Enhancement Detail - Show Golf GTI

[RussZS]

Today saw me nervously travel to a not very sunny Wolverhampton, with my fingers firmly crossed that the rain would stay away, so that I could spend the day giving this beautiful GTI a bit of love.

As ever with lighter cars, the difference isn't as obvious as a swirly black car, especially without any decent sunlight, but I think it's turned out very well, and the paintwork is certainly a lot cleaner than it was.

A couple of before shots...

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As ever, I started off with the wheels, tyres and arches with G101 and various brushes. *This followed with G101 on shuts, sills, petrol cap, grille, etc. *I then washed the car with Optimum Car Shampoo and rinsed off.

I followed this up with Tardis (which removed very little!), then Wolf's Decon Gel, which did a great job of removing the additional contaminants:

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I then followed this up with Elite Polyclay and Citrus Bling lube. *The roof in particular was quite bad. *This pic is from just one quarter of the roof!

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Next up I decided to tackle the deeper scratches in isolation, as most of the paintwork was only suffering from relatively light swirling, aside from a few key areas which needed heavier compounding.

First up, the door handles, which were pretty bad:

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and after...

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RDS on the roof:

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and after (you can just make it out, but largely removed)

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I then set about cleansing the paintwork with Auto Finesse's Rejuvenate, stepping up to Menzerna 3.02 in place, where needed.

Rejuvenate is a very impressive paint cleanser, with a great level of cut if used with the right technique. *This is my polishing pad after half of a panel...

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and after half of the roof.........!!

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Unfortunately a lot of the correction shots didn't come out too well, but here is an example of a 50/50 on the passenger door:

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A few quick pics after polishing:

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There's a lovely gloss and glow to the paintwork, but also a nice sharpness to it.

I followed this up with Wolf's Body Wrap Nano Sealant (which I also used on the wheels). *I used 3M Tyre Restorer on the tyres, 20/20 on the glass and Optimum on the exhaust.

Some 'afters':

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and down looooooooow (Air is so cool!)

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Some better SLR pics will follow when we have a brighter day

Thanks for reading!

Russ.

 

[Kane.]

Great results :approve:

 

[Riad]

Nice work

 

[Yellow Dave]

What did you use to get the isolated spots corrected? And how would you compare the rejuvenate against the likes of lime prime?

 

[davo172]

Nice work again Russ (much prefer the golf parked in the road tho ! )

 

[RussZS]

What did you use to get the isolated spots corrected? And how would you compare the rejuvenate against the likes of lime prime?

Hi Dave,

I used Menz 3.02 or S500 (Fast Gloss) on the isolated spots, but will be wet sanding these out once I've been on the KDS course. I used 203S from memory on the door handles, which breaks down quickly by hand

Davo... lol, thanks mate

 

[Mitchell]

Good job, hard to get noticeable correction on silver sometimes.
Saw this at DC11 on Sunday, was one of my favourite cars from the show tbh, loved seeing it jump up on air at the end of the day!

 

[toomer]

Lovely car and great results mate

 

[SimonR.]

Four doors for more whores

Front end looks great!

 

[davo172]

Saw this on the show and shine at GTi international sunday not a fan of the car but top work by Russ :approve:

 

[LowLife.]

What rims are they? They look mint.

 

[Android]

great work

& minted looking golf

 

[jenic]

Nice work, shame the wheels are awful, apart from that nice car.

 

[B16DOE]

Nice work nice car