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Author My day detailing my nova turbo
Rick Draper
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   21st Apr 07 at 17:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
In preperation for the big day tomorrow i thought i would give the nova turbo a detailing to get it all spankingly clean.

Here are the pic's of it and advice from the day:

I first of all got my detailing kit ready, as you can see i only use the finest equipment. The bucket is a £1 special imported all the way from Travis perkins, a fine sponge from B&Q, a nice hose and some turtel wax car wash. Unfortunatly i have lost my vernier calipers so i could not measure the paint thickness.



First of all i rolled it out of the garage and prepaired it for a rinse off with the finest water from my garage tap. As you can see it is covered in dust from been sat at the garage for so long.

Pic of it rinsed off.

Then i set to with my bucket and sponge and gave it a good wash, unfortunatly due to the amount of time it took me to do this stage i did not take any pics. Once rinsed off i dried if off using my Autoglym wiper blade thing. Here is the result.

Then to finish it off i popped the grill inplace and took another pic.

Here is one more showing the wing width.
wilson_sri
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21st Apr 07 at 17:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Nova is awesome mate, where did you get your bonnet pins?
antmashed
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21st Apr 07 at 17:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
nice
J4M13
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im sooo jelous! thats one sweet looking nova!
C4RL0
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quote:
Originally posted by Rick Draper
Unfortunatly i have lost my vernier calipers so i could not measure the paint thickness.
Rick Draper
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21st Apr 07 at 17:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by wilson_sri
Nova is awesome mate, where did you get your bonnet pins?


I got them from Demon tweeks. They are made by www.aerocatch.co.uk.
STEvieXE
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21st Apr 07 at 17:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
is that it finished???
wilson_sri
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quote:
Originally posted by Rick Draper
quote:
Originally posted by wilson_sri
Nova is awesome mate, where did you get your bonnet pins?


I got them from Demon tweeks. They are made by www.aerocatch.co.uk.

Cheers mate
SetH
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21st Apr 07 at 17:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quality looking nova. you said you 'detailed' it though? but appears that you just did a wash and rinse?
BeArDy
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21st Apr 07 at 17:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ITS HAD A WASH

Next you will be telling us its nearly finished
Rick Draper
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21st Apr 07 at 18:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Its off tomorrow to be mapped.

I have detailed it, i washed the fucking thing and gave it a dry off. Thats plenty detail for me and every show this season.
jr
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21st Apr 07 at 18:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
How good does it look best nova ever
Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by SetH
quality looking nova. you said you 'detailed' it though? but appears that you just did a wash and rinse?


I believe his tongue was fimly in his cheek tbh
Matt H
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21st Apr 07 at 18:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looks lovely but I don't see the point.


All that washing & it'll get dirty again. It'd be worth doing if it were something decent like an Astra VXR...
mav
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21st Apr 07 at 18:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looks quality

(how much you charge for that kind of detailing work? )
SetH
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21st Apr 07 at 18:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Im at a loss for words, really i am.
Jambo
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21st Apr 07 at 18:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
best. nova. ever.
Stu
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21st Apr 07 at 18:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thats my sort of detailing!!!!

Go car not a show car!!!! Ace!!! (Altho it does look sweet anyway!!!!)
Mo
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21st Apr 07 at 18:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i'm lovin it
SportBoy
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21st Apr 07 at 18:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
absolutly fucking stunning .. hope the mapping goes well!
Rich H
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21st Apr 07 at 18:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
@ thread. One very cool Nova though
Gregor
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21st Apr 07 at 19:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Nice description , hate people using the term "detailing"

Car is lovely though !
Colin
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21st Apr 07 at 19:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by escortgti.com
Nice description , hate people using the term "detailing"

Car is lovely though !


Yeah 'detailed' seems to be the in word to over use these days!! Look you soaped up rinsed & polished your car - get over it
Jules
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21st Apr 07 at 19:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Awesome work there Ricker!
I hope you done your mental calculations right as to what soap/water ratio you should use? And that you built up a 3D map of the surface of your paintwork in your head before attempting to chamois it dry!
Gregor
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21st Apr 07 at 19:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If I said to a mate Im " detailing " the car just now Id get a harsh but deserved right hook

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