TT - Mess to stunning in 26 hrs

[Race Valeting]

Sorry for the lack of write ups lately folks been so busy over the past few weeks.

 

I had booked in a dark blue Audi TT, on inspection of the car it was obvious the car suffered some heavy swirling and lots of RDS too, the passenger side suffering from the usual brush scratches and scuffs, the owner also said the car suffered pretty bad holograms/marring in the direct sunlight.

 

This was the car on arrival:

 



 



 



 



 



 

No pictures of the wash stage but the wheels were cleaned using AS Smart wheels and a selection of brushes, the tyres and arches were cleaned using g101.

 

All the shuts were cleaned using g101 and a swissvax style brush.

 

The lowers were then pre washed using citrus de-greaser and then rinsed, the car was then foamed and left to dwell for 10 mins.

 

Wash using 2bm and a z sponge and dodo SP, the car was then rolled into the unit to be dried using uber drying towel and megs lt.

 



 

Out with the lamps to inspect the paintwork.

 



 



 



 



 

Now onto the clay stage, I used AB fine clay and megs lt as a lube.

 

Before:

 



 

During:

 



 

After door and rear wing:

 



 

Once all the claying was done the car was rolled outside again as the sun was shining nice and bright to show the true defects:

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Then run back inside and taped up ready for some paint readings, on avergare they were pretty healthy driverside had been resprayed and was showing 210+ where as the rest of the car was between 90-135 microns on average.

 



 



 



 

I then got the makita out and got ready to start polishing, my first combo was megs polishing pad and menz ip 3.02 this did hardly anything so then went for a elitecarcare orange cutting pad again with menz ip, this was working lovely and slowing knocking back the defects, the swirls were mainly removed with the first hit, but the RDS were taking 3 hits to remove 95% of them, only the really deep ones remained.

 

50/50's

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Corrected shots:

 



 



 

Out in the sun to check my work, all the compounding done and now to be finished down with 3m ultrafina se on a black LC finishing pad.

 



 



 



 

Some shots once finishing had be done, thats looks much better now.

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

The car was then taking back in to have a IPA wipedown, and then to follow was a coat of swissvax BOS this was applied to the whole car inc shuts left to cure for 30 mins then buffed.

 

Then the arches dressed with smart shine, tyres with megs endurance, wheels sealed with zaino CS, the glass cleaned and sealed again with zaino cs.

 

The exhausts polished with and sealed with britemax 2 stage polish/sealant, all exterior plastics was dressed with 303 aerospace protectant.

 

50/50 of grill:

 



 



 

Finished shots:

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Time taken was 26hrs.

 

Finally before:

 



 

After:

 



 

Owner was over the moon with the car and the first place they took it was Audi to part-ex it in for a a4 cab:doublesho I bet they got a good price trade in though as its very low miles 30k iirc.

 

All comments welcome thanks for looking

Paul

[BulletMagnet]

WOW! It's like two different cars!

Great work

[Danny 350Z]

Good work as always. A joy to look at.

[bronzee]

50/50's are telling. Lovely depth on the finished product.

[Chris`I]

Good work again chap, bet the owner was well chuffed, good as new (if not better than new!)

[ab350z]

I sometimes can't notice much on the 50/50 shots but this one is amazing! Great work, bet that was one happy hairdresser

[jpaero]

Have to say that you are brill at your job mate! Always interesting in what you are gonna show us next!! Lovely job!!

[Walbertonio]

Very impressive, really is night & day those before and afters!

[Clenz Ltd]

Great job there.

 

26 hours - got to be what £7-800 and then he chops it in; I wonder if he got that much or more over what he would have done. If he did then a good move by him, woud have been great if he had got a before and after valuation!

[Pimm]

again fantastic shots but more to the point what a amazing job you have done on the car