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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: KentBladeboy on 10 March 2008, 13:43
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Can anybody recommend a top detailer in Kent/South East corner, I am drawing a blank
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Might I suggest you visit detailing world and ask there? Sure they could be more helpful.
Mike :smiley:
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Pardon my ignorance, what actually *is* detailing, what does it do, how is it different from standard cleaning?
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M
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try here makes good reading :wink:
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/index.php
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Hi Mr Magoo
Typically most car valeters are just that clean and valet. Some are very good others just on the same level as a £5 car wash.
Detailing as a term really comes from Stateside, but the quality guys use this term, and they ultimately detail every part of the car, again theres good and bad, the best are 'anal' and very expensive but the result can be a finish far in excess of what the car was like even when delivered new. (It often comes with a number of paint issues and swirl marks etc). Time for prep can be from a few hours to a few days!! The equipment and materials they use are probably not viable to the average owner to purchase, but I am looking for a real top level finish, so in for a pound in for a penny so too say.
I have been recommended a guy in Kent, and after a long discussion with him, feel pretty confident in what I am going to get, if anyone is interested then let me know and I will keep you updated as to the result and if it was worth the dosh.
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im detailing the outside of my car this weekend, :smiley: (semi detail)
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Pardon my ignorance, what actually *is* detailing, what does it do, how is it different from standard cleaning?
Thanks
M
I think what sets apart the guys that do detailing is the fact that they will attempt to correct your paintwork. As well as clean it and polish it etc. These guys will actually machine polish a fraction of a layer of paint or the polishes that sit on top of it off the car. These are were the swirls and scratches etc lie. They then use intensive polish/wax treatments etc to replace that protective layer they've just removed.
I may be incorrect but thats the way I've interpreted it.
Spend some time looking at some examples on the aforementioned website - some of their results really are amazing.
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Mike
Yes totally agree, appears they take a couple of microns off the paint/lacquer level, to get the desired results, all sounds very high tech, but I have always wanted a finish that really looks something special, so I'll now find out if it really is the DB's or not
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Try and put some before and after pictures up so we can see the difference they've made.
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Thanks all.
Is this something you can do at any point in a car's life or should you start early on? Ie, if I was to have the car 'normally' valeted / cleaned for the first year is there any point in detailing it later?
Once you start detailing it do you have to keep on re-doing it? And how often?
Thanks
M
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Thanks all.
Is this something you can do at any point in a car's life or should you start early on? Ie, if I was to have the car 'normally' valeted / cleaned for the first year is there any point in detailing it later?
Once you start detailing it do you have to keep on re-doing it? And how often?
Thanks
M
most people will never bother. i think a good way of explaining it is CAR OCD lol. i have this bug. any little bit of muck or scratch inside or out does my head in untill i sort it out. i even have the air con sat at the same temp on both sides as it does my head in if there not the same :grin: :grin: i bet a few others do this :laugh: :lipsrsealed:
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Mr M You can start at anytime in the cars life, even dulled paintwork can be restored to a great degree, if you keep a maintenance program up, then the car should always look tip top, but it also comes down to how much wedge you are prepared to pay out !!
Most suggest an initial intensive detail, then depending on usage and storage conditions will depend on how often you feel the need to have a re application
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There's a nice write up with photos of a detail on a red Mk4 Anniversary Golf, in preparation of last weekends Ultimate Dubs show here :-
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=61291
Shows what it's all about with some good before and after shots :smiley:
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Flippin' 'eck that's incredible! :shocked:
I don't know if I could bear being away from the car for three days though :cry: :sick:
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But look at what you get at the end of those 3 days.
Chances are though the fact your even asking aout detailing means you care enough about your car to not let it get into that bad a condition.
I wouldn't be to happy about him jet washing my engine bay though, in my opinion thats a big no no.
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Thanks all.
Is this something you can do at any point in a car's life or should you start early on? Ie, if I was to have the car 'normally' valeted / cleaned for the first year is there any point in detailing it later?
Once you start detailing it do you have to keep on re-doing it? And how often?
Thanks
M
most people will never bother. i think a good way of explaining it is CAR OCD lol. i have this bug. any little bit of muck or scratch inside or out does my head in untill i sort it out. i even have the air con sat at the same temp on both sides as it does my head in if there not the same :grin: :grin: i bet a few others do this :laugh: :lipsrsealed:
Ha Ha, thats me to, aircon display and everything, gave my sister and nephew a lift the other day and she tried to give him a pear to eat and didn't really understand when I suggested she didn't
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Thanks all.
Is this something you can do at any point in a car's life or should you start early on? Ie, if I was to have the car 'normally' valeted / cleaned for the first year is there any point in detailing it later?
Once you start detailing it do you have to keep on re-doing it? And how often?
Thanks
M
most people will never bother. i think a good way of explaining it is CAR OCD lol. i have this bug. any little bit of muck or scratch inside or out does my head in untill i sort it out. i even have the air con sat at the same temp on both sides as it does my head in if there not the same :grin: :grin: i bet a few others do this :laugh: :lipsrsealed:
Ha Ha, thats me to, aircon display and everything, gave my sister and nephew a lift the other day and she tried to give him a pear to eat and didn't really understand when I suggested she didn't
I've banned any kind of food or drink in the car. :evil: Welll you have to don't you :grin:
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me to, take it your on nights again
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No, it's my day off, but I didn't get up till late and so I'm still wide awake :smiley:
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Pardon my ignorance, what actually *is* detailing, what does it do, how is it different from standard cleaning?
Thanks
M
Women clean houses but men detail cars.
That's the only difference mate.
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Peel
Spot on mate, never seen my missis spend 10 hours detailing the oven, good point made...........can hear the rumbling of female GTI owners hammering the keyboards right now........ :evil:
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First apologies, didn't get the Golf done, it was for my BM, but thanks to a tipoff by whitegtidriver, I booked with Jason Brough at Purefinish in Gillingham. The results were stunning and this guy really grafts. So there you have it a good detailer in Kent.
(http://C:\Documents and Settings\Cliff&Julie\Desktop\Detail1)
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If anyone would like to know what a "detailer" does then watch this 5min clip on 5th gear who watch a top detailer at work (who charges in-excess of £5,000 for a car to be detailed)
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Wheres the link :smiley:
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Wheres the link :smiley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7DWeMZyFQ
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Wheres the link :smiley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7DWeMZyFQ
tut tut, he's washing it in direct sunlight!!! :laugh: :laugh:
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I wouldn't let him use a jetwash on my GTI, nor did I see him using the two bucket technique.
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I wouldn't let him use a jetwash on my GTI, nor did I see him using the two bucket technique.
he has a bucket with a grit guard in it (not two buckets i know), tbh it was set up for TV and the car was clean before he washed it, oh and yes he uses a sponge also, but its a Zymol sponge