Track Car Detail

[terryc101]

With our first trackday of the year booked for august it was time to bring the car home from storage for some work and a good clean. The car had been stored (outside on a farm) since September last year so as you can imagine it was pretty filthy. The plan was to get it done over a few days and bring some colour back into the faded red paint as I did when we first purchased the car.

Some shots of how it was once we got it home

Wash stages were as followed -

Foamed with Valet Pro Foam
Really dirty areas, around windows/badges etc taken acre of with CP Rapid Dirt Shifter
2BM with AF Imperial

Tardis and Iron-x used to removed most of the tar etc before claying.

Next the car was taped up and ready for polishing. Wasn't really seeking any kind of correction as the car is only to be used on track, main point was to bring it back red again and add some gloss. Therefor I didn't want to go using all my good polish on it and opted for Meguiars Ultimate Compound/Polish combo.

Some intricate taping up required on the bonnet pins.

Some pictures from the polishing stages that hopefully show the difference made.

Once the polishing stages were done it was back up the drive to be foamed/rinsed/dried again and the following

Plastics dressed with AF Revive
Windows/lights cleaned and treated with Gtecniq G5
Exhaust cleaned up with Autosol
Engine bay cleaned and dressed
Waxed with DJ Purple Haze

Finished shots

That's all comments and criticisms welcome

 

[Fletcher]

Looks good.

 

[Coby.]

Great effort..... Excellent turnaround.

 

[Dr HMS Derv Destroyer]

Didn't realise legs ultimate compound was that abrabrasive

results are epic!

 

[Dave999]

Looks really good that, old red cars come up so well when given a bit of loving

 

[Chi]

Bloody brilliant job

 

[MatthewR]

Brilliant job, best part for me was the clay bar (sad I know). That's how it should look after use, not like some of the examples that pro's show off.

 

[DanEdser]

thats a bloody good job for a car thats just gonna get abused on track!

 

[Lawro]

Nice transformation. Looks lovely after some TLC!

 

[leeds_182]

Nice.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Nice turn around .. however, looks like you've got about 200g of clay there when really you need 1/4 of that if that !!!

For future use - use smaller bits. If you drop a small bit, no big deal. If you drop £15 worth of clay and you've got nothing left to finish the car off ....

 

[Bobby.]

Cracking results.

 

[terryc101]

Didn't realise legs ultimate compound was that abrabrasive

results are epic!

It has given good results the few times I've used it. The 50/50's with the sun gun were on the not so faded side and were achieved using just the Ultimate Polish on a light polishing pad.

Nice turn around .. however, looks like you've got about 200g of clay there when really you need 1/4 of that if that !!!

For future use - use smaller bits. If you drop a small bit, no big deal. If you drop £15 worth of clay and you've got nothing left to finish the car off ....

Thanks. I think it was 100g of clay just very flattened by the end but I shall use less in future as it would be a disaster if dropped as you say

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

Nice turn around. Come up lovely that

 

[.GAZ.]

This for sale?

 

[terryc101]

This for sale?

Certainly isn't

 

[Matt@codered]

Come and do my 449....!!

 

[Gally]

Lovely work mate!

 

[Rob]

Cracking work there! Such a difference.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Night and day difference

 

[Eddie.]

Great turnaround, but the squiff novice sticker offends my soul.

 

[terryc101]

Great turnaround, but the squiff novice sticker offends my soul.

Lol in my defense it was cold and raining when I slapped it on.

Thanks for the positive comments.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Cant move it now, will look be a line where it was, lol.

 

[terryc101]

Too true! A faded pink square might not look as good.

Need to go down and give it a quick rinse before Llandow sometime this week.

 

[aucky]

Great work

 

[TTrev]

She's a little beut ... nice work on the scrub up :approve:

 

[Leeshez]

Oh wow what a result .