Newbie from the UK,showing my first detail and it was hard

[Scud]

Car in question is a Rover 200vi

Wash
With ## Maxi Suds
Dried with megs water magnet
Suds let to sit for five then rinsed
Washed again with the two bucket method.
Then clayed the whole car with Mothers Clay and Megs Quick Detailer

Exterior
Started with PB's SSR2 on a SFX White Pad,got nowhere quite quickly,so stepped up to SSR2.5 a no go once again.Which was surprising because i thought British paint would have been soft.Anyway i ended up with :
Menz PG on a 4" SFX Yellow Pad using the slow-cut method ( which took ages ) spread on No1,2 passes at speed 3,then a spritz,back to No1,I found taking this back to No1 and going back over the polish until brought it up nicely ( Instead of spritz and straight into No3,kept it on 1 until all the polish had hazed up )
Menz IP on a 6" SFX White pad, spread on 1, 2 passes at speed 4 - Spritz - then a pass on speed 5-6.
Once that was done it had a coat of XXX Wax
Wheels Thought i would try something new here i used a non-acidic wheel cleaner by THE WAX HUT,and might i say it is very good stuff.Tyres follow with Tyre cleaner from THE WAX HUT also.
Trim,rubbers were dressed with a Blackfire vinyl,rubber and upholstery cleaner.
Windows were done with AG window polish.( This stuff is way to dusty for me ).

Interior
Inside was kept in good condition,so i treated the leather with ## Extreme leather conditioner.
Vinyl,rubber etc....again with the Blackfire product.
Passenger side carpet had little black dots there because the owner works on building site ( stuff like you find on roofing felt ) But sprayed with BF cleaner and a bit of elbow grease with a Megs interior brush it came off.Then around with the hoover.
Scented with cherry air freshner.

Engine
Full of cement dust,so i bought some Megs D Greaser cut 4:1 and some more elbow grease ,unfortunatley i dont have any pics of the afters.

The Before




Once the car was washed and clayed i could see how bad the paint really was.




You get the picture

A couple of 50/50 shots




And the results, due to the car having to go back i only had time to take a few piccys,but better than none i suppose.There is nothing wrong with the paint on the left,i realised the day after i was holding a cig in the same hand










Very sorry if this has bored you guys,but as this was my first detail i found it to be a very good learning curve.

Cheers
Scud

[P1et]

Scud, that's fantastic work! Huge improvement between the before and afters!

Where in the UK are you from? I lived in Guildford in Surrey for about 6 years.

[Scud]

Im from south wales P1et,where the sun shines once a year....lol

[supercharged]

Very nice detail. How did you like XXX wax?

[Grimm]

Excellent results!

[Scud]

Originally Posted by supercharged

Very nice detail. How did you like XXX wax?

TBH I love the XXX wax,because my car is white it seems hard to get it to shine like darker colours but this wax makes it look wet which is what i prefer.

Im looking forward to using the duragloss polish i had sent over but im not to sure how to use it.
Do you put the bonding agent on first,leave it on and polish over the top or agent,then buff that off then applie the polish ?

Cheers
Scud

[sparkie]

I just love looking at the different cars yal have over sea. You done outstanding job! I don't see any orange peel like we have on new vehicle in the US now. That's great!

[Scud]

Cheers Sparkie,im going to florida in november and cant wait to get a look at the motors over there,i love american muscle...........................and overhaulin is the mutts nutts,not many people i talk to over here have heared of it but they do some awesome things to cars,fair play to them

[sparkie]

Originally Posted by Scud

Cheers Sparkie,im going to florida in november and cant wait to get a look at the motors over there,i love american muscle...........................and overhaulin is the mutts nutts,not many people i talk to over here have heared of it but they do some awesome things to cars,fair play to them

Overhaulin is a awesome show. When it come to cars, Chip Foose is the man.

[scottinflorida]

Dude! What a sweet detail you did on that car!

Really nice work, and very interesting too. Thanks for listing your materials and methods. For a newbie like me I'm interested in how other people detail because I haven't worked out my own process yet.

Thanks for the great pics!

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