My 4 Hour Clean

yacobwood · Post by **yacobwood** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:13 pm

Right, just spent four hours cleaning my car. thought i would share. its not the best paintwork in the world and it does need major cil and arch work followed by a new set of alloys but i feel ive done pretty well with what ive got

o and by the way, for all your black bits on the car i would recomend autoglym Bumper Care. its quite the polish

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:15 pm

Looks fantastic mate

Have you thought about taking the side strips off and colour coding the door handles?

yacobwood · Post by **yacobwood** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:25 pm

im thinkin off takin them off. really wanna do it. just pluckin up courage at the mo

with the door handles im kinda old fashoned and like them blck

3LL1077 · Post by **3LL1077** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:29 pm

Haha no worries dude, does look fantastic cleaned tho. Especially the interior

lolhoward · Post by **lolhoward** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:30 pm

Very shiney indeed.

A well spent 4 hours

Torq-Al · Post by **Torq-Al** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:02 pm

Looks like 4 hours well spent, Paint has got a good shine to it too.

Polo96CL · Post by **Polo96CL** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:18 pm

Looks exactly how mine was (1.4CL?) before I started doing bits to it! Its looking good, have you tried a polish to remove some of the oxidation which is what makes the flash red pinky looking

I did the interior on mine the other day, amazing what you find

vw-po-low · Post by **vw-po-low** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:54 pm

I agree. 4 Hours well spent.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:03 pm

nice job, get some wax on then all you will have to do for a while is wash and leather it down.
Any major plans?

PoloAnt · Post by **PoloAnt** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:18 am

Thats had a really good clean. That reminds me..i need to clean mine

yacobwood · Post by **yacobwood** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:53 am

i was so picky, the storage in the door card was dirty so i took apart the door card to get to it

Torq-Al · Post by **Torq-Al** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:04 pm

yacobwood wrote:i was so picky, the storage in the door card was dirty so i took apart the door card to get to it

Now that's picky, you sound as if you've got OCD!

yacobwood · Post by **yacobwood** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:32 pm

just want it to be clean

(plus there was solid chewing gum in there from the prievous owner) nasty i no.

p.s. if anybody has some standard polo alloys for under Â£50 ill be happy to take them off your hands

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:43 pm

What was your process mate?

yacobwood · Post by **yacobwood** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:51 pm

nothin spiecal really. hose down. wash. hose down again

the time was spent on all the nooks an cranys. e.g. door hinges. no dirt there anymore. everything that is ment to be black is e.g. boot hinges. upolstry cleaner. windows. engine degrease and back to black. the norm