The Mrs is away on hols for a bit so I got busy with the car cleaning. Top to bottom clean, including taking the wheels off and the full polishing and protecting action.
Still feeling my way with this so I took my first wheel off on Friday, then did the other three on Saturday. I've got some Dragon's breath now, so used that, then rinsed and cleaned with my usual Chemical Guys cleaner, then clayed and polished the wheel and covered in CG Wheel Guard and dressed the tyres. Couple of shots:
Sunday, I did the interior, vacumm and wipe down whilst also cleaning the leather with Gliptone and the feeding the leather afterwards. The "after" shots look like this:
Whilst I was doing that I also gave the engine bay a bit of attention.
Then I washed the car with fairy to strip everything back - a gentle wash but it needed it so I could do the polishing and swirl removal. Out came the gazebo again on Sunday eve.
So most of the hard work was Monday - polishing using Megs 105 and 205 to remove the pretty bad swirling that'd crept onto the car. Before:
Obviously the car was taped up and, as I don't have the most room at the rear of my house, it all take a lot of time to do, as you will all know already. So I suppose you get your reward once it's all done - but it doesn't half take ages! You think you're done and then you realise that you need to get the dust from the polish out of all of the cracks etc! Finally, however, the job was truly completed and here is an after shot:
Then overnight the weather did its magic so I've got a beading shot:
Stevo
Still feeling my way with this so I took my first wheel off on Friday, then did the other three on Saturday. I've got some Dragon's breath now, so used that, then rinsed and cleaned with my usual Chemical Guys cleaner, then clayed and polished the wheel and covered in CG Wheel Guard and dressed the tyres. Couple of shots:
Sunday, I did the interior, vacumm and wipe down whilst also cleaning the leather with Gliptone and the feeding the leather afterwards. The "after" shots look like this:
Whilst I was doing that I also gave the engine bay a bit of attention.
Then I washed the car with fairy to strip everything back - a gentle wash but it needed it so I could do the polishing and swirl removal. Out came the gazebo again on Sunday eve.
So most of the hard work was Monday - polishing using Megs 105 and 205 to remove the pretty bad swirling that'd crept onto the car. Before:
Obviously the car was taped up and, as I don't have the most room at the rear of my house, it all take a lot of time to do, as you will all know already. So I suppose you get your reward once it's all done - but it doesn't half take ages! You think you're done and then you realise that you need to get the dust from the polish out of all of the cracks etc! Finally, however, the job was truly completed and here is an after shot:
Then overnight the weather did its magic so I've got a beading shot:
Stevo
By the seaside...
