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Dom's Tornado Red Gti - A bit of detailing
dom069:
--- Quote from: Ollieeee on May 19, 2016, 04:36:28 pm ---Are the grills painted black on this? Debating painting mine but unsure if it'll look too much on red!
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The grills are just standard plastic treated with Aerospace 303 @Ollieeee
dom069:
Bit of a mammoth update...
I've had some droning and vibration through the car at motorway speeds for a while, I was pretty sure that it was down to the tyres wearing unevenly but wanted to try some other wheels to make sure. My brother has an ED30 and some winter wheels so I decided to try his R32 winters on...
Went for a drive, still had vibration and a lot of noise. I put this down to the balancing of the wheels and the fact they are winter tyres in 20 degree heat.
Next was swapping his ED30 wheels on to mine:
I love the darker colour of them so will get my CH's refurbed darker sometime. Anyway, no more noise or vibration which confirms the problem is wheel/tyre related, I had the wheels on a balancer a couple of weeks ago and they looked straight which means it must be the tyres.
Part 2 coming in a sec...
dom069:
On to today then, this morning I decided that I would spend the day giving it a detail.
I started with a wash and then clay, following that I gave it a machine polish using a couple of different compounds of Menzerna polish on a couple of different pads. The whole car was waxed with Collinite 476s, glass cleaned with Autoglym glass polish, exhaust with Autosol and trims were treated with Aerospace 303.
After the initial wash:
Here you can see some swirling/defects in the paint:
After claying:
Again you can see defects in the paint in direct sunlight:
Most of the front grills were removed for cleaning:
Peek-a-boo:
After the first pass:
I also tackled the headlights which were covered in white spots when the lights are on. Much better now:
Some finished snaps:
A lot of pictures, but this is my personal favourite:
ChrisGT:
WOW!! :drool:
Tornado red looks so good when it's all done up.
Great job,
Chris
Martk19871:
Some really nice photos in there mate, have you got a decent camera?
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