Made a start on the Mrs E89

[True-Blue]

Thought I pop into the garage a do a test spot on the Mrs E89 and, as per usual, did the whole bonnet

Lovely car this, one owner from new, 62k miles, original paintwork with just a few touched in paint chips. However, even a car garaged every night from new is going to get swirl marks over nearly 14 years if not molly-coddled when washed.

Here how it was looking;

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[True-Blue]

Let there be Gloss….

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[True-Blue]

Corrected lovely, clearly never seen a polishing machine in its life.

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[pvr]

Very satisfactory to do that when it hasn’t been molested before

[flybobbie]

What was it cleaned with originally, a Brillo pad?

[Pondrew]

Martin, you really should change your username to 'Mr Sheen'. Cracking job, as usual.
I wish I had the balls to get a polisher on my cars. I fear I will damage them as I'm a bit ham-fisted (and impatient).

[True-Blue]

What was it cleaned with originally, a Brillo pad?

You’d be surprised how many cars have paintwork like this, this is what happens without the two bucket washing method. The car is actually in tip-top condition, this only took one cutting set and one polishing set to get to this stage.

I’ve finished it with a ‘ceramic light’ spray, but once I’ve corrected the rest of the car to this standard I’ll do a final ‘jewelling’ set to remove that and apply CarPro Uk 3.0 which is a 2 year consumer ceramic coat

[True-Blue]

Very satisfactory to do that when it hasn’t been molested before

Yep powered through it with the Flex, very satisfying

[True-Blue]

Martin, you really should change your username to 'Mr Sheen'. Cracking job, as usual.
I wish I had the balls to get a polisher on my cars. I fear I will damage them as I'm a bit ham-fisted (and impatient).

Thanks Pondy… if we were nearer I’d happily spend a couple of hours showing you how to get a feel for it and lend you the kit… if you can build a Ferrari from a Z3 you can learn to machine polish no problem

[Silverstar]

Amazing results and very satisfying to bring the car back to it's original (or better) glory! I bought a polisher and some compound and polish and keep meaning to try my skills on the Mrs Golf. I must stop procrastinating and get to it!

[True-Blue]

Ceramic lite’ beading nicely

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[Zed Baron]

Looking good

[True-Blue]

Looking good

Thank you, the Mrs is delighted… but; When are you doing the rest?

[Zed Baron]

I bought a polisher and went mad last summer on my RCZ, spent all day on it and couldn't lift my arms at the end of it.

[True-Blue]

I bought a polisher and went mad last summer on my RCZ, spent all day on it and couldn't lift my arms at the end of it.

Looking sharp

I know exactly what you mean, looks easy in videos on YouTube!

I use a Flex 10 8 125 forced rotation, pads do not stall.. but it can ‘walk’ if you get the angle wrong. I use it with a bigger backing plate and Rupes 6” Pads.

It can be super smooth with hardly and vibration and low noise, but when you get an angle wrong you know it