Candy White Golf 5Gti - Detailed By Lawrence

[lawrenceSA]

This client drove down from Johannesburg (about 400 miles) to me to get his car detailed. He dropped the car off with me just before 8 on a cold, wet and windy Saturday morning and I then took a few before pictures while allowing the wheels etc to cool down sufficiently.

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I then got to work cleaning the wheels and the arches.

Before
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Tires sprayed with Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner
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Tire cleaner starting to lift the dirt from the tire
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I then scrubbed it with a Mothers Tire Cleaning Brush and rinsed clean
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The wheels were then cleaned using Daytona Wheel Brush and various other smaller brushes
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And rinsed clean
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I then removed all the tar spots using Autofinesse Oblitarate before removing the iron contamination
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The arches were cleaned using Cyclo CM30 APC @3:1 with a Mothers Fender Well Brush and later dressed with Chemical Guys Care Bones. The rims were then clayed using Clay Magic Blue Clay.

On Sunday I used Meguiars Cleaner Wax on a Mothers Polishing Ball to give them a light polish (they could definitely do with a more thorough polish but that was not in the scope of the detail), sealed them with Collinite 845 and dressed the tires using Optibond Tire Gel.

Afters
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I then cleaned the boot and door shuts, inside the petrol flap, around the badges, in all the seams etc using Cyclo CM30 APC @ 3:1 with various brushes.

Badge before
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Badge after
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The car was then pre-foamed using a mix of maxi-suds and Cyclo CM30 APC and then given a full 2BM wash using Cyclo Polymer Car Wash
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On Friday before leaving JHB the owner joked with me that he would be bringing some JHB bugs and tar down for me... well the irony is that when I began the decontamination process by removing the tar deposits using Autofiness Oblitarate, there was less tar than I see on most of the cars I do.... BUT there were a lot of iron deposits.

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To put this into perspective, the owners's current regime includes quarterly claying of the car due to the volume of contamination the car is exposed to at his workplace, but even so a lot of iron came off the paint, and there was still a lot to clay off thereafter, which I did for the remainder of Saturday using Clay Magic Blue Clay.

[lawrenceSA]

Sunday morning I knocked out some test spots and settle on Menzerna FG400 on Orange LC CCS Pads for the paint and a combo of Menzerna PF2500 on White LC CCS Pads / Menzerna SF4000 on Black LC CCS Pads for the B pillars and taillights, and spent the rest of the day correcting / polishing.

The only photos I took during the process
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B pillars before
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After
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And a quick polish of the exhaust tips using Mothers Mag and Aluminium Polish on a Mothers Polishing Ball.

Before
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After
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Monday was spent cleaning/claying the glass surfaces (Autoglym Fast Glass), vacuuming the interior and wiping down the interior surfaces, dressing all the exterior plastic trim using Smartwax Smartdressing and then laying down 2 coats of Collinite 845.

Unfortunately due to prior commitments I was not left with much time to take any decent after shots, besides the few below which are a combination of my DSLR and Cell phone pics....

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Total time spent = 27 hours

Thanks for looking and as always and comments are welcome.

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Fantastic work and dedication to the job and write ups Lawrence. Well done sir. Your thoroughness to the job certainly does not go un-noticed.

[lawrenceSA]

Fantastic work and dedication to the job and write ups Lawrence. Well done sir. Your thoroughness to the job certainly does not go un-noticed.

Thanks for the kind words Mike :xyxthumbs:

Hope you are settling in to your 'new home' well.

[ken tuep]

Excellent job! Your details and write ups are awesome. I've been taking notes. I will try one some day.

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[lawrenceSA]

Excellent job! Your details and write ups are awesome. I've been taking notes. I will try one some day.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using AG Online

Thank you very much:dblthumb2:

[noslef]

Great work! I like the reflection shots. I just worked on a GTI last weekend and also used FG400 and LC orange pads; I liked the working time of the polish.

[sproketser]

Great turnaround again Lawrence . Always a pleasure to look at your threads .

[lawrenceSA]

Great work! I like the reflection shots. I just worked on a GTI last weekend and also used FG400 and LC orange pads; I liked the working time of the polish.

Thanks. Yeah FG400 is a great compound. I did notice though at higher speeds on a DA, dusting becomes evident and so tend not to use it any higher than speed 5 but I got a tip from Smack on the forum to try working it at around speed 3 (almost seems counter intuitive for a compound) and I am yet to try this, but based on the recommended speed settings printed on the bottle, it would seem he is correct.

So the next time I use the product I am going to give it a try.

[lawrenceSA]

Great turnaround again Lawrence . Always a pleasure to look at your threads .

Thank you sproketser - it is always great to receive such encouraging words.:props:

[sproketser]

Thank you sproketser - it is always great to receive such encouraging words.:props:

No problem mate !

[JSou]

Top notch!

[vet]

Outstanding work, as always, Lawrence!

[lawrenceSA]

Top notch!


Outstanding work, as always, Lawrence!

Thank you both very much

[Skimmer0220]

I love those oem huffs, great job!


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