MK5 Golf GTI
General => Detailing => Topic started by: liver on January 02, 2014, 02:19:42 pm
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Hiya everyone
A friend very kindly offered me the use of his bodyshop during the Christmas period. This desperately needed after I had a little miss hap with a new clay bar which left the paint work on my R26R looking very sorry for itself as you can see below
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I took taping the car to the extreme as I didn't want to mess around and used as much from the bodyshop as I could.
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A few more before pictures under light
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these are some pictures from polishing stages, I used a two stage polishing approach and was really happy with the outcome
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here are some pics of the car in the bodyshop during the process
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this was the first time outside before I re-washed the car to remove the dust
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These are the final outside pictures
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:happy2: Gleaming, looks like new... Time well spent...
How did you have a miss hap with a new clay bar ?
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You've taken it down to the primer :laugh: only kidding. Looks lovely matey :drool: :drool:, saw one of these in black over Xmas on our back from Norwich on the M11 giving a Scooby a hard time :driver: :driver:
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You've taken it down to the primer :laugh: only kidding. Looks lovely matey :drool: :drool:, saw one of these in black over Xmas on our back from Norwich on the M11 giving a Scooby a hard time :driver: :driver:
haha I know, just decided to lacquer over the primer was easier than painting
yeah they do shock a lot of cars to be honest, especially around a track
:happy2: Gleaming, looks like new... Time well spent...
How did you have a miss hap with a new clay bar ?
I honestly don't know where I went wrong with the clay bar, ive clayed a lot of cars and used the same pre wash routine as I always do. This was a clay ive never used and it was a brand new clay so I don't know