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12yr Old Fiesta Zetec-S detail

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vRS Carl:
Afternoon folks.

This car belongs to a friend in work. Every time i see it i've felt sorry for it as it was in a sad state as you can see from the pics. She has owned the car since she bought it new 12yrs ago and in that time it has only ever been put through a car wash to clean  :surprised:

So the car was dropped of and this was what i was up against.











Lovely Scratches



Swirl Central



Wheel condition





Engine bay



Interior





Car was then Pressure washed off to remove as much of the loose muck up the sides as possible and then the car was coated with AF Citrus Power



This was left to dwell for 5 minutes and then the car was snow foamed over the top of the Citrus Power using CG No Touch Foam



Whilst this was dwelling of for the next 30mins i went round with a detailing brush cleaning all the door shuts, fuel cap, boot shut etc. The wheels were also cleaned using Bilberry Wheel Cleaner, Daytona Speedmaster brush and also Iron-X, Tardis and a detailing brush

Bit of Bleeding



Once all that was done the car was rinsed off with PW and this was left



Wheels



Next up was to tackle the tar of which there was lots below the door trim between the front and rear wheels



Tardis applied



I used a micro fibre cloth to agitate and remove as much as possible of the tar

Once the tar was gone i then re foamed the car to remove any Tardis or Iron-x that may be lingering



Now that was done i then clayed the car and this was the result from the front wing.



The rest of the car was pretty much the same and i binned the clay afterwards

So this was what i was now up against









So the car was taped up ready for polishing



I tried various pad/polish combinations and found that a 3M Orange compounding pad and Menzerna S500 Fast Gloss gave a good level of correction.

50/50 front wing



50/50 Passenger door



So i went round the rest of the car. Once done i pressure washed the dust off, dried and i then went over the car again using a 3M Blue Finishing pad and Menzerna P085RD Final Finish

Once the polishing was finished the car was then pressure washed off to remove all the dust etc again and the paint was then Sealed with GTechniq C1.5 and then had 2 coats of Swissvax Shield applied. On the lower half of the doors and F&R bumpers i coated with 2 coats of FK1000p to help repel tar etc in the future.

12 hours was left between coats of wax.

In between wax coats i tackled the interior and the outer trims. These were all cleaned with APC and then coated with AF Revive. Car was hoovered out and all rubber seals were treated with Gummipflege. Tyres were dressed with Megs endurance gloss. I didn't take many pics of the remainder but here is a 50/50 of the revive at work

vRS Carl:
So here are the finished results

Interior





Engine



Exterior

































This is my favourite shot. As you can see i got all apart from the deepest part of the scratch out





Comments good or bad welcome as always  :smiley:

Carl :happy2:

RoMocop:
Car looks miles better, great effort. So when would you like to do mine? :laugh: :smiley:

maxload:
Thats tidy mate. Nice finish  :happy2:

vRS Carl:

--- Quote from: RoMocop on May 13, 2012, 03:57:34 pm ---Car looks miles better, great effort. So when would you like to do mine? :laugh: :smiley:

--- End quote ---

Not got time now i'm afraid mate.

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