Hiya all,
All the talk about washing cars over on the mk2 section of the forum finally persuaded me to pull my finger out and finally give the car a proper scrub it deserves. But its easier said then done. Problem being the weather being utter rubbish as well as lack of time (working 65 hours on my week off of Uni). Was planning on getting a Porter cable so that I could detail the car properly, but the lack of funds decided otherwise. So just went to my local motor shop, bought some AG bits and bobs and got working.
Here is my car after a week of commuting on the salty motorway:
Not looking too bad, but upon closer inspection........
As well as some random smears on the windows
And the not so white alloys
decided to wash the car using the two bucket method.................so out came the two buckets
as well as a washing mitt and a dab of shampoo. To cut the long story short, washed the car, hosed it down. Then using my super mega wonder squeegee I got rid of 90% of the water and dried the rest of using about 3 microfibre towels. Picture of squeegee at work.
But before all the cracks and crannies were dried off, I decided to sort out the wheels. First I applied “wonder wheels” using a brush and rinsed it all off. Did the same on the brake calipers. Then T-cut the spokes to get rid of the hairline scrathech, and finished off using the AG SRP (AutoGlym Super Resin Polish). Buffed it off, sprayed on the AG wet look tyre stuff and let it all dry. This is the final result which I recon isn’t too bad considering the wheels are still the standard ones it came with from the factory and haven’t been refurbished since.
Now the wheels were done, it was time to finish off the bodywork. So spent the next 1.5 hours applying, polishing and buffing off the AG SRP. Here is a pic midway through bonnet polishing.
Even though the weather staid pretty gloomy the whole day, the sun did come out for 30 seconds at one point, so I managed to snap this photo to prove my car is in fact metallic
Then I cleaned all the exterior trim using the AG bumper care, which I can recommend as it is a doodle to use. Next did all the windows inside out, which meant it was only the engine bay left. Bit of Autosol on the partially polished manifold, AG “rubber and vinyl care” on the hoses and bumper care on the plastics. Hour later engine bay was looking like this.
All the talk about washing cars over on the mk2 section of the forum finally persuaded me to pull my finger out and finally give the car a proper scrub it deserves. But its easier said then done. Problem being the weather being utter rubbish as well as lack of time (working 65 hours on my week off of Uni). Was planning on getting a Porter cable so that I could detail the car properly, but the lack of funds decided otherwise. So just went to my local motor shop, bought some AG bits and bobs and got working.
Here is my car after a week of commuting on the salty motorway:
Not looking too bad, but upon closer inspection........
As well as some random smears on the windows
And the not so white alloys
decided to wash the car using the two bucket method.................so out came the two buckets
as well as a washing mitt and a dab of shampoo. To cut the long story short, washed the car, hosed it down. Then using my super mega wonder squeegee I got rid of 90% of the water and dried the rest of using about 3 microfibre towels. Picture of squeegee at work.
But before all the cracks and crannies were dried off, I decided to sort out the wheels. First I applied “wonder wheels” using a brush and rinsed it all off. Did the same on the brake calipers. Then T-cut the spokes to get rid of the hairline scrathech, and finished off using the AG SRP (AutoGlym Super Resin Polish). Buffed it off, sprayed on the AG wet look tyre stuff and let it all dry. This is the final result which I recon isn’t too bad considering the wheels are still the standard ones it came with from the factory and haven’t been refurbished since.
Now the wheels were done, it was time to finish off the bodywork. So spent the next 1.5 hours applying, polishing and buffing off the AG SRP. Here is a pic midway through bonnet polishing.
Even though the weather staid pretty gloomy the whole day, the sun did come out for 30 seconds at one point, so I managed to snap this photo to prove my car is in fact metallic
Then I cleaned all the exterior trim using the AG bumper care, which I can recommend as it is a doodle to use. Next did all the windows inside out, which meant it was only the engine bay left. Bit of Autosol on the partially polished manifold, AG “rubber and vinyl care” on the hoses and bumper care on the plastics. Hour later engine bay was looking like this.
. But its not as simple as that because by the time I'd buy the transformer, all the polishes, waxes, cutting pads, etc I'd be looking at £200+, which my wallet cant handle 
