Golf Gti project -- Full detail part 1.

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My Mk4 Golf Gti project - heres the 1st part of a detail on my current Golf. Will be doing it and updating as and when, so part 1 first.......................

Car is covered in swirls and scratches (more of that later) and also the paint is very rough and faded due to living the last 3 years of its life next to the sea up in Northumberland.

First up I foamed the car with VP superfoam..




Whilst the foam was doing its thing I went round all the window edges, nooks&crannies and badges with a detail brush..




Car was then rinsed with the pressure washer from the bottom up. (no pics!)

Then it was onto the wash stage using 2BM with Dodo BTBM and a megs wash mitt..



Car was then rinsed again, this time with open hose to sheet the water..



No drying stage here, as needed to clay the whole car, weapons of choice where finepolyclay and megs clay with Megs Last touch as lube..



I knew the front half of the car wasnt as bad as the back so started here first..

Bonnet being clayed..


Clay after bonnet..


Then moved onto the rear, this is the rear bumper and you can see how bad the paint was here due the sand, it really was like sandpaper to touch..



Using megs clay here and 20mins and a few passes..



Its still not perfect but clay fails to remove anymore contamination so will sort it in the machining stage.

So this is the car completely clayed..




Then foamed again with Megs Hyperwash..



and washed down with washmitt and clean water in the rinse bucket to remove all clay marks.

Car was then dryed using Eurow towel and Last Touch as drying aide..



Once the car was dryed completly it was time to take some paint thickness readings..



Thickness was fairly consistant throughout but a couple of points worth noting..

Bonnet had obviously been painted at some point in its life..



And a couple of low spots on the rear passenger door..



A couple of readings then taken from under the bonnet and door shuts to find the average paint thickness so I know what sort of clearcoat is on the car..



Which leaves us with this..



So thats part one, awaiting part two , machine polish.

thanks for reading,

Chris

[Guy]

looking like this is going to be a thorough and rewarding detail..

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[warnesey333]

just. Wow.

The Paint Depth Gauge diagram is awesome....can't wait to see more!

[AliBailey88]

Good start, i wanna see more. I spent 4days detailing my S reg gti when i first got it.

[Rhyso]

awaits next installment 

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part 2 just added!