RB 182 Detail.....

[wozza182]

Seeing as it was such a lovely day I thought I would finish machine polishing the Cup.
I had completed the front of the car last week but run out of light to finish the whole car.

I started by cleaning the wheels with Auto Finesse Imperial, left to soak then agitated with a brush.
Rinsed off and the sprayed with iron x, again left to dwell and then rinsed off.
Tyres cleaned with APC and brush.

Whole bottom half of the car sprayed with Auto Finesse Citrus Power and left to dwell for a while.
Rinsed and then Iron X applied to areas that needed it.
Rinsed again then the whole car cleaned with Auto Finesse Lather and Meguiars Wash Mitt (2 bucket method).
Rinsed and then patted dry with a drying towel.

The rear end was Clayed, so was the roof and rear quarters. I also removed the Renault Sport badge from the boot.

Once all the areas were Clayed, the appropriate areas were taped up and I began the Machine Polishing stage. Used my DAS-6 Pro with Orange Menzerna pad and Menzerna polish.
Once all areas had been polished, they were waxed with Dodo Juice Light Fantastic.

Trims treated with Auto Finesse Revive and tyres with Meguiars Endurance.

Heres a few pics.

 

[Kane.]

That looks lovely! Are those 16's?

 

[wozza182]

Yea 16's. Thanks.

 

[James28]

Looks lovely. Will be doing similar too mine soon!

 

[JamesBryan]

Looks good.

Although the polishing pad appears to be blue :S

Have parts of the car been resprayed at all? Or is that just the colour of the polish?

 

[wozza182]

I think the rear bumper was resprayed, there is was some slight orange peel so that's where the blue has come from.
Plus the polish was a purple colour.

 

[wozza182]

Looks lovely. Will be doing similar too mine soon!

Cheers, the racing blue paint is quite hard, so you have to be patient.
Im still wanting to go on some kind of machine polishing course, but can't find any anywhere.

 

[wozza182]

Double Post.

 

[James28]

Are you on detailing world?
If you go on the machine polishing sub section, there's a few tuition days on there.

 

[wozza182]

Yea I'm on detailing world. I will have a look now. Cheers.

 

[Stefan.]

i dont know why i didnt go for rb when i was buying a 182, back then (2 years ago) i wasnt keen on it, what a kick to the nuts thats turned out to be. still b/g is still nice. lovely car and write up :approve:

 

[JD]

The pad will have picked up overspray most likely.

Looks superb.

 

[wozza182]

The pad will have picked up overspray most likely.

Looks superb.

Cheers. I'm really happy with the finish considering its only the second time I've used the machine.

 

[TrueBlue*182*]

Yeah the finish you've achieve is great, much better than my attempts but im still learning and over compensating for my lack of experience as not to shag the paint work, hopefully ill get mine to something like soon..

 

[jordan101]

thats immaculate mate looking into buying an rb 182

 

[wozza182]

thats immaculate mate looking into buying an rb 182

Do it, you won't regret it.

 

[Matty Baby]

Looks superb, I used to own this. you have taken off the yozza!?

 

[Gally]

The pictures are pretty poor mate, I can't really see much.

The pad being Blue is simply a case of the garage using solid colour instead or clearover base. This is something that really is starting to get on my tits! These garages are doing the same on the Trophies.

The simply fact is the blue basecoat has lacquer over it. The lacquer is there for a reason. So they have painted it with different paint, usually because it's easier, cheaper and the match is easier to get. Utter pisch imo.

Good job though.

 

[Matthew]

I really want another RB clio.

Yours looks to have scrubbed up nice, although the pictures are shocking lol

 

[Yellow Dave]

The pictures are pretty poor mate, I can't really see much.

The pad being Blue is simply a case of the garage using solid colour instead or clearover base. This is something that really is starting to get on my tits! These garages are doing the same on the Trophies.

The simply fact is the blue basecoat has lacquer over it. The lacquer is there for a reason. So they have painted it with different paint, usually because it's easier, cheaper and the match is easier to get. Utter pisch imo.

Good job though.

Is there any way of identifying they've used a solid colour for us uneducated?