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[Carn]

Another weekend means yet another detail. This time around we have one of Wolfsburg's newest hot hatches, the Scirocco 2.0 TSI.

I've been wanting to lay my hands on one of these for some time now, and finally got my chance!


A few befores prior to getting started...

Filthy tailpipes


Wheels were average




Car was covered in accumulated road grime but nothing too serious











First up the wheels and arches, this time around I gave the 3M Wheel & Tire Cleaner a go. Overall a very nice wheel cleaner with a refreshing citrus scent (beats the Sonax's pungent aroma).

Ez-Detail brush for the barrels


Detail brushes for the small, hard to reach areas




Mothers Wheel brush for the faces


Tires were scrubbed with a stiff bristle brush and 5:1 Carways APC.


Arches followed with 5:1 APC and various brushes before being rinsed thoroughly.


After the wheels the car was foamed with a mix of CWC and APC to remove as much crud as possible. Thereafter a typical 2 bucket wash followed before a final rinse in preparation for claying.

Clay of choice was Clay Magic's medium grade clay. With the owner working in an industrial area and the car being quite new, I was fairly certain it would have a fair amount of surface contaminants.

Typical result after claying a panel...



With the car clayed and clean I rinsed it off a final time before drying it inside the garage.

A quick inspection with the halogens and LED revealed the following...









Mirrors




Gloss black roof insert


A-Pillars



With taping and the inspection complete I got started on sorting out 2 prominent stone chips on the bonnet. The owner had touched them up but asked if I could flat them down and try to make them less visible.



First up a PTG reading to see what we have to work with


With 190 microns to spare I decided to go ahead and wet sand the area. A Mirka P2000 disc followed by a P4000 disc resulted in the following...


Thickness down 9 microns to 182


After compounding I was left with this (still to be refined with SIP when polishing the rest of the car)


Overall paint reduction was between 12 and 15um (191 down to 178 average) so I was happy with the results.


With the touch up completed I set about finding a useable combo for the paintwork correction. This was a single stage correction so I wanted to maximise the correction while still leaving a crisp finish. In the end I settled on Menzerna SIP on a green 3M compounding pad with a few drops of 85RE for extra working time.

Un-corrected area in direct sunlight




Corrected area just beneath the above section


Close up


Overall I think around 90% correction was achieved. There were still some minor remnants of deeper swirls and RIDS but I was happy with the correction levels.

A few before and afters




Before and after under LED




Mirror before


Afters





Gloss black roof panel before


Afters




Other side before and after





Rear boot lid inserts in gloss plastic were corrected with Meguiars spot pads and SIP followed by 85RE.




Fixed







Rear bumper was lightly swirled


Came up nicely after SIP



Bootlid before and after





A-Pillar before and afters





Doors before and after







Gloss black front grill needed some work...Before only. After shot in the finished pics



With the correction work completed the car was pulled outside and washed down before being dried and returned to the garage for finishing off.

LSP was Raceglaze 55', trim got Satin prot and tires got Extreme Black dressing. Tailpipes were cleaned and polished with Raceglaze Alutech metal polish (inside and out) while the inside got scrubbed with an abrasive pad followed by Alutech polish. The exhaust back box that was visible under the rear bumper also got scrubbed up and cleaned.

Tailpieces


And back box



Wheels and tires


















Couple of reflection shots...





















A few detail shots












And my favourite of the lot...



As always thanks for looking

[onyx]

Fantastic!

Again, i love that colour...

[dood786]

[calypso]

Great work on a very sexy car.

[PaulVW]

Well done David (as always)

Awesome work on an awesome car

Why do the gloss black parts always seem to be worse than the rest of the car

Cheers,
Paul

[Woodie]

Great work as usual Dave.

Using a Meguiars product on the detail makes this one the best of the year so far

[xcalibur]

Great work!! Once again.

The paint looks so nice I want to lick it.

[Jughead]

Awesome work Carn !!!

[Torres1]

Fantastic work David.
Tell me, how much work goes into cleaning the tailpipes and rear box with the Alutech and what does the Alutech cost?

[PrevanP]

Great work Carn

[Carn]

Thanks gents

(08-09-2010 07:54 AM)PaulVW Wrote:  

Well done David (as always)

Awesome work on an awesome car

Why do the gloss black parts always seem to be worse than the rest of the car

Cheers,
Paul

Soft plastics would be my guess. Most often they also correct easily so I think it is purely down to their comparitive hardness vs the paintwork.

(08-09-2010 11:05 AM)Torres1 Wrote:  Fantastic work David.
Tell me, how much work goes into cleaning the tailpipes and rear box with the Alutech and what does the Alutech cost?

Depending on how bad they are it could be 20 mins, or it could take over an hour. If the outside of the pipes are knackered I usually opt for an abrasive pad in and out followed by a light polish with ALutech.

Newer pipes that are still nice and neat on the outside are typically cleaned with APC and then polished with Alutech on an oldish microfber towel. The inners almost always get the abrasive pad treatment followed by Alutech to bring back some of the shine.

[Torres1]

(08-09-2010 06:51 PM)Carn Wrote:  Thanks gents

(08-09-2010 07:54 AM)PaulVW Wrote:  

Well done David (as always)

Awesome work on an awesome car

Why do the gloss black parts always seem to be worse than the rest of the car

Cheers,
Paul

Soft plastics would be my guess. Most often they also correct easily so I think it is purely down to their comparitive hardness vs the paintwork.

(08-09-2010 11:05 AM)Torres1 Wrote:  Fantastic work David.
Tell me, how much work goes into cleaning the tailpipes and rear box with the Alutech and what does the Alutech cost?

Depending on how bad they are it could be 20 mins, or it could take over an hour. If the outside of the pipes are knackered I usually opt for an abrasive pad in and out followed by a light polish with ALutech.

Newer pipes that are still nice and neat on the outside are typically cleaned with APC and then polished with Alutech on an oldish microfber towel. The inners almost always get the abrasive pad treatment followed by Alutech to bring back some of the shine.

Thanks David. Abrasive pad?

[Wayno]

WOW, absolutely awesome work once again David!!! Car looks insane!!!

[Wells]

Insane, great work!

[AMD001]

Awesome work again Dave!!

[Carn]

(09-09-2010 10:42 AM)Torres1 Wrote:  Thanks David. Abrasive pad?

Similar to scouring pads like you would use in the kitchen. These come in varying degrees of abrasiveness from virtually no cut, to steel shredding cut

[jagged]

Excellent work ...as usual

[springbok]

Excellent work David. I love the touch of cleaning the rear box.

[Vincent]

Brilliant work David, really awsome finish.

[Gerlach]

WoW!!!! NIce!!!!!!!! 8)