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JayCarr

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Registered: 19th Dec 02
Location: Cambs Drives:M3 & X3
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27th Jun 09 at 18:21

This will bore a lot of you but hey ho, some might be interested and it was a lot of hard work so wanted to show it off.

Well it was looking a bit sorry for itself and she'd asked me to try and get it looking shiny again. I dont have a rotary polisher so it was all hand done.

Few befores

few half and halfs

And the finished article

Really need to find my digi camera, these were taken on my iphone so they are pretty shocking

But you can still see the massive improvement. She was well happy with it, couldn't believe it was the same car! Could've done a lot better but only had a few hours.

Liam B

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27th Jun 09 at 18:23

Woah

Just out of curiosity what did you use to do that?

Colin

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27th Jun 09 at 18:23

Came out not bad considering it was pink

Oh &,

Pic's of your nan?

Andrew

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27th Jun 09 at 18:25

quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Pic's of your nan?

daymoon

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27th Jun 09 at 18:26

looks loads better!

P1CK4D

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27th Jun 09 at 18:27

Dont well to get it looking like that tbh

What did you use as well?

AlunJ

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27th Jun 09 at 18:27

much more better!

JayCarr

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27th Jun 09 at 18:29

quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Came out not bad considering it was pink
Oh &,

Pic's of your nan?

I should have known that was gonna come up!!

Thanks guys. ll i did was Autoglym Super resin polish and Autoglym bumper care. If i had more time i would have waxed it too. next time i will.

Colin

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27th Jun 09 at 18:29

Just thought i'd get it out the way

cunningham

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27th Jun 09 at 18:32

autoglym paint renovator is great on red cars

daymoon

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27th Jun 09 at 18:48

oh it needs gsi kit and speedlines

Ben G

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27th Jun 09 at 19:09

that'll oxidise again pretty soon if you don't apply a sealant.

my mate done the same to his red (pink) mondeo a couple months ago and it's starting to go pink again

JayCarr

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27th Jun 09 at 19:39

Yeah i reckon it'll go pink again but i didn't have time to get wax on there. I'm gonna do it again soon and get it waxed too.

DannyB

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27th Jun 09 at 19:40

Woah, nice result there

davcohen

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27th Jun 09 at 20:36

how did you apply it as in the 5th shot it looks like you have a block of some kind

Daniel_Corsa

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27th Jun 09 at 20:43

quote:
Originally posted by davcohen
how did you apply it as in the 5th shot it looks like you have a block of some kind

Applicator Pad & Microfibre Cloth

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deano87

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28th Jun 09 at 11:19

don't fancy doing that to mine, do you? Mine is terrible

Rich H

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28th Jun 09 at 12:28

Good effort!!

richc

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28th Jun 09 at 12:31

Po-lish it a few more times, should look reder (but in the dark it will be pink)

bigboykarl

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28th Jun 09 at 15:16

great.....what a difference

JonnyJ

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28th Jun 09 at 16:23

quote:
Originally posted by Daniel_Corsa

quote:
Originally posted by davcohen
how did you apply it as in the 5th shot it looks like you have a block of some kind

Applicator Pad & Microfibre Cloth

Should have used a beach towel tbh

JonnyJ

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28th Jun 09 at 16:23

Oh and nice work Jay

JayCarr

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28th Jun 09 at 17:29

Thanks for the comments everyone

As people have said, i just used an applicator pad and microfibre cloth. The pad was ruined by the end of it though. Really want to get back over there and give it another polish and wax.

Deano- Do it yourself

Only joking, if you want a hand i'll be more than happy to help out.

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