have'nt be able to remove yet.

I think it just required a heavier cut of metal polish. The car doesn't do a lot of miles and sits in the garage most of its life. Think it's just baked on having sat for so long.

Have'nt given up on mine yet, always seems to be round the bottom of the pipe its very ingrained.  Top work again :happy2:
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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2013, 11:02:51 am »
Looks excellent. I don't understand buying a car to not drive it, but if you've got the money...


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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2013, 11:37:12 am »
Looks excellent. I don't understand buying a car to not drive it, but if you've got the money...

The owner works off shore and is only really home 6 months of the year. Also his wife has a range rover sport for driving about in. Was the same with my ed30. I got it when it was just 2 years old and had only done 10,000 miles. Never out on salt or snow. And hasn't been since. Snow virgin


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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2013, 12:54:40 pm »
Red looks superb when done properly. Top job! :happy2:

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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2013, 02:22:39 pm »
Very nice that Craig - top work bud
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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2013, 04:26:54 pm »
 :congrats:

That's frustratingly stunning.

I feel completely inadequate. :sad1:
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Re: Mk6 Golf GTi Edition 35
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2014, 08:59:37 pm »
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