Park Avenue Detailing: Volkswagen GTI

[gtpaul]

This car kicked my ***. Swirls, scratches, deep scratches you name it. The clear was rock hard, and didn't respond well to many combination's. A previous detailer hacked the car, holograms, wax residue everywhere.



Process:



Foam with APC (car was covered in sap)

Wash/Clay



First try:

SIP with Orange CCS via Flex - no dice

Second try:

M95 with Yellow CCS via Flex - no dice

Third try:

M105 with Orange CCS via Flex - worked somewhat



continued on with PO106FF with Green CCs via Flex

followed with Collinite 845iw



I wet-sanded the trunk area with 3000 to level some scratches. I also wetsanded certain door scrapes and scratches with 2000-3000 and found that M105 barely made a dent the initial pass in trying to remove the sanding scratches! ***!! I kept on going and eventually got them removed.



Pictures:

 

[kaval]

Fantastic work! Those are some SWEET after shots!!!

 

[gtpaul]

Thanks!



I almost forgot, Can anyone find the airplane?

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Very nice work!!!! Love the car too.

 

[imported_PaPaHoFF1]

Thanks!



I almost forgot, Can anyone find the airplane?

Too easy lol.



Really sweet looking in the afters. What a transformation!

 

[03k20a2]

looks great, once again you have the best 50/50 shots

 

[gtpaul]

Thanks for the comments.

 

[03k20a2]

how much APC did you put in the foam gun?

 

[BuffMe]

Excellent work. I can certainly appreciate all the time and effort that goes into black VW paint.

 

[gtpaul]

how much APC did you put in the foam gun?

couple ounces

 

[P1et]

Such an awesome GTI, did it make you miss yours?

 

[gtpaul]

Just the car, not the payments.:heelclick

 

[gamby]

I'm just curious as to why the client bothered at this part of the season. Is the car getting stored for the winter?



Otherwise, it'll be getting beaten up by winter conditions in another month and it'll be a swirled mess again.



Beautiful job, regardless.



I did a 20th anniversary GTI myself and didn't even bother trying to remove every swirl. I left it at about a 50% correction, which the customer was still thrilled with.

 

[imported_rydawg1]

Great job and nice reflections.

 

[gtpaul]

I'm just curious as to why the client bothered at this part of the season. Is the car getting stored for the winter?



Otherwise, it'll be getting beaten up by winter conditions in another month and it'll be a swirled mess again.



Beautiful job, regardless.



I did a 20th anniversary GTI myself and didn't even bother trying to remove every swirl. I left it at about a 50% correction, which the customer was still thrilled with.

I can manage to not make my car a mess over the winter, why wouldn't others?

I'm doing the works on a Hummer this weekend, it means something to some people.

 

[imported_sal3291]

Great job that is a nice car for sure