One for the trophy cabinet

[Brazo]

This thread will hopefully demonstrate remarkably poor dealer car preparation and shows that they really don’t give a damn when it comes to preparing customers cars and should also show why if badly valeted by the dealer your car will need ‘heavy’ machine polishing prior to application of an LSP!

Theres quite a story to this detail! The car in question is EVO magazines ‘best hot hatch ever’.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy003.jpg

It is an end of run limited to 500 (now 499!) and is a further evolution of the already excellent 182. It has the same horsepower, a tad lighter but again in the words of EVO magazine it contains an ‘array of supercar worrying race bred hardware!’ i.e its track developed Leda (iirc) coilover suspension!

The owner who lives quite literally 500 foot from me wanted to have the cars paintwork sealed to protect it. He brought the car over to me after the dealership had kindly ‘polished’ it up for him. The brand new car was suffering from rotary holograms and buffer trails.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/ClioTrophy001.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/ClioTrophy002.jpg

The above pics were taken back in August. Unfortunately and quite literally a ‘minor off’ (rock in road) put paid to the car, it would seem that the insurance company were somewhat over cautious and a new car was supplied.

It would appear that the dealership (a different one – at least their consistent) did a ‘rush’ job on cleaning it. The car is absolutely brand new and was for a brand new car severely swirled and in some places very deep swirl type scratches, which after 3 passes with a rotary, did not shift!! Being a brand new car I took the cautious route and left them there rather than compounding.

Before pictures of swirls in bonnet

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy001.jpg

Less obvious swirls in door

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy013.jpg

Process was QEW wash
light clay
SSR2 on the rotary with a Meguiars polishing pad

#80 on a lake country polishing pad (s) via the cyclo
SSRr2 on plastic bumpers with a 4 inch pad via pc.
The owner wanted maximum durability and with it being too wet/moist cold for sealants to work properly I went for Collinite 476s. This is known to deepen the paint but isn’t best known for its reflective look. So I decided to spit shine it with sonus carnauba spritz.

I used the ‘wax as you go’ (WAYG) technique on each panel as very light rain was forecast and I didn’t want to be caught out with a polished car and then have it rain before the wax went on!

After pics of bonnet and door after polishing

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy004.jpg

After pics of door

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy017.jpg

wide shot of bonnet after #80

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy005.jpg

Bonnet after spit shining collinite

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy007.jpg

Side shot after spit shining – I was especially impressed with this as I achieved my aim of reflection and depth

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy020.jpg

It then started to rain so no great after shots

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy025.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy024.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Brazoo/cliotrophy030.jpg

[Zorba_the_greek]

THAT SIR!!!!

is a job well done !! VERY VERY nice!

[WX51 TXR]

Great work, great write up - learning a a lot from you, thanks for taking the time to share.:)

[Rich]

Fantastic work as ever Mark, Renualt new car prep work as good as ever then! I reckon the rotary marks are from the factory, I had some to correct on mine.

Good old british weather hey! What on the tyres?

[Racer]

Its all the same thing in every country, the dealerships make the same damn mistakes :(

Fortunate for your neighbour you were around :D

Great Detail :cool:

[Suasexed]

That dealer prep is absolutely appauling! I seriously hope my new Sport won't arrive in that worse-of condition! Awful!

But top work on the detail and paint resurrection! Looks fantastic. Now that's how cars should be comming from dealers.

And look at that beading! Bizarrely incredible!

[Brazo]

Cheers guys

Rich I used AG v&R care, some of those pics were taken mid detail due to the rain I knew I wouldn't get great 'afters' so the product hasn't properly dried yet, did you spot the white bits lol!

[neilos]

Wow, thats amazing. Nice job...:)

[AndyC]

Excellent work mate - and an abject lesson in why ANYONE buying a brand new car should take a Xenon lamp with them IMHO - that particular car would have been rejected by myself straight off :eek:

[Brazo]

^^Cheers Andy may I add a 50:50 water and IPA mix to remove any 'colour' magic before using the xennon ;-)

[Suasexed]

Excellent work mate - and an abject lesson in why ANYONE buying a brand new car should take a Xenon lamp with them IMHO - that particular car would have been rejected by myself straight off :eek:

Can you reject cars over paint swirls though? :confused: If you did...surely you'd loose your deposit - especially if it was a factory order?

[Suasexed]

Oh and what's IPA, and where can i get some from?

[Neil_S]

Cracking work. That is shocking to see what a dealer can do.

[182_blue]

very nice job there, as always mate

[Throbbe]

Oh and what's IPA, and where can i get some from?

http://www.greenekingipa.co.uk/images/ipa_ad.jpg

Mmmmmmmmmmm, IPA. Not sure how it would help though.

:p

[Brazo]

IPA is iso propanyl alcohol (SP!)

Its pure alchol smells like vodka! Pugoman from here gave me a gallon or so. It should be cut 1:1 with distilled water and is very effective at cleaning paint before say zaino and also cleaning trim.

Being a limited run of 500 and the car being a high 48* number if he had rejected it he wouldn't have had another one!