First of all, a big thanks to James_R for helping me with this one.. It was a good day. Sorry it went on for a little longer than expected!
Method & Product.
1. Wheels/arches
2. Clean shuts, sills and detail areas
3. Foamed > Body wash > Rinse
4. Clay
5. Re-wash > Rinse > Dry
6. Engine Bay cleaned/dressed
7. Paintwork enhanced
8. Paintwork protected
9. Interior de-cluttered > hovered > cleaned
10. Tyres dressed
11. Windows polished
• AutoSmart G101
• DoDo Juice Born To Be Mild
• Megs SuperDegreaser
• Megs LastTouch
• Megs Wheel Brightener
• Megs All Season Dressing
• Megs Endurance Tyre Gel
• AG Fast Glass
• Sonus Green Clay
• DoDo Juice LimePrime
• DoDo Juice SuperNatural
• Zaino Z8
• Kestral SIM-180, Megs yellow polishing pad
• Frebreeze
• Jaffa Cake & Relentless energy drink
Spot Jim's Jaffa!!
"Spot who's what!?" I'm trying to add a bit of 'fun' to the report.. Hidden, in three of the below photographs, are suspiciously placed Jaffa-cakes. It's like "Where's Wally", just, not a dark-haired chap in a red and white striped jumper! If you find them, you win. (Photo evidence required of course.)
Pictures and Process
The Golf belongs to the owner of the silver Fiesta ST I did some months back. A similar job spec involved this time round.
Upon arrival photos:
Starting with the wheels.
• Rinse > Megs Super DG on tyres > tyres scrubbed > Megs WB > PW > Inners cleaned with EZ brush > Wheel facing cleaned with wheel mitt > Rinse
Next job was to give a nice thick coating of ValetPro's snowfoam to loosen the surface dirt. Once foamed, I went round with a few detail brushes and cleaned the filler housing, badges, crevices, sills/shuts, foglamps etc..
Snowfoam taken off and arches worked:
Two bucket method wash carried out with DoDo BTBM and a Megs MF washmit. New buckets!
Serious lack of protection seen:
©©©Now at this point, I want to show you my new invention!©©©
I hate it how when using the stop-valve end on a hose, you cannot get a free-flowing hose to sheet water over the car on the rinse stage. I end up sticking my finger in the hose connection, thus, allowing water to 'flow' out the other end. When I say 'flow', I mean 'splutter'. It's not very graceful.. It nearly does the job, but does not compare against a pure free flowing hose.
(old method as seen here..)
Yes, okay, you can take the end off and have nothing but an open hose, but then that leaves you to run round the back to turn the hose off after you're done. Nightmare!
So, I had an idea. On the way through to location this morning, I stopped at Focus to collect a few goodies.
Take a double ended socket, an additional connector (stop-valve of non stop-valve) and a stanley knife to cut a length of hose off.
Take one connector, plum it onto the hose reel and install double-ended socket. Likewise, attach other free connector and plug onto the free end of the double socket.
Genius. I'd like to add at this point that it works at treat. :thumb:
Look at how happy I am, best.modification.ever.
Anyway, so I rinsed the car. Given a quick inspection by James_R
And the two wash buckets after:
Engine bay before:
And after G101, Super-degreaser and All Season Dressing:
Car now ready for clay.
James at work with the Sonus Green:
It shifted a fair amount of contaminants from what I could see.
Car then re-washed and dired (using leaf-blower and Miracle dryer)
Into the garage for halogen assist and we find quite a mess!
The plan was to go over with machine and LimePrime on Megs pads and follow up later with a nice sealant.
I started to work the rear end. Action shot. (currently working on a 50/50 area):
50/50 on rear wing:
James working further down with the PC:
50/50 from PC work:
I moved onto the lower, under the bump-strips.
Before and after LimePrime.
Rolled outside for a little inspection. LimePrime gave good results, yep, we're happy with that!
Bad defects seen around the petrol filler cap. Before and after:
Misc. 50/50:
Corrected. (all this from LimePrime, nice huh?)
Pre-LSP photos:
At this point we split; I dug into the interior and James gave a coat of DoDo Supernatual V2.
Foot well before and after:
Coming together nicely now..
Wax removed. Tyres dressed. Windows polished.
Beading.
And that's about it! I've just realised, I've uploaded the wrong photos from the photobucket album, what an idiot!! They should be nicely watermarked and bordered.. bah!
As said, an enjoyable day spent learning new tricks and tips from James. Real pleased with my new hose add-on too!
Many thanks to James again, wouldn't of been able to get in done in such time without you. Thanks.
Total time - 6 hours
Customer happy? - Yes. Very much so.
Thanks!
Method & Product.
1. Wheels/arches
2. Clean shuts, sills and detail areas
3. Foamed > Body wash > Rinse
4. Clay
5. Re-wash > Rinse > Dry
6. Engine Bay cleaned/dressed
7. Paintwork enhanced
8. Paintwork protected
9. Interior de-cluttered > hovered > cleaned
10. Tyres dressed
11. Windows polished
• AutoSmart G101
• DoDo Juice Born To Be Mild
• Megs SuperDegreaser
• Megs LastTouch
• Megs Wheel Brightener
• Megs All Season Dressing
• Megs Endurance Tyre Gel
• AG Fast Glass
• Sonus Green Clay
• DoDo Juice LimePrime
• DoDo Juice SuperNatural
• Zaino Z8
• Kestral SIM-180, Megs yellow polishing pad
• Frebreeze
• Jaffa Cake & Relentless energy drink
Spot Jim's Jaffa!!
"Spot who's what!?" I'm trying to add a bit of 'fun' to the report.. Hidden, in three of the below photographs, are suspiciously placed Jaffa-cakes. It's like "Where's Wally", just, not a dark-haired chap in a red and white striped jumper! If you find them, you win. (Photo evidence required of course.)
Pictures and Process
The Golf belongs to the owner of the silver Fiesta ST I did some months back. A similar job spec involved this time round.
Upon arrival photos:
Starting with the wheels.
• Rinse > Megs Super DG on tyres > tyres scrubbed > Megs WB > PW > Inners cleaned with EZ brush > Wheel facing cleaned with wheel mitt > Rinse
Next job was to give a nice thick coating of ValetPro's snowfoam to loosen the surface dirt. Once foamed, I went round with a few detail brushes and cleaned the filler housing, badges, crevices, sills/shuts, foglamps etc..
Snowfoam taken off and arches worked:
Two bucket method wash carried out with DoDo BTBM and a Megs MF washmit. New buckets!
Serious lack of protection seen:
©©©Now at this point, I want to show you my new invention!©©©
I hate it how when using the stop-valve end on a hose, you cannot get a free-flowing hose to sheet water over the car on the rinse stage. I end up sticking my finger in the hose connection, thus, allowing water to 'flow' out the other end. When I say 'flow', I mean 'splutter'. It's not very graceful.. It nearly does the job, but does not compare against a pure free flowing hose.
(old method as seen here..)
Yes, okay, you can take the end off and have nothing but an open hose, but then that leaves you to run round the back to turn the hose off after you're done. Nightmare!
So, I had an idea. On the way through to location this morning, I stopped at Focus to collect a few goodies.
Take a double ended socket, an additional connector (stop-valve of non stop-valve) and a stanley knife to cut a length of hose off.
Take one connector, plum it onto the hose reel and install double-ended socket. Likewise, attach other free connector and plug onto the free end of the double socket.
Genius. I'd like to add at this point that it works at treat. :thumb:
Look at how happy I am, best.modification.ever.
Anyway, so I rinsed the car. Given a quick inspection by James_R
And the two wash buckets after:
Engine bay before:
And after G101, Super-degreaser and All Season Dressing:
Car now ready for clay.
James at work with the Sonus Green:
It shifted a fair amount of contaminants from what I could see.
Car then re-washed and dired (using leaf-blower and Miracle dryer)
Into the garage for halogen assist and we find quite a mess!
The plan was to go over with machine and LimePrime on Megs pads and follow up later with a nice sealant.
I started to work the rear end. Action shot. (currently working on a 50/50 area):
50/50 on rear wing:
James working further down with the PC:
50/50 from PC work:
I moved onto the lower, under the bump-strips.
Before and after LimePrime.
Rolled outside for a little inspection. LimePrime gave good results, yep, we're happy with that!
Bad defects seen around the petrol filler cap. Before and after:
Misc. 50/50:
Corrected. (all this from LimePrime, nice huh?)
Pre-LSP photos:
At this point we split; I dug into the interior and James gave a coat of DoDo Supernatual V2.
Foot well before and after:
Coming together nicely now..
Wax removed. Tyres dressed. Windows polished.
Beading.
And that's about it! I've just realised, I've uploaded the wrong photos from the photobucket album, what an idiot!! They should be nicely watermarked and bordered.. bah!
As said, an enjoyable day spent learning new tricks and tips from James. Real pleased with my new hose add-on too!
Many thanks to James again, wouldn't of been able to get in done in such time without you. Thanks.
Total time - 6 hours
Customer happy? - Yes. Very much so.
Thanks!