my days cleaning (56k WARNING)

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siilver
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my days cleaning (56k WARNING)

Post by siilver »

just after the winter the car needs a damn good clean
so i gave it a good quick clean to day

and as im only new to this, i dont have all the stuff the pros have
so i had to do my best

so 1st pics are before

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and then i washed the car with Meguiars Gold Class Car Wash Shampoo and i used to buckets of water (which i picked up from here lol)

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then i just dried the car of with a flexi blade and a Chamoi

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as i had loads of tar on the lower half of the car, i just got some cheap detarer from my local car shop, so nothin special.

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Cloth before

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Cloth after

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then i washed it again with Meguiars Gold Class Car Wash Shampoo and took of the water.

As the car had scraps and scratches all over the car. so i went over the bad bit with Poorboys SSR2.5, as im only new to this and do not have a pc are anything like that i had to do it by hand (im sure thats not right) but it did remove a good few of the marks, it just took alot of work

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once that was done, i started on the 1st layer of polish, from what people have said, i bought my self abit of the poorboys stuff, so i did the 1st layer of polishs with Poorboy's Professional Polish and a sponge and microfibre cloth

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after doing the layer of Poorboy's Professional Polish, i moved on to the layer of Poorboy's EX-P Sealant and left it on for a while as the bottle says and put it on with a sponge and microfibre cloth

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as i had to do this all by hand i dont think it turned out ot bad
im sure if i had the right tools, im sure it would look 100 times better

as for the wheels i just gave them a week quick clean and polish and gave the rubber a coat of Meguiars Endurance High Gloss Tyre Protection Gel, to make them clean.

well thats me done with the car cleaning for one day
next day il do the inside as its not the best really, its needs a good clean

but i went up the road to give her a wee photoshoot of her own
just a few of the pics i like

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Mk2Adam
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Post by Mk2Adam »

looks like a good job to me mate, i've got loads of the products and mine doesn't shine like that because i can't be bothered (maybe in summer :oops: ) and the fact that my car is 15yrs old....but point is if you put the effort in then it can look great still. :D
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Post by siilver »

thanks
how obut htis for a job on a lod car

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Post by tupac2makaveli71 »

he might have had a respray! looks like it :shock:
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Post by mysteryboy »

good job 8)
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Post by DanDiesel »

well done siilver, very good effort there considering it was all done by hand!!
gotta give it to u guys, i really don't have the patiences to do all that!!

ps- that golf is unbelievable!! he must have had a respray at some point!!
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Post by siilver »

its clean thats for sure

but it fells really good when you clean the car your self
y would u pay some person who doent give a damn bout it
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Post by polopowah »

good job on that mate
very clean and as shiney as you are going to get a silver car! silver cars are good cars if you don't want to be washing it every other day......dark cars.....well they shine loads more but are a b*tch to keep clean

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Post by Bran »

very nice.. silver cars are actually growing on me
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Post by siilver »

i wnt a gray car
4 sum reason
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Post by olop_chris »

looks spot on mate, good work.

i booked saturday off work so i can literally spend aaaallll day cleaning it and making it look as good as possible for santa pod on sunday.....only for it to p*** it down and ruin everything but ahh well :)
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