Cars collected but not all what it seems.

[Booth11]

Just to put a smile on your faces, i hope here's my detailing. Asda a bucket £1 large sponge 59p  cleaning isle, fairy liquid £1 let it dry....then autoglym resin polish. Sorted! Hundreds spent on maps, exhausts and pedal box...me thinks i'll have to readdress my detailing skills 

That put a smile on my face.  Hundreds spent on maps, exhausts etc?  If you are going to redress your detailing skills prepare to spend hundreds on lotions and potions and pads. 

[golfhappy]

Just to put a smile on your faces, i hope here's my detailing. Asda a bucket £1 large sponge 59p  cleaning isle, fairy liquid £1 let it dry....then autoglym resin polish. Sorted! Hundreds spent on maps, exhausts and pedal box...me thinks i'll have to readdress my detailing skills 

That put a smile on my face.  Hundreds spent on maps, exhausts etc?  If you are going to redress your detailing skills prepare to spend hundreds on lotions and potions and pads. 

Well its dry today so i suppose i'll fit the pedal box and whilst trying it out i'll visit halfords...me thinks one step at a time, break myself in gently so wash and wax for £5 seems good value! plus the clues in the name "WAX" sounds like i can save time and ditch the resin polish 

[Booth11]

Just to put a smile on your faces, i hope here's my detailing. Asda a bucket £1 large sponge 59p  cleaning isle, fairy liquid £1 let it dry....then autoglym resin polish. Sorted! Hundreds spent on maps, exhausts and pedal box...me thinks i'll have to readdress my detailing skills 

That put a smile on my face.  Hundreds spent on maps, exhausts etc?  If you are going to redress your detailing skills prepare to spend hundreds on lotions and potions and pads. 

Well its dry today so i suppose i'll fit the pedal box and whilst trying it out i'll visit halfords...me thinks one step at a time, break myself in gently so wash and wax for £5 seems good value! plus the clues in the name "WAX" sounds like i can save time and ditch the resin polish 

Let us know your thoughts on the pedal box.

Yep, one step at a time with the detailing. 

[andykram]

See my thread from mid January with exactly the same problem. My pro detailer sorted mine and he had it two days.
He said he'd done loads of Mk7 Golfs and doesn't rate the paint on them at all. He sees lots of orange peeling on them - the lapis blue seems especially prone to it, he said. Having said that, mine was entirely due to a rubbish dealer prep. I refused to have the dealer touch it so he agreed to pay for the detail, a boot liner and the coding for the car app link thing as compo- about £750 or so all in.
I said before that the paint on my Passat is still immaculate after twelve months - could it be that Golf paint is softer and just more susceptible to scratches?

[mcmaddy]

The paint will be soft from the factory but it settles down after a few months. I think the secret is to get it protected as soon as possible and that will reduce any paint problems.

[barrym381]

did you ever get this sorted 

[p3asa]

did you ever get this sorted 

In the process 
I was going to wait till its sorted before posting more about it.

[barrym381]

did you ever get this sorted 

In the process 
I was going to wait till its sorted before posting more about it.

have you got a pro sorting it not that butcher of a dealer 

[p3asa]

I thought I better update this thread 
So the dealer asked me to get a few estimates and then told me they were far too dear and they wouldn't pay anything near that kind of money 

That's absolutely fine I told them, I'll be rejecting the car for a new one and its to be untouched when it arrives. So a couple of days passed and I'd heard nothing and then by chance I received the dealers satisfaction survey. I filled it in and let rip and the following morning I was called with the dealer telling me he had great news, they will pay for the work to be carried out. 

So off it went to http://rgkdetailing.com/ which was recommended by CraigW on here although I had looked at his work online before.

He took the car for 4 days and transformed it. He reckoned they had cleaned it using a brush!!! However it wasn't as bad as I had first thought.

I'll let the pictures do the talking. I also got him to apply Gyeon Durabead at the same time.

I was delighted with the work and can definitely recommend RGKdetailing for anyone near Glasgow.

[p3asa]