This A6's owner was driving past me Detailing and stopped to have a chat. As a result he booked in for a Protection Detail and interior steam clean. The A6 earns its keep as a private hire taxi and has covered over 160,000 miles. On first impressions this mileage didn't reflect in the exterior condition with hardly any stone chips at all. Rob says his secret is giving plenty of room behind cars on the motorway and he also washes it every night. However, a touch of the bodywork revealed extensive bonded contaminants waiting to be removed.
Inside, the cream leather was showing the mileage more clearly. Improving this was the owners priority from the Detail. Here's the before pictures:

Plenty of bugs on the bumper:

Engine bay looked like it has never been cleaned before:


Usual wash technique employed so I won't bore you with the photos. Some snaps of the clay after a small section of the bonnet (still needed going over a second time)

Clay after a lower section of passenger door:

There was some eye-catching tar on the wheels so they were cleaned with a mf and tardis and then clayed:

Car was rinsed and dried and then I was ready to attack the interior. Usual vacuum and then out with the steam cleaner:

A 50:50 section was marked out and mf cloth draped over the steam head. After this pass I switched to a smaller head:


The results of the 50:50. As you can see, a considerable difference!




Same process repeated for the rest of the two front seats. Then I steamed the dash. Anyone ever Detailed one of these before?:

Here's what a cloth looks like after a few passes. The Detail went through a fair few dozen of MFs:

50:50 of the rear seat (still wet):


After the steaming interior carpets were shampood, scrubbed and vax wet vac extracted and then it was back to the exterior. The freshly clayed paint was treated to CG Wet Mirror Finish to remove some light swirls marks, clean and protect it. Applied via a Megs Polishing pad on the Makita polishing machine.

Some nice deep reflections developing in the bodywork:

The wheels also got polished with the WMF:

Back to the interior and the 2nd stage of the leather clean was with a damp MF and Z**** leather cleaner.

Finally the leather was softened and protected with Z**** leather conditioner:

Usual other interior Details attended to, glass cleaned, plastics dressed with Aerospace 303 Protectant etc. Back to the exterior and once the WMF had had over an hour to cure a coat of Victoria Concours Wax was applied. This soft wax would add some extra protection, plus even more wetness to the finish. While the wax was curing exterior Details were finished like exhaust polished, plastics dressed, tyres dressed etc. Here's the after photos. Thanks for reading, any comments welcomed. Matt.