Mobile-Image : One of the worst to date...

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Appologies for only getting the full post up now having left only a teaser a week or 2 ago. This past weekend was our 1st full weekend away from detailing since early Jan and I in particular did nothing much at all for a change

Our client from the Michelangelo Towers contacted us and told us he had a 'challenge' for us in the form of a Golf 5 GTI he recently acquired, naturally we couldn't wait to see what was in store for us

Saturday morning arrived and we headed off to the towers to see what lay in store for us. To say we were shocked at the condition of the car, which was less than a year old and had only covered 10k km, was an understatement. Anyways enough babbling lets get onto the detailing and some photies


Prep Work

As always the wheels were the 1st stop and were soaked with Sonax Xtreme Rim Cleaner and left to dwell whilst we prepared some wash solution and got our gear ready.

Before


Sonax applied and left to do its thing


Rinsed, dried and dressed some time later


With the wheels out of the way we proceeded to wash the car using the 2BM and a selection of wash mitts, brushes and in this instance Meguiars Soft Wash Gel. After washing and rinsing the entire car was clayed with a combo of Meg's Fine clay and Auto Magic Meduim Clay before being rinsed again and dried off in preperation for the paint inspection. Unfortunately no pics from the wash/clay process but I am sure you all know whats involved


Paint Inspection

With the car properly cleaned we proceeded to have at look at her under the lights. As mentioned before we were truly shocked to see the condition this relatively new vehicle's paintwork was in

A selection of paint defects from around the vehicle














Our client wasn't lying when he said this one would test our skills, regardless we couldn't wait to get stuck in and see what kind of correction we could achieve.


And so it starts

After taping up we proceeded to test various combo's and see what would be required in order to bring this ugly duckling back to life.

Bonnet taped in preperation for a 50/50



After testing a few combo's we settled on a 2 stage approach, SIP worked via rotary on a green 3M compounding pad followed by FA on a yellow 3M polishing pad. This combo knocked the swirls out of the park and restored some much needed lustre back to the paintwork.

A selection of 50/50's from along the way





Chess anyone ?



Black vs Grey




With our initial testing on the bonnet complete we made our way around the car. A few snaps from along the way

Before


And after


Before


After


Fender 50/50's





Drivers side patchwork




Drivers door






Passenger side wasn't much better


Rear arch action



Rear end rejuvenation...

Before



During



And after



Taillights were corrected with FA on the yellow pads at lower speeds

Befores



And afters




B pillars needed some TLC


Thats better


With nearly 10 hours of work behind us we finally got the paint correction work completed and popped back into the wash bay for a final washdown before finishing off.

Post paint correction

Having completed the correction work and with the car washed and dried we proceeded to seal the paintwork and apply the finishing touches to the car. Poorboys EX Sealant was the LSP of choice on the day and would be standing guard over the newly rejuventated paintwork.

As it was already past 10 in the evening we had to make do with some indoor shots from the underground parking garage




A week later whilst detailing another vehicle for the same client we were asked to perform a maintenance wash on the GTI and this gave us the opportunity to get some much deserved outdoor shots








Some reflection shots










Overall this was a really fun detail and we learnt alot in the process. At the end of the day both ourselves and the client were blown away with the end result.

Thanks for looking