Mobile-Image : Lady in Red

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All righty then, long time no post for us in Show & Shine but that should change shortly. Things been a little crazy of late and I am finally on leave so I can get around to everything thats been put off for a while

This lady was in for an extreme makeover, our 1st paying customer for our full house detail in actual fact, and man did she make us work. Not many before pics on this one again (it's becoming a habit I know ) as we wanted to get cracking and it had some serious issues at the front end.


The usual routine, wash, clay, wash, dry, tape, etc but with the added effort of pulling the wheels off to properly clean them along with the arches, calipers, etc.

Wheels off to expose the arches.....some APC and 303 should sort these all out


Rims off, the fronts weren't to bad but had some baked on residue from when they fitted the tyres. The barrels of the wheels were a mess however, baked on brake dust, tar, sticker residue from where the balancing weights were


That's better. A combo of Sonax Extreme Wheel Cleaner, Poor-Boys clay, Sonax Tar Remover and some hard manual labour and they were almost good as new


Arches cleaned up nicely and treated to some 303


Calipers cleaned up and sealed with Smartwax Rimwax....Terrific stuff for wheels and calipers actually.


Even after all the cleaning, claying, etc the Rimwax still made a significant improvement to the looks of the wheels, seen here back on the car


With the wheels out of the way we turned our attention to the interior. We decided to finish up all the odds and ends in order to spend the following day concentrating on getting the paintwork back in order.

Some after pics of the finished interior. Overall not bad at all and no major issues so this went smoothly. Everything was treated with 303, a terrific product if I do say so myself










With the interior out of the way we proceded to tape up the car in preperation for the paintwork correction the following day.



Some of the defects in the sunlight




The front end appeared to have been resprayed at some point and whoever did it clearly hasn't got a clue about painting. The surface was full of tiny 'dents' and was horribly cloudy and full of serious scratches/haziness. We found most of it difficult to photograph during the day but managed to snap these under the flourescents later in the evening.




Roll on Sunday and we were ready to tackle the front end. We decided to start on the front end as it was the worst and eventually managed to get it looking acceptable after numerous passes with Meg's Ultra Cut, SIP and 106FA on various LC CCS pads. The rest of the car was polished with SIP and 106FA on orange, white and green LC pads. No pics of the correction stage I'm affraid but overall we managed to get the front end looking proper again and the rest of the paint 95% free from swirls/RIDS.

Some afters from Sunday evening and Monday morning before the client arrived to fetch his baby

Bonnet looking alive again




Lovely finish on the red from the Poorboys EX Sealant we applied.











And finally some random reflection shots and finished pics of the wheels










Tailpipes all shined up


And engine dressed ready to go


Overall a fantastic car to work on and we were both really impressed with the results. Thanks for looking