since i went to a rallycross meeting last week n had a 350 odd mile journey home the car needed a bit of a clean up, so i borrowed my mates machine polisher, some fine cutting compound from work, and then gave it a coat of polish n its lush again

From this:

To this:

i may have gone a bit OTT with the camera lol but still :-)

Envious of the red. I really like those wheels, something different for a change. Drop will finish it off

wee wa woo wa!

lookin awesome...love a red car in the sun!

vvveeerrryyy nice mate, i quite like them rims maybe in charcoal and a wackin with the lowering stick and itll be a reet nice car mate, and sorry for the randomness but is your car red or pink? lol if red my laptop muct be fubar lol

its defo red lol, i think its just the sunshine n the camera, i would love to be able to spend th money on paintin wheels n lowerin but I'm a student n this car has caused me to get skint, and its too small, which is why I'm lookin at sellin it

ahh, sorry then lol and 5 door pimpin time ay :p lol

looks lovely mate, what compound did you use? Might have to buy some

Flippin Ek, Thats come up rather well!

Nice Work there!

whoa! thats quite a change!

i prefered th dirty version lol

Na car looks good i was doing exactly the same thing today aswell, same colour too except mines jus a 1.4 :(

what machine polisher? and what cutting compound?

it was a silverline hi-spec polisher/sander n autoglym fine abrasive :-) well chuffed with it, machined it, then autoglym polish by hand, then took th majority of th polish off with th machine on its slowest setting then did the rest with a microfibre cloth.

http://www.autoglym.co.uk/enGB/product-pro...=MM&Range=6 - the compound

http://www.toolbaydirect.co.uk/product_inf...8&catid=369 - the machine

http://www.autoglym.co.uk/enGB/product-pro...=HD&Range=1 - the polish

Edited 30 March, 200818 yr by michaelg1001

ahh, sorry then lol and 5 door pimpin time ay :p lol

maybe not 5 door pimpin, more like 4..... kinda lookin at early A4s atm lol.....

did you wash it before hand? just want to know as i want to do this to my car

1. Wash

2. Compound with machine

3. Remove Compound

4. Polish by Hand

5. Remove Polish with machine on Slow

6. Get the camera out and go potty

that sound right?

that machine looks like V. Good value for money, what heads you get for it etc?

Edited 30 March, 200818 yr by DubGarry

ahh, sorry then lol and 5 door pimpin time ay :p lol

maybe not 5 door pimpin, more like 4..... kinda lookin at early A4s atm lol.....

noooooo! stay polo mate, you will only want one again as soon as you get rid of the mk5 :p

Edited 31 March, 200818 yr by POLOMON

Machine polishers are for gays

Nah man done a good job there

nice!

what a difference, looks great :-D x

did you wash it before hand? just want to know as i want to do this to my car

1. Wash

2. Compound with machine

3. Remove Compound

4. Polish by Hand

5. Remove Polish with machine on Slow

6. Get the camera out and go potty

that sound right?

that machine looks like V. Good value for money, what heads you get for it etc?

i thought it would go

1.Wash

2.Clay

3.Wash

4.Dry

5.Aply polish with machine untill it brakes down untill its clear.

6.wipe off polish

7.keep aplying polish and trying diffrent products and cutting mefthods untill you are swirll free.

8. aply wax with hand

a propa paint correction should take around 8 hours

Swanky. Nice and shiney

did you wash it before hand? just want to know as i want to do this to my car

1. Wash

2. Compound with machine

3. Remove Compound

4. Polish by Hand

5. Remove Polish with machine on Slow

6. Get the camera out and go potty

that sound right?

that machine looks like V. Good value for money, what heads you get for it etc?

if u search them u can get 3 different silverline heads for it, a red one, a blue/green one and a white one. i got the red n white ones, the hardest n softest (i think)

i did it in this order:

1. Wash

2. Compound with machine (white head)

3. Put the polish on by hand with compound still on

4. Remove the majority of the polish with machine on slow (soft head), took remaining polish off with microfibre cloth gettin in nooks n crannies

5. Cleaned windows, wheels, grills etc

6. Then went potty with th camera lol

not sure if thats the right way to do it but it owrked for me :-)

i think the compound i used is slightly different to the one i put in that post last night, or they might have just renamed it, but the one i used was ultrafine renovator. it had the same colour front so i just presumed lol

http://www.4wheelplay.co.uk/autoglym-ultra...p-25002428.html - thats the one i used for sure

ahh, sorry then lol and 5 door pimpin time ay :p lol

maybe not 5 door pimpin, more like 4..... kinda lookin at early A4s atm lol.....

noooooo! stay polo mate, you will only want one again as soon as you get rid of the mk5 :p

i am an old man lol. not lookin to spend as much on me next car as i did on this tho, so we'll see what happens

Edited 31 March, 200818 yr by michaelg1001

if u search them u can get 3 different silverline heads for it, a red one, a blue/green one and a white one. i got the red n white ones, the hardest n softest (i think)

i did it in this order:

1. Wash

2. Compound with machine (white head)

3. Put the polish on by hand with compound still on

4. Remove the majority of the polish with machine on slow (soft head), took remaining polish off with microfibre cloth gettin in nooks n crannies

5. Cleaned windows, wheels, grills etc

6. Then went potty with th camera lol

not sure if thats the right way to do it but it owrked for me :-)

i think the compound i used is slightly different to the one i put in that post last night, or they might have just renamed it, but the one i used was ultrafine renovator. it had the same colour front so i just presumed lol

http://www.4wheelplay.co.uk/autoglym-ultra...p-25002428.html - thats the one i used for sure

looks like it worked well for you mate, i'm gna order the stuff tonight

shame about the ding on the near side back quarter :sad:

looks ace tho!

shame about the ding on the near side back quarter :sad:

looks ace tho!

i was hopin nobody would notice lol if u look carefully ul see one near the passenger door handle as well I'm gonna get them sorted if i get the chance