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 I'm O.K. at stuff Posts: 1405   Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours. | Evening! Had a 65 year old friend of my Dads ask me if I could have a crack at getting his paintwork back to standard on his H-reg Mercedes after it being on his driveway not doing much for an unhealthy period of time. When I got to his house to pick it up I realised it was going to be a pretty big challenge, my first detail for someone other than a family member too. On arrival:   I gave it a wash down with fairy liquid initially and began on the tight work, using a detailing brush with a strong mixture of APC in a spray bottle. Inbetween the door shuts.  You can really see the build up of general dirt inbetween the lines of the car.  Attacked around the headlights and front grill using the same method of APC and a detailing brush.  The wheel trims were actually not in a bad state, I sprayed on some degreaser, left for a minute and agitated with a brush and the grime simply slipped off. Easy.  And after.  Used degreaser on the steel rims, even though they won’t really be noticed underneath the trims, stops any dribbling dirt coming beneath the trims when rain hits or whatever.    Popped open the filler cap, wasn’t as bad as I expected. Before.  After.  The badges were pretty shocking inbetween.  After the tightwork was complete I started claying the car. Claying was a breeze, my Metro took so much longer but this just seemed to pick up the contaminents with ease. Pretty bad.  Then we started to get a bit more colourful.  This was after claying, can see how badly the car really has faded.     This was Tuesday night and I had just finished claying intending on cracking on with machine polishing the following day but just had to see how well it was going to come up. Results after using a light cutting pad with a low cut polish.    Next day I started early and began taping up the trims etc    Removed the boot badges.   On with the correction. Little 50/50 of the bonnet.   Bonnet nearly done.  Just a few general pics of how bad the sides of the car was.    Front door done, rear not.  More shots of the front end after being machined.   Top part done, bottom not.  One side of the car done.    One side not done   Now done!  50/50 of the roof although i got a bit carried away and turned out to be a 40/60 lol  More shots after machining done. It actually started turning pink again in places so went round with a finishing polish on a finishing pad which solved the little patches.    After a wash with Durogloss 901 I went over with SRP and finally waxed with collinite #915. Here it is curing.  Trims back on.  Buffed off. Wax really made a huge difference.  Dressed the plastics.  Front grill 50/50  Done.  Final Shots! Had to wait for some double sided sticky tape to be delivered via Mother so the last few shots have the rear badges back on.          Badges back on    The owner has just collected the car 10 mins ago and he was absolutely gobsmacked. Comments and criticisms welcomed. Dan! | ||
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I'm O.K. at stuff Posts: 1405 Location: Leeds - A Better City Than Yours. | |||
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 Fish freak! MP Admin Posts: 14989   Location: Birmingham | Give me the Flex Liam! Good effort Dan  | ||
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 Big Lad Little Car Location: North West (Warrington) | What criticism? You should have made a video of his face seeing it for the first time again Top bollocks! | ||
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 Lotus powered R100 MP Admin Location: Torbay, South Devon, UK | Just added a couple of £££ to the cars value! Nice  | ||
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 Posts: 2794 Location: Tamworth/Measham | Good work, still no tyre shine Dan   | ||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | Wow, shame some photos are missing?? Looks great at the end. I'm mainly into the MGR cars but like to see any older car being looked after! Top notch job! | ||
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