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 Post subject: D (for detailing) Day for the 307
PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:48 pm 
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With the weekend to myself, I was going to take the opportunity to get the old Pug up together once and for all. I know it's not one of my dubs, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway.

This is how it looked at 8:00am this morning. Ready for a good wash.

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Closer inspection shows the poor contition of the paint. Lots if fine scratches, especially round the door handles.

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I'm not really sure why the rear lights look like they do in this pic :?

Anyhow, out with the AG shampoo, megs mf wash mit and of course, 2 buckets

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To your average person, this would do, but not the likes of us eh?

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Swirls and sratches a plenty

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So it was a case old out with the old,

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and in with the new.........er (so to speak)

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Ready for the next stage. Megs clay with 50-50 diluted speed detailer as a lube

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It was fairly clean, and the clay did not have to get much crap off, but it gave a nice smooth surface ready for the business side of things.

Fire up the Porter Cable DA, and do 2 passes of Poorboys SSR2 applied using a Sonus Green grooved polishing pad.

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This was followed by a coat of good old SRP again applied with the machine using a Sonus Blue softer pad.

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To finish off, I used my AG High Def Wax applied by hand with a foam applicator pad, and buffed with a mf cloth.

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I didn't think the results were too shabby

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Even got this ugly tw@ to take a picture for me

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Due to the lack of space in the garage, I completed one section at a time, from clay to wax. However, I'd finished the o/s and realised that I hadn't done the roof :roll: So I covered up the sides of the car with an old duvet cover so that I could lean over to reach the roof without making contact with the car.

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I moved it outside so to check on the results before parking it on the other side of the garage to work on the n/s. I don't think it came up too bad.

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