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Offline KyleB

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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #10 on: 20 April 2016, 12:19 »
Also in your title you say "maintaining factory fresh paintwork" the cheapest and best thing you can do to achieve this is insist the dealer doesn't touch your car!

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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #11 on: 20 April 2016, 13:27 »
After my first mk7 i can whole heatedly say the dealers opinion on good paint will be completely different to yours, so the using a proper detailer option would be a much better choice  :smiley:
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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #12 on: 20 April 2016, 14:43 »
Think my mind is made up.
Have been looking around to find someone half decent locally.
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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #13 on: 20 April 2016, 17:17 »
Think my mind is made up.
Have been looking around to find someone half decent locally.

Good decision.  Just ask the dealer to take the transport wraps off so they can PDI it and then just leave it - no washing at all.  Sure you pick up a grubby car, but the paintwork should be unscathed.  Then ave a pro detailer take it under their wing to do a full new car detail. 
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Offline Pinky1959

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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #14 on: 21 April 2016, 19:02 »
Have you got a delivery date for your new car yet ? also what colour ?
www.detailingworld.co.uk
is a brilliant web site but scary at the same time (in a good way though ! ! ) and you will find details of local detailers .
Good Luck .

Offline 2014GTi

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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #15 on: 26 April 2016, 14:49 »
I was getting GardX, ended up cancelling it.
Going to get mine Gtechniq Deteiled :)
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Re: GardX & maintaining factory fresh paintwork: General advice
« Reply #16 on: 26 April 2016, 16:01 »
I was getting GardX, ended up cancelling it.
Going to get mine Gtechniq Deteiled :)

Great decision.

Post up some pics when you've had it done.  :smiley:
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