15 year old one...

**Flatfour** · 09-20-2005, 11:19 AM

Today I "attacked" my mother in law`s Ford Fiesta.

The poor thing is 15 years old and has NEVER saw water, soap or polish/wax.

I washed with Zymol shampoo

Claying made no difference, so rough the paint was !!!

Then off with the rotary with Sonus SFX orange/bleu/green pads and Meguiars *83

Sealed with Turtle wax Hard shell wax...

Doorseals, bumpers and rubber sealed with 101.

After 5 hours of work this was the result.

Ok, it`s not 100 % but still a 1000% improvement with before...

Strange thing with the Turtle Wax Hard shell Wax (a green couloured paste wax) : You have to apply it with a damp sponge applicator, but once it dries onto the paint, the wax is extremely hard to remove, only a wet microfiber helped me out here !

Any suggestions on make this easier (like wipe-on-wipe-off...)

Cheers from Belgium,

Wally

**JJ_** · 09-20-2005, 12:08 PM

WOW looks brillaint. Really good job, Xtreme detail ??

**LightngSVT** · 09-20-2005, 12:41 PM

Night and day difference! I bet she was happy with your work.

**Flatfour** · 09-20-2005, 01:41 PM

MOre pics, it`s a very basic car (donno if it was ever sold in the US....), very small and light, and a 1.0 litre engine (as big as the airco pump on those big US-cars..LOL)

**Flynn** · 09-20-2005, 01:45 PM

That`s an outstanding piece of work. You`re making me think about getting a rotary now!

How did you do the bit between the windscreen and the bonnet?

**Scottwax** · 09-20-2005, 01:51 PM

Nice recovery! :up

**LightngSVT** · 09-20-2005, 07:45 PM

We had both a Fiesta and a Festiva here in the US, but neither looked like that car.

**4830Deuce** · 09-20-2005, 07:59 PM

GREAT WORK! 1 liter engine is....well i guess its the smallest engine that I have ever heard of....I think.... :xyxthumbs

**ToddW** · 09-20-2005, 08:45 PM

Kind of lucky with the oxidations as it preserves a lot of nice paint underneith where-as if it was taken care of but poorly or inproperly you could have had a lot MORE work on your hands. I`d rather work on an oxidized old car over a deeply scratched or deeply swirled car any day but that`s just me.

Very nice job I love it when the results are worth the efforts

**Flatfour** · 09-20-2005, 10:08 PM

The fact that it was so often washed in all those years was actually a good thing.

Under the oxidation where almost no scratches, only on two places were a "bodyshop" has sanded some filler or so, probably with a 400 grid paper. Those scratches were into the paint and after 5 passes with the orange pad and *83 I gave up...

**porta** · 09-21-2005, 01:18 AM

Nice job but stay away from turtle wax.

**imported_Bence** · 09-21-2005, 05:46 AM

Don`t stay away from Turtle, just use their Platinum Series. Your jaw will drop...

Not the most durable product but the look is killer.

**Lowejackson** · 09-21-2005, 09:13 AM

Great before and after pictures :up

**Bigpunter** · 09-21-2005, 09:49 AM

Superb work! :clap:

Should be an entry for the xtreme contest as mentioned earlier! Hope what you done to it makes the owner look after it better :xyxthumbs