Megane R26
So the aim of Saturday was to bring a bit of life back into this tired looking, 150,000 mile Skoda Fabia vRS, which my friend had recently purchased.
It was also being used as a test car for some new products in my collection.
A few befores:
So, on to the wash process, which was as follows:
- Wheels, Tyres and Arches cleaned with AS Smart Wheels and G101
- Car soaked with Citrus based degreaser
- Car pressure washed to remove majority of the muck
- Car washed with Optimum Car Shampoo via CYC Sheepskin Pad
- Clay with Elite PolyClay and AS Reglaze as lube
- Rewahsed with Optimum Car Shampoo
- Dried with Uber Towels
At this point, it was already quite apparent that the paintwork was in a very bad way, covered in hazing, swirls and RDS's:
After trying a fair few combinations, I finally settled on the new Optimum Hyper Polish Spray on a 3M cutting pad. These gave me surprisingly quick results on the relatively hard paint. I found it to finish down perfectly too. My work was checked with a wipe down of the new Auto Perfection 'IPA alternative'
Quick 50/50 without light:
Some deeper scratches remained, but a second pass removed these:
Some post polishing, no LSP pics:
50/50 on boot:
Before:
After:
Some quick 'afters'. I finished up with a coat of Opti Seal, followed by OID wipedown, then a layer of R222. Also:
- Wheels with Opti Seal
- Tyres with 3M Tyre Restorer
- Glass with 3M Foaming Glass Cleaner
- Exhaust with Optimum Metal Polish
- Trim with 303
It's a shame about the lighting, it looked a lot brighter before the Sun went in!
It looks well for a 150k mile car though! Remap and Coilovers on the way too
Thanks for looking!
Russ.
It was also being used as a test car for some new products in my collection.
A few befores:
So, on to the wash process, which was as follows:
- Wheels, Tyres and Arches cleaned with AS Smart Wheels and G101
- Car soaked with Citrus based degreaser
- Car pressure washed to remove majority of the muck
- Car washed with Optimum Car Shampoo via CYC Sheepskin Pad
- Clay with Elite PolyClay and AS Reglaze as lube
- Rewahsed with Optimum Car Shampoo
- Dried with Uber Towels
At this point, it was already quite apparent that the paintwork was in a very bad way, covered in hazing, swirls and RDS's:
After trying a fair few combinations, I finally settled on the new Optimum Hyper Polish Spray on a 3M cutting pad. These gave me surprisingly quick results on the relatively hard paint. I found it to finish down perfectly too. My work was checked with a wipe down of the new Auto Perfection 'IPA alternative'
Quick 50/50 without light:
Some deeper scratches remained, but a second pass removed these:
Some post polishing, no LSP pics:
50/50 on boot:
Before:
After:
Some quick 'afters'. I finished up with a coat of Opti Seal, followed by OID wipedown, then a layer of R222. Also:
- Wheels with Opti Seal
- Tyres with 3M Tyre Restorer
- Glass with 3M Foaming Glass Cleaner
- Exhaust with Optimum Metal Polish
- Trim with 303
It's a shame about the lighting, it looked a lot brighter before the Sun went in!
It looks well for a 150k mile car though! Remap and Coilovers on the way too
Thanks for looking!
Russ.
