Results of cleaning my Girlfriends corsa

Conanius · 9 May 2006 at 19:33

Well, some of you will remember the thread a few weeks back about the state of the bodywork. firstly, I got my cleaning kit at the ready...

and these are the results !

Front

Bonnet Reflection

Passenger side front to back

Shiny windows !

Passenger side back to front

Rear right quarter

Roof !

rear right roof support, note the paintwork now !

So much better than before, the cars totally transformed, well worth the effort

Conanius · 9 May 2006 at 19:37

marcus25 said:
looks very clean, wish i had the time, money and patience to do mine

didnt take long between us, maybe 2-3 hours at most? thats start to finish aswell

Conanius · 9 May 2006 at 19:39

the paint was in a pretty bad way, so it needed sorting out, im absolute gobsmacked at how well it cleaned up !

Conanius · 9 May 2006 at 22:14

commited said:
Any before pics?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17570765

as for the polisher, I did the whole car in the meg paint cleaner with it, but I wasnt happy with the finish, so we did it again by hand, and then continued by hand, theres a few other blemishes that we need to sort, and ill probably use the polisher again after all that for the final wax or whatever. its absolutely incredible what a bit of product does to what appears to be wrecked paint

Conanius · 9 May 2006 at 22:36

Bes said:
Looks grand compared to the start-

See who needs a £5,000 car wash when a couple of bottles of 'glym can get it looking like that?!

in total that stuff probably comes to about 40-45 quid, but obviously it lasts for quite a while

Conanius · 10 May 2006 at 08:20

Baron G said:
Mate - your girlfriend looks a bit young. Is that legal?? :p[/QUOTE]

thats just wrong on so many levels !

Conanius · 10 May 2006 at 08:20

Barry Smalley said:
Ever heard the phrase "You can't polish a turd"?

quite, but not everyone gets the silver spoon treatment

Conanius · 10 May 2006 at 08:35

EddScott said:
How did you find the electric polisher?

I know a few have been on about these Porter Cable affairs but I was lazy and got a valeter to do mine yesterday and he said you need to be careful not to take the paint off?

to be fair, on the bad bits, it was totally useless, and I had to do them by hand, however since dad has used it on his new mondeo and it was a great finish, but then again, we didnt need it to work so hard.

its also a bit to big (the head is about the size of a football, which means that any smaller areas you end up missing, and the bits of the car next to the trim you also end up missing

Conanius · 10 May 2006 at 21:22

leaskovski said:
Care to give us a list of the products you used there then??

Looks like the motor came up good. I remember with my old Red Astra Mark 2 Starlight that was red.... It faded really bad. Its was as almost as pink as that thing Hammy was driving about in on Sunday night!

does the picture of all the products at the top of the post not give it away?