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So let me start this off by saying a big thank you to the owner of this car for bringing it in at such short notice. I had originally booked a car with another customer a good few months ago and at the time, told him I would contact him a month before the detail to confirm we were still on...

Another weekend.... another car from a panel beater that needs to be fixed... :crazy: I am really developing an absolute fear of ever having to send my own car in for any kind of body work / repainting... so far I can honestly say that every single car that I have detailed that has been...

As far as paint correction goes, this detail was right up there with some of the toughest I have done - but this is also what makes it so rewarding. So this is how she looked on arrival. There was the usual dirt Some bird droppings Small signs like this...

A few pictures to document the general condition of the car. Arches, Tires, Wheels -HP rinse arches, tires and wheels. -Clean arches with a Cyclo APC using a Mothers Fenderwell Brush -HP rinse -Clean tires with Valet Pro...

One of the members of the local vw club was up from CPT on holiday (its about 1000 miles away) and wanted me to detail his dad's car for Christmas. They arrived on Friday night and we chatted around the history of the car, current 'maintenance', inspected the car and set some realistic...

This car really needed some love.... 5 years of improper maintenance, parking outside 24/7, a horrendously bad repaint (front fenders and bonnet) and some fool with a rotary and this is what it looked like.... :fear: The car was obviously dirty Has some obligatory bird droppings...

Well....its bigger than I thought it would be. I reckon the bonnet is the single biggest panel I have polished to date But with good reason obviously... the 4.4l twin turbo V8 making 560 HP. The owner was gracious enough to allow me to take it for a drive when he collected it on Sunday...

So first things first.... the car was dropped off on Friday night and locked in the garage. Saturday morning I went out and started the car.... :drool: :grin: :grin: :grin: Cold start is too lovely :hurray: Back to the detail. So one of the first things I noticed was this on the...

Parking this car in the garage on Friday night it really hit me as to how big the X5 from last weekend was, and how small this car is  :lol:   So the objective for this detail was to clean up the wheels, restore the paint and give it some protection. The driver's side rear panel had been...

Some pics of the car on arrival.                   [/URL]   Arches : HP rinse / APC / Mothers Fenderwell Brush / HP Rinse / Glossworx Extreme Tire Dressing Tire cleaning : HP Rinse / Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner / Mothers Tire Brush / HP Rinse /  Tire protection : Gyeon Tire Coat...

A few nights before the car was dropped off for the detail, the owner had the front bumper off and bought the fog lights through to me to try and get them looking better for once the car was detailed.   With the owner waiting, snapping pics wasn't high on my priority list, but I did manage one...

It felt so wrong having to correct a brand new car (this one only had 534km's on the clock when it arrived on Friday night) but unfortunately it had already been on the receiving end of some abuse.   Look I don't particularly enjoy hating on anyone, but I found it truly Amazing how little regard...

It wasn't until I had polished red paint for the first time that I ever considered owning a red car one day. :oops: but since I have been fortunate enough to see it polished right, there is just something about it, along with black, that keeps me wanting to look at it  :drool:  :grin:   ...

Ok so first up, during my usual pre-detail chat with the owner on Friday night, one of the things we got chatting about is glazes. I wanted to demonstrate the sort of difference a glaze could make and where, IMO they have their place in one's paint maintenance regime. (It obviously had no place...

This car was just purchased by a client of mine and it was painfully clear that the previous owner didn't show it the care it deserved.    I tackled the interior on Friday evening.   There was the usual dust/dirt...         This was remedied by first blowing out the interior with compressed...

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">I put this post together initially on the local VW Club forum I am a member of as this was one of the club member's cars I detailed.  <span...

This is one of my favorite local MK3's - a lot of subtle changes that really work well. The car has however received a full re-spray and unfortunately the finish left a lot to be desired - not particularly noticeable from a distance but up close it was a different story.    The usual surface...

Some before pics       Here you will notice a stain below the fuel flap (presumably from some spilled octane booster :driving: ) - more on that later.     Some wax as a momento      Others                                 Arches: Rinsed with a HP washer, sprayed with Cyclo APC...

Objective - 1 step correction   Arches: Rinsed with a HP washer, sprayed with Cyclo APC via a foaming trigger head and allowed to dwell and then agitated with a Mothers Fender Well Brush. This was followed with another HP Rinse. The arches would later be dressed with Glossworx Extreme Tyre Shine...

Sadly, like so many, the owner of this vehicle was none the wiser when it comes to proper paint maintenance. I simply believe that this is down to a lack of education and methods handed down from previous generations whose paint systems were not the same. I was there too and so no disrespect is...