The Silver Sabre and the detail of Awesomeness

[SilverSabre]

So three months ago I got bitten by the detailing bug (aka kripstoe), and went a bit insane with ze purchase of many things to clean with. Amazingly handy-andy and sunlight were not amoungst said things.

The things:


Yes that is a shield polisher.
Yes I did buy it. No it was not for correction. Yes it was for applying polish. Mainly it was to alleviate the need for me to hand polish the oxidization off the entire car. The vibration on the thing make me feel that the hand polishing was maybe the better option. eina.
The end of the shield polisher discussion.

The car itself has never been detailed, never been resprayed, and the interior was cleaned using conventional methods up till now. It was mainly used as a long distance vehicle, and to be honest keeping it clean was not a top priority.

So that weekend dawned and the sun did not. Seriously it was the dullest most overcast weekend...but as the Dutch say: vok voord.

Saturday: Interior


Footwell


The seat covers which were on the car since 1996 were removed due to old age. This is what they left behind. All in all I am sorry to see them go, they were made specifically for toyotas and fit perfectly. Most people did not know the car had seat covers on.


Under the seat covers lots of fine red dust from when the roof lining pulled off (it has since been replaced) was ground into the seats.


Close up of the carpets and ingrained dirt.

I went out and hired a "rug master"...umm, not a porn flick as you might have initially thought, but this awesome ma-tchin that deep cleans carpets and upholstery. Its actually very very impressive. It was used to smack the living daylights out of the carpets and seats.


This is what it pulled out.


In case you missed it. Yes that is all dirt.


The overall interior after cleaning


Rear seats


Fan heater used to help dry things


Carpets result.


Sunday: Exterior
Ok so sunday morning and we are all ready to tackle the exterior. I was a bit worried about rain / mist so photographs were a secondary concern.


The car






Washed


Clayed. You guys that keep posting that you had a lot of contaminants picked up by the clay. No. You did not.

Washed car again.


Taped. I love this tape!

Then I polished. And polished. And polished. And then it was dark so the following pics were taken the next day, which luckily was nice and sunny .


The roof


The boot


Overall results.

And as an added extra, here are some beading pics. Collinite ftw.