Detailed my car at lunchtime. What do you think.

[Jonny69]

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:

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:

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:

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:

From inside the car the difference is astonishing:

 

[Jonny69]

Next up was the chrome work:

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

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

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

Outside I got on with the wheels. Before:

After:

 

[Jonny69]

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

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:

to this:

You can hardly see this water mark now:

And WoW look at this panel, so smooth:

 

[Jonny69]

Wheel arch before:

Wheel arch after:

Here's the finished item:

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:

 

[Jonny69]

And it still looks like a **** heap

I wouldn't be seen in anything less I'll have you know

 

[Jonny69]

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:

 

[Jonny69]

It's a Ford Pop. Slowest car on the forum I'll have you know

 

[Jonny69]

Any interior pics Jonny?

Front:

Back:

Headlining is a bit neater now I figured out how it fits in the window rubbers

That single windscreen wiper doesnt look wholly effective!

Single vacuum operated wiper and yes it's not very good but it works Don't know who fitted the second wiper point but it doesn't belong there and it's not connected.

 

[Jonny69]

Doh! Edited

 

[Jonny69]

Lets just say with the engine I built it's a pretty wild ride. I'd need to have a damn quick crazy handling modern motor to deliver the same driving experience and I'd have to be going a lot faster to do the same things I do in this

 

[Jonny69]

The OP's post is a ****take as a result of a previous thread on this forum, which is still on the front page. It conveys his thoughts on the matter

Woah easy there! It was a light hearted dig and most people saw the funny side of it

If anyone is sad it's me for spending my whole lunchtime in Tesco's car park. For the record I own a sander/polisher and it was probably more expensive than most of the ones on here, so there you go, it's out