Detail My Ride - SteveP's Carbon GTD

[Greeners]

After accompanying Steve to collect this car a few weeks back I'd been itching to take a closer look at this lovely VW colour.

In fairness to the dealer the car was in very good shape considering the car had been a demo and the dealer had prepped it prior to collection. Very few holograms or scratches to deal with, so we were just looking to enhance and give the car some more protection.

Here's how she arrived!! 








The front wheels actually looked Black on the CCTV when he pulled up!




So on to the cleaning stage, the tyres and arches were soaked down with AS G101 and agitated with various brushed. The wheels were then cleaned with wheel woolies using AS Smart Wheels......


DMR's secret snow foam mix doing it's thing! (in the rain!)



Then onto the usual 2BM wash with lambswool wash mitts and Dodo Juice Supernatural shampoo. (No pics I'm afraid as it was raining!!)

I did spray round the car with Iron-X and Tardis but apart from a few tar spots she was in fairly good order!





After what seemed like an age in the pouring rain the car was finally clean and ready to be moved in and dried off!


Decided to attack the plastic and gloss areas first with Meguire's MF system.
Before:


After:


Before:


After: (yet to be refined)


So once these area's were sorted I moved onto the paintwork and used Dodo Juice Lime prime with a DA to ready the paint for a good layer of Auto Finesse Tough Coat. No during pics as Steve had a meeting elsewhere so time was against me, so just some shiny afters! 


























Stunning colour and really happy we got to work on the car, thanks Steve! 

Questions and comments welcome!

Nath & Gaz

[stealthwolf]

Looking stunning. Did the MF system take you as long as it took me! 

[Greeners]

Looking stunning. Did the MF system take you as long as it took me! 

Nope! 

[Hedge]

Really sweet guys. 

[vRS Carl]

Top job Nath

[Greeners]

Thanks chaps! 

[Matto]

Lovely colour and a top job. Looking forward to bringing mine down 

[Poppa Dom]

Looks great  Thought you might have shifted the RS4 by now Nath, such a good car!

[Jogon]

Top job on a top motor...

[monte]

Looking stunning. Did the MF system take you as long as it took me! 

Why did it take along time Stealth?

This is the system I set on getting. It's my first polisher and from all the vids on YouTube it looks amazing for the first timer! 



Top job Nath 

That colour looks awesome 

I must say, you have set DMR up  just great bud. The premises are stunning!
I bet you're loving your days at work.

[wigit]

cracking job Nath and a great set up you have there, i appear to have been papped 

[stealthwolf]

Why did it take along time Stealth?

This is the system I set on getting. It's my first polisher and from all the vids on YouTube it looks amazing for the first timer! 

You have to use a lot of pressure which can knacker your arms. The foam backing is thin so the vibrations are more prominent. Your arms get a real workout. It's also expensive as you can work through the pads quite quickly. I used three large pads and one spot pad on my car. Took me around six hours of polishing too.

If you've never used a polisher before, I'd do two things: get a large scrap bonnet to practice polishing on, and start off with say a light polishing/finishing pad and finishing polish first to get used to working a polisher on a car. I'd argue that getting used to things and practicing your technique is much more important.

[Deako]

Why did it take along time Stealth?

This is the system I set on getting. It's my first polisher and from all the vids on YouTube it looks amazing for the first timer! 

You have to use a lot of pressure which can knacker your arms. The foam backing is thin so the vibrations are more prominent. Your arms get a real workout. It's also expensive as you can work through the pads quite quickly. I used three large pads and one spot pad on my car. Took me around six hours of polishing too.

If you've never used a polisher before, I'd do two things: get a large scrap bonnet to practice polishing on, and start off with say a light polishing/finishing pad and finishing polish first to get used to working a polisher on a car. I'd argue that getting used to things and practicing your technique is much more important.

Or learn how to use a rotary on some scrap metal straight away so it doesnt take you so long! 

[Andy]

stunning job Nath

[Greeners]

Thanks fella's!