Just thought Rustbucket and Myself would share a quickish writeup on our patient from last weekend. No before pics as a.) neither of our camera's batteries were charged b.) we had the whole week to do the car and it was done in stages and c.) it was fairly clean apart from some bonded contaminants. The clients biggest concern for this detail was his seatbelts and the interior strangely enough. It was only upon fetching the car that we realised why...the Clio comes with white seat belts which were a fantastic brown colour :throwup: Overall the interior was quite grotty but not as bad as some of the stuff we have seen before :gross: Anyways the car was thoroughly washed and rinsed a few times before we proceeded to clay it. The clay for the day was a sample of Don's new Poor-Boys clay (yellow one as seen below). Having used the clay before it has to be noted that it often times feels very sticky (maybe as a result of it being quite dry and warm up here). On the Clio (and a slightly cooler day) it worked flawlessly and was a joy to use picking up everything with ease and doing a fantastic job of cleaning up the bonded gunk. A quick pic of the clay after a section of the Clio... Right, onto what proved to be the most challenging bit of the entire detail.....getting those damned seatbelts cleaned up :hammerhead: We assumed a nice scrubbing with some APC would get the job done and proceeded to do a small test patch to see what the results would be like. Needless to say APC wasn't doing what we hoped and we bust out some other unconventional detailing products in the form of household carpet cleaners, fabric cleaners, etc until we found something that was working well :applause2: After around 3 hours of mucking around with various combo's of products we finally settled on a concoction that worked well and delivered results we were happy with. Below are some pics of the belts during the process as well as some 50/50's. At the end of the day we got the belts back to a satisfactory condition with almost no sign of the previous brown stains. With the belts out of the way we focused on cleaning up the rest of the interior which involved a good scrubbing, a vacuum, some Satin Prot, 4:1 APC, Sonax metal polish and various other odd's and ends. Sadly no befores again but some afters from when we were done. With the interior done and dusted we turned our attention to getting the motor all scrubbed up and dressed as well as treating all the door rubbers and seals with our Sonax Gummi Pfledger. Motor cleaned with 4:1 APC, Mobile-Image detail brushes and then dressed with Meg's Hyperdressing. Door seals Sonax Pfledgerised Last but not least was the paint correction. Silver will always be one of those un-inspiring colours but we were really happy with the way this one turned out. Taillights were polished with Chemical Guys Pro Polish and did a wonderfull job of cutting back the finer swirls and bringing out a lovely gloss. As far as the actual correction on this one we used a combo of LC pads (white and orange) with a mix of Sonax Nano Pro polish (really don't enjoy using this one, dries out quickly and doesn't like our pads for some reason. I also detest having to use water as a lube while working...maybe the Menz has just spolit me ) as well as the Presta swirl remover on the rotaries. The LSP combo we used really brought out the flake and gave the paint a liquid looking finish. Again no progress or before pics but a collection of some afters... Sun didn't wanna come out for a while :doh: Eventually the detailing god's smiled upon us and gave us a hint of sunlight to admire our work. Once everything was completed were then tasked with returning the car to it's owner in the Free State...stopped to snap a few pics along the way for the hell of it :thumb: Thanks for looking
hey Carn & Rustbucket, You guys do very well indeed. looks like you had more fun than normal this out...:thumb:
Those last few shots were great. Love seeing nice backgrounds for a clean car!!! Neat little car too.
