Detailed my car at lunchtime. What do you think.

Jonny69

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Decided to detail my car this lunchtime because I was getting fed up with all the scratches and swirl marks in the paint.

Don't have a portapolisher so started with a high quality clean cloth, in this case the oily rag out my toolbox:

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Went over the drivers side of the windscreen a few times and boy what a difference it made. I can see out and everything. Amazing the difference it has made on that 50 year old piece of glass:

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Decided to go against the advice on forums that I had heard about McGuaiars's polish and settled for a good mouthful of gob on the bonnet. The acid in spit has a slight cutting action and cuts through the grime really well:

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I used a rough scrubbing movement back and forth to lift the muck out the paint then turned the cloth over and polished out. The results are quite noticeable, I don't need to tell you which is before and after:

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From inside the car the difference is astonishing:

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Next up was the chrome work:

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Who am I kidding, that's NEVER going to shine up. Or so I thought:

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Inside I gave the carpets a good hoover out, they were filthy:

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Oh wait, I'm mistaken, I don't have any carpets.

Outside I got on with the wheels. Before:

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After:

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Couldn't bring myself to wipe this little baby off:

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Up top the roof panel had started to lift from driving so fast. A couple of whacks with the rubber end of the jack handle took it from looking like this:

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to this:

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You can hardly see this water mark now:

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And WoW look at this panel, so smooth:

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Wheel arch before:

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Wheel arch after:

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Here's the finished item:

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That was shot in Tesco carpark on my Canon EOS350D with kit lens at ISO200 1/60 sec f/5.6

Token badboy closeup shot:

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The amazing thing is that if you HAD properly detailed the car, it would look like a well loved classic rather than a heap of crap :)

Detailing is something that people with shabby sheds who think dulux is an acceptable touch up paint will never understand ;)
 
That's brilliant dude, if i pay you £500 will you detail my car to the same standard?

Also you should consider packaging that "spittle" wax you use and selling it to people in large crystal containers - free refills fo' life yo!
 
Notice I took the roofrack off to save me some mpg's and to add a bit to the top end. She's gonna fly now. The rack has done almost no damage to the roof at all, testiment to the quality of the design:

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[TW]Fox;10342753 said:
The amazing thing is that if you HAD properly detailed the car, it would look like a well loved classic rather than a heap of crap :)
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It DOES look like a well loved classic at the moment, what it doesn't look like is a concours trailer-queen and that's why it's cool :)
 
[TW]Fox;10342753 said:
Detailing is something that people with shabby sheds who think dulux is an acceptable touch up paint will never understand ;)
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OK, I appreciate it was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm gonna bite. Firstly, the car was a long way from being a 'shabby shed', and secondly when did anyone think that the dulux-esque hand paint touch-up on the sideskirts/lip was acceptable? It was never acceptable, I simply didn't get round to doing it.

It's funny how that 'shabby shed' sold for the asking price within days of going up for sale isn't it.....
 
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