VW Polo MK6 Correction and Zaino Protection Detail

Was asked a few weeks ago about preparing this Polo few days before Edition38 show.

Car belongs to a girl, yeh you might see the odd glimpse of pink fluff in the pics :p I guess the name on the private plate gives it away too

The car is a 1.2 with a few tasteful mods, BBS LM (reps), Lowered suspension and a enhancing bodykit with lower front/rear and side skirts. Bumper, side strips and mirrors have all been colour coded. The car visually looks spot on and could pass as a factory released model :thumb:

On the detail..

How the car arrived..

So First up as always was the wheels.

Weapons of choice were Bilberry wheel cleaner (4:1), EZ-detail brush and a small 1" detail brush (B&Q item £4 :thumb: )

Bilberry at work!

Rinsed, hard!

On closer inspection of the body work and shut lines was signs of previous polish/compound attempts, so APC was bought out to do the following..

Next up, pre-wash the car.

As it was pretty soiled in lower areas I went with a APC and foamed the car with pinch of Megs Hyperwash for some little added cleaning power.

After 5mins of dwelling and cleaning the dirt..

I sprayed off paying attention to the areas I applied APC to.

Then straight onto handwash which was single bucket..

With lambswool washmitt and CG Maxisuds. As there was maching polishing TBM wasn't going to add anything.

Lower areas done at the end of the handwash stage.

Sprayed off, then straight onto..

Claying the car with Polyclay and Megs LT and CG Maxisuds as a lube.

After the bonnet.

After the entire car was done. Lower parts picking up few bits of contamination but not too much in fairness.

Another handwash

And dried with Mircle drying towel.

Now the surface is clean we can check for defects.

Some scuffs and faint scratchs, with very few RIDS (thank god) with medium level of swirls although they were light to medium to be fair.

Taped up the car with 3M 3434 ready for machine polishing...

Tried 3M Ultra Fina, Menz 85RD.. and ended up going with Megs #83 on a 3M High Gloss pad finished down to LSP.

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After

50/50s

All areas are machine polished with #83 and refined to LSP stage.

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After

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After

As I had pretty poor lighting, also with me loosing my brinkmanns charger it wasn't that easy to show the defects.. So..

Then later at night

:thumb:

Then following morning I cleaned it up

Now the polishing was all completed i decided to rewash the dust and splats off during polishing.

First with a heavy thick foam with Megs Hyperwash

Dwelled for 5 mins, then washed TBM with CG Maxisuds and dried off with Mircle drying towel.

Surface was them IPA'd.

In preperation for Zaino Z2 ZFX'd

Z6 was used between coats to wipe down. Wheel rims where given 2 coats of Z2, tyres dressed with CG New look tyre gel.

Finished with Z8 to leave the...

AFTERS

Thanks for reading :)

jesus that look immense great job!

Great results, detailed by Am right? Noticed the chevy van in one of the reflection shots lol...

That is seriously clean, attention to detail is awesome. I guess that's why the call it detailing.

fantastic! awesome thread

some extreme cleaning and wow! look at the results!

car looks great aswell!

That looks great

awesome work mate. i know how long these things take as i'm doing mine. fair play!!!!

Bloody hell Kim.. wanna do my car :)

Good job, looks tidy!

Oli

Nice finish, but the adjusters need to come out at the back!

You have too much time on your hands!! Lol - looks wicked though!

Stunning car and lovely detail :)

stunning....love the SINGH on the car hehe

looks phat dude

Wish i had that patience.

But i do need one of those foam wash things, carn't remember what their called now..

Foam lance?

i never knew cleaning a car would take so much time, dedication & effort. good job, nevertheless

Bloody hell Kim.. wanna do my car :)

Lol, it was done by a pro detailer.....

looks amazing, I been trying to detail mine for the last 2 days for e38, but its nothing compared to this

Edited 29 August, 200818 yr by Punz

WOW thats a stunning job u done there mate

Car looks mint now :-D

You missed a bit!!!

Man I'm so funny

Good job, fair play. I really couldn't be arsed doing all that myself tbh

Thanks for all the comments people! :)

Anyone see it at Edition or get a picture?

x

awesome Kim :) did see it at edition yea but only from a distance....i was like to my girlfriend 'look there's Kim's car' not that it meant anything to her but i knew what i was on about, remember your post about your plates :) would have gone and inspected in greater detail (see what i did there??) had i known you'd gone to all this trouble.

Spent 3 hours in the dark last night cleaning mine, you'd never known when i got there it looked lik shit :(