CleanYourCar - Renault Megane from grey to black

[CleanYourCar]

Andy (AndBurG) got in touch a while back saying he had a mate that wanted his car detailing. Andy wanted to come over with the car to help out in getting it corrected as he said it was a big job. He did warm me that it was in a real state and he wasn't wrong

Products used in the detail:

Wash
SuperSpray (great bit of kit for the money)
Maxi Suds II
Sonus Der Wunders

Clay
Meguiars Professional Mild
Meguiars Last Touch

Polish
3M Blue 3434 Masking Tape
Menzerna Polishing Pads
Menzerna PO106FA
Menzerna Intensive Polish PO91L as needed.

Sealant
Carlack Systematic care
Carlack/Klasse Long Life Sealant
Polycharger H20

Here is the car car as it arrived.



Wash

The car was rinsed with water, before using a new product to us the SuperSpray Hose end sprayer. This simply clicks onto the existing Hoselock connectionand can be used with or without shampoo.

The car was rinsed down before turning the switch to bring the shampoo into the mix. For this detail we were using Maxi Suds II.





The supespray when used at the higest concentration levels produces a decent amount of foam and leaves a good quantity of shampoo on the surface. The car was then washed as normal whilst allowing the solution to soak.



The car was clayed using Meguiars Mild Detailing clay (although Aggressive might have been more been more effective) rewashed and then dried using Der Wunders spritzed with Meguiars Last Touch.

Wheels were just given a quick clean and blast with a pressure washer as they were pretty much past repair.

As the sun moved round the building the swirling strated to become apparent.



Once moved inside we then taped off the rubbers and plastic trims with 3M's 3434 blue masking tape. Under the bright twin 500 watt halogens, it really did become apparent just how bad this car was the paint was very badly dulled and swirled. Infact it was so bad under artifical light the paint almost looked dark grey, not black. It certainly didn't lok at all mettalic and infact I thought on inital inspection outside it was flat black.

Andy got stuck in on one side whilst I tried to capture just how bad the paint was by doing some 50/50 shots.

The following products were used in conjunction with the Porter cable

5" Menzerna Polishing (orange) Pad
Menzerna Final Finish PO106FA

Menzerna PO106FA is the new version of PO106FF and the wait has definately been worth it. This polish blew me away. The old version was my favourite polish before trying this. It just seemed to have more gloss, more cut and worked for ages with next to no dust.

Before:



During:



Afters:











The polish reall did blow me away. It also suggest that Renault paint is pretty easy to correct with minimal effort. To achieve those results we removed approximately 6-8 microns of paint, measure using a paint depth guage.

Here are some more:





And more



Andy and I cracked on and completed the car.

We used Carlacks Systematic Care to cleanse the paint and remove polish residue. The paint really was starting to pop

Next up was to seal in all the hard work. The owner wanted a slick long lasting finish, so we decided this time to give the Carlack a run out (again!) boosted with Polycharger H20.

This is designed as a wax booster to make application easier and to increase durability many times over. Perfect for this job! I absolutely love the finish the Klasse leaves so this was a real treat.







2 drops of Polycharger added to 1oz of Carlack Long Life Sealant/Klasse Sealant Glaze. This made far to much solution. We would reccomend probably half an oz with one drop at the most. We had lots left over!



This was applied to the car with microfibre applicators before buffing off with some ultra plush microfibres.

And the results:









And one last shot



The Polycharger made the Carlack very easy to apply and give that stunning reflective look only a selant can give. I still had to apply a wax to one panel though...I couldn't resist.

Thanks to Andy for bringing the car over and helping out so much. It definately made the day so much easier having two machines. Thanks also to the owner for helping out so much and supplying sadwiches and refreshments and helping out with detail also.

It was also nice to finish whilst it was still light!

Cheers Tim

[Gaz W]

Awesome

[giarc]

Superb! Probably the clearest and sharpest 50/50 shots I've seen :O

[Thomas-182]

Wow the afters are stunning and amazing 50/50 shots.

Great job. Hearing loads about the P-Charge stuff now.

[AR-CoolC]

WOW that's some defect removal.

Cracking 50/50's

[d6dph]

Fantastic work there, Shocking condition before.

[Beeste]

Amazing correction work Looks like a different car now.

[tmlvaleting]

Nice 50/50! great work.

[Sjdickso]

Great detail and fantastic paint work correction.

[James105]

those 50/50 shots are amazing! great correction!