The GTI! - Alex's Thread - Leather :D

[Tigz]

The paint looks a little heavy on the engine, although its very red!
Perhaps give it a little rub down with some wet and dry?

[alexperkins]

When it finally dries, I might try that....just when its dry!!

Then Ill have to paint it up again, so even more time to dry

[Tim_GTi]

Does look quite heavy. Can't really tell til it's all dry and put back together though.

On the plus the calipers look awesome

[alexperkins]

On the plus the calipers look awesome

I only did one hopefully gonna get the rest done tomorrow.

[Tigz]

When it finally dries, I might try that....just when its dry!!
Then Ill have to paint it up again, so even more time to dry

You should be fine.
Leave it a couple of days to harden, and just use some really fine wet and dry (wet) flat it down a little and then polish it back up.
Shouldn't need to paint it again

[alexperkins]

Cheers bud...ill give it a go!

[Trottagti]

Caliper = Good.

Rocker = Not so good pal, Well heavy it looks like!

I wouldnt flat and polish it as that will be very hard to bring back up by hand and will be very hard to acess, I would flat the whole rocker down again and put only 2 coats on, less is more if done right!

Grubby engine alex aswell god get to cleaning lol!

Do like the shinny calipers tho!

[alexperkins]

First shot at painting engine parts lol itll never be perfect!

We all like shiney

[Trottagti]

First shot at painting engine parts lol itll never be perfect!

We all like shiney

U oh me 10 pounds lol!

SHINNY SHINNY!

[alexperkins]

lol

[Tim_GTi]

The boys right, that bay is quite the grubby one. I'd have a field day in there

[alexperkins]

Itll be clean before the weekend.....hopefully



It seems to have come out ok (at least on the bit you see anyhow!)

[Tim_GTi]

Does look good. Any close up pics buddy?

[alexperkins]

Tomorrow or thursday

Update:

Spent a good few hours washing and claying the paintwork Its looking beautiful already

Tomorrows plan:

Detail whole car as follows...

Full going over with Megs Step 1 Cleanser
Then Autoglym SRP
Then 3 x Klasse AIO
Then 3 x Collinite 476S

Do all glass, plastics, rubbers, and metal work on exterior

Remove wheels, clean properly, and coat with SRP and collinite

Thursdays plan:

Detail interior with full valet, polish, etc

[Tigz]

Looks good!
I'm currently in the process of thinking about cleaning the car.. not sure if I'll get past that stage