Porsche 911 Carrera - Page 8

[Stan 24v 0]

Looks good matey ;)

 

Need to have a go at the mrs 4mo as it stinks of bloody smoke :mad:

[A-J 0]

Nice work there.

[Nuggit 0]

Christ, that's an incredible job...

 

*doffs cap in a cheeky chimney-sweep way*

 

Awesome guv'na!

[ardandy 0]

He only paid £360 for the car! Bargain now!

[ardandy 0]

A full de-swirl today, nice to be back working on Old Skool Dubs! This time a Golf GTI 1.8 16v (1990) in black. One

 

thing was pretty unique with this one though in that the owner has owned it for 17 years from new! Amazing!

 

Here's a pic of the car as it arrived, looking pretty good I have to say. Unfortunately as we had to make sure we

 

got the whole car done by the end of the day we didn't take loads of pics, after all he was coming from Beverley

 

(160 mile round trip!).

 

 

Out came the Karcher Pressure Washer, Wash Mitts, Gilmour Gun (with Snowstorm inside), Sonus Der Wunder Drying

 

Towels, Meguiars Last Touch, Sonus Green Clay, Megs Super Degreaser & APC and a couple of Megs Alloy Wheel Brushes.

 

(Can you tell this is a quick write up this time! :) )

 

Once the Golf was washed (twice, the 2nd time with APC to reduce existing wax), we clayed the whole car using Sonus

 

Green and Last Touch for lubricant. There was very little on the car the clay pulled off, it does spend most of its

 

time in a garage! A third wash after the claying completed that stage and we dried the car off.

 

 

The next job was to take PDG readings, which averaged 90nm-100nm over most of the car, with the exception of the

 

bonnet reading at only 80.

 

We then started to take pics of what we were tasked to get rid of! The car was pretty heavily swirled and had a lot

 

of holograms!

 

 

This pic below shows the hologramming on one side, the wing has being done and the door hasn't (as if you needed

 

telling!).

 

PS. The little white line in the wing is a bin lid reflection, not a hologram like a few people first thought.

 

 

 

 

After a bit of trialling, we settled on Meg's #83 and the trusty yellow SFX pads, spritzing with Last Touch. This

 

took around 4-5 hours for this part alone over the whole car, mainly due to the lovely hard VW paint we've being

 

blessed with!

 

 

Here's a pic of the car about half way through the machine polishing, notice the snazzy 3M Blue masking around the

 

rubber & plastic trim! We had to get the monster canopy out (6m x 3m) half way due to the sun getting quite

 

insistant!

 

 

Once the machining had being done, we started on the trim, glass and of course the sealant and waxing. For the trim

 

we used Megs#38, the glass Megs Glass Cleaner (nice smell too!) and for the sealant we chose to go for Clearkote

 

Mousse Glaze, followed by the very popular Collonite 476s (chosen by the customer).

 

Sorry about the brief write up but here are the pics after about 7 hours work!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading!

[herisites 0]

Awesome work mate! The car looks superb and wasnt a bad write up, the good pictures made up for it though :D

 

I know what you mean about the hardness of the paint, my first time machine polishing was on a black mk2 golf and it was a job and a half!! :shock:

 

Rob.

[ardandy 0]

We have one of my favourite cars here, the Seat Leon Cupra R! Simon and his missus came up from Birmingham to sunny Yorkshire (no it really was sunny!). Here's the car.

 

 

A full machine polish was in order and we began by giving the car a bloody good jetwash and started the washing process.

 

The arches, alloys and door/boot shuts were the first to get the 'Executive' treatment! Meguiars Super Degreaser and APC was used in these areas.

 

 

 

 

From that point we started the washing process using the Gilmour Gun combined with a mix of warm water, Meg's hyper Wash and Snowstorm. Lambs Wool Wash Mitts, a couple of buckets and the jetwash also featured.

 

 

The car was clayed all over, not too much came off it, and was then re-washed using the same process.

 

The Cupra was then dried off with Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels and Meguiars Last Touch, making sure any water traps and the shuts were dried off too!

 

At this point we could see what we were up against, in this case a very swirly Leon with hard VAG paint!

 

Here's the swirls.

 

 

 

Having found out on a test area that Meguiars #83 alone was not good enough, we eventually decided on a combination of Menzerna Power Gloss and then Megs #83. The sun was very hot so we had to break out the canopy at times but it did ease off as time went on. Here's me in action!

 

 

We carried this on for the whole car and got sun burnt in the process! The alloy wheels were waxed using Collonite, the plastic and rubber trim were cleaned and treated using Meguiars #38 and the glass was done using Megs Glass Cleaner. The whole car was treated to 2 layers (24 hours apart) of Collonite 476S, which was Simons preference as he wanted a longer lasting option.

 

I had planned on having a lot of pics for each step but we were too busy that we forgot! I'd say that on some parts of the car (mainly the rear quarters and above the doors) were so heavily swirled that we only achieved a 70-80% de-swirl on those areas. If we'd have realised this we would have planned for more time.

 

Here are the finished, polished and waxed piccies of the Cupra R! Thanks For Reading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a snapshot of what we used for doing this!

 

[Stan 24v 0]

Good effort mate, looks 8)

[ardandy 0]

Write up removed to reduce pic size on this page.

 

Ardandy! Cheers!

[ardandy 0]

You'll have to forgive me if some of this doesn't make sense as I'm a bit distracted at the moment by the stunning looks of this car!

 

This Ferrari 360 Spider comes out about once a month and has only done 14,000 miles in it's 2(ish) years. No full machine polish this time but pretty much everything else from the engine bay to a good clay.

 

This is what greeted us.

 

 

 

 

 

The first step was to wash all the flies off with a good blast from Mr Jetwash. I'll also point out that I've not gone insane whilst doing this, we just wanted to make sure we didn't catch the fabric hood too much, hence the angle I'm holding the lance at.

 

 

Let's not forget the rear diffuser!

 

 

Now onto the washing section, using a couple of Edge Schmitts and snowfoam through the Gilmour Gun.

 

 

 

After the car had being cleaned (twice), we brought out the Mild Clay and started on the bodywork. Very little was found so no pics of a black piece of clay this time!

 

 

Drying time now! Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels again with a spritz of Meguiars Last Touch. Yes this is a pose with the towel as we'd forgotten to take one mid-process!

 

 

The next step we had to stop and have a rest a few times as we were cleaning the engine bay and it was that nice (car geek alert!) we started to get a little faint with excitement!

 

Meg's NXT Polish, Meg's Interior NXT Cleaner (for the black engine plastics) and some degreaser was used in this process. With the engine being such a beauty, Ferrari decided to put a window on the hood so you could see it all the time! Here's me cleaning that part with some Meg's Glass Cleaner, it was a bit of a stretch as you can see! This is one wide car!

 

 

The wheels were done now, using Meg's Super Degreaser to get the grime off and Collonite 476S to protect and shine.

 

 

 

Here's that rear diffuser again, protected and shined with Meguiars NXT Interior, which is appalingly shiny for the inside but great on engine plastics and areas like that.

 

 

Now it's time to get the hood down! You had to start the car to do this, hence the look on my face!

 

 

The bit's around where the hood was before it went away was then cleaned as it was out of reach before. The boot, errrr, front Luggage Compartment was next in line for a clean and protect!

 

 

 

Don't forget those door shuts! Or more importantly, those brushed aluminium door shuts! Meguiar's NXT Metal Polish was used here as Harry is demonstrating.

 

 

The wax we, or rather the customer chose, was the elusive CG Jetseal. He wanted it to last a while so this fit the bill. It's a dream to apply and even easier to buff off! 2 coats put on 30 mins apart. You can just about see the wax on the bonnet in the picture below.

 

 

And here we are ladies and gentlefolk, the finished Ferrari 360 Spider. It was a pleasure to work on!

 

Thanks for reading and enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cue drool.

 

We've also being invited back to do his Porsche 911 Carerra and Range Rover Vogue. :)

[Stan 24v 0]

Now that is oe sexy car!!

[ardandy 0]

Porsche 911 Carrera

 

This was probably one of most satisfying details we've done for quite some time, the finish we achieved was one of the best considering the condition of the car to begin with.

 

A Sept 02 car with 35k on the clock, it looked like it hadn't being cleaned since it came from Porsche! The pictures don't tell all of the story though, the paint felt as rough as sandpaper as well!

 

 

 

 

 

Here's what we did to the car throughout the 8 hours we were there!

 

Door & Boot Shuts

 

This was the first stage in the detail. We sprayed the door shuts with Meguiars Super Degreaser via the pressure pump sprayer, leaving it for about a minute before wiping them down with microfibres. After the dirt was removed we used the pressure washer (turned off so only on trickle) to rinse off any remaining loose dirt and degreaser. The front luggage compartment also had the same treatment, with the added part of using a toothbrush to get in the cracks.

 

 

 

Wheel Arches

 

Now we knew that the car hadn't being cleaned for quite a while and it was a daily driver but the sheer amount of dirt we got from them was boggling! Meguiars Super Degreaser was used once again on the inside of the arches, along with a couple of brushes and the pressure washer.

 

 

Alloy Wheels

 

These thankfully weren't as bad as the rest of the car so Degreaser and some Meguiars Hyper Wash with water were all that was needed. A cloth and a Bullet Alloy Wheel brush was used to get them clean. The pressure washer was then used to rinse them down, this process was then repeated.

 

 

 

Washing

 

Now we're onto the shampoo stage we got out the Gilmour Gun, filled with Snowfoam and a touch of Meguiars Hyper Wash. The car was rinsed off using the Pressure Washer first of course before we started covering the car in the shampoo solution. Edge Wash Schmitts were used to wipe off the dirt from the car, in the picture below you can see the muck that came off the bonnet.

 

 

 

 

Claying

 

Meguiars Mild (Blue) clay was the weapon of choice for this car, and boy did we need it! The car felt rough to the touch, almost like it had acne, although the upwards facing panels were clear!

 

This is one of the claybars after just one side panel!

 

 

2nd Wash & Dry

 

After we'd clayed the car we gave it another wash using the solution and process above. Once we'd rinsed it off using the pressure washer we dried the car using a spritz of Meguiars Last Touch and Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels.

 

 

 

Machine Polishing

 

Now we had a clean and dry car, we could see what we were up against. The bodywork was appaling! It was full of swirl scratches and a lot of holograms, which from what we were told appeared after a 'home claying' session!

 

These are just some of the panels we were facing!

 

 

 

 

 

Thankfully the paint was relatively easy and soft to work with. After a couple of trials we settled on Meguiars #38 with Sonus SFX Cutting Pad (Yellow), that way we could achieve what we were after with just one pass, occasionally going for two to remove or reduce deeper scratches.

 

Here are some before and afters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhausts

 

Theres nothing worse than having a clean and shiny car than having a grubby, rusty exhaust (or exhausts in this case)! After some soapy water, we used 000 Gauze Metal Scourer. This removed the rust particles and ground in exhaust deposits. They were then finished off with Meguiars NXT Metal Cleaner.

 

 

 

Waxing/Finishing

 

The car was now very glossy but needed that final touch to make it truly glossy and wet looking. Given the cars outside life and the owners preference, we decided to use CG Jetseal. Two coats were put on the car, 30 minutes apart, and then wiped off using Sonus Plush Microfibres.

 

 

Meguiars Glass Cleaner and #38 was then used to clean and protect the glass and rubber respectively.

 

Now the car was washed, polished, waxed and protected, the only thing left to do was to remove any wax residue. Usually we use fine soft brushes but as we'd misplaced them we used good old Baby Buds!

 

 

Final Pics

 

Here are the final pictures, some with the top up and some with the top down. It was a joy to work on and the owner was really pleased!

 

Thanks for reading!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stan 24v 0]

Top work again Andrew :wink:

 

Youre getting wuite good at this polishing lark now :lol: