Peugeot 106 Gti Detail

[Harpham]

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of detailing my brother's 106 GTi. He hasn't owned it long and it certainly needed a good going over.

Process was as follows:
- Got rid of all the gay stickers
- Clean the wheels (Bilberry wheel cleaner)
- Snow Foam (hit a stumbling block at this point...)
- Wash
- Rinse
- De-tar (ObliTARate)
- Iron-X it (ZOMG)
- Rinse
- Clay
- Wash again
- Dry off
- Tape plastics off
- Polish using Menzerna 106FA
- Then had a layer of AF Tripple, as I love it.
- Layer of Z2 sealant (I ran out after 1 layer though so I had to top it up with a layer of Dodo Juice Banana Armour)
- Wipe down the glass
- Dress plastics (Poorboys)
- Apply Tyre Shine
Finito.

So, onto the photos...

Started the day like this:

106 GTi Detail - Before by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - Before by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - Reflection Before by Harpham y0, on Flickr

I firstly took off a lot of stickers, leaving just the standard OEM stickers:

There was also a Pedobear sticker that was lurking in a wing mirror, which hastily got removed.

Snow foaming came next:

And then, the stumbling block...

Literally could not shift this. Grime Out didn't touch it, pressure washer over it was a 'No Deal'. Literally wouldn't budge. f**k knows what he'd driven through. My brother ended up riskily wiping thinners over it, which got rid of it. Never came across anything like it.

Applied ObliTARate and Iron-X. Wow, the car was covered...

106 GTi Detail - Iron-X by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - Iron-X by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - Iron-X by Harpham y0, on Flickr

Then washed again and inspected what I had to deal with. Urgh.

106 GTi Detail - Swirls by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - Swirls by Harpham y0, on Flickr

The results:

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

Hooray! Looks nearly as it should.

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

Sunflower snuck into the shot .

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

106 GTi Detail - After by Harpham y0, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/harpham/sets/72157626868664064/with/8108121292/

Finish isn't perfect, but the sheer amount of swirls was crazy. I think a yard brush had been used by the previous owners.
But still, looks 1million times better now and is on the route to looking mint!!

 

[Nickson]

I love 106 GTi's, and that looks awesome!

 

[Dr HMS Derv Destroyer]

MINT!! , think the family also has a thing with yellow cars aswell

 

[Fletcher]

Looks good.

 

[Harpham]

MINT!! , think the family also has a thing with yellow cars aswell

Yup. He owns a red GTi, but got jealous of my 'flower, so went and bought this one too. lol

Our parents obviously did something seriously wrong... :rasp:

 

[Sir_Dave]

Nice car that, i considered buying it off POT for Tin Tops (i used to have a yellow one) but then decided racing was simply a money pit i cant afford.

 

[danzman1991]

Sick!

 

[Harpham]

Nice car that, i considered buying it off POT for Tin Tops (i used to have a yellow one) but then decided racing was simply a money pit i cant afford.

Ahh, do you know of the previous owner then?

 

[yellowbelly]

Looks nice in the last couple of photos, what filter did you have on your lens?

 

[imprezaworks]

Massive transformation, love it

 

[Millerin]

I've always wanted a Nana 106. Such a cool car

 

[Sir_Dave]

Ahh, do you know of the previous owner then?

I dont know him, but he's on a forum i use (performance-on-track) - username was Harvey iirc.

Was a little more played with before he put it back to standard (ish) to sell.

 

[Harpham]

I dont know him, but he's on a forum i use (performance-on-track) - username was Harvey iirc.

Was a little more played with before he put it back to standard (ish) to sell.

Ahh cool. Would be interested to see it's previous life. Always good to see a car's history lol.

 

[VIICarCare]

Bloody crackin job lad, really got the depth back! So wanted one of these!

 

[Toby]

Awesome!

 

[Whirly172]

looks like your family like yellow cars lol, both nice looking cars btw

 

[Gally]

Looks utterly superb mate. I fancy owning one of them again. Sheer fun and that is lovely!

Wonder if Rich still has his China Blue one.

 

[lewisflintham]

Nice work Paul. What a nice brother you are! The colour's come up lovely.

 

[Tommo.]

Looks great mate! Have a real soft spot for these in that colour

 

[Stefan.]

utterly brilliant turn around. and yellow/black colour combo suits it so well. nice gti

 

[Naith]

looks fabulous in the pics.

 

[Rob]

Jesus, bloody nice job there Paul. Impressive

 

[alex-avfc]

Gotta say the ph1 looks pretty bland next to that, good job!

 

[NoahRobinson07]

Looks great!

the stuff that wouldn't budge looks like paint?

 

[Harpham]

Cheers guys!
Looks much better than what it was. He has quite a lot to sort if he is to make it mint though.

Looks great!

the stuff that wouldn't budge looks like paint?

I really don't know. Maybe. Or some really hardcore tar. Literally nothing touched it. I picked a bit off with my nail, to try and determine what it was and even that was an effort lol. Well and truly stuck on.

 

[Si]

I've been in that car! Glad to see it being looked after. Harvey's a good guy.

 

[Si]

FYI

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?525176-Brands-Hatch-Indy-Track-Day-Revels-Pics

 

[aucky]

Looks lovely

 

[Harpham]

FYI

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?525176-Brands-Hatch-Indy-Track-Day-Revels-Pics

Awesomes!! Cheers matey. I need to convince my brother to get it on track, seeing as he now has 2 GTi's.

Have you got any more info on it? Any mods that it used to have or anything?

 

[Si]

Yep. I'll dig out some more pics later. Sure Harvey won't mind. Or join up on performance-on-track. I'll get your account sorted and you can look yourself. I'm sure Harvey would like to keep track of the car too.

 

[Harpham]

Cool. Ill drop on there and check it out. Cheers dude.

 

[welshname]

He has 2 GTi's?!?!?! Gimme gimme.

 

[Harpham]

Trust me, you don't want the red one.

 

[welshname]

Swap for the fiesta.

 

[billy939]

This looks lovely! I'm following you on twitter and the pics of 2 nice cars in 2 of the best colours stood out a lot Nice Gti

 

[jam.]

Very nice. The last pic is brilliant.

 

[Harpham]

Swap for the fiesta.

Please refer to my previous post. LOL

 

[Matt_90]

Fantastic job

Fancy doing mine lol... Mine is cherry red and looks like its been attacked by a wire brush I know I am hardly going to use mine a show car but the swirls drive me crazy.

 

[Christopher]

LOVE it.

 

[welshname]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE RED ONE?!?!?!.