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Lexus IS220D enhancement



Knuckles

ClioSport Admin
This was dropped off last week for a tart up. It was a mess.


I was told it was loaned to a friend who molested it. "It can't be that bad" I thought. My god I was wrong.


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Overspray, take note of matte bonnet


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Spray on corner of bonnet?!


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I wondered what colour these were underneath


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Randomly matte wing mirror


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I hate this adhesive crap


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Faded plastics. Granted, there was only three pieces of plastic on this to fade.


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After I had a looksee and cracked straight on with it. Rinsed, sprayed with RDS and left to dwell


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While that was dwelling I imperialed the wheels, agitated and sprayed them


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Turns out they're anthracite. 1 : 3 imperial dilution works wonders!


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Rinsed the RDS off the car and lathered it. I lathered the nooks and crannies a lot so I could agitate them.


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There was a build up of what looked like bird s**t in here somehow. Attacked with RDS and verso.


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As was this


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The engine was verso'd and wiped. The bag is keeping a tuning box dry. I thought wtf too.


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Door shuts done. Dat interior!


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Next the car was hit with TARdis and iron x. No TARdis pics as it was nigh on impossible to picture.


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That said, so was iron x


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Washed and rinsed to make way for clay


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Wasn't expecting it to be this clean.


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I figured I'd set to work finishing the spray job someone did on it while it was still wet.


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I took the overspray off the headlight too


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And dried


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Busted out the £11 sun gun :D


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Much marring, RDS and swirls


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It was the same across the whole car, I taped it up ready for polishing.


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Headlight first. G3 scratch remover via AF #1 pad


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This was a right pain in the arse, I ended up settling on G3 scratch remover and finished with G3 paint renovator on a soft buff finishing pad. I was very impressed with the finish and the lack of dust.


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It brought the paint up brilliantly


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It looked much better but the spray was hiding these horrid RDS. I hit it again with scratch remover and finished with paint renovator.


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I didn't believe it was finishing so well so I gave it a 1:3 IPA wipe which showed it wasn't just filling the swirls in


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Moved around the car, since it wasn't as bad as the bonnet I only used paint renovators which brought the colour back while cutting out the lighter swirls and finishing brilliantly.


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The only panel with holograms.


Paint renovator didn't correct it to my liking so AF #2 combo was used and paint renovator to finish


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Genuinely no idea what happened here, no paint transferred to the pad so it's not new paint like on the bonnet


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Much better


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Waxed with desire


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And that summarises my Saturday.


Sunday saw me tackle the interior.


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Started with hoovering.


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Then tested verso on the stained side of the footwell


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It worked great so I did the whole side.


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Verso was also used to get the majority of the muck off the leather


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After Verso got the majority of the crap out of the leather and carpets, I used simoniz leather wipes and auto glym interior shampoo to get the rest of the muck off the leather.


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I went over the leather again with AF hide conditioner


Then I did the plastics in auto finesse revive


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Tyres done in AF satin


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Some befores and afters


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As it's been waiting for collection for almost a week and I live on a main road, it's picked up a fair bit of dust. It needs a quick rinse and finale wipe down then I'll put some more finished pics up.


Cheers
 
  Golf GT & A4 Avant
Top work on the interior, I hate doing that job so would more than likely told them to do it themselves!

You our must be getting good at this to do a car that size to that standard in just one day. Fair play to you. I hope you charge then well
 

Knuckles

ClioSport Admin
Thats a transformation and a half tbh mate. Stunning result

Cheers :)

Top work on the interior, I hate doing that job so would more than likely told them to do it themselves!

You our must be getting good at this to do a car that size to that standard in just one day. Fair play to you. I hope you charge then well

I hate interiors too but I quite fancied a go at leather. I found more than I'd have liked to in there though lol

Cheers :) 14 hours up to now over sat and sun which I don't think is too bad.

I hope you made some good money on that mate. f**king cracking job!

Thanks :), I'll just say I'll not be putting any detailers out of a job at my rate haha
 

Jaff.

ClioSport Club Member
dat orange peel!!!

good effort on that interior too.

sorry to say though, your "sun gun" is crap lol
 

Knuckles

ClioSport Admin
dat orange peel!!!

good effort on that interior too.

sorry to say though, your "sun gun" is crap lol

I know, now, this is the worse orange peel I've seen so far.

cheers :)

and for £11 it's the best sun gun on the market :rasp:

Ill make make a new one when I happen across a broken drill or hairdryer.
 
  dan's cast offs.
you should of seen the state of it with all the white left on it!!!!! was everywhere, had back lights, real panel, window seals, gutter trim, sunroof seal and christ knows what off in the end to clean it off.
 

Knuckles

ClioSport Admin
A real credit to you tbh, that bonnet and wing mirror were disgraceful (as was the interior)!


I'd be ashamed to drive around in that (with how it was previously)!


Thanks :) I have no idea why they were in that state, but to be fair to the owner, he lent it to a friend. But I'd be fuming if a friend left my car like that.

you should of seen the state of it with all the white left on it!!!!! was everywhere, had back lights, real panel, window seals, gutter trim, sunroof seal and christ knows what off in the end to clean it off.

There was more white!? Jesus. Poor Chi.
 


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