Candy White VW Tiguan - Detailed by Lawrence

**LawrenceSA** · 02-11-2014, 01:17 AM

<span>Friday - 19:00 to 23:00
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The first order of business was removing the horrid attempt by the `corner car wash` at `dressing` the interior, dressing it properly and then cleaning and conditioning the leather`
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Maybe they ran out of product?

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Corners are tough so we shall just leave them out completely

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During
Plastic trim Clean: APC @10:1 / Brushes / MF Towels / SmartDressing
Leather: APC @20:1 / Brushes / MF Towels / Glossworx Leather Conditioner
Interior Glass: Autoglym Fast Glass / Glass MF Towels
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This car only has 17k km`s on the clock and is a 1 lady driver owner so you would think the leather on the passenger seat would still be quite clean, but alas, you would be wrong
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The matt side has been cleaned, the shiny side not.

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After

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<span>Saturday 06:00 to 22:00 and Sunday 06:00 to 15:30
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Arches: Cyclo APC / Mothers Fender Well Brush / HP Rinse / Shield Sheen
Tires: Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner / Mothers Tire Brush / Optimum Optibond
Wheels: Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner / Autofinesse Oblitarate / Hot water rinse / AF Iron Out / Daytona Jnr / HP Rinse / Menzerna Powerlock
Door shuts, window rubbers, fuel flap, badges: Cyclo APC / Various Brushes / HP Rinse
Engine Bay: Cyclo APC / Various Brushes / HP Rinse / Shield Sheen
Wash: Chemical Guys Maxisuds II and Cyclo APC mix via foam cannon / Cyclo Polymer Car Wash and ONR mix / 2BM with Lambswool wash mitt
Dry: ONR at QD strength / WW Drying towel / Compressed Air
Tar removal : Autoglym Intensive Tar Remover / Hot water rinse
Iron removal : Autofinesse Iron Out
Remaining Contaminants : Autoglym Fine Grade Clay / Carways Mist and Wipe
Glass : Autoglym Fine Grade Clay / Carways Mist and Wipe`
Paint correction : Menzerna SF4000 / LC Tangerine Pad
B-pillar/Tail light correction: Menzerna PF2500 / LC White Pad / Menzerna SF4000 / LC Black Pad
Paint and glass protection : Menzerna Powerlock
Door rubbers, plastic trim : Shield Heavy Duty Vinyl and Rubber Cleaner / Smartwax Smart Dressing
Exhaust tips : Mothers Mag and Aluminium Polish /Mothers Power Ball mini / MF Towels
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Enough ...er....detail..... let`s see some pics`
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Firstly, the car had been washed prior to being bought to me. This showed.....all down the side of the car
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Cheap silicone based looking tire dressing which had slung and completely detracted from the otherwise (seemingly) clean look of the car
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Let`s check what it looked like on the actual tires....
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Yip.... looks like a whole chunk of it was blown off the tire and down the side of the car
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Tire getting cleaned

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Here you can see the embedded iron contamination in the corners of the spokes

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And now you can see that the contamination was in fact everywhere on the wheels
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And finally clean

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The main `scratch` here actually turned out to be just paint transfer and was easily clayed off the paint.`
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The paint itself was not too bad, hence my reason for not getting too aggressive on the correction. With the car being new still, clear coat preservation was key.
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Tail lights in need of some love too

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B-Pillars even more so
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There was quite a lot of contamination on the paint though
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The exhaust tips before

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After

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Engine bay before

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By the time Sunday came, the weather had again turned miserable so no sun shots yet again. I am detailing a Jerez Black E90 M3 next weekend and am already hoping for sunny weather on Sunday`
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So here are the `beauty shots`
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