Had this 05 plate from 8:30 this morning for a mini detail. This envolves

1) wash and dry
2) polish
3) touchup of a few marks
4) wax
5) interior hoover, and treatment

touch ups were just to cover the metal, so dont expect them to look pretty lol.

so first things first i set to work

My arsenal


The paint for the touch ups




The car before any work















I wont bother with pictures for these inbetween bits as they are boring lol

1) First everything was sprayed was sprayed with a strong solution of degreaser and bug remover to loosen up any bugs and loose tar. also to remove any old wax ( unlikely to have any but hay ho )

2) rinsed

3) snow foamed









This was then left for about five minutes which gave me time to go in and full these up



4) wash with poorboys super slick and suds and euro W mitt

5) rinse

6) drown the car with the contents of this 25litre container



mmmmmm, pure RO water. The point of this is that Ro, much the same as DI is pure, so doesnt leave any water marks etc. so after being rinsed off with that, a quick wipe over with a microfibre and let the sun dry it..... brilliant.

7) now the car is dry check out how bad the defects are
















8) now the plan was to polish the whole car with a non abrassive polish to see what sort of results i could get.... but, i wasnt happy with it so stepped up to SSR2 compound polish. This got rid of the light scratches and some swirls ( although swirl removal wasnt requested )

9) touching in of the chips and areas with missing paint and then wet sanding. now remember, its not pretty, its just to protect the metal and take you eye away from the underlaying colour lol







10 ) after the wet sanding, it was back to polishing to remove the dullness.

11) wax

12) interior hoovered, plastics and rubbers cleaned and treated. glass cleaned.







13) exterior rubbers and plastics treated, tyres and arches dressed and wheels sealed



now here are some before and afters of the touch ups and scratchs




















The finished results

















And the trademark reflection of self shot

a job well done again

looks a whole much better now

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Top job mate, whats the stuff you use to make it foam like that???

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its called snowfoam and for best results needs to be used with a proper end piece for a pressure washer. yu can get ones for hose pipes but they dont foam aswell, you can also get other attachments like karcher ones but they dont have the mixture adjust knob etc



for hose pipe connection

http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/product_i ... cts_id=188

pressure washer ( the one i have )

http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/product_i ... dhp7o0eor7

have you read the rant on detailing world about some of the foam attachments?

think i will stick to my cheapo karcher foam bottle

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just read it.


the thing is, 40 odd people say its bad, but that always seems to over rule the 40000 people or so that have good things to say about them

Looks great Alex, very shiny new ... you should have binned those fur seat covers whilst you were at it though!

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another stunning and job well done alex

i want my car done by your fair hands! but when its looking a bit better

oh alex, you know how to polish.....will you be my wife

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The way things are going with me and the Mrs at the mo, i may just take you up on that offer

theres always a space outside my flat for your cossie, and room under my bed for your polish.

*man hug*

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theres room for 6 in my bed

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