Enhancement Detail on Mk5 Golf GTI on Air!

[RussZS]

Yesterday saw me help my buddy out with his show Golf GTI, which will be on Plush's stand at various shows over the next few weeks and months.  It's heavily modified and as you will see, running on Air!  The interior (no pics, sorry) has the RS4/R32 seats in, but with the 'tartan' GTI cloth in the centre - looks superb!!!

As ever with lighter cars, the difference isn't as obvious as a swirly black car, especially without any decent sunlight, but I think it's turned out very well, and the paintwork is certainly a lot cleaner than it was.

A couple of before shots...


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As ever, I started off with the wheels, tyres and arches with G101 and various brushes. *This followed with G101 on shuts, sills, petrol cap, grille, etc. *I then washed the car with Optimum Car Shampoo and rinsed off.

I followed this up with Tardis (which removed very little!), then Wolf's Decon Gel, which did a great job of removing the additional contaminants:


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I then followed this up with Elite Polyclay and Citrus Bling lube. *The roof in particular was quite bad. *This pic is from just one quarter of the roof!


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Next up I decided to tackle the deeper scratches in isolation, as most of the paintwork was only suffering from relatively light swirling, aside from a few key areas which needed heavier compounding.

First up, the door handles, which were pretty bad:


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and after...


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RDS on the roof:


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and after (you can just make it out, but largely removed)


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I then set about cleansing the paintwork with Auto Finesse's Rejuvenate, stepping up to Menzerna 3.02 in place, where needed.

Rejuvenate is a very impressive paint cleanser, with a great level of cut if used with the right technique. *This is my polishing pad after half of a panel...


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and after half of the roof.........!!


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Unfortunately a lot of the correction shots didn't come out too well, but here is an example of a 50/50 on the passenger door:


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[RussZS]

A few quick pics after polishing:


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There's a lovely gloss and glow to the paintwork, but also a nice sharpness to it.

I followed this up with Wolf's Body Wrap Nano Sealant (which I also used on the wheels). *I used 3M Tyre Restorer on the tyres, 20/20 on the glass and Optimum on the exhaust.

Some 'afters':


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and down looooooooow (Air is so cool!)


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Some better SLR pics will follow when we have a brighter day

Thanks for reading!

Russ.

[butler2.8i]

Cracking work Russ

[Mr Blue]

sin this today and WOW great work

[RussZS]

Thanks both

It won an award didn't it?

[Dan J]

very nice Russ good work mate

[Cov golf]

Looks real nice top job that air is proper cool

[bricey]

nice wheels