MK5 Golf GTI
General => Detailing => Topic started by: vRS Carl on May 13, 2012, 03:44:22 pm
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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.
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Lovely Scratches
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Swirl Central
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Wheel condition
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Engine bay
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Interior
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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
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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
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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
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Once all that was done the car was rinsed off with PW and this was left
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Wheels
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Next up was to tackle the tar of which there was lots below the door trim between the front and rear wheels
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Tardis applied
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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
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Now that was done i then clayed the car and this was the result from the front wing.
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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
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So the car was taped up ready for polishing
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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
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50/50 Passenger door
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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
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So here are the finished results
Interior
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Engine
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Exterior
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This is my favourite shot. As you can see i got all apart from the deepest part of the scratch out
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Comments good or bad welcome as always :smiley:
Carl :happy2:
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Car looks miles better, great effort. So when would you like to do mine? :laugh: :smiley:
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Thats tidy mate. Nice finish :happy2:
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Car looks miles better, great effort. So when would you like to do mine? :laugh: :smiley:
Not got time now i'm afraid mate.
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Car looks miles better, great effort. So when would you like to do mine? :laugh: :smiley:
Not got time now i'm afraid mate.
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Superb results matey! :congrats:
I hope she was really pleased! Oh and grateful? :laugh: :wink:
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Lol yes she was grateful Nath :wink:
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Brilliant turn around Carl, bet the last time it looked that good was when it come off the production line :happy2:
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Looks like a totally different car.
Well done on making it look like new again
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Great work Carl :happy2:
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Superb turnaround, though how people allow their cars to get to that state is beyond me.
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Amazing results, well done she must be over the moon with it
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Nice turnaround. :)
Fish
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awesome results mate! loved this one as i used to own a very similar zetec-s before my mk5 golf! great little car and pretty fun to drive :driver: especially when i was 17 and every1 else was driving 1.0 or 1.1's =P ha. best colour of the zetec-s too!
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If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times......one of the best cars I have ever owned, great work there!
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Nice one Carl - great job :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
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good work there fella. Lmao at the steering wheel looks like it comes off some of the toys i buy my son :grin:
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Superb turnaround, though how people allow their cars to get to that state is beyond me.
Because as my neighbour says, its just something he uses to get from A to B!
Great work by thwe way! :happy2:
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awesome finish massive improvement on what she looked like on arrival, i bet the owner had a mahoosive smile. :grin:
Well done :congrats:
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total transformation mate :congrats:
just hope she keeps up to it :signLOL:
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That's one of the most epic details I've seen! That car was hideous before and looks great now. Awesome effort