Anyone manage to get some detailing in yesterday?

[ddavidm]

What a transformation! Some good old fashioned elbow grease and a lot of patience pays off!

 

[Alex]

^ Thing is imho thats much better job the new cars cleaned (detailed)

Any new car will look pretty smart even with a European hand car wash and slap on some tyre black.

Its the older ones brought back to life that I think are the real stars. I'm on Detailing world forum and some of the old cars in Red that have gone pink and the bumpers black to grey they look like new after some of the guys worl their magic

Good work that man

You will find that it is pretty much the case with all dark cars. They look better before/after. Silver is a difficult colour to make shiny, as I'm sure you know ;-) ModMan did a cracking job on his but it's more of a restoration, whereas Dr-Nab's is kept pristine, if that makes sense? Both amazing cars and mad props to owners!

 

[ModMan]

I couldn't agree more. The protection and care you are giving the newer cars now, will ensure the paintwork stays pristine for many years. Whereas mine I am getting rid of probably 20 years worth of fairy liquid and car washes!

I few years ago I had a silver C Class. I could spend hours washing and cleaning it, and it only ever looked marginally better. Silver is a difficult colour to make look good. It's a great colour however.

I need 2 new wings and am really hoping they can do a perfect colour match as I don't know how much it'll have faded over the years.

 

[mikec32]

^ Thing is imho thats much better job the new cars cleaned (detailed)

Any new car will look pretty smart even with a European hand car wash and slap on some tyre black.

Its the older ones brought back to life that I think are the real stars. I'm on Detailing world forum and some of the old cars in Red that have gone pink and the bumpers black to grey they look like new after some of the guys worl their magic

Good work that man

I do apoligise for not detailing classics. But its not reaslly my choice what I clean

But I disagree with the guy above as cars do not look good after the eastern europeon car wash. For instant the car I have in this week is a 2007 RS4, not old at all. The guy who brought it from new took it to the local car wash until my customer brought it from him. This is a 50/50 shot today of the front wing. The right side is marring, straight scratches, swirls from the eastern europeon car wash and all the white oxidations are from the tfr they use to degrease the car with. This wing took one hour to do half of it, with the most agressive pad/compund combo (LC purple wool pad & megs 105!!!)

Shortly after taking this photo, my client was going past the hand car wash where the car was cleaned since new. He took this picture:

This is what they were pre spraying the cars with while they que'd for around 5 minutes before they even touched there car with a dirty mitt.

This isnt even old and is going to take all week to fix. So think twice before you take your car to the car wash if you actually like your car to have paint.

 

[rob_miller]

Got some collinite on the car today.

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[MB-BTurbo]

Stunning. Is that a blue efficiency badge on that? It just looks far to plant wiltering to have a badge like that on.

 

[rob_miller]

Is that a blue efficiency badge on that?

Yes, That is a blue efficiency badge.