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Hi fellas, some of you have been asking how the new ride is going, so here's a snippet of my thread from RS246 (damn its a slow forum!!) - hope you like ;-)
Ok guys bank holiday update for you. Finally after picking the car up in March, I'm some where near happy with it! I spent hours in the garage correcting the paint and I think the results speak for themselves. There are still a few minor marks here and there, due to me only being a amature at correcting and not having a depth gauge, so these will be corrected over time.
I can't recommend using a rotary enough, the ability to correct the worst of defects is cut in half and with sensible use there's just no competition.
The paint was like this all over!
Then after correction -
It's worth noting that none of the above has any polish, sealer or wax applied at this stage.
Had to remove some nasty rubber number plate adhesive here -
So once the paint was sorted, after Megs 2 step process (white polish dust was removed!), polish, 2 coats of Poorboys sealer and 2 coats of DoDo purple haze applied by hand. I moved on to the engine bay and APC'd, detail brushed washed and dressed, this took a good 3-4 hours, i'll be getting the metal polish on detail bits shortly.
Got some red vinyl for my carbon cover as it's begun to peel after a good buffing!
Finally I had the wheels off and did the same with the arches and suspension. The worst bit was the liners, these were brushed with a stiff brush to bring up the fibers, then APC'd, left to soak, jet washed, wiped down (repeated the process again) then dressed and finished then finally finished up painting up the rear hubs and disk edges with smooth silver hammerite.
Some of you may have noticed i've not mentioned much about the rims, well there's a reason for that, they are most certainly the worst part of the car, someones deffo used them to find their way home a couple of times and they have been badly smart repaired - they've got almost no shine are dull and full of brush marks. So, on Wednesday they are off to the Wheel Specialist for a complete strip down and powdercoat, i'm a little unsure if to add something in to the mix here, but I most certainly wont be going dark, it's far too much on a black car with black optics. A touch of extra metal flake maybe, we'll have to see. When they go back on i've also got a set of spacers ready and waiting.
And this my friends is where she stands at the moment. It's been a busy weekend with the family so I've only had chance to sort a couple of pics, but when I get more time (and the refurb'd rims are back on) I'll get some proper shots up.
I took this at Cars In The Park at Newby Hall yesterday - after cringing at the state of my wheels! Mixing it up with some exotica ;-) Thanks for looking!
Ok guys bank holiday update for you. Finally after picking the car up in March, I'm some where near happy with it! I spent hours in the garage correcting the paint and I think the results speak for themselves. There are still a few minor marks here and there, due to me only being a amature at correcting and not having a depth gauge, so these will be corrected over time.
I can't recommend using a rotary enough, the ability to correct the worst of defects is cut in half and with sensible use there's just no competition.
The paint was like this all over!
Then after correction -
It's worth noting that none of the above has any polish, sealer or wax applied at this stage.
Had to remove some nasty rubber number plate adhesive here -
So once the paint was sorted, after Megs 2 step process (white polish dust was removed!), polish, 2 coats of Poorboys sealer and 2 coats of DoDo purple haze applied by hand. I moved on to the engine bay and APC'd, detail brushed washed and dressed, this took a good 3-4 hours, i'll be getting the metal polish on detail bits shortly.
Got some red vinyl for my carbon cover as it's begun to peel after a good buffing!
Finally I had the wheels off and did the same with the arches and suspension. The worst bit was the liners, these were brushed with a stiff brush to bring up the fibers, then APC'd, left to soak, jet washed, wiped down (repeated the process again) then dressed and finished then finally finished up painting up the rear hubs and disk edges with smooth silver hammerite.
Some of you may have noticed i've not mentioned much about the rims, well there's a reason for that, they are most certainly the worst part of the car, someones deffo used them to find their way home a couple of times and they have been badly smart repaired - they've got almost no shine are dull and full of brush marks. So, on Wednesday they are off to the Wheel Specialist for a complete strip down and powdercoat, i'm a little unsure if to add something in to the mix here, but I most certainly wont be going dark, it's far too much on a black car with black optics. A touch of extra metal flake maybe, we'll have to see. When they go back on i've also got a set of spacers ready and waiting.
And this my friends is where she stands at the moment. It's been a busy weekend with the family so I've only had chance to sort a couple of pics, but when I get more time (and the refurb'd rims are back on) I'll get some proper shots up.
I took this at Cars In The Park at Newby Hall yesterday - after cringing at the state of my wheels! Mixing it up with some exotica ;-) Thanks for looking!
