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8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
The owner of this Jetta approached me about getting his car done and brought it to me to see. We discussed his options and he wanted the best for it, so it was going to be coated with Finest. This was going to be a wheels-off detail, but, he ended up needed to do some work to the calipers so he's going to bring it back for round 2..namely the wheels.
The big issue for this car was chips. This was the most chips I had seen on a car. I didn't shoot them as it would have depressed me, LOL. The owner is very, very proud of his car and was nervous and apprehensive when he dropped it off. I found out later he got badly burned by a detailer in Toronto so he wasn't taking things at face value. Hopefully I've restored his faith in our profession. He was apologetic for bringing it so dirty, but I told him not to clean it before anyway. Here it is:
WoooHoooo!! German Brake Dust!!!
First up was the wheels.
Faces & Barrels were cleaned with Tarminator followed by Zep Citrus. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505 and the wells with LATA. I usually take an hour to do this step. This car took 20 minutes longer!
Before:
After being cleaned:
Next up was to foam wash and allow that to dwell while seams, emblems, etc were attended to.
That was followed with a hand wash with DG 901. That was followed with another wash of IX pasted with a grout sponge to help remove surface contamination. After that it was brought inside and clayed with the CarPro foam clay block. The tires, wheels, wells and seams were blown dry with the Master Blaster.
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Great work! I don't many of those Jetta GLI's around anymore. I would have loved to see the chip repair; what method did you use to fix them?
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Very nice. I love that color.
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Originally Posted by noslef
Great work! I don't many of those Jetta GLI's around anymore. I would have loved to see the chip repair; what method did you use to fix them?
For the vast majority of them, I use a pointy toothpick and use very little paint. You want it to "wick" down into the chip, not place a paint "blob" on top of it. I did a comprehensive thread here filling in a key vandalism repair:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...procedure.html
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Nice job. Car looks great!
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Amazing! Stunning car, great work as always
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Nice work. Came out great!
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Re: 8 years old..no way! (2005 Jetta GLI)
Looks awesome, happy owner for sure! What dilution ratio did you use on the wheel wells with the LATA?
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