Post 'Ring Clean Up (poor mans detail)

[HYFR]

best part of 1,000 miles tearing through Europe, couple of laps of the Ring and half the worlds population of bugs and a few tonnes of sand from the Sahara dest had left the cab looking abit worse for wear

so, up early this morning for a bit of a clean

now before I left for the Ring, I gave it probably the deepest clean and protection i've ever done,

here's how it looked this morning























as I said, before i left for the Ring I sealed the wheels in Poor Boys Wheel Sealant as I was expecting muchos brake dustos !!

So, sprayed on some Wheel Cleaner / Brake Dust remover jobbie



Gave it a scrub and rinse, came up like this





Next job, rinse the whole car with the pressure washer.

Then, whack on a load of snow foamy type stuff ... I use Cherry Snow foam from ebay





Rinse off, and left with this











Getting there

Next, whack another load of snow foam on





Whilst its dwelling, give it a wipe over with a clean sponge

Then rinse off

Left with this













Then dried off with a chamois

Next stage, a layer of protection wax / polish

whack it on











then whack it off !!

The Interior of the car was minging as had had the roof down for most of the 3 day trip !!

Had to hoover it all, floor, seats, dash everywhere to get the pollen / sand particles

Seats all cleaned with Gliptone Liquid leather cleaner and conditioner

came up a treat











Last thing to do .... treat the tyres back to black



And its all done

now for the final shots















My new badge !!







JOB = DONE

[Ian_C]

Very nice! Loving the rear number plate! Have you debaged it recently?

Your neighbour with the block drive and the Mk6 Golf doesn't have a drop kerb? They must come home and find they cannot get onto their drive from time to time.

[sonny]

wow splendid results there Dave, I bet you was fecked after that!

Now that is a lot of pollen, hay fever nightmare.

Please don't tell me you used a chamois leather? Waffle weave towel all the way dude.

The thing I hate about these car cleaning threads, it makes me want to go out and clean mine!

[Steve_C]

Paintwork looks great! Are the wheels Titan? They look more shiney than normal but could just be the sun?

[HYFR]

Yeah the wheels are more gun metal and have a gloss finish

They are not oem titan colour

The paint work is pretty good on the cab

That's basically my standard wash procedure

Its nothing special I know but better than rain water and sandpaper

[steve_70]

Good effort to get it clean :thumbup: ...lose the chamois and sponge though and easy on the wax, my god did you use a trowel to bosh it on, you must get through tonnes of the stuff ....I just come back from doing a 2 day rich mans detail clea ning up RS6_Daves post-ring

Thanks to Dave for letting me use his newly built Det ailing Bay... I mean double garage

...and thanks to his othet half for the cakes and food of the barby :thumbup:

Thread and pics will be up as soon have sorted out the pictures and stuff

Steve

[steve_70]

....Please don't tell me you used a chamois leather? Waffle weave towel all the way dude

Yes, the thought of that and sponge on black was like nails down a chalk board to me ...Waffle weave only safe if you use pat dry method, if your a cheeky wiper, then uber fluffy towels I use a towel combo for different areas/ needs as required.

....The thing I hate about these car clea ning threads, it makes me want to go out and cle an mine!

...or let me do it

[steve_70]

I empathaise with you on the pollen, I spent the majority of the time getting ridding of it from Daves and it still was everywhere, plus the death squad flies alles uber, so hats off for clea ning a Cab

[drybeer]

Nice work David - looks almost as good as mine now!

[RS6chris!]

Dave..slightly off topic...

i thought your car had ceramics?/?

[HYFR]

it did !

[RS6chris!]

Do tell?????

[HYFR]

took a deposit, then the guy pulled out

didnt return the deposit !!

[HYFR]

took a deposit, then the guy pulled out

didnt return the deposit !!

[HYFR]

took a deposit, then the guy pulled out

didnt return the deposit !!