MK5 Golf GTI

General => Detailing => Topic started by: tommy_d on July 29, 2014, 12:04:33 pm

Title: Show n Shine
Post by: tommy_d on July 29, 2014, 12:04:33 pm

Hi,

i am wanting to enter my eddy into a show n shine and was wondering how good does the car have to be ?

Mine is a daily driver the paint is all in good nick apart from very small stone chips on bonnet, i will obv machine polish the paint work to get rid of any swirl marks.

I am just after some advice on how good it has to be and wether it is even worth entering a visually standard daily driver?

Title: Re: Show n Shine
Post by: Gene Hunt on July 29, 2014, 01:17:57 pm

Go for it. Really  good clean/polish/wax. Alloys inside & out, tyres dressed etc. Polish exhaust tips & wipe down engine bay & of course seats carpets, windows etc.

Title: Re: Show n Shine
Post by: GrayMK5GTI on July 29, 2014, 04:48:10 pm

Touch up pen on the stone chips, wet sand them smooth and polish back up  :happy2:

Needs to be a minter to do well in show & shine. Good luck  :happy2:

Title: Re: Show n Shine
Post by: George10 on July 31, 2014, 02:51:36 pm

Show n shine is just a name, there's loads of cars at shows which have been entered and their paint work is shocking

Title: Re: Show n Shine
Post by: Saintsteve on July 31, 2014, 09:19:00 pm

Unless your car is slammed,or on Air, or has the loudest radio and speaker system installed, it wont get a 2nd look at a shown shine competition. .


I tried it, waste of time.

Title: Re: Show n Shine
Post by: keith on July 31, 2014, 10:36:02 pm

you need scene credit as well, the voters vote for the popular show cars as well. so as steve says a standard car wont win much.