Renaultsport RB Clio 200 Maintenance Detail

[Chapppers11]

Spent today cleaning and protecting the 200 before going up to Manchester tomorrow.

With it only being a few weeks since a full decontamination, polish and seal, the car has only been driven a few times since so didn't need much doing to it, but a few new deliveries meant a few new products to try out. :evil:

Products used:

Muc-Off Wheel Cleaner
Bilberry Wheel Cleaner
AF Citrus Power
Dodo Juice Supernatural Shampoo
Valet Pro Brushes (Various Sizes)
EZ Detail Wheel Brushes
Poorboys White Diamond Glaze
Carpro CQuartz Reload Sealant
Wooly Mammoth Drying towel, Dodo Juice wax applicators and Eurow High Pile Microfibres
Meguiars Endurance Tyre Shine
Zymöl Carbon
Zaino Z6

A few before shots:

Still some beading from previous sealant application:

Some of the kit used:

The whole car was pre-soaked in AF Citrus Power:

The intricate parts were agitated while the Citrus dwelled:

Tried out some Muc-Off Wheel Wash, not as good as Bilberry unfortunately.

Poorboy's Wheel Seal still doing it's thing!

Arches sprayed with AF Citrus and agitated with a soft, paint friendly brush.
Before:

After:

Dodo Juice Supernatural Shampoo and a Meguiars wash mitt using the 2 bucket method.

Car dried with a Poorboy's Wooly Mammoth Towel:

Clean Wheels ready for some tyre dressing:

Meg's Tyre Dressing applied:

Moved the car into the garage to give it a quick polish with some Poorboys White Diamond:

CarPro C-Quartz Reload Sealant being topped up in preparation for the Zymol Carbon wax:

Before Sealant:

After Sealant:

Colour Coded forum sticker applied!

Now for the fun part:

The wax applied:

... And removed:

Applied:

Removed:

And finally, the finished article!

The money shot:

Thanks all, hope you enjoyed.

Andy

 

[Christopher]

Awesome.

I can't wait to tackle mine with almost the same kit.

 

[Joe#]

Fantastic mate. I can't wait to see this tomorrow

 

[Chapppers11]

Thanks guys

It's amazing how many of the products used can be used on other colours and cars, it's a money maker telling people that they need to buy colour specific products!

 

[Brian]

Brilliant

Poorboy's Wooly Mammoth Towel added to my shopping list..

 

[Gally]

Lovely detail mate. Always a fantastic colour.

 

[Chapppers11]

Thanks both.

Not looking good weather for the day in Manchester today!

 

[VIICarCare]

thats pretty lovely!

 

[NFox]

Great work mate

 

[MatthewR]

Looked brilliant in the flesh today mate.

Did you get much use out of the glass sealant on the way home?

 

[Daniel]

Where did you do this, in Bristol?!

It pissed down all day yesterday from morning til night, how did you wash the car?!

 

[jenic]

Superb!

 

[MatthewR]

Where did you do this, in Bristol?!

It pissed down all day yesterday from morning til night, how did you wash the car?!

He came to the shinearama meet today, and considering he had traveled the furthest his car was worked on.

 

[Realnut]

lovely looking car, nice work

 

[Christopher]

He'll still be driving home now. lol.

Good to meet you today dude. The car looked great!

 

[Chapppers11]

Where did you do this, in Bristol?!

It pissed down all day yesterday from morning til night, how did you wash the car?!

Went home to the Forest of Dean where it's being kept in my rents' garage, rain was on and off but I managed to clean and get it inside to dry off

Looked brilliant in the flesh today mate.

Did you get much use out of the glass sealant on the way home?

Unfortunately not but apparently it needs 3 coats, will give it another try next time.

He'll still be driving home now. lol.

Good to meet you today dude. The car looked great!

Haha I don't normally say this but it's nice to stop driving

You too pal, the day was great.

Had to drive for another 50 minutes to Bristol so only just arrived now!

 

[182michael]

Looks awesome!

 

[Jon.G]

Looked spot on today mate!

 

[Chapppers11]

Thanks both

 

[MatthewR]

Unfortunately not but apparently it needs 3 coats, will give it another try next time.

I applied three coats of it to mine last night, and it worked perfectly this morning.

Might add another coat tonight and then do the rest of the windows.

 

[Y7 ADW]

Great work, and a lovely looking 200. The headlights make the 200 for me, they look so much better!

 

[Chapppers11]

I applied three coats of it to mine last night, and it worked perfectly this morning.

Might add another coat tonight and then do the rest of the windows.

Glad to hear it! Will get another few coats on at some point.

Any tips to remove it easier?

 

[Yellow Dave]

sounds like your referring to G1?

if so remove it in sections, use the G2 / 1:3 IPA and wipe down a section and immediately use a MF to remove it before it dries completely.

 

[Chapppers11]

It's Wolf's Glass Sealant Dave, we put one coat on at Shinearama but it didn't seem that amazing, it needs 3 coats and 12 hours curing after the final coat apparently.

 

[MatthewR]

It's Wolf's Glass Sealant Dave, we put one coat on at Shinearama but it didn't seem that amazing, it needs 3 coats and 12 hours curing after the final coat apparently.

I gave it one coat and removed after 15 mins, then layered two more coats (let one haze over for 5 mins or so) then waited a further 15 mins. then i removed using a glass micro fibre and the tiniest bit of glass cleaner on the cloth to slightly dampen it.

really looking forward to using the body wrap tomorrow aswell.

 

[Chapppers11]

Ah brill, will do that next month when I get to give it another once over!

Will be interesting to see a whole car with the body wrap.

 

[MatthewR]

Ill be doing a writeup if i remember to pause for photos!

 

[nathdawg]

It looked great mate, i spoke to you and your Dad quite a bit on the day, have you used all the products you bought on the day yet?

 

[Chapppers11]

Thanks mate, nice to put a name to a face!

So far I've only used what I used on the red car in the other thread, so I used the Meg's DA system, TRIX, Valetpro APC and applied 3 coats of the Wolf's Nano Glass sealant to try it out again!

 

[ado]

When are you wet sanding it and removing that trolley handle?

 

[JD]

That AG Aqua Blade had better not be being used!

 

[Chapppers11]

When are you wet sanding it and removing that trolley handle?

When you do yours, and the handle is there to distinguish my RS from the Dynamiques

That AG Aqua Blade had better not be being used!

Not anymore, I've seen good and bad press about them though.

Theoretically if the car is clean, then there is no reason why they should do any harm, but we know that's not always the case.

 

[aucky]

Use it on the glass tbh.


Your car is so lovely