Golf MKIII Cabrio

Tema: Golf MKIII Cabrio Vie Jun 12, 2009 11:13 pm

para que se diviertan un poco..

This is a car I bought as a MOT failure. Most of the bushes needed replacing and garage quoted the previous owner a ridiculous amount to fix. After owning the car for about 8 years the lady who owned it decided it wasn't worth fixing and arranged to sell it to the scrappy for £60:doublesho
Knowing I had access to a ramp and plenty of spare time I couldn't let this happen and thus acquired myself a cheap project.:thumb:

LO COMPRO POR £60!!!!

Anyways this is the car how I bought it.

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Although the car was very much loved I don't think it has ever been pampered! Didn't look like it had been washed in a long long time!!
Anyways on with the detail. I apologise for some of the photography and general order of things as this was undertaken over several sessions over several weeks.
First up the wheels were given a soaking in Bilberry and pressure rinsed, then soaked again and attacked with various brushes. This was rinsed off once more and the arches were also given a good going over.
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I didn't spend too long just yet oon the wheels as they would be coming off later anyway, just enough to get rid of the worst of the caked on horse poo. ( This car has spent most of time living in the sticks!)

Next up the whole car was given a soak in APC and a pressure rinse. Then it was out with the brushes and yet more APC into all the nooks and crannys and not to meantion the mouldy vinyl roof. THis ended up being very time consuming due to the amount moss mould and general crud everywhere!
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The car was rinsed again and washed using the the two bucket method using Mark V Cherry shampoo and lamb wool mitt. I neglected to photo any of this as storm looked like it was a brewing.
After washing the car quickly dryed and moved inside.
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Then it was time to attend to some montrous tar spots with some Autosmart Tardis and then the whole car was clayed with Bilt Hamber clay.

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Now the car was clean and inside under some lighting I could have a proper look at the paintwork:eek:
About what I expected I suppose but some truly savage swirl marks along the side panels

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Before I got onto the polishing there was one or two areas of paintwork I wanted to have a crack at with a rattle can. I decided they would otherwise spoil the end result.
There was a small patch of rust above the rear light and the laquer had began peeling away from the painted section of the grille.
First up the rust patch was ground back and filled.
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Then sanded flat and primed.

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The paint was blown in and laqer over the top before eventually being wet sanded and compounded to "lose" the laqer line. Leaving me wit this

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Not 100% perfect but practically unnoticeable I think. I was fairly happy with my amauterish SMART repair!

NExt up the grille was flatted and repainted.
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Now it was time to crack on with polishing:buffer:
After messing around with several combos on some test areas on the bonnet. I went for Menz Power Gloss on a 4" spot pad using a Dual action and refined with Menz 106 FA via a rotary. I know this seems like a slightly unsual way of doing things but at the time my Kestrel rotary was playing up and kept cutting out under load but it could just about handle 106 FA and 85RD. I thought my G220 with the PowerGloss made "relatively" easy work of the deeply swirled paintwork.
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This combo was used over the entire car, here are few work in progress snaps.

50/50 shot of the wing
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Bonnet and wing compounded and refined...
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Wing and half door complete
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Completed side shot
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Once the polishing had finally been finished, the car was given a hand application of Dodo Juice Lime Prime Lite on a Megs foam pad. Then two coats of Dodo Juice Supernatural again applied by foam pad. I know its a bit of an overkill on a 13 year old VW golf but I had a little panel pot spare and I really wanted to make this car look as amazing as possible:thumb:
I am continually astounded by this product combo, makes the car look so wet I expect the surface to ripple if I stamp my feet.
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Now time for the finishing touches....
First up the bumper plastics restored with a hot air gun, then Chemical Guys New Look Trim gel over the top.
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The vinyl roof was treated with Aerospace 103 and buffed with a microfibre.
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The rest of the plastics and tyres were treated with the newlook trim gel.

The wheels were removed and machine poilished with 106 FA, then a layer of CG EZ creme glaze over the top and sealed with PB wheel sealant. (apologies left my camera at home that day!!) ALthough the wheels were badly curbed I wanted to make the bestI could of them and genuinely surpised about how well they came up.
Whilst the wheels were off I cleaned the arches and dressed with Aerospace.
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Now with outside pretty much finished I turned my attention to the interior. Which again was minging!!! Plastic surfaces were cleaned with APC diluted 10/1 then dressed with PB natural look. The interior was vacuumed. The carpets were scrubbed with Vikan interior brushes and APC then rinssed with warm water and extracted with the trusty vax. Here's a few before and after..
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Now everything complete it was time to roll her out into the sun but not before a quick layer of Dodo juice Red Mist
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THanks for reading I apologise for the essay and some dodgy pictures!
For anyone interested the bushes were replaced in amoungst all this happening. What an absolute :censored: of a job. Included several hours of hammer beating and offensive language.
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