RB 182 Cup cleaned good!

[Tav]

Had my car detailed last week over two days. Skid who I know from the local VW forum did a fantastic job and I assisted where possible.


Before shots, plenty of B road jaunts and winter weather have kept the Clio looking dirty:

Front wheel was particularly bad given that a broken CV boot clip had allowed grease to coat the wheel:

Door shuts, petrol cap recess and engine bay were cleaned using Megs Heavy Duty Degreaser:

Skid then set about snow foaming the car. Hi-vis fashion accessory is a must have!

The car was sprayed down with Tardis to remove the copious amounts of tar spots. Here you can see a tar spot starting to run below the number plate:

 

[Beef-Mc]

Love Rb when there clean.

 

[GarethM]

needs a good pc'ing

can see swirls

but looks very nice

 

[fossie]

Thats defo the sexiest colour for a clio mind.....

 

[chrispy.clio]

Looks ace mate
Needs PCing tho

 

[Frash]

snap now my stupid stripes are gone.
looking smart that.

 

[clairemae]

nice and clean

 

[DebV6]

Looking good, I love clean RB's

 

[Eckascliovalver]

Looks great and comes up well with a good clean! Still havnt seen this about Aberdeen yet tho.

 

[swirly182]

Can only see swirls on what im presuming are the before shots...!

Looks really smart that.

 

[Marky_]

Arches done as well. Proper job on that. Good effort.

 

[Bluebeard]

needs a good pc'ing

can see swirls

but looks very nice

Have you actually read the post or just looked at the pictures?!

It was detailed, the swirls were BEFORE.

 

[Ali]

If your about over the weekend am taking some pics of mine, ecka's bus...

 

[Tigger]

That's the filth!

 

[Tav]

My MacBook ran out of battery before I could complete the post...and I left my charger at uni, doh!

The car was corrected using a combination of a PC type polisher (only newer/better model; used for bumpers and lights) and a proper rotary polisher (skid in charge of that one! He hit all the large panels)

The 50/50 shots never came out well hence the lack of good close ups showing corrected paint, should be obvious in the well lit picss that it's been corrected. It was only a 2 day detail so some rids remain, swirls are all gone!

The bird poop was etched into the bonnet, door and roof. Shining example of why it should always be washed off ASAP, thankyou previous owner! The etchings and a few scratches were removed with wet sanding and machine polishing...hardcore!

Lots of steps have been missed out in this post (claying, polishing exhaust etc.) but the job was finished with Blackfire Fire Over Ice. It's a 3 stage process that's topped off with blackfire paste wax, works well on RB paint! I fact it was used on everything inc. plastics!

Cheers for offer Ali, taking my girlfriend to Glasgow for early valentines though. Count me in next time!

Ecka I've seen you a couple of times now (maybe at beach?) will pop a flash and a wave next time.

Duck me this took a long time ok am iPhone!

 

[paul]

nice name and car

 

[col 182]

Very nice and clean, need to do mine this weekend at some point!

 

[JT182]

Great turnaround, saw this on Detailing World I think aswell? Such a gorgeous colour is RB!
I'm wanting one of those Drivers Republic stickers too, can you buy them off the website? Thanks.

 

[Tav]

Driver's Republic stickers come in the membership packs, although they will be doing them on the site in future I think. They had lots of cool stick samples when I was round at their office including some huuuugeeee graphics for their cars, I really wanted one. You'd have seen the pictures on DW as Skid is a member on there and very much into his detailing, I'd have got nowhere without him and he did it at a very good price. Just need to do it justice and keep it clean.

Cheers for all the positive comments, I am SO glad I chose RB over the black/bean coloured cars I was looking at.