Sunday Clean (Pic heavy)

[beko1987]

Copied from DW for your Puma-Porn intake...

Read through the studio thread and got some inspiration, so...

400 miles of driving to my partners house and back every night, and a random drive to oxford last night resulted in this..

AG Insect remover was sprayed over the front end and left to dwell whilst I got the pressure washer out.

The car was rinsed off with the pressure washer. Protection still evident.

Wheels and tyres were then cleaned with bilberry, apc and brushes

Tardis was then applied to the lower half of the car

The car was rinsed after a few minutes, and foamed.

I went around the tightwork with APC and varying brushes, and re-rinsed.

Beading and sheeting dramatically reduced already

Washing was prepared

Then cracked out some soft clay and my favourite lubricant...

Front pass. wing/door bottom

Rear wheel splatter areas (pretty much the whole rear bumper thanks to the curved shape!!

but still pretty good. Apart from the same areas on the passenger side the clay stayed clean the whole way.

my rapidly dieing blowing machine in shot

Naked car.

I then had a go with LPL to get rid of the watermarks, but the sun was shining, and drying it on so it wouldn't buff. So I put it away.

Took an opening shot expecting greatness though...

I tried Ultra Deep Shine too with equally bad results.

So, Black Hole was used by hand.

L-Hand naked, R-H Black Hole. You can apply it in the sun!!!

Very pleased with the finish that left.

Onto EGP

was so tempted to drive around like this for the afternoon and stop there! But carried on.

I then made a little post in GD about wax. More on that later.

EGP was buffed off, and wax was applied.

whilst that was curing, some trim gel was applied here, some glass polish there and tyre gel in-between.

Wax was buffed off...

v7 wipedown

The wax used was Hard Kandy. And good choice too!

 

[red]

Excellent... how long did that take you?

 

[beko1987]

Best part of 7 hours! Could have been longer but my girlfriend came round and distracted me... then I cleaned her corsa which I will post up once I finish it! (Washed but not detailed)

Going to put another layer or 2 of wax on tonight, followed by another v7 wipedown. Should protect me from the newest ash cloud!

 

[beko1987]

It's now got 2 layers of Hard Kandy and probably the best part of 2 layers of v7 on it now and it looks flawless. Will keep an eye on it and let you know if I experience any problems.

As it looks tonight after I finished the second Hard Kandy layer (started to rain yesterday so had to stop. Quick v7 wipedown before I started)

The paint on the front drivers wing is the best on the whole car!

 

[Neil]

Great effort, it's good to see some comprehensive detailing threads ose2:

 

[beko1987]

Thanks Neil. Can post up my work on other cars if people want, won't be puma related though!

Buying some bits tomorrow so have the BH weekend planned for something special.

 

[Neil]

Please, keep them coming ose2:

 

[Aimmekins]

wow love it :thumbs:

 

[Dal]

Great results k:

Is this some swirling I see in the reflection from your flash? Does it suffer badly from it?

 

[beko1987]

Great results k:

Is this some swirling I see in the reflection from your flash? Does it suffer badly from it?

There's some swirling by the camera flash, the 'scratchlike' bit on the door is a reflection of the garden (had to run out and check )

I find the Puma paint does marr easily. It is really easy to machine (2 nice passes with Menz PO85 Intensive Polish, then refined with 2 passes of Menz PO85 Final Finish) gets pretty much everything out, but then looking at the door, I either didn't correct it properly, or have put those swirls back in (prob 50/50), so I'd say to anyone out there - BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR TECHNIQUE!

 

[mlg2000]

that rust needs sorting on that arch soon bud