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Jkctr

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4 hours of cleaning!
« on: 11 October 2008, 13:53 »
My mothers golf was after some TLC and having detailed my mums boyfriends BMW it was only fair i treated the GTI!

Its a 57 plate 5 door DSG with lots of extras such as leather, rear parking sensors, ipod (and lots im sure i dont even know) It was £25k new so had a few bits added.

Anyway.

Method was:

2 bucket to clean the car and wheels
Then all door shuts and boot shuts were cleaned
Car was then hand polished with some Sonus SSX2
Then was treated to some Jetseal101 and left to cure for 40 minutes.

While the jetseal was curing i attacked the interior
Mats were removed, hoovered and treated with some fabric repelent
Leather was cleaned and conditioned with Poorboys Leather stuff
All other interior parts were cleaned using megs interior detailer spray (was too new to need liquid restorer)
Whole interior was hoovered and mats put back

Then the Jetseal was removed
Wax used was swissvax onyx which was left for 10 minutes before being buffed off
Tail pipes were cleaned with special wire wool and polished with megs metal cleaner
Glass cleaned with megs glass cleaner
Trim was restored with AG trim restorer

Pics
(no befores as the camera just cant pick up the bad parts on this colour and unfortunatly cant pick up the metal flake after  :angry: )





Exhaust 50/50






A nice beading shot form this morning


Pics dont do it justice, a very nice color when waxed with amazing metallic sparkle form the flake!
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(seeing as its german heres the beemer)



Offline R32UK

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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #1 on: 11 October 2008, 15:02 »
Love the hard top 3 series :grin: :grin:

Oh and the Golf looks very nice too :grin:

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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #2 on: 11 October 2008, 15:18 »
Looking good. Need to get round to detailing mine!!  :undecided:
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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #3 on: 11 October 2008, 15:47 »
Looking good  :cool:

Offline Greenouse

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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #4 on: 11 October 2008, 17:28 »
Very nice!  :cool:

So you still have the CTR  :huh:

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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #5 on: 11 October 2008, 17:35 »
How'd you manage to get all that done in 4 hours ? lol !

I did mine today (washed wheels, pre-washed with Hyperwash using the Hosecoil, hand washed using Duragloss 901, dried using a sonus towel, tried polishing the bonnet with Megs #80 on the PC - but gave up as wasn't getting the desired result ! and finally applied Serious Performance Sealant by hand) this lot took me just over 5 hours !

Absolutely knackered now !   :grin:

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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #6 on: 11 October 2008, 18:55 »
Agreed - in four hours, all I could get done was pre-rinse, wash, rinse, clay, (no polish), wax, wheels.

Looks lovely.

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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #7 on: 11 October 2008, 18:58 »
did mine today in 3 hours, and boy am i shagged!!


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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #8 on: 11 October 2008, 19:05 »
Just finished detailing mine today started at Ten finished at Five! I am Bushed :huh: and I only went out to give it a once ova.
Pre wash
Wash with AG Shampoo my new sheepskin washmit and new Megs gritguard bucket.
Dried off with waffle weeve towels
Megs Crystal system polish by hand
Megs Crystal system wax by hand
all black parts with AG bumper and trim stuff
all metal and chrome cleaned
Inside hoovered
Leather cleaned and treated
Megs quick detailer tidyin up all the polish I missed

7 hours later and bugger does my right arm hurt now

No pics as it is bloody dark now!


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Re: 4 hours of cleaning!
« Reply #9 on: 11 October 2008, 19:08 »
oh well as long as the left hands ok finlay, if you can manage it, with a good technique  :wink:  you should be fine  :wink:

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