Todays main detail for Bryan and me was this rather stunning Lotus Exige - I'm a big fan of this type of no nonsense, track car!
On arrival, the car:
While I was sortig out a little damage on the Boxster, Bryan washed the wheels and arches on the Exige, and then Bryan slaims also to have washed the exterior.....
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As Bryan would say - "stroll on!"
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(sorry Bryan, couldn't resist this pic - say nothing about the aeroplane tickets!
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Anywaym the car was fully washed, and then Bryan clayed the car using
Sonus Grey Cley with
Last Touch as a lube owing to quite severe contamination on the paint that was really just laughing at the Sonus Green Clay...
The car was then masked up (took up about a mile of maskiong tape!
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UDM to play with, so I decided to see just how it would cope with a full detail - what better test?!
On this front right of the bonnet, I set the UDM up with a
Meguiars W8006 Polishing pad and
Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze. The swirls before:
Now, the UDM felt to me a little heavier than the PC but also seemedf to feel just a little bit mopre powerful - perhaps though this was because our PCs are getting a little old..? It was for me just as easy to use as the PC, infact even a little easier as the vibrations from the tool seemed to be a bit less than from either my, or Bryan's PCs. Another thing I noticed was there was less of a jump in speeds between speeds 5 and 6 with the UDM, but a huge jump between speeds 1 and 2 - kind of the reverse of the PC. And the top speed *felt* faster than the PC, but whether it actually was or not I'm not 100% sure but it did feel a bit faster. So I spread the #80 at speed 1, then worked in at speed 4 for about seven or eight passes and then finished on speed 5 for about five or six passes. The UDM in action:
And the final results:
Good correction from a light abrasive.
There remained some RDS though, so I stepped up to using
Menzerna PO85RD3.01
Intensive POlish on a 4"
SFX-2 pad and periodically Power Gloss on a LC 4" yellow pad where there were deeper marks... A couple of befores on the car:
Bryan in action with the UDM...
A couple of
50/50 shots during the polishing stage:
With the car machie polished, Bryan set about polishing the glass with
Autoglym Glass Polish while I cleansed the paint with Zymol HD Cleanse. The wax of choice, Zymol Glasur, was then applied directly by hand, left a moment and buffed off before it had a chance to dry. Bryan waxed the wheels with Smartwax Rim Wax, dressed the tyres with Meguiars
Endurance and dressed the arches and plastics with Meguiars All Seasons Dressing.
The car was then rolled out for the the after pics...
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