I know its not a SEAT, but its from the VAG group so thought you'd be ok with this one:
I got to meet Richard and his stunning S3 at the last NW meet . Richard asked me to have a look at the car following return trips to Audi, and to inspect some work completed by them. We discussed what had been done, and I explained how I saw it, and gave me suggestions as to what could be done to ‘put things right’.
We had a couple of emails and telephone calls before arranging for Richard to have his car detailed. Richard also asked if I would use his Blackfire products as he would be maintaining the car with these after the detail and wanted to keep the same products in use. He very kindly washed the car the day before bringing it, so it was pretty clean, just the morning road traffic film visible to the eye.
First job was to clean the alloys. As they had been cleaned the day before, some active in a bucket, coupled to the EZ Detail and Swissvax Brushes did the job a treat. Next job was a good rinse over, then a layer of Activo via the Supersprayer.
I choose to use this as the car was reasonably clean, and also I was getting an early start in. First layer allowed 5 mins to soak, before being rinsed, and a second layer sprayed on, and used with a noodle wash mitt and the pinnacle bucket with grit guard for washing. Once all cleaned, and rinsed, the car was then clayed with Pinnacle Ultra Fine. This removed next to nothing from the car – well done Richard! A further rinse over, and then dried with a Cobra guzzler towel, and moved into the garage. I then checked the Paint Depth Readings, the first is from the original paint, the later from the dealer’s work:
Next job was to 3m 3434 masking tape up, and also cover and protect the huge grille that Audi’s now hide behind. Knowing Audi paint well I was expecting to be up there on the compound scales to prepped for the worst.
I started testing on the bonnet. As this area was the re-spray I was expecting this to be the harder of the two paints.
before:
I got to meet Richard and his stunning S3 at the last NW meet . Richard asked me to have a look at the car following return trips to Audi, and to inspect some work completed by them. We discussed what had been done, and I explained how I saw it, and gave me suggestions as to what could be done to ‘put things right’.
We had a couple of emails and telephone calls before arranging for Richard to have his car detailed. Richard also asked if I would use his Blackfire products as he would be maintaining the car with these after the detail and wanted to keep the same products in use. He very kindly washed the car the day before bringing it, so it was pretty clean, just the morning road traffic film visible to the eye.
First job was to clean the alloys. As they had been cleaned the day before, some active in a bucket, coupled to the EZ Detail and Swissvax Brushes did the job a treat. Next job was a good rinse over, then a layer of Activo via the Supersprayer.
I choose to use this as the car was reasonably clean, and also I was getting an early start in. First layer allowed 5 mins to soak, before being rinsed, and a second layer sprayed on, and used with a noodle wash mitt and the pinnacle bucket with grit guard for washing. Once all cleaned, and rinsed, the car was then clayed with Pinnacle Ultra Fine. This removed next to nothing from the car – well done Richard! A further rinse over, and then dried with a Cobra guzzler towel, and moved into the garage. I then checked the Paint Depth Readings, the first is from the original paint, the later from the dealer’s work:
Next job was to 3m 3434 masking tape up, and also cover and protect the huge grille that Audi’s now hide behind. Knowing Audi paint well I was expecting to be up there on the compound scales to prepped for the worst.
I started testing on the bonnet. As this area was the re-spray I was expecting this to be the harder of the two paints.
before:
